We published a story this morning about how whistles are becoming a tool that some activists use to warn neighbors about ICE immigration operations. Sahan Journal also looks at how protesters are also using noise to disturb ICE agents staying at local hotels. Some 150 protesters “banged pots and pans, blew noisemakers, shouted through speakers and leaned on car horns outside Homewood Suites by Hilton in Edina for three hours on Thursday night.”
Edina High School’s principal says the district “will pursue disciplinary action against students ‘making light’ of actions by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” according to Bring Me The News. “In an email to students and their families, Edina High School Principal Paul Paetzel said the school will enforce discipline ‘up to and including suspension’ for students who make comments ‘making light of immigration threats or referencing ICE in ways that cause fear or humiliation.’”
Postal workers are also speaking out against ICE raids, “specifically demanding that ICE not use postal property to stage its operations,” KARE 11 reports. “National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 9 Vice President Chris Pennock said ICE agents have been using the Lake Street and Powderhorn post office parking lots to stage operations over the past two weeks.”
Is there gold in the Mississippi River? It turns out there is. The Minnesota Star Tribune highlights some low-stakes prospectors that “spend hours standing in murky water, stooping and squatting over buckets and pans, shoveling and sifting with hand tools and human muscle, processing hundreds of pounds of rocks, gravel, sand and mud. The result: Tiny, but heavy specks with that unmistakable yellow gleam.” And while that seems exciting, it’s not enough to quite one’s day job.
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