I've spent the last week checking on my neighbors, engaging with my city, my local police, everyone. I've supported my friends and family, made sure they knew they weren't alone in their feelings of hopelessness, powerlessness. I've called and emailed my representatives, demanding answers, demanding action. I've just been overcome with this overwhelming, almost primal need to care for and support my community.
If Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, and soldiers take to our streets, then that tears it for me. My son just turned 1yr. I've done my best to be a helper, so that I can still be around to support him and spend time with him.
But if I have to STAND OUTSIDE in the FREEZING COLD and get the SHIT KICKED OUT OF ME by the people who are supposed to be protecting me, if I have to do that to fight for goodness, and righteousness, and justice, then that's what I'm gonna fucking do. I'm going to do it because this is not the future I want for my son.
If you've been out on the streets, and you're tired, and you're hurting, don't worry. Rest when you need to. Because I know my home and I know my neighbors. When you need to rest, two more will replace you. I will be one of them.
This is my home. Minneapolis is not going to quit. Minnesota is not going to quit. And FUCK EVERYONE who tries to come in here and take from us the PRIDE, LOVE, and COMMUNITY we've built.
As long as I can stand, I'm going to plant my two feet between the oppressors and the home I love.
I love you all. L'etoile du Nord.
I get the sentiment. But you should also understand that some of us are from the periphery and have lived under (or are still living under) the greatest immiseration machine in history, led by the US. From that position, it’s hard to be charitable toward the imperial-core “#resistance” model of angry parades and slogan-chanting. That approach has been used for at least two decades and has accomplished nothing. On top of that, a large share of these newly “radicalized” marchers don’t actually oppose imperialism at all, they just want the blue guy to give them back their treats and return to business as usual, where the periphery gets immiserated quietly and out of sight.
They were waving NATO and USAID flags at the hands off rallies lol
Not surprising in the least