ICE is still dicking around here.
About 1,000 agents have gone, and “as of Monday [today] or Tuesday, we’ll remove several hundred more," said the head guy. But that still leaves around a thousand.
( And sadly, when they leave here, it’s not like they’re being decommissioned.)
Anti-ICE posters and stickers are all over town.
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While there are a few repeaters, a lot of them are unique.
I've only seen this wonderful "Welcome to Minnesota" poster once (by my food co-op this weekend).
The loon is Minnesota's state bird.
National Geographic says "the waterbirds can be savage"--even known to stab bald eagles to death:
nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/why-loon-stabbed-bald-eagle-heart
The loon has been a popular resistance image, especially ones with laser eyes. (These diving birds have red eyes possibly to help them see underwater. )
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Below: Bathrobe Lady, St. Paul, MN
Photo by Leila Navidi/The Minnesota Star Tribune__________
MORE POSTERS I photographed this weekend.
“[heart] to our "RRs" = Rapid Responders, folkx who give chase on foot or bikes or follow ICE agents in cars, keep watch on street corners with whistles, and respond to alerts on Signal.
Also RR Road Runner, who is always outsmarting and outrunning Wile E Coyote in Looney Tunes cartoons, as you know.
BELOW: The mouse is Feivel Mousekewitz from An American Tail (1986) animated movie.
Feivel and his family are Russian Jews who flee to the USA, “where there are no cats in the streets!”--so they wrongly think.
Handmade print, seen while ordering a lemon-ginger hot toddy at the juice bar:
"ICE Agents Are Stinky Losers"
As well as bathrobe ladies, bloggers who are right there and reporting to us from your own experience are national treasures. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Boud, that's nice of you to say.
DeleteI wish I could stop: I knew they wouldn't all leave right away, but I hoped it'd be faster.
Lee Love is 3D printing Loon whistles
ReplyDeleteFun!
DeleteI caught a short part of the BBC Radio 4 programme "Start the week" this morning. One of the guests was a woman from the USA snd had quite a bit to say about Minnesotans...all good .including the one that sticks in my mind about them being such a good example to all.of us and saying that "even though their hands are full they are holding on to each other"
ReplyDeletestill getting my head around the numbers of agents - just think of the good if the same level of resources were deployed in emergency areas (like floods, earthquakes, fires etc).
ReplyDeleteEIGHT BILLION DOLLARS a year for ICE.... It boggles the mind---what we could do with that to help immigrant communities, for instance... AAAaaaargh!!!!
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