To start GREEP Zoom #255 we visit with HEDY TRIPP in St. Cloud, followed by her own state rep.

From DR. MELISSA BIRD we get the latest news from Oregon’s anti-ICE resistance.

Radio host LYNN FEINERMAN tells us that ICE is assaulting our democracy 24/7.

Co-convenor MIKE HERSH introduces us to the great progressive US REP RO KHANNA (D-CA).

Rep. Khanna pledges to help stop funding ICE while also phasing out the Diablo Canyon nukes & lower rates in CA.

From Atlanta RAY MCCLENDON reports on the FBI raid against the election facility in Georgia.

Congressional candidate DR. MELISSA BIRD asks Rep. Khanna to consider Indigenous rights against the ICE attack.

MN State Sen. ARIC PUTNAM, Chair of the Ag Committee reports ICE attacks against the East African community.

With her brother kidnapped, MN resident MA ELENA GUTIERREZ reports on ICE’s gestapo tactics first hand.

From STEVE CARUSO we hear a report on the illegal intervention of spy chief Tulsi Gabbert.

Co-convenor MYLA RESON reminds us that Donald Trump personally called into the FBI raid against the raid against GA elections.

Thursday, February 5, 5pm
Columbus Liberation Center, 1004 Parsons Ave.

Help build for the February 7 protests to demand ICE out of Ohio! Defend and expand protected status!

On Sunday, February 1 there were two vigils for Alex Pretti, Renee Good and other victims of ICE terror -- one at Weinland Park and one at the VA hospital in Columbus.

Watch video here

In facing off against repression and standing firm against growing autocracy in one place or another, there’s a weird and powerful de facto alliance taking shape that’s worth learning more about: Boomers and Gen Z are at the frontlines.

With the caveat that any survey that is more self-selected than random, The Economist reported a scholarly effort by several researchers at the American University on protestors. They polled 7500 “people who signed up for the ‘Free America Walkout,’ a national protest that took place on January 20th.” Here’s what they found:

“…84 percent of respondents were female, three-quarters were college-educated, and that the media age was 71. Some 99 percent of these aging boomers, said they were supporting nonviolent civil disobedience, and 65 percent of them said they would be willing to take part themselves.”

This conservative journal notes that Republicans have absolutely noticed this phenomenon. They have a name for it: AWFULS, for affluent white female urban liberals.