Post #736771

2026-01-29 03:41 UTC

From an &quot;Other 98%&quot; post on fb: &quot;Minneapolis isn’t “responding” 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. Here’s 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 someone’s being cornered, and ordinary folks choosing “I’m watching” as a civic identity. In a Jacobin interview, Minneapolis organizer Aru Shiney-Ajay describes a staggering density of participation, including neighborhood chats reaching “over 4 percent” 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 “community statement” your way out of a federal dragnet. You have to interrupt the machine where it eats and sleeps and hides. That’s why Minneapolis didn’t just stay defensive. It went on offense. Activists have targeted the “pillars” 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 isn’t the spectacle. It’s the leverage. A regime can ignore outrage. It can’t ignore friction inside the supply chain that keeps its agents moving. Then came the proof-of-concept flex: the January 23 “ICE Out” 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 that’s the real exportable lesson: if you want ICE out of your city, don’t wait for permission from pundits or politicians. Build networks that make disappearance difficult, complicity expensive, and solidarity automatic.&quot; #abolishice #Minneapolis #maga #fascism #antifascism

Replies (10)

@Su_G@aus.social 2026-01-29 05:29

@lycophidion@birds.town Great read! 🙏🏻 for sharing! What a concept: organising to OUTLAST ICE! 😁 Just one rationale & strategy: “A regime can ignore outrage. It can’t ignore friction inside the supply chain that keeps its agents moving.” 😁 # ICE #regime #OutlastICE #infrastructure #minneapolis #directAction #community

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@mrkeen@mastodon.social 2026-01-29 07:20

@lycophidion@birds.town keep at it long enough and they'll send in IDF to get rid of the tunnels.

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@gimulnautti@mastodon.green 2026-01-29 07:38

@lycophidion@birds.town freedom is distributed, freedom is fought for by everyday acts, freedom is communal.

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@wennmai@mastodon.social 2026-01-29 07:43

@lycophidion@birds.town thank you for this testimony. Good to know that even the biggest machine can be stopped. This is good that it is not the rage only that succeed, every act combined count 🙏🏼

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@Kate@bildung.social 2026-01-29 09:02

@lycophidion@birds.town great initiative of Bruce Springsteen #Minneapolis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKSoxG1K7w

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@contrasocial@mastodon.social 2026-01-29 10:08

@lycophidion@birds.town It's extremely inspiring to see. I watched a video of a former Black Panther, and he talked about how chaos is a tool of the oppressors, they want riots, they want violent backlash and destruction they can show on the news. By contrast it's self-control, patience and community organization that's the key to making people-power into a real, sustainable bulwark against fascism. You resist without giving the fascists anything they can use to escalate or create favorable narratives.

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@androcat@toot.cat 2026-01-29 11:36

@lycophidion@birds.town "Become ungovernable"

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@matv1@mastodon.social 2026-01-29 12:44

@lycophidion@birds.town The weirdest thing about this for me (living outside the usa): I always understood the republican base to be grounded on- and united in - the fight against an overbearing and too powerfull federal government. How quickly they have become the polar opposite.

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@ben@s.djehuti.com 2026-01-29 14:15

@lycophidion@birds.town Who helps us? WE help us.

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@DianaBlack@todon.eu 2026-01-29 22:14

@riotturtle@kolektiva.social 👀 @lycophidion@birds.town Thx. :anarchoheart2:

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