Grad velicine Sarajeva konstantno nenasilno protestuje zadnjih mjesec i po dana po snijegu i minusima. Citav grad se organizovao, od popova u crkvama do uciteljica u skoli do penzionera od 80 godina. Znaci nije to protest gdje sat vremena masu transparentima i odu kuci, vec su bukvalno 24/7 u smjenama na svakom cosku grada sa zvizdaljkama i mobitelima. Kad vide da se ICE sprema na "akciju" na neciju kucu, komsije spontano istrcavaju u pidzamama i prave kordon da ih blokiraju. Dvoje ih je dosad ubijeno zbog toga ali ne odustaju.Hendrix wrote: ↑26/01/2026 21:50I koliko je to ljudi ukupno bilo na protestima? Ja na snimkama vidim uvijek 20ak ljudi aktivista, i to je to. Napravi neko vece sranje i doce ti vojska s tenkovima da to rastjera. Freedom ali dokle mi dozvolimo jel.jeza u ledja wrote: ↑26/01/2026 03:19Tabu tema protesti???Hendrix wrote: ↑25/01/2026 19:49 Sva ova americka teorija kako gradjani trebaju imati oruzje za slucaj tiranije vlade je teska suplja. To je neka romanticna Hollywood verzija gdje mozda komunisti dodju kao u filmu Red Dawn pa se oni kao dizu na ustanak.
Vidimo sad da je i nosenje oruzja kritizirano od MAGE kao sta ce njemu pistolj na protestima, slusaj vlast i ICE i nista ti nece biti. Dok onaj slinavac Kyle moze mirno uletit s puskom na proteste i to je ok.
Nosenje oruzja da, ali samo za one koji su uz vlast i slusaju. Sto je totalno kontra od te romanticne ideje o ustanku protiv tiranije.
I inace protesti u USA su tabu tema, dok god placas mortgage, osiguranje i rintas, dobar si. Malo nesta zatalasaj ozbiljno protiv bilo koje vlasti, donji si.
Izvini ali ti ne pratis onda sta se desava. Bukvalno ljudi u lice saspu sve “organima” naoruzanim do zuba, i to sve da zastite imigrante i ljude tamnije boje koze. I to sve po cijenu zivota eventualno.
Svaka im cast.
Tabu tema…to ne moze biti dalje od istine.
Da, svaka im cast ali to je 0.000001% americkog drustva.
Znas i sam kako su prosli studenti na Kent State 1970. Hladno ih 4 ubili radi mirnog protesta.
Sve je to cool i demokratija dok protestujes za prava zivotinja i naivnih stvari. Malo ozbiljniji poziv na pobunu i rusenje vlasti? E ne moze to tako.
I had been talking with Daniel for only a few minutes when a tall man walked up, said he was a parent observer for the school we stood across from, and asked me to identify myself. When I showed him my press badge, he seemed friendlier, but still wary. He explained that he had heard reports of ICE agents impersonating journalists. I asked about the parent patrol, and he apologized, saying he couldn’t give out any information.
Inside the schools, many administrators have been making their own preparations over the past year. Amanda Bauer, a teacher at a Minneapolis elementary school that has a large portion of immigrant students, told me that administrators informed parents last fall about their emergency plans for ICE raids by phone or in person, because they were already concerned about leaving email chains that could be mined by a hostile government.
Bauer, who is 49, struggled to maintain her composure as she described the day early this month when ICE showed up in force outside her school. Agents had been circling the school since December, seemingly learning its routines, and they arrested some parents just before the winter break. But this time, agents leapt out in riot gear and began entering the apartments just across from the school, where many students live.
“We had to lock down and keep the kids inside, and parents linked arms to block the school entrance,” Bauer said. “We had a student who was looking out the window and saw them break into his apartment and just sobbed, ‘That’s my house. That’s my home.’ And we shut the blinds, but it was too late.”
Bauer has been a teacher for 25 years, a period that has included a rise of school shootings and the drills that have become common to protect against them. “But I never thought it would be our own government we had to protect the kids from,” she told me. “We kept them physically safe, but they saw what happened.”
As she spoke, Bauer’s hands were trembling. She held them up and smiled weakly. “I don’t think I’ve stopped shaking for two weeks,” she said.
Children were a moral fault line for many of the people I met in the Twin Cities—not just the children of immigrants, who are at risk of losing their parents or being deported themselves, but also their white peers in schools and day-care centers.
I met a couple in their 70s who told me they had never considered joining a political protest until ICE came to town, and they realized that their granddaughter was at risk of witnessing a violent immigration raid just by going to school. Dan and Jane (like many others, they asked that I shield their full names) live in a large house in a comfortable suburb, where they welcomed me with tea and cookies.
“When a child witnesses violence or crime, it’s profoundly different from adults,” Dan said. “It leaves scars.”
Dan and Jane resisted the idea that they had become political. A better word, Jane said, was humanist. Their anger was unmistakable as they told me that the Trump administration was violating basic Christian principles. “It became clear very quickly that ICE is the Proud Boys, the Boogaloo boys. They’ve given them uniforms and let them run wild,” Dan said. He attended a legal observer training—which happened to have been on the day Good was killed—and now the couple delivers groceries regularly to immigrant families in Minneapolis. This past Friday, Dan joined thousands of others at a protest in Minneapolis, where his fingers were frostbitten in the –9 degrees Fahrenheit weather.
“We’re going to have to live with our discomfort in making other people uncomfortable,” Ingrid Rasmussen, the lead pastor at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, who has been one of the most outspoken clergy members in the city, told me.
Last June, federal agents raided a taqueria near her church. She ran to the scene, she told me, and found a crowd of protesters facing off against heavily armed agents being protected by local police. Rasmussen was wearing her clerical robes and was thrown to the ground by a sheriff in plainclothes. Some in the crowd threw trash, bottles, and tires at the federal agents, according to a local news report. Video footage spread of Rasmussen shouting at the Minneapolis police chief: “You stand in my church … You promised me a better relationship.”
“It was like nothing I had ever seen before in Minneapolis,” Rasmussen told me.
That was a remarkable thing to hear, because Rasmussen’s church was near the center of the riots that took place after the killing of George Floyd in 2020. “Everything to the west of our building burned,” she told me. During that period, her church became a medical site for injured people. She and her congregation worked for years to help rebuild the neighborhood.
The new round of ICE raids has struck even closer to home for the church, whose congregation includes a large number of immigrants. Rasmussen, who has young children, has continued to put herself in harm’s way. She was among the 120 clergy members who took part in a sit-in at the corporate headquarters of Target on January 15, in an effort to get the company to take a stronger stand against the federal raids. And on January 23, she was among those arrested during the protest at the Minneapolis airport.
On the morning of January 24, Rasmussen got word that a man had been shot by ICE agents. She put on her warmest winter clothes and went to the scene, on Nicollet Avenue and West 26th Street, figuring she might be outside for hours.
By the time she got there, Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse, was dead. The federal agents who had wrestled him to the ground and then shot and killed him were throwing tear gas and flash-bangs at a crowd of furious protesters chanting “Shame!”
Rasmussen attended another protest that afternoon. When we spoke hours later, her voice sounded weary, as if she wasn’t sure what such gestures of defiance would accomplish. She found it “almost unbearable” to witness such brutality from her government day after day, she told me. And it was galling to hear people in power say that they were acting in defense of freedom. The streets still looked like a war zone, with flash-bangs detonating and clouds of tear gas in the air.
