Half the street corners around here have people–from every walk of life, including republicans–standing guard to watch for suspicious vehicles, which are reported to a robust and entirely decentralized network that tracks ICE vehicles and mobilizes responders.
I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what’s happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.
Tag: protest
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The scale of Minnesota resistance
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Tactical frivolity
The current administration deemed protesters violent and menacing. You know what isn’t? A person in an inflatable chicken costume, a protest tactic called tactical frivolity.
This humorous form of protest, known as tactical frivolity, shows the absurdity of the charge that all the protesters are armed militants. In contravention of the Trump administration’s claims that the protesters were all Hamas agents or antifa interns, the protest in Chicago was wholesome, nonaggressive and almost shockingly middle-of-the-road. It’s hard to call an inflatable chicken dangerous.
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Editorial Negligence
In high school, a prerequisite for being on the newspaper staff was talking the journalism class. A lesson that stuck with me was the concept of editorial discretion–being able to judge something as (news) worthy and including it in your coverage. Editors hold tremendous sway, even in a dying industry, to determine what enters the public sphere.
The Dallas Morning News didn’t even know about the protests. Like, how?