Tribes have been dealing with American racism and violence longer than any other group.
Category Archives: Racism
‘This isn’t living, right?’: Minnesota immigrants share their stories while in hiding from ICE
Local NPR is – sort of – doing the work. Their social media person is gawdawful but here and there a reporter remembers who their community is and who actually funds their labor. Here are some insights from the folks literally under seige from masked government goons.
How Isle, population 800, became the only Minnesota city to sign an agreement to help ICE
Traitors in the midst. Imagine being a tourist town catering only to racists. You’d think you’d want to be as welcoming as possible, but nah. Let them die with the demographic they cater to.
The impacts of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown
Another of the recent MPR reporting that gives you hope they might figure out their role again.
Community Defense Saves Lives – Abolitionists & the 1860 “Race Riots” in Grinnell, Iowa
Iowa is pretty awful. The modern version is Postville.
Campbell Soup executive called its products food for “poor people,” lawsuit claims
I am not sure anyone in corporate America isn’t a piece of shit. Maybe heads of smaller organizations and folks who work on the ground and have to interact with “real” people but we, just in the last week, have seen NPR, Nike, Target (again!), the St. Paul police department, and a host of other outfits either bending the knee or outright rooting and financing fascists and racists, if not being the shock troops for them.
Anyways, the main story here is about Campbell Soup hiring a guy who is an outright racist class war bigot. I’d be surprised, but, yeah, that tracks.
Charlie Kirk tributes run contrary to sports’ uniting power
This is almost refreshing given that almost all of the NFL and a lot of other sports teams have seen fit to honor a bigot and a racist.
Taken by ICE
Our government pays masked racists to steal people from their families. Here are some of the folks Republicans want you to forget exist.
Federal agents detain crews, arrest firefighters battling Wash. wildfire
ICE raided some fire crews in Oregon – who were actively fighting fires – and detained what it appears are two members of the Umatilla nation. You know, folks who BELONG there instead of the Noem thugs trying to deport them *where* exactly?
Billboard for Proud Boys hate group removed downstate after public pressure
I don’t know if you are in a marketing position, but Lamar Advertising gleefully took the Proud Boys’ money to put up a billboard in Illinois.
Yeah, the racists are recruiting at high schools. That’s the country Republicans want.