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Brittany Packnett Cunningham

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
571 total appearances

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We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

At least 3,000 of those people were sent to other places.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

Some of those people were taken to a detention facility in Minneapolis, in Minnesota, a place called Whipple, and then released.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

At least 3,000 of those people have been sent to other states, many of them Texas.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

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.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

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.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

3,000 people, 150 lawyers.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

What we're talking about is wholesale warfare from America's government against her people.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

This is not 2014.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

It's not 2015.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

It's not 2020.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

It's not Occupy Wall Street.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

It's not anti-Iraq.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

It's not anti-Vietnam.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

There are parallels.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

There are necessary lessons.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

There is courage that we need to borrow from those moments for now.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

And this moment is calling for way more courage from all of us.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

Activists are not just fearful for their jobs.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

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.

We Can Do Hard Things
HOW WE ALL BECOME MINNESOTA: BRITTANY PACKNETT CUNNINGHAM

That's right.