USE YOUR EYES, Stand In Your Integrity, Speak UP
Don't listen to their lies. Use your EYES. Use your critical thinking skills. Our neighbors, are our community.
There is NO justification of what's been happening and the atrocities that continue to unfold. *History is repeating itself.*
ICE aren't executioners, though they’re acting as if they are. ICE are minimally trained, armed kidnappers taking unarmed people and children in broad daylight, waiting outside schools and workplaces. ICE is racially profiling people by targeting people of color, and illegally detaining them regardless of citizenship. ICE isn't protecting anyone, they're not making communities safer. ICE is HURTING our communities, ICE has been kidnapping, beating and murdering unarmed civilians across the country.
The news tries to tell us what we see with our own eyes isn't truth, they justify it to fuel their own agendas.
Don't look away.
Don't listen to their lies.
USE YOUR EYES.
Use your brain.
Check in with your humanity.
Check in with your heart.
I believe in this life time, we won't have peace. There are going to be tragedies the world has never seen before and tragedies the world repeats and we're going to have to figure out how to keep living and how to keep fighting, without losing hope.
So, don't check out. Check in on your friends, your neighbors, your community. Contact your reps (use the 5 calls app!) . Show up and support the places and spaces and people that need it most right now. We can't do it all or be all, but everyone doing a little bit adds up to a lot more than nothing at all.
*News Flash! Unless you’re of indigenous descent, YOU have benefitted from birthright citizenship and are in fact the descendant of an immigrant who is living on stolen indigenous lands that are sacred to the indigenous people whose ancestors are from here. So, believing that what ICE is doing is justifiable, is hypocritical and cruel.
*The US Constitution protects citizens AND non-citizens. ICE has been actively and repeatedly violating (at minimum) our 1st, 4th, 6th, 8th and 14th amendment rights.
America is supposed to be the home of the free, not just the home of the free for white descendants of immigrants who fit the ideal of who this current administration deems belong.
art image drawn by Monica, cannot use without permission.
What are ways that you can help Minnesota and the Minneapolis community?
Use the 5 Calls App and call your representatives
Donate food and supplies
Volunteer to pack food and supplies
Volunteer to drive and drop off food and supplies
Donate money to help the already existing organizations and non-profits help the community
Donate money to help people who can’t pay their rent because their afraid to leave their homes and therefore can’t go to work
Speak up in your own community
Click Here for the MN 50501 Mutual Aid Website with numerous links and ways to get involved
There are SO MANY ways that you can get involved, you don’t need to do it all, but if each of us do a little bit it will add up to a whole lot of help.
Please be safe, please stay warm and as we do outdoors - - mitigate risk as best as you can.
WE ARE STRONGER TOGETHER, and in MINNESOTA WE’RE USED TO HARSH WINTERS and won’t let a little ice keep us from showing up for our communities.
UPDATE 01/29/2026:
UPCOMING : The Unity Community Ride and Mutual Aid Drop Off Angry Catfish event will be Saturday January 31st - please click here for the local ride information, please click here to find a ride near you if you don’t live in Minneapolis, MN (this is international, there are over 130 Community Unity Rides that will be taking place) .
UPDATE 1/29/2026
What’s been happening? If you’re completely unaware of what’s happening and you need an update, keep reading.
Minneapolis and Minnesota Communities have been hurting for weeks. Throughout the month of January 2026, there have been an overwhelming invasion of ICE agents (over 3,000 were deployed in less than 2 weeks). Since then, our neighbors, students, and community members have been illegally and inhumanely drug out of their homes and vehicles, from work, school places, and hospitals, beaten, pepper sprayed, gassed and kidnapped by ICE agents AND murdered by ICE agents, in broad daylight. Renee Good was murdered on January 7th, 2026 and now Alex Pretti on January 24th, 2026.
Let me be clear, these are not ICE’s first murders. But, these are 2 unjustifiable murders that have hit our already hurting community deeply.
Marching alongside up to 100,000 Minnesotan’s on Friday January 23rd during the Economic Blackout ICE OUT MARCH, was powerful, heartwarming, and gave me an overwhelming sense of hope that as a community we have the power to stand up against this fascist regime, and shout loudly that immigrants are welcome here.
The following morning, this feeling of hope was annihilated following the brutal assassination of Alex Pretti in broad daylight by ICE agents, in front of Glamdoll Donuts while he was trying to assist a woman who had been shoved to the ground by ICE.
Instead of cowering in fear and hopelessness, Minnesotans have come together even stronger and more unified.
Because WE ARE stronger together.
We are Minnesotans, we are used to harsh winters - - and we aren’t afraid of a little ICE.
How Can You Help?
There are SO MANY ways you can be helping Minnesota and the Minneapolis community. If protesting and marching aren’t your thing,
donate food/ supplies
pick up and deliver food / supplies for neighbors/ community
donate money
volunteer
CALL your reps (using the 5 calls app makes it incredibly easy)
Show up for your community, for our community.
Every bit helps. Do something. Take Action (real helpful action, not performative, not to escalate tensions).
* I often post on the unruly women instagram of how to get involved in community efforts, I don’t have the bandwidth to post everywhere all of the time and I’m just re-sharing what the community non-profits and organizations are already putting together.
SO, PLEASE FOLLOW on Instagram:
And let me know if there are others I need to add!
*Still on the fence about what’s going on or think what’s happening won’t impact you because you’re privileged or because it’s not in your backyard yet? Educate yourself about what’s happening. Listen to the individuals who are being impacted, listen to what they say, listen to their experiences. Read real, reliable and factual new sources and not just what you see on social media or biased news outlets. Use your eyes, use your critical thinking skills, and for fucks sake just be a kind human, have courage, stand in your integrity and SPEAK UP.
***Disclaimer: I write from my own personal experience and my writings are to be interpreted as such. I cannot speak for those who encounter inequity and inequality for their identities that are not my own, but , I will amplify their voices to be heard and try to help to raise awareness and fight for equal human rights. I encourage you to use your own critical thinking when making decisions and major life choices. As always, you are your own person, capable of making your own decisions regardless of external influences - take no shit but do no harm. ***
