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Something’s Happening Here! Minnesota and Iran with Janine Sieja and Stephen Zunes

UPDATES ON IRAN AND MINNESOTA: This show includes a conversation with an ordinary, working mom in Minnesota, Janine Sieja, about her experience with ICE chaos, abductions and even murders in her city … becoming an activist, her fears as a mother … and what is happening on the ground there now. Our conversation with Janine is followed by an update on the war with Iran by internationally renowned Middle East expert and founder of the Middle East Studies Department at University of San Francisco, Stephen Zunes who speaks to the origins of the war, Israel’s involvement and what any Trump administration goals might be. First: Janine Sieja is an ordinary, working mom and software developer who lives in the urban heart of twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. She is mother to an adopted child of another skin color and was not an activist before ICE came to town. Ami asked her on the show after seeing her Facebook post about what it was like on the ground in Minneapolis. Here is that post: Hello from (still) occupied, dystopian Minneapolis, where I cycle between anger, grief and befuddlement. Hear the observations of a city-dwelling American moderate liberal white Catholic woman a couple of months into what I will charitably call “my new normal.” … My city remains under siege by ICE in the largest immigration enforcement campaign ever carried out by the Department of Homeland Security. My heart is cracked open by the families ripped apart, the humiliating and brutal tactics of ICE agents, the conditions of detention, and of course the horrific executions of two kind, decent humans. … ICE’s actions aren’t about immigration enforcement. They are a flex bordering on fascism, a destruction of norms, a mass violation of human rights, civil rights and, yes, the Constitution. I can assure you, the federal action has not made me safer, freer, happier or more prosperous. No, ICE has brought me and my family danger, fear and grief—no matter that none of us is even a stated target of the government. Minnesota has been swept by the most unnatural of disasters, and like a natural disaster there will be a long tail to recovery. And so I ask: Is this the best we can do in America? My answer is, surely not. I’m not giving up on decency, kindness and democracy. End the Ice Age. Now. Resources: Support Minnesota’s resistance and resilience at the following link: https://www.StandWithMinnesota.com Find several past shows with Stephen Zunes in our podcasts for Moment of Truth with Ami Chen Mills. Note: Ami Chen Mills is leaving the show for a few months as she embarks on another community project. Find her work at https://www.AmiChen.com and follow her at Ami Chen Mills on Facebook and Instagram, and through the Moment of Truth Dispatch on Substack. https://substack.com/@momentoftruth