Song of the Week

Chinga La Migra by ZADA. Listen to this song as you read to help open you up. Learn some Spanish this week, it means “fuck ICE and border patrol”.

Updates!

I am SO proud of us. Our rebellion is to remain human. Winning this rebellion requires focus, releasing things that are ready/need to be released, learning, training, and showing up in in any way you can. We all have our super powers, use them. Make yourself proud. Many of my beloveds are chasing down ICE this week in South Minneapolis. Word on the street is there are 100-200 ICE agents who were deployed earlier this week, who are visibly on our streets, trying to kidnap Somali, Latinx, and anyone else who they want to target in our communities. They are all over my neighborhood, and quite likely many of yours. On Wednesday I was in the Monarca training, and 800-1,000 other people were there! We learned how to chase down ICE vans, track license plates, honk horns to alert everyone within hearing distance of their presence, whistle loudly, and apply everything we have learned from other cities and from the 2020 uprisings in Minneapolis to protect out people. Here’s video of ICE leaving after reporters and community members showed up!

The ICE raids are not actually about undocumented people, these ICE raids are a litmus test, and a testing ground to see how communities respond to attacks on human rights more broadly, starting with the most vulnerable among us, and expanding as they go. It is also a way to normalize militarized violence in our streets, hence the bold uniforms, militarized trucks, guns etc.. If you’ve been feeling helpless, attend the MONARCA training. It was excellent, made me feel a sense of power and knowledge acquisition I haven’t felt in a while. I walked away invigorated, knowing how to track ICE agents and recognize their unmarked vehicles, how to record video of them with narration, and that all our documentation and honking is totally legal, despite the fact that ICE is encouraged to lie, and tell you it isn’t.

I went out to an ICE raid on Wednesday after hearing ICE was there, and despite the fact that ICE said they would stay as long as they needed to kidnap their targets, they were gone in about an hour. Their cover was blown and the owners of the business asked for a warrant, which ICE did not have. I’m so impressed by this community organizing and I can see more and more people, hundreds of people being added to organizing groups this week. If you want to get involved start by attending the Monarca training, feel free to reach out to me and I can try and connect you to Phillips/Powderhorn and Whittier groups. Let’s goooooo.

I installed these magical portals in Sun Yung and my bodywork space at Sabathani today. As usual they were harder to install than you’d think, so tell us you like them?

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Drag Story Hour! Watch and Learn!

Drag Story Hour MN made a new video about Powderhorn Lake. My friend and mushroom enthusiast Emily made this and it’s incredible!

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xoxo Eiko