Episode 280 dropped February 8: Host Sam Goldman recaps the latest developments as the regime continues to signal
their plan to undermine midterm elections and anything that will impede
their goal of ethnic cleansing.
Then, she speaks with Cliff Willmeng, Minneapolis resident, nurse and
activist, about the crisis facing the Twin Cities: the occupation by
ICE and other federal forces and the unprecedented resistance that the
cities have demonstrated on all fronts to this fascist offensive.
Cliff Willmeng: The community is powerful right now. It's the people that are setting the tone. The politicians are not here for us. This is not something that we want to reconcile ourselves to. We don't want ice, masked, anonymous gunmen to become a normal fixture of American life, abduct our neighbors or shoot our community members down in broad daylight. That's not an option here. So we're watching our backs. We're protecting our neighbors, but the spirit here is like a level of defiance and anger that is tempered with enormous discipline. I have never felt anything like this.
Sam Goldman: When we say (the attacks on)
immigrants are the battering ram, we mean this is how the regime smashes
through the last restraints. Immigrants are the first people they come
for because they think they can get away with it. Strip rights here,
lock people up there, normalize concentration camps here, break the law
there. And once that wall is down, they drive straight through the rest
of society.
And when we say immigrants are the linchpin,
we mean the whole fascist project depends on this. The camps, the
surveillance, the raids, the disappearance of due process. This is the
machinery they’re building to rule, tested first on immigrants that
expanded to everyone who won’t comply. This is how fascism works. You
start with the people you deem subhuman. You declare that no one will
defend them. And you end with a society ruled by fear, by force.
If this is allowed to stand, it doesn’t stop here. Defending immigrants isn’t a side issue. It’s the front line.
And
stopping this means stopping the whole regime before this becomes
locked into place because there is no living with this. There is no
stopping at piecemeal. The whole fascist regime must go now…
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