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[saywhat-politics]

Minnesota toy shop hit with shock audit by Trump officials after criticizing ICE on TV, owners claim

Minnesota toy shop claims DHS began auditing it after owner criticized ICE on TV

Toy store says it was hit with an audit notice hours after one of its owners said ICE had ‘terrorized’ Minnesota

[ellewantsrevenge]

MASTER LIST OF WAYS TO HELP IN MINNEAPOLIS

(this list is mainly ways non-locals can donate but by extension offers a lot of resources and places to volunteer in the Twin Cities + there are specific ways to donate time under the cut which can be adjusted to your local neighborhood)

full credit to cataloo from r/minnesota [x]

🩵Immigrant support

Immigrant Defense Network – coalition of 90+ groups organizing rapid response and collecting evidence.

Immigrant Law Center of MN – free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees.

COPAL – advocacy, organizing, phone hotline. Focus on Latine community.

Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) – education and protest organizing.

Interfaith Coalition on Immigration – advocacy, aid, events.

Monarca MN – training and phone hotline.

Unidos MN – education, protests, advocacy.

Center for Victims of Torture – advocacy and mental health services for immigrants and refugees.

International Institute of Minnesota – refugee resettlement group that provides support and legal help to vulnerable new-to-country families.

Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota – offers services to refugees, including legal aid to non-citizens.

🩵Food support

If local, food donations are welcome, otherwise monetary donations help these types of orgs source what is most needed

VEAP

La Vina Community Church/Iglesia Cristiana La Viña Burnsville

Second Harvest Heartland

Every Meal

The Food Group

Meals on Wheels MN

Find a local food shelf

🩵Mutual aid funds & community support

Community Aid Network

Twin Cities Trans Mutual Aid

Leo's Tow (Venmo @leostowingmn) is towing cars back to families if a car is stranded when someone is detained.

🩵More links

MN50501 Mutual Aid Linktree – well-organized list of various Twin Cities groups.

Mplsmutualaid Linktree – many neighborhood and individual GoFundMes listed here.

Mpls.St.Paul Magazine – see Food Drives and Fundraisers.

Stand with Minnesota – extensive list of organizations, mutual aid, and crowdfunding campaigns.

🩵Donate blood

Memorial Blood Center declared a blood emergency on Tuesday, Jan 13. MBC is the blood supplier for both tier 1 trauma hospitals in the metro area (Hennepin County Medical Center and North Memorial Health).

American Red Cross

🩵Donate food or other goods

Mpls.St.Paul Magazine – see Food Drives and Fundraisers.

Volunteer your time (under the cut)

🩵Mutual aid

Reach out to your neighbors – especially if you know they are staying home right now – and ask if they need groceries or toiletry items. Offer to pick up prescriptions, give rides, or shovel their driveway. If you know them well, bring them a treat that you know they'll enjoy. Or just ask them how they're doing and let them know you are there to support.

Connect with any of the orgs above and see if they are looking for volunteers.

Connect with a church or mosque in your area. From u/MuddieMaeSuggins: "I know a lot of regular Redditors are not religious (myself included) but like it or not this is a where a lot of community organizing happens, especially in immigrant communities."

Connect with your local school's admin office and/or their PTA. It's ok to reach out even if you don't have kids at the school. PTAs are organizing mutual aid for school families, safe rides, school observers.

🩵Activism

Find an official protest or other event via Indivisible, 50501, FREE AMERICA, or MIRAC. Students at many high schools are staging walk-outs; if your local school is doing this, reach out to school leadership or the PTA and ask how you can support as a community member.

Join the effort to stop Hilton from housing ICE by booking hotel rooms and then cancelling at the last minute. This action can be done from home! The effort is being organized by Sunrise Movement, who are telling activists to target specific hotels one-by-one. More info: SHUT DOWN HILTON

Find people in your area who are actively monitoring ICE and/or stationing themselves in high-traffic areas and ask how you can help. Check for local FB events where people are organizing and just show up.

At minimum, read the COPAL Handbook before you go out to observe. The DFL, Monarca, and other orgs have been hosting online trainings for constitutional observers (though these fill up quickly).

When you see ICE in action, start recording. Be as loud and as disruptive as possible: honk your horn, set off your car alarm, blow your whistle. Let people know that ICE is in the area. If you see someone being detained, try to get their name and a phone number to call their emergency contact.

If you do not feel comfortable observing ICE in person, there are ways you can support from home. Just ask the people who are organizing in your area. I have social anxiety, and I had never participated in any kind of political action before this past Saturday. If I can do it, you can!

Local organizers are requesting that people who help monitor ICE DO NOT participate in 1-to-1 mutual aid efforts, as these can put the families you are helping at risk.

If you have friends/acquaintances who are sympathetic but not politically active, reach out to them. Show them that they're not alone in feeling helpless. Pick a few low-commitment actions from this list and do them together.

[leebrontide]

Hey folks,

So, 6 weeks in, many of the pop up food distribution networks helping get groceries to immigrant families trapped in their homes because of ICE have been disassembled by ICE, or run out of funds, or run out of people.

Because of that, the one I volunteer with sometimes, which I will personally vouch for and which is an escalation of a longstanding free food network, has taken on helping more and more families.

And they have about one week left of funds.

It’s all volunteers, and the space is donated, but they’re running out of money for buying food for the bags. And they do a good job getting things cheap and offering culturally specific options, and I really want them to keep going.

If you can, please donate, and if you can’t donate, consider spreading the word?

You can also find them on Bsky for more deets, right here.

(and no, they don't only prepare or send out vegan food. They're focusing on the needs of the people they're serving, not their own food choices)

[vanishingmoments]

This is definitely relevant here but also anywhere else in the country they're currently terrorizing

[mingus-archives]

Details about Alex Pretti's Execution

In case you didn't already here, 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti was executed in Minneapolis today

The National and non-MN news have unfortunately not been fully covering how awful ICE has been in MN so I wanted to share some details for anyone who is not from or familiar with the Twin Cities, as someone in the Twin Cities who is decently connected with legal observers around the area:

Prior to being publicly executed, Alex Pretti was taking part in legally observing ICE and was assisting another legal observer who had fallen trying to distance themselves from ICE.

ICE has been viciously attacking legal observers. They are pepper spraying observers mere inches away from their eyes. They are using chemical weapons and carcinogenic gases. They are intentionally trying to take phones from people recording them.

Alex Pretti was killed at East 26th St and Nicollet Ave, almost right in front of a popular donut shop. This area of Nicollet Ave is lined with local restaurants and small businesses, many of whom have been struggling while ICE conducts an occupation of the Twin Cities and in particular had lost business by participating in the general strike yesterday. Therefore, Minnesotans wanted to go out in droves this weekend to make up for the lost income yesterday. This is all to say, ICE deciding to patrol and enact violence on this area of Minneapolis was vengeful and intentional. They were looking for protestors, observers, and people who are resisting ICE.

If you would like a non-exhaustive list of how you can help Minneapolis and help resist ICE, here is a place to start. Fuck ICE. Abolish ICE.

[sen-thebootbimbo]

However bad you think it is in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, it’s worse

The Twin Cities metro is under siege. Footage is being suppressed online, so I can forgive you for not knowing the full extent of what’s going on.

Right now, DHS has kidnapped thousands of Minnesotans - regardless of citizenship status - and is injured and assaulted thousands more. 4 days ago, a man was beaten to unconsciousness in a gas station parking lot before being cuffed and dragged to a concentration camp. 7 days ago, three registered members of the Oglala Sioux tribe were kidnapped from a homeless encampment and taken to Fort Snelling, the site of the single largest slaughter of Indigenous people on “American” soil in history (Dakota 38+2), and are being held political hostage. 24 hours ago a Venezuelan man was shot in the leg after a 40 minute car chase, and a six month child was tear gassed so badly he stopped breathing.

But there’s hope.

Or, more accurately, there is action. Communities are showing up. No matter where ICE turns up, community members show up with whistles, car horns, shouting, and drive ICE out. Local businesses are shutting down operations and transforming into mutual aid distribution hubs, feeding hundreds of families sheltering in place. Communities are setting up round the clock patrols, shielding preschools and daycares, sharing resources and trainings and motivation. Minnesotans are showing up for each other.

And you can, too.

If you don’t live in Minnesota, you can help financially by donating to MIRAC, CANMN, and organizations like Smitten Kitten and Twin Cities Leather, to help operate community safe spaces and aid distribution. You can act in your communities, by finding or hosting ICE watch and stop the bleed trainings. You can read up on de-arresting and protest tactics. Show up at your local DHS, FBI, DEA, or Federal building and protest there.

We are here. We’re not stopping. We’re not giving up. The streets belong to us. Minnesota is not going anywhere.

[pastabaguette]

this one’s for the homeland …

i had the urge to draw minnesota/twin cities miku again, so here we are. funny that the original post started to get some attention again as i was working on this.

borderless below:

[mysharona1987]