ICE, Empire, and Ancestral Memory Sponsored by Science and Nonduality (SAND) with Kaira Jewel Lingo, Lyla June and Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg of MN.
Across Minneapolis, communities are responding to ICE terror not only with protest, but with intimacy—relational networks rooted in land, lineage, and love. In this gathering, we listen to voices carrying Indigenous memory, Black freedom struggle, faith-based resistance, and poetic truth to understand how today’s organizing is part of an ancient pattern: defending beloved community/home from occupation.
Together we will ask:
What does it mean to love your neighbor when your neighbor is being targeted by the state? What shifts when we see every person (we encounter in the streets), documented or undocumented, as created in the image of the divine?
What does it mean to practice beloved community and block-by-block organizing as a daily discipline, not just in moments of crisis? How might this practice serve us whether state terror comes to the doorstep of our communities or not?
What shifts when we understand ICE repression in Minneapolis (and cities across the US) as part of a much longer history—from Indigenous genocide to slave patrols to Nazi gestapo? (ALT: How does understanding ICE repression as part of a long lineage of state violence—from Indigenous genocide to slave patrols to modern policing—change how we respond today?)
How are relationships—across race, faith, class, and culture—being strengthened through struggle in Minneapolis (and other US cities facing ICE occupation) right now?
How are systems of repression interconnected globally—through militarization, surveillance, and profit?
How do we stay present with our powerlessness without collapsing into despair or passivity?
What can we learn from mycelial organizing—quiet, resilient networks that move people from fear into courageous, coordinated action?
Why does this moment feel like a sacred reckoning rather than just another political crisis?
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