Adam Serwer
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The videos do capture a part of what's going on.
And I think the existence of the videos in and of itself tells you something.
And the only measure of accountability that the people of Minnesota have is by recording these things when they happen and showing the world what's happening here.
One of the most important things that people are doing here is observing, right?
They follow ICE around.
They alert people when ICE is in the neighborhood.
But that's not the only thing people are doing.
There are massive operations that are sort of locally organized around schools and churches where they're feeding people who are in hiding.
And I went on some of these food runs.
I saw these people.
They are...
at home, their cars are covered with snow because they haven't taken them out because they're just sitting at home waiting for the invasion to be over.
Thank you so much for having me.
I think it's the only option that they have because the federal government has sidelined or erased the internal office at DHS that used to be responsible for civil liberties and making sure that people didn't cross the line.
And the only thing that people can do is
is record them being off the leash and then let the rest of the world know what's happening so that they can respond politically.
What's extraordinary about this whole operation in Minnesota is that it's broad, it's localized, it's organized, it's effective.
There's been some literature about this, and one of the things that makes nonviolence so effective is that more people can participate.
If you are engaged in a violent campaign, that limits the amount of people who can participate.
But when you look at the people who are on the ground in Minneapolis who are