I write this from ICE occupied Minneapolis. I have been here since Wednesday evening answering a call made to clergy to show up, witness, learn, and act. I am grateful to all who made my presence here possible, including family, friends, Kadima coworkers and board members, and community as a whole.
The organizers in Minneapolis are amazing. As many of them have called themselves, the “ordinary people” of Minneapolis are doing everything they can to keep their neighbors and themselves safe. All in a context they describe as: “Minneapolis is not safe - for anyone. Agents are smashing windows, breaking doors, and stealing humans without verifying whether they are undocumented or even whether they are immigrants.” The mix of pain, trauma, fear, community, solidarity, joy-making, and exhaustion is potent.
Thursday was a day of learning and connection for the near 1000 clergy who have come to heed this call, including over 40 Rabbis for Ceasefire who understand the interconnections between the repression in Palestine and the repression in the United States, and over 40 members of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association who understand that Kaplan's theology of “the Power that makes for [Liberation]” must be roused in each of us. We are here to amplify and support, and we are also here because we know this can, and likely will happen where we live too.
And today is a day of action. Surely you will see in the news and on social media the stories of resistance and joy and fighting back here, refusing to comply as this occupation continues. If you have not yet, please seek the stories of today's actions out. And, do your part from afar by amplifying their calls for 1) ICE out of MN, 2) legal accountability for the murderer of Renee Good, 3) no more Federal funding for ICE, and 4) companies in MN and across the land to not cooperate with ICE in any way.
We keep us safe.
The Reverend Jim Bear taught us how to conclude correspondence in the Lakota language, the first human language of the land now called Minneapolis: Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ – we are all related. May we act like it.
Shabbat shalom – and ICE out of MN and out of Seattle too,
R’ David
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A correction: I want to apologize for hastily misspelling the last names of both Fannie Lou Hamer and Frederick Douglass in my post last week. This haste is an example of anti-Black racism for which I apologize and commit to being more precise in the future.
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MINNEAPOLIS ACTION DAY UPDATE FROM R’DAVID:
“I'm at MSP airport as clergy are being arrested for praying for ice out, humanity to prevail, families staying together, worker justice, and an end to ice funding.
“Every city every town, ice out shut it down”
--the chant of hundreds at the airport as local clergy led us and was arrested in the dozens at the airport.”
The organizers in Minneapolis are amazing. As many of them have called themselves, the “ordinary people” of Minneapolis are doing everything they can to keep their neighbors and themselves safe. All in a context they describe as: “Minneapolis is not safe - for anyone. Agents are smashing windows, breaking doors, and stealing humans without verifying whether they are undocumented or even whether they are immigrants.” The mix of pain, trauma, fear, community, solidarity, joy-making, and exhaustion is potent.
Thursday was a day of learning and connection for the near 1000 clergy who have come to heed this call, including over 40 Rabbis for Ceasefire who understand the interconnections between the repression in Palestine and the repression in the United States, and over 40 members of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association who understand that Kaplan's theology of “the Power that makes for [Liberation]” must be roused in each of us. We are here to amplify and support, and we are also here because we know this can, and likely will happen where we live too.
And today is a day of action. Surely you will see in the news and on social media the stories of resistance and joy and fighting back here, refusing to comply as this occupation continues. If you have not yet, please seek the stories of today's actions out. And, do your part from afar by amplifying their calls for 1) ICE out of MN, 2) legal accountability for the murderer of Renee Good, 3) no more Federal funding for ICE, and 4) companies in MN and across the land to not cooperate with ICE in any way.
We keep us safe.
The Reverend Jim Bear taught us how to conclude correspondence in the Lakota language, the first human language of the land now called Minneapolis: Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ – we are all related. May we act like it.
Shabbat shalom – and ICE out of MN and out of Seattle too,
R’ David
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A correction: I want to apologize for hastily misspelling the last names of both Fannie Lou Hamer and Frederick Douglass in my post last week. This haste is an example of anti-Black racism for which I apologize and commit to being more precise in the future.
_
MINNEAPOLIS ACTION DAY UPDATE FROM R’DAVID:
“I'm at MSP airport as clergy are being arrested for praying for ice out, humanity to prevail, families staying together, worker justice, and an end to ice funding.
“Every city every town, ice out shut it down”
--the chant of hundreds at the airport as local clergy led us and was arrested in the dozens at the airport.”
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