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Meet the Moms of Cedar-Riverside
If you live in the Cedar-Riverside area of Minneapolis, several groups of moms have your back. In this really sweet story from Sahan Journal, reporter Binta Kanteh chats with mothers who are doing the important work of keeping tabs on their neighbors, making sure people are safe and informed.
There’s the patrolling “Mamas of Cedar,” who each spend five or more hours a week roaming key residential areas, keeping an eye out for ICE and educating people on their rights. Another group focuses on providing safe rides to appointments and delivering groceries, and yet another brews tea each morning as a neighborly way to check in with people.
“We raised our children here. We have families here. We see that people are showing up for us from different communities. We have to mobilize ourselves,” says one mom. “Each morning, you’re keeping in mind: Who have you seen? Who is missing? Who have we not heard from?”
Without a Trace
We’ve heard the whistles and we’ve seen the videos of our neighbors being snatched off the streets. But what about the “untold number of immigrants [who] have been arrested without the whistles and cameras—plucked out of their lives in an instant?” That’s what Madison McVan asks in a necessary story for the Minnesota Reformer today…