Link: Resistance in Minneapolis

[sonia]

Minneapolis Is Going on Offense Against ICE, interview with Interview with organizer Aru Shiney-Ajay by Eric Blanc, via cosmolinguist.

Jacobin’s Eric Blanc spoke with Aru Shiney-Ajay, Sunrise Movement’s executive director and a lifelong Minneapolis resident, about Minneapolis’s organizing pushback and how ICE’s opponents can go on the offensive nationwide by pressuring companies like Hilton, Enterprise, and Home Depot to stop collaborating with the agency.[...]

Aru Shiney-Ajay: I don’t think the main barrier in the US is fear. It’s skepticism. Most people don’t believe in our ability to change things. So one of the most important things for organizers right now is to pick campaigns that are ambitious, tangible, and winnable — wins that aren’t so small they feel meaningless but are still actually achievable. Because one of the biggest things we need to prove to ordinary people right now is that we really do have power over how the government operates, and over what happens in our society.

Comments

[sabotabby]

GOOD.

[sonia]

Yes. I don't know how the Minnesota folks are doing so well, but I hope it scales up for the rest of us.

[silveradept]

Minnesota and hte Minneapolis-St. Paul area, are doing a really good job showing the rest of us the whys of building solidarity, the ways of building solidarity, and how to fight the invader on your own fronts instead of having to narrow it down to only a few. I hope it scales up, too.