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Hello, welcome to cool people did cool stuff slash it could happen here episode.

And this is a little pickup we inserted because James and I, hi James. Hi, Margaret.

I'm Margaret. That's James. We're on each other's shows this week. We just spent three days in

Minneapolis culminating in the general strike last Friday. And we were there to cover the rapid response networks

and the mutual aid networks that people have been building. And that's what we're going to be

talking about in these two episodes. But the reason that we're recording this little pickup right

here to listen to at the front of it is that nine hours after we finished recording these

episodes, shortly after both of us had left the city,

a man named Alex Pruddy was killed by federal agents in what is obviously a, something

that you all are familiar with. And we just kind of want to mark that because I think the tone

and what we're talking about right now is we're so excited about these networks that people have been building.

But obviously the tone would have changed a little bit had we recorded it only nine hours later.

And we would have been talking about something slightly different.

And that's just the breaks of podcasting.

Yeah.

The fundamental message, I guess, wouldn't change,

but we all know that doing what these people do can have terrible costs,

and we were reminded of that again Saturday morning.

I guess we should just say that we grieve his passing,

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