Welcome to the American Winter

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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/minneapolis-uprising/685755/?gift=SCYx-5scVta3-cr_IlgTyfXiJArqhxyByr7Fd3vatYE

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Over the past year, a three-story brick building in south Minneapolis has become a magnet for people who feel they—and their neighbors—need protection from their own government. The nonprofit that runs training sessions there asked me not to identify its location. When I visited, an ebullient labor organizer named Emilia Gonzalez Avalos was standing onstage in front of a packed auditorium, talking about the facial-recognition technology used by ICE agents, who routinely photograph protesters. “Everyone is at risk now,” she said. Behind her, a screen offered bullet points on how to legally observe ICE raids.

Avalos told me that 65,000 people have received the training, most of them since December. “We started in a very different tone; it was preventive,” she said. Now, after Good’s death, “people are understanding the stakes in a different way.”

I went upstairs to see breakout sessions where people were being trained for direct confrontations with ICE. Inside a classroom, several dozen people ranging in age from 14 to about 70 faced off against three trainers playing ICE agents, in a loud fracas that lasted several minutes. Afterward, the trainers offered the volunteers a critique. One gray-haired lady said she had found the exercise difficult, “not being a ‘Fuck you’ person.” Others got tips on how to brace themselves more effectively so that the agents could not easily knock them down.

Before I left, I watched the trainers put the group through two more simulations: an unexpected ICE raid on a neighbor’s home and a planned demonstration at an airport that ICE is using to deport people. The second scenario appeared to come to life a few days later, when about 100 clergy members were arrested for protesting at the Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport.

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[leftstreet]

1. DURec

Thanks for posting this

[Rendville]

2. This Is How 1960's Civil Rights Workers PREPARED For State Violence

So once again. Minneapolis St Paul People.
Shows us that they know how to TCB.

1960’s Civil Rights Workers TRAINED for the Violence.
And how to respond & survive.

So did our parents & grandparents who stood with The United Farm Workers & Wounded Knee Activists.

We need to read up on all that history.
And follow in their footsteps.
2026 Style.
Incorporating all aspects of technocratic state-funded terror response.