Brittany Packnett Cunningham
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At least 3,000 of those people were sent to other places.
Some of those people were taken to a detention facility in Minneapolis, in Minnesota, a place called Whipple, and then released.
At least 3,000 of those people have been sent to other states, many of them Texas.
So 3,000 people disappeared, sent halfway across the country where they know no one, have no family, can't connect to anybody where they need help.
And Minnesota has about 150 lawyers in the state who are capable, who have the proper licensing, and who have the proper authority to file what is needed to get those people back home from Texas to Minneapolis.
3,000 people, 150 lawyers.
What we're talking about is wholesale warfare from America's government against her people.
This is not 2014.
It's not 2015.
It's not 2020.
It's not Occupy Wall Street.
It's not anti-Iraq.
It's not anti-Vietnam.
There are parallels.
There are necessary lessons.
There is courage that we need to borrow from those moments for now.
And this moment is calling for way more courage from all of us.
Activists are not just fearful for their jobs.
They're fearful for their lives because they could go outside and end up like Alex Pretty or Renee Good or Keith Porter and not come home.
That's right.