Minneapolis

[cosmolinguist]

So I'm 4000 miles away, working for a British organization full of British people.

It was really nice that at my team meeting this morning when me and someone else were first to arrive he brought up very gently how I must be feeling devastated and horrified. I thanked him, said I was trying to be supportive to my Minneapolis friends. As the team joined the meeting, everyone joined in with fierce kindness. There is support and kindness and black humor and solidarity, in so many places.

It made me feel really good.

I feel so powerless of course but I'm doing what I can, here's a couple links whwre people can donate to help communities affected by and resisting ICE:

Pay rent and buy groceries for the families of preschoolers whose relatives have been kidnapped or cannot leave the house to work or buy groceries.

ICE observers in the Twin Cities are in need of dash cams to prevent further intimidation and frivolous claims.

Also... While the GoFundMe to support Renée Good's family raised $1.5 million, a GoFundMe for the family of Keith Porter, Jr., a Black man shot by an ICE agent a week earlier, didn't meet its $35,000 goal until yesterday. A still-modest goal has been set; it's really important to support Black men as well as we do white women.

Comments

[otter]

reading this warms my heart. One of the people they may have been after at the high school was Falcon's English teacher a decade ago.

[cosmolinguist]

I'm glad I could bring your heart a little warmth.

[angelofthenorth]

I'm pleased your team were so supportive

[silveradept]

I am glad to hear that your team has been supportive and understanding as MSP has to deal with invaders and murderers.

[cosmolinguist]

And others too: V just told me about a relative of theirs who we've helped out in clearing his mother's house after she died; he's apparently been really concerned about me, which is so sweet.

[silveradept]

That's good. The human impulse to connect and support each other at work, even against people who want to drum it out of us so we are more productive.

[sfred]

<3

[littlespaceheater]

Hello,
Thank you for sharing ways to help from far away
Love

[cosmolinguist]

I am glad to do what I can. <3

[sennashi_dorei]

That link about buying groceries for families of kidnapped people.. I am currently sitting in a coffee shop that I took a bus to get to, and walking down the street, saw another random individual with a vest that said "security" while they had a gun in their holster. Like, sure I feel safe around random people with guns, especially as a disabled person. I am so sick of this.

[cosmolinguist]

<3

[radiantfracture]

I hadn't put it together that you came from there. I am glad you had that fierce kindness -- lovely description -- around you.

Good links. Thank you.