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On a Sunday afternoon in Minneapolis, Patty O’Keefe and Brandon Siguenza, both U.S. citizens who live there, were taking part in an ICE watch. This is a legal activity where people observe and record law enforcement actions in public. It is an activity long protected by the First Amendment. That afternoon ended with them in cuffs after agents moved on them without warning.
The agents who moved on them didn’t knock or even shout orders. The first agent to reach Patty’s side jams a canister nozzle against the air intake vents near the windshield wipers. Inside the car, the air instantly turns caustic. A high-dose stream of pepper spray flooded directly into the sealed cabin, weaponizing the car’s own ventilation system.
This is a tactic that mirrors the times that DHS agents have used pepper spray on the air intake valves of inflatable costumes worn during protests.
GREEP Zoom #233 opens with HEDY TRIPP from St. Cloud, MN, & with a deeply disturbing report from the streets of Minneapolis as it’s assaulted by masked Hitlerian Gestapo storm troopers.
From Corvallis, Oregon, we hear a parallel report of the fascist invasion from Congressional candidate DR. MELISSA BIRD.
Dr. Bird’s report connects with the great JENNIE GAGE with her dire insider view of the MAGA cult & its fascist fanaticism for the Trump assault on public sanity & its abject hatred of all things empathetic.
Co-convenor MYLA RESON raises the vital issue of nuclear power, with an up close/personal eye on the aftermath of Chernobyl.
Atlanta-based organizer RAY MCCLENDON emphasizes the dire need for grassroots organizing in 2026, which could be the last set of elections ever in the US.
From the world of the internet we hear from Op Ed News creator ROB KALL on the need for courageous journalism in the face of fascist repression.
Co-convenor MIKE HERSH raises the issue of how MAGA men focus on trying to break strong women whom they fear to the core.
A shock and awe. The phrase is apt in describing what Israel has done in the occupied West Bank almost immediately following the events of October 7, 2023, and the start of the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
In her book The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein defines “shock and awe” not merely as a military tactic, but as a political and economic strategy that exploits moments of collective trauma—whether caused by war, natural disaster, or economic collapse—to impose radical policies that would otherwise be resisted. According to Klein, societies in a state of shock are rendered disoriented and vulnerable, allowing those in power to push through sweeping transformations while opposition is fragmented or overwhelmed.
After 748 days of committing war crimes in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria, Joshua Boon, who was born in Iowa, United States, committed suicide. He chose to leave home in Idaho to volunteer for the Israel Defense Forces. He is a traitor who enlisted in the Israeli Death Forces instead of the US armed forces.
"Lone Soldier" is a sugarcoated term that the media often uses to refer to Jewish Americans "mercenaries" who enlist in the IDF. However, the same media outlets refer to Muslims who join ISIS or fight against US and NATO occupation force in the Middle East as "terrorists." A Muslim volunteer gets automatically 20 years behind bars whereas a Jewish mercenary receives a hero welcome.
Many Americans are unaware of the fact that many Jewish high school students chose to enlist in the Israeli Death Forces (IDF) after graduation instead of enlisting in the US armed forces. Those people have taken part in the Gaza genocide and massacres in Lebanon. Some of them were captured on October 7 while armed and in IDF uniform. In fact, you would be more accurate by calling them as "Israeli POWs" instead. That should be an affront to all veterans and patriotic Americans.
The killing in Minneapolis of Renee Good, by an agent of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, (ICE) marks an inflection point in American history, not unlike the famous “shot heard ‘round the world,” that sparked a revolution in the American colonies.
As a member of Congress, I voted against the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. I understood then, as I understand now, that the expansion of federal police power inevitably endangers freedom. That danger is no longer theoretical. Federal police power has entered our communities and is a menace. This is no longer a debate about immigration policy. We are in a Constitutional crisis.
In a democratic society there are safeguards to prevent the abuse of power. This Administration has stripped those safeguards. None of us are safe when government agents, gestapo-like, bring terror to our streets, arbitrarily detaining people based on skin color, ethnicity, or accent, denying due process, and acting as police, prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner.
