Minneapolis/St. Paul Mutual Aid and Support

Feeling helpless? Want to do something but can't protest because of health, distance, or other obstacles? (You do not need to tell me, I am not a priest and I do not take confession and I also don't care.) I found two Linktrees with some places you can give money; I'll also put a few links down independently of the Linktrees in case those get taken down.

And some individual links:

(they are currently closed for donations but I'm linking that in case they open up OR if someone wants to sign up with Defend612)

I can't link everything but the Linktrees at top have a bunch more. Hopefully that covers a bit.

Can't donate? You still don't have to tell me as I am still not a priest, but consider boosting this (or you are welcome to just copy the links) for folks who maybe would like to see this.

(I'm not trying to be cranky, I'm just trying to head off some inevitable comments from well-meaning people lmao.)

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"Friends outside of Minnesota please read. I'm sharing a post written by a personal friend and medical doctor:
Friends outside MN, you need to know what is happening here. Everyone knows that ICE shot and killed a woman here on Wednesday. But that’s not the only thing that’s going on:

• ICE agents are cruising areas with immigrant-owned businesses, and kidnapping patrons and employees alike. Yesterday they abducted two US citizen employees at a suburban Target, one who was begging them to allow him to go get his passport to show them.
• ICE is going door to door in immigrant-heavy neighborhoods, asking residents where their immigrant neighbors live. Read that again. If it sounds like something out of your high school history textbook, that’s because it is.
• ICE is targeting schools and school buses. They pepper sprayed teenagers and abducted two school staff members at the high school up the street from me on Wednesday. Police are literally escorting school buses to ensure children can get to school and home safely. The Minneapolis Public Schools have moved to virtual learning for the next 4 weeks because it’s unsafe for children or teachers to physically come to school.
• They are targeting hospitals and clinics. Patients are scared and are cancelling their appointments or just not showing up. Kids are missing their checkups and vaccines, folks aren’t getting their cancer care, etc.
• They are smashing windows in cars and homes.
• ICE is increasingly picking up Native Americans—again, targeting folks based on skin color alone.
• They are arresting and beating legal observers. A friend of a friend had her arm broken yesterday. Folks are showing up at local hospitals, brought in in ICE custody, with severe injuries that are absolutely inconsistent with mechanism of injury reported by ICE. (Think: patient appears to have been beaten unconscious, while ICE agent says he slipped and fell.)
  I can’t emphasize enough that these ICE agents do not have warrants. There are 2,000+ agents here and they are simply hunting for anyone that’s not white. It doesn’t matter if you’re a citizen or a green card holder, they will kidnap you first and ask questions later.
  
  But the community is fighting back.
• Protests are happening every day.
• Community groups have been leading know-your-rights sessions for months, often to packed venues.
• Whistles are being distributed by the thousands, carried on keychains and worn on coat zippers, always at the ready to be blown in warning if ICE is spotted.
• Drivers are following ICE vehicles, blaring their horns in warning.
• Businesses are locking their doors even while open to keep employees and customers safe. As I type this, I’m standing guard at the locked door of our neighborhood burrito joint while I wait for my takeout order, so the employees can focus on their jobs. The place is packed with neighbors supporting this small business.
• Anti-ICE signs are posted everywhere. The community is making it crystal clear that ICE is not welcome here.
• Parents and neighbors are standing guard outside schools, organizing carpools, and escorting kids to and from school on foot.
• Parents of kids in Spanish-immersion daycare (there are a LOT of these daycares here!) are keeping their kids home so the teachers don’t have to take the risk of coming to work.
• Churches and community groups are holding fundraisers to buy and deliver groceries to families who don’t feel safe leaving home.
• Mutual aid money is going out to folks who can’t make rent because they can’t work or because a breadwinner was abducted, or who need a warm place to stay after their home’s windows were smashed.
  
  THAT is what is happening here. This fight is ongoing and it’s horrifying to watch. But we are not backing down. To my friends in other cities and states, don’t think for a minute that this won’t happen in your town. It will. Be ready. Learn from us, as we have learned from Portland and Chicago and New York. Fight back. Don’t let us get to the last line of Martin Niemoller’s poem.”
  
  -Grant Boulanger

Here's an AP news brief with a little more info. It's limited in the way major news outlets are right now but provides context that supports the personal account shared.

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They cut off usda funding from Minnesota, which includes wic and snap. Please consider donating to food banks around the area or food drives. Many immigrants are too scared to leave their homes to shop as well and a community member is doing great work.

Link to midwest food bank:

Link to a community food drive:

by the way guys, this deployment of ice to minnesota is largest ever. more agents than chicago. we are a much less dense state. we are being inundated.

It is the largest Department of Homeland Security operation in history. And yet Minnesota’s Somali population (this operation’s primary target) is upwards of 90% naturalized American citizens. It’s even more of a manufactured crisis than most DHS operations. Genuinely living in Minnesota now feels like we’re a small country on the brink of invasion.

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"The End of the Quest" by Frank Bernard Dicksee (1921)

Watching a tiktok.

It's a couple panicking after their doordasher ran inside their house because she was being harassed by ICE. The Dasher had a Minnesota ID.

The Mom is already on the phone with police when the video starts and she's asking them what to do, saying she needs a warrant before she does anything but she's scared because they have guns, have her house surrounded, and are snooping through her yard

And what I want to say here and why I'm posting this: the police told her that if she doesn't release the woman then the couple will be charged with harboring.

They said that knowing that ICE doesn't have a warrant, let alone a signed warrant.

The police are not on our side and they don't care about anyone's rights.

That said, this also ended up being a community effort.

The Mom holds the Doordasher's hand and leads her to the door, talking about how this goes against everything she stands for as a Native. She's in tears crying about how she has a baby in the house and is scared to let them in because they've had their hands on their guns the whole time.

They stand on the threshold together and a crowd gathers as the Mother screams at these ICE pigs and draws attention. Her neighbors start recording and yelling too. The Mom screams at them that it's her property and they need to get off it. She never hands the woman over to ICE or lets her leave her front door.

And you know what ICE does?

They get in their cars. And they leave.

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An update was posted today from the same Mom. She said the Dasher is safe and is now in contact with an immigration lawyer.

She also states she has no contact information with that other person because "The less I know, the better." So her neighbors and people who stood by are the ones in contact and helping out.

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Do not trust the fucking cops.

Do not trust the fucking feds.

Yes that includes your cop uncles and favorite politicians.

I've been saying this for years but it bears repeating: we protect us

Organize. Your. Community.

I am so fucking sick of us seeing things with our own eyes clear as day and the goddamn sitting President along with who the fuck ever else going “no you didn’t” and untold numbers of the population nodding along “you’re right, we didn’t”

just heard a coworker say "I know this thing wouldn't even work for Jesus" about her printer

heard three people say "amen" in response

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it's literally the evilest thing in the world to finally have time to write but then be tired. like wow you're telling me these two hours before going to bed are completely free but my brain is just Not Feeling It? fuck off

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