Mutual Aid in Self-Defense
To fight the occupation of Minnesota, people are devising ingenious ways to help each other, and are feeling the transformative effects of solidarity.
Here are three reports about resistance in Minnesota, where masked secret police are killing people and brutalizing civilians.
Whistles for community defense
Emily Hilleren in Chicago is shipping 10,000 3D-printed whistles per week to enable community warnings about ICE. This week, she diverted her output to Minneapolis.
Since late September, I’ve been organizing whistle kit assembly parties in Chicago, putting over 50,000 whistles onto the streets. As demand is slowing on the North Side, I’ve teamed up with a group of 3D printers to ship whistles to other communities across the US. If you’d like us to ship you some free whistles for community defense, please reach out!
Coordinating legal representation
Daniel Suitor, a housing lawyer in Minneapolis, saw that legal organizations are overwhelmed. He is organizing to bring more lawyers into the fight.
For lawyers in Minnesota who want to resist the ICE occupation: forms.gle/YK9mVYTft1Lt... So many folks in our legal community are ready and eager to get involved. But right now, a lot of work is being done in a decentralized way, by groups without bandwidth to organize. Let's coordinate efforts.
— Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) 2026-01-12T22:06:45.635Z
Solidarity against horror
Robert Reich shares a letter describing the emergence of love in the face of brutal violence.
Robert Reich
This is what is happening in Minnesota right now. The horror, grief and fear we are all experiencing every day, watching our neighbors get hauled away by reckless, cruel, masked paramilitaries; trying to protect one another; and knowing that what they did to Renee Nicole Good could happen to any of us, is generating this: unexpected, heartfelt new connections of not just solidarity but real love. At a massive, simply-incomprehensible scale. Good people coming together in all our fear and vulnerability and care and kindness and bravery, discovering the transformative power of our love for one another.
