From an "Other 98%" post on fb:
"Minneapolis isnβt βrespondingβ to ICE anymore. Minneapolis is organizing to OUTLAST ICE. After weeks of escalated federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota, the Twin Cities are doing something the rest of the country keeps saying it wants but rarely builds: an everyday, neighborhood-level infrastructure that makes state violence harder to pull off in silence.
Hereβs what that infrastructure looks like on the ground: Signal chats that spread sightings in minutes, people walking around with whistles, neighbors showing up fast when someoneβs being cornered, and ordinary folks choosing βIβm watchingβ as a civic identity.
In a Jacobin interview, Minneapolis organizer Aru Shiney-Ajay describes a staggering density of participation, including neighborhood chats reaching βover 4 percentβ of residents and rapid-response patrol chats that hit 1,000 people in a single neighborhood by late morning.
That matters because ICE thrives on logistics and isolation. You cannot βcommunity statementβ your way out of a federal dragnet. You have to interrupt the machine where it eats and sleeps and hides.
Thatβs why Minneapolis didnβt just stay defensive. It went on offense.
Activists have targeted the βpillarsβ that let ICE operate like an occupying force: hotels, rental cars, corporate partners, the quiet, normal places where repression refuels.
A local campaign that pushed a Hilton-branded hotel to refuse service to ICE, triggering national blowback and a corporate scramble. What makes this smart isnβt the spectacle. Itβs the leverage. A regime can ignore outrage. It canβt ignore friction inside the supply chain that keeps its agents moving.
Then came the proof-of-concept flex: the January 23 βICE Outβ general strike day in Minneapolis and beyond, called by unions and community groups as a refusal of business as usual under terror.
This was a muscle-building exercise: can we coordinate, can we hold lines, can we protect each other, can we make the city ungovernable for people who think they can hunt humans here?
This is what resistance looks like when it grows up. Not just rage. Routines. Not just protest. Infrastructure.
And thatβs the real exportable lesson: if you want ICE out of your city, donβt wait for permission from pundits or politicians. Build networks that make disappearance difficult, complicity expensive, and solidarity automatic."
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