Amanda

You know, the groups fighting for immigrant justice and having meetings all of the time.

They are groups that are fighting for queer kids that are in the high schools that are doing the work to give them places to exist.

They are people that are fighting for zoning for people to have homes.

They're in a million different categories.

They're serving kids.

They're making sure there's free lunches.

There's a million different ways to get into this river.

Those people become an ecosystem that then activate to go to these protests.

This is how Minnesota becomes Minnesota, right?

It's not just that everybody showed up one day.

It's that all of these people were already plugged in and already talking to each other like this gorgeous spider web.

And I think when we say, why isn't anyone leading?

What that is revealing is that we aren't in community because there's so many people who are leading and have been leading in our communities for decades and centuries.

And they're usually black and brown women.

And they are doing the work and have been doing the work forever.

So when we say, oh my God, no one's leading, all we're doing is revealing that we haven't been following.

It's not going to be some white lady who stands up and suddenly, that's not it.

That's not how this works.

So maybe we should bring up the whole freedom fleet again.

Like we've been talking about, you get in a boat.