“Renee Good was murdered a mere six blocks from where George Floyd was murdered in May 2020”
“South Minneapolis has a history and memory of resistance. Thousands of people here still remember fighting the police in 2020”
“More than 4000 people have participated in at least 81 rapid response groups—patrolling, tailing, and boxing in ICE vehicles, warning our neighbors, protesting at hotels hosting ICE agents, and confronting them as they attempt to go about their evil business”
“messy contradictions have abounded in the network of rapid response groups that has sprung up.”
“Liberal elements have gained ground, and things that we could take for granted in 2020 are no longer established”
“A lot of the people in the rapid response groups come out of 50501 and the No Kings protests and are very green and inexperienced. This can be a blessing and a curse. There is a huge wellspring of creative energy; various neighborhoods are trying all sorts of different strategies for alert systems and mutual aid”
“we will have to fight on two levels to defeat the ICE invasion. We have to become more agile and more courageous at stopping abductions promptly and forcefully, and we also have to defeat them on a political level by popularizing the idea that ICE represents an attack on society as a whole”
“The conditions for another uprising like 2020 are bubbling just below the surface. It is a subterranean fire and the feds cannot put it out”