Minneapolis has become kind of a ground zero in the struggle over what this country is becoming, especially as American institutions fail again and again to meet this moment. Some of this fight is visible on our televisions, on our phones, much of it is happening away from the cameras. It's happening where American residents, no longer dividing themselves neatly into groups of either citizens or immigrants, but seeing one another as neighbors, are asking a very basic question.What do the businesses we suppo ...

Throughout history, economic boycotts have been a powerful tool for social and political change. Now, it's being employed as Americans seek ways to voice their opposition to the federal government's aggressive immigration crackdown and the corporations that work alongside the Trump administration in enabling it. Martin Luther King spoke of the "power of economic withdrawal," and it's a force with which Americans are using once again. MS NOW: My Source for News, Opinion, and the World. Same mission. New name ...

We'll be right sense of moral urgenc to protect neighbors, to defend rights, to demand accountability. But as we've learned together and through history, protesting is not without risk. Alex Preddy and Renee Good were observing or documenting ICE or CBP activity, a form of resistance when they were shot and killed by agents of the state.So I understand if you are now afraid to do the same. I also understand that many of you are going to protest anyway, and that the deaths of Renee Goode and Alex Pretti have ...