Like so many of us, Rebecca Smith and the artists at Tokki Tokki Tattoo in downtown Minneapolis are looking for any way to help that they can in the face of the Twin Cities’ ongoing ICE invasion.
The shop has assembled protest kits with baby shampoo, whistles, and hand warmers. In their adjacent art studio, one artist is painting protest signs people can grab if they don’t have time to make their own. Tokki Tokki has been selling “fuck ICE” bandanas, with the proceeds going to immigrant causes, and on Friday, they’re collecting food, baby formula, and diapers for a group of 20 families in need.
But Smith and her colleagues are feeling angry and frustrated that even with so many of their neighbors trying to help, ICE continues to rampage through the Twin Cities and its surrounding communities…