Yeah, I think that's it. I know on the website for the shutdown one page has a download that specifically says "Somali and Black student organizations in Minneapolis," which is what I think a lot of news stories about it are pulling from too. nationalshutdown.org/downloads

I think SPECIFICALLY the Somali Student Association? And then other student groups joined in.

The University of Minnesota Student Unions were, at the very least, among the first, afaik.

I know Baffling's a given, but my flash -- "The Only Piece Left" -- was in the December issue www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...

Fiction can be instructive and inspirational, I suppose, but we should not be beholden to make the instructive inspirational, or the inspirational hopeful, or the fictional instructive. Sometimes you need a story where shit goes south, and then you need to go and make someone else soup.

I don’t think books or short stories can serve as an antidote to despair, only as a comfort measure for the temporary lessening of symptoms. I think action can. If you want hopepunk, in the spirit of punk itself, you must do it yourself.

In particular, I’ve been pointing ppl towards givebutter.com/nhn2026, since they do a lot of work in south mpls; I know that’s where the Whittier neighborhood association was pointing ppl last night. (Sorry to butt in, I just know some ppl have found the list overwhelming!)

Like this moment is extraordinary, yes, but sometimes I think people don't remember how Walz called the national guard on mpls in 2021 AGAIN, after Winston Smith got murdered in broad daylight, and how that might affect a community's willingness to turn to each other before authorities.