The detention of Indigenous people is an incredible proof that ICE agents have absolutely no knowledge of immigration law and citizenship. Which proves the point, that detentions are not about immigration, doesn't it?
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Nomination of Minneapolis for Nobel Peace Prize
The Minneapolis community's' response to the invasion of ICE agents continues to demonstrate the concepts of the new conscientious objector (NewCO). After months of prayer and writing, this concrete example of the NewCO has exploded and evolved. The Nation magazine is gathering signatures to nominate Minneapolis for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Minneapolis as an example of mutual aid
Opposite the dystopian images of thousands of heavily armed masked men killing civilians and imprisoning five year old children, the people of Minneapolis have responded remarkably in numerous ways by employing mutual aid.
Protecting your data during a public witness
It is heartening to see the massive protests in response to ICE actions. But I'm concerned that many people, especially those who are new to protesting in public, may not aware of how their cell phones can provide information about them to policing agencies. And how they are putting others at risk if their photos include other people's faces.
Minneapolis Day of Prayer and Fasting
The situation in Minneapolis represents the physical manifestation of Christian Colonial Capitalist Violence (CCV). The "Giant Triplets" identified by Martin Luther King Jr.—racism, extreme materialism, and militarism—have combined into a singular architecture of oppression. "Operation Metro Surge" utilizes Militarism (3,000 federal agents) to enforce Colonialism (dispossession of immigrants and Indigenous neighbors) while protecting Materialism (corporate property rights). The killing of Renee Nicole Good by a federal agent was the result of this system.
It is time
Many among us — people of good will and faithful conscience — are wondering: is now the time? Are we at the time when our most fundamental rights as human beings and as citizens are being existentially threatened? No one will announce that it is that time. There will be no proclamation. We must listen to our conscience and, with our brothers and sisters, decide to suspend the normal order of things and step into the breach to declare the truth we see with our eyes, hear from our neighbors and know in our hearts.
The Enduring Relevance of Dr. King’s Critique of Empire
Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1967 diagnosis of the "giant triplets" is a precise theological and political antecedent to the New Conscientious Objector (NewCO) concept of Christian Colonial Capitalist Violence (CCV). King identified that these forces—racism, materialism, and militarism—are not separate societal ills but a single, fused architecture of oppression where participation in one component supports the whole.
War at Home
I've watched in horror as militarized police and National Guardsmen are being deployed to our cities and communities. This is the latest episode of advancing authoritarianism under the current administration. We now have a war at home.
A wider view
And the best thing about this solution (NewCO) is that it doesn't waste time and effort trying to make incremental changes in systems that are themselves the sources of injustice. You cannot create justice as long as you are embedded in the systems of injustice.
Who is colonized now?
Today, the "Economic Draft" expands the definition of the colonized to include those trapped by manufactured scarcity: the poor funneled into the military through the Poverty Draft, the working class captured by Job Lock through employer-sponsored healthcare, and the educated class held in Indentured Servitude by student debt.