How you can help Minnesota
Call your Senators and pressure them to vote to OPPOSE HR 7147 emergency funding bill which passed the House on Thursday. This bill will give ICE 10 billion to continue and expand their operations. This is the most important thing you can do to support us right now. This is especially true if you have a Democratic senator. They need to get 7 dems to flip to pass. This is being brought upon us because we are unapologetic Blue State. This is politically motivated. Please impress on your senators that they must hold the line.
Support the economic boycotts that Ice Out MN general strike started yesterday. There are a bunch of petitions/letters to various companies that support ICE and allow them to continue to terrorize us. Please sign the petition and demand they stand with Minnesota against ICE. Letter to Hilton Letter to Target Letter to Enterprise Letter to Home Depot Letter to D.R. Horton (construction company)
Donate to food shelves, rent relief organization, bail funds and other community aid groups. There are a lot of them listed here and on the same page there is a list of vetted private donations that is being kept up to date.
Actually, I’m gonna disagree a smidge with OPs mostly excellent post here.
I ALSO want those of you in red states screaming at your Senators. And I want you to pretend to be a lifelong republican when you do it. Yell about community and what-about-the-children and “this isn’t what I voted for why are spending billions on this when eggs still cost a million dollars” and yell about shooting a mom on the way from school one week and a nurse who treats veterans the next. About kidnapping a little boy right off the school bus and disappearing him across state lines. About ICE harassing police and law abiding citizens. About how they kidnap 3000 with no warrant and almost all of them are citizens. Call ICE agents every variant of “thug” and “lawless” that you can think of. Tell them you saw the videos and know ICE is lying and think you’re all too stupid to notice. Say you don’t want your government smashing peoples windows and carrying people off and saying they don’t need warrants. About gassing a minivan full of kids and an infant in the hospital. Tell them you didn’t want to believe what those Democrats said about Republicans and feel mad and ashamed and betrayed to see this.
Cause even Republicans here are PISSED OFF.
And every Republican elected in MN knows their party is fuuuuucked as far as MN goes. You can see even many of them posting begging for this to be over.
Your job is to put that fear into YOUR Republicans before this comes to your door.
