Jonquilyn Hill

And we would just put that on the bus system that also carried people from hub to hub.

It's just everyday people, you know, it's just people who are retired.

They have a couple hours in the afternoon, so they're going to do patrols.

And it's people who are, you know, like, you know, real estate agents driving around, like commuting, trying to track how ICE is moving and alert neighbors when things are not safe.

This summer, we were getting notification that there was a major tsunami coming our way.

We had 30 people that already knew where they are supposed to go and notify the unhoused across the island.

But as I was evacuating, these guys that I've been serving sandwiches to for 10 years are like, hey, no

Nicole, what are you doing?

You're driving the wrong way.

You're supposed to be up the mountain.

Right.

And like they're telling me how and where to evacuate.

All these crises that we've had over the past five years that have just rapidly increased in their severity and how much they come at us has resulted in us having a really effective response.

way to notify so that even the most vulnerable have a chance to even make a choice to do something.

There were a number of people who just truly came alive in that moment where they had never been in a place where the assumption was yes.

This is the time when I have been the most proud to say that I'm a Minnesotan, actually, as a Black woman.

Because I feel that the kind of Faustian deal that this administration has kind of thrust upon us is like, you know, especially with the deaths of legal observers, Renee Good and Alex Preddy, like...

Well, you can either have your life or you can have your humanity.

Your humanity being the fact that we are all interconnected and that we all belong to each other and therefore we're all responsible for each other.

You can have your life or your humanity.