🚫🧊📰💪 612 ICE-OUT News – Dec. 27
STATUS UPDATE
On Friday 12/26, Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt — embracing her role as a willing partner to federal agencies terrorizing immigrant communities in her jurisdiction — chose to arrest an ICE Watcher / Constitutional Observer for alleged “Harassment & Stalking” of someone who is abducting our neighbors. Community members and supportive elected officials organized and rallied, and the observer was released — with no charges at this time — by the evening.
Dawanna Witt’s willingness to give Hennepin County support to immoral ICE abductions and attacks on constitutional observers is absolutely shameful.
📢 NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:
➤TODAY: ICE HQ protest. 12/27, 1pm, 1 Federal Dr, St Paul, MN 55111 https://www.instagram.com/minnesota50501/p/DSvlja0j7hu
➤ Anti-ICE art make and take! 12/28, 11am-3pm, at Mudluk (2951 Bloomington Ave in South Minneapolis). Pick up fliers to copy and post around the twin cities! Bring a shirt or fabric to screen or block print on!
➤ Take Action & Stand with Construction Workers! Email the executives of United Properties, Yellow Tree and Solhem today to call on the federal government to end the ICE raids on construction sites now: https://bit.ly/ICEOutOfConstruction.
🤝🫂 MUTUAL AID:
➤ Want to support meal delivery and rides for your neighbors? Get involved here: https://bit.ly/support4neighbors
➤ Contribute to this mutual aid fund for north high families: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-north-high-families-affected-by-ice-raids
➤ Caregivers & neighbors in Minneapolis are organizing mutual aid for families under the immediate threat of abduction and deportation: https://linktr.ee/mplsfamilies
🚗💨LOCAL PATROL:
1. 🚗💨 Join your local Rapid Response neighborhood group and sign up for mobile and stationary patrol.
📝 Best Practices Guide for Neighborhood or Area Patrol, Monitors, and Verifiers: https://drive.proton.me/urls/NQBEQE8K60#CljXjBjfCxDo
2. ☎️ If you know your area well, can stay calm while tracking multiple vehicles and map locations, and quickly switch between windows on your computer, AND you’ve done ICE Watch on the streets – then you may want to volunteer as a dispatcher for your local area Rapid Response signal thread.
🗂️📍🗺️ DATA & MAPPING:
➤ Incident Tracking and Heat Mapping Project: https://tinyurl.com/mnactivitydata
🗣️💪 UPLIFTING STORIES AND NEWS:
➤ With horns and whistles, the people of Minneapolis keep letting ICE know they aren’t welcome in this city! https://bsky.app/profile/animepodcast.bsky.social/post/3maqmosnpc22z
➤ And people around the country continue to print and send the Twin Cities thousands of whistles! https://bsky.app/profile/mostlybree.kitrocha.com/post/3maoujelakc2r
➤ Northeast / Southeast built out a successful stationary, foot, and mobile patrol that kept neighbors safe over the holidays. Many people stepped up into various roles for the first time and enjoyed getting together in-person in teams.
➤ Over 120 people in Minneapolis joined a Christmas Eve ICE-WATCH training zoom call, and 125 people attended ICE patrol trainings on signal on 12/26. Minneapolis is celebrating the holidays by stepping up and learning the skills to help keep our neighbors safe!
➤ We’ve raised almost $2k for community defense vests! If you can, please contribute: https://givebutter.com/defendthe612
☎️ KEY DISPATCH UPDATES ABOUT ABDUCTOR ACTIVITY:
➤ There’s been a LOT of ICE activity throughout the Twin Cities metro in the past 3 days. Please keep your whistle handy, your eyes open, and be ready to let your local signal Rapid Response group know if you see anything concerning.
🙋♀️ GET INVOLVED:
➤ Invite your Minneapolis neighbors to fill out the form at https://defend612.com.
➤ When they hit submit, they will be directed to the local Neighborhood and School Rapid Response and Community Defense groups you can work with to protect Minneapolis from abductions.
📈🦋 An amazing community protection force is organizing and growing across the Twin Cities, and we love to see it! ❤️❤️❤️
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