{"id":63290,"date":"2026-02-19T18:39:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ndncollective.org\/?p=63290"},"modified":"2026-02-20T16:14:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:14:29","slug":"message-from-the-frontlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ndncollective.org\/message-from-the-frontlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Message from the frontlines of the fight against ICE: Communal grief is necessary to sustain resistance.","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Minnesota is teaching us about courage. Minnesota is showing us what fierce resistance looks like under an occupation by paramilitary forces. A memorial ceremony for Renee Good held in Powderhorn Park on February 7, 2026 offered a space for the people of Minneapolis to grieve. Led by Indigenous leaders and elders, the memorial connected us to generations of resistance. The message was loud and clear \u2013 they cannot take our hearts, they cannot take our grief. We are still here. And we are not going anywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Jingle Dress Dancers circle the fire with the family for the roll call. Four people from each direction answer \u201chere\u201d or \u201cpresente\u201d for their neighbors. When Renee Good\u2019s name is called, silence answers. A ceremony song rises and carries our shared grief. Photo by Drew Arrieta.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

RESISTANCE CONFRONTS POWER DIRECTLY<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The Trump regime unleashed 3,000 violent ICE agents on a city full of immigrants, hoping that when we witnessed them abducting people, circling schools, breaking windows, and inflicting pain, we would fear them and submit to their control. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Minneapolis has not backed down one inch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This regime is targeting the infrastructure of survival, from food stamps to health care to gender affirming care to education, hoping that we will retreat, isolate, endure the siege, and forget about our neighbors.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in response, Minneapolis has built community-centered systems of care, dispatches to protect, and spaces to heal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This regime refuses to investigate the murder of Renee Good \u2013 and in fact the Department of Homeland Security is pushing to charge her widow with domestic terrorism. They\u2019re villainizing a woman who saw her partner killed by the state right beside her, a woman who is deeply grieving, as a distraction from their bloodshed. Fascism thrives on forgetting, and so we refuse to let them erase our histories, our people, and what is happening right in front of our faces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minneapolis remembers. Minneapolis grieves. Minneapolis shows us all how to continue. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Chief Arvol Looking Horse led the ceremony. He is the 19th keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe and Bundle and an international leader for peace and prayer. Photo by community member.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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