Christina Buttons
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157 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 14 Feb
Christina Buttons’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Hi, Kira.
Thanks so much for having me on.
Yeah, it was a few different reasons.
I grew up in California, all over California from the Bay Area, San Diego.
And then most recently I was in Los Angeles and most recently in Hollywood, Los Angeles, where it had become kind of like an extension of Skid Row.
It was pretty scary.
I don't need to elaborate on what I mean by Skid Row.
I think you understand the picture.
But there's also other things that appealed to me about Tennessee.
And that's why I moved out here about several years ago.
Yeah.
Well, after several weeks of my investigation, I found that Minneapolis's ice watch network isn't just this sort of organic community uprising and nor are they merely observing ice activity.
It's a structured operation with national backing and a record of encouraging noncompliance and chaos that we've already seen has led to two people dying.
Yeah.
So this is what I've been able to piece together what happened from watching Icewatch trainings.
There are local activists in Minneapolis who work at nonprofits.
They link together with this national organizing hub called States at the Core.
And on December 1st is when they formed this group called Defend the 612.
And States at the Core is part of the Arabella Advisors Hope Well Fund.
They're a fiscally sponsored project of it.
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