They Called It Conspiracy: Joselyn Walsh on Federal Charges and the Criminalization of Protest
"A conspiracy charge is deeply isolating, which I think is probably part of the point from the government’s perspective," says Joselyn Walsh.
"A conspiracy charge is deeply isolating, which I think is probably part of the point from the government’s perspective," says Joselyn Walsh.
“Nobody had a story about unlearning that didn’t include a connection with other people,” says Lewis Raven Wallace.
"There’s nothing like getting to give someone their rent money," says mutual aid organizer Ashley Fairbanks.
“This extreme closeness, togetherness and intimacy — you cannot infiltrate your way into a space where you'll understand that," says May, a rapid responder in Minneapolis.
“Getting involved locally is critical,” says journalist Andrea Pitzer.
"Gender has always been an important throughline of fascist politics," says Shane Burley.
“This is not a cruel novelty project. It’s infrastructure, designed for permanence and expansion.”
“We are becoming the people that we always knew that we needed to be,” says Minneapolis organizer Andrew Fahlstrom.
"Every day, we decide who we are in relation to this wickedness. And we recognize that the answer to that question is lived, rather than merely asserted."
Rather than being disbanded or intimidated by Good’s murder, the people of Minneapolis have been galvanized, escalating their resistance and refusing to retreat from the work of protecting one another.
“This has absolutely nothing to do with either drug trafficking or democracy.”
Remarks from a vigil for Renee Nicole Good