Minneapolis Fight Back w/ Emilia González Avalos, Greg Nammacher, JaNaé Bates Imari
The Dig
Daniel Denvir
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
Featuring Emilia González Avalos, Greg Nammacher, and JaNaé Bates Imari on how Minneapolis achieved its fight back against ICE/Border Patrol occupation. A decade building aligned mass movements has made Minneapolis among the best organized cities in the country. Those carefully-built structures, however, had to be nimble in confronting the federal onslaught.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com |
| 0:05.0 | and by Unruly Subjects, a new weekly podcast about politics and culture hosted by a media professor, organizer, and audio journalist Chenjerai Kumanika. |
| 0:15.6 | The show is co-created by the digs producer Alex Lewis and Roe Home Productions. |
| 0:20.7 | Check out this trailer and subscribe to the show. |
| 0:23.8 | What's up, y'all? It's Gingeride. |
| 0:25.9 | You might know me from podcasts like Seeing White, Uncivil, or Empire City. |
| 0:30.3 | Podcasts that take a critical look at history. |
| 0:32.8 | But there's so much that's happening in the world right now |
| 0:35.3 | that for a while, I've been feeling like I should do something different. So my new podcast, Unruly Subjects, is unlike anything I've ever done before. |
| 0:43.8 | We'll check in about what's going on each week with the news and things we have to know. |
| 0:47.8 | But we're going to do that with some of my favorite types of people, organizers, scholars, |
| 0:51.8 | journalists. |
| 0:52.3 | The Department of Justice is trying to propel their narrative that there is vast amounts of voter fraud happening. |
| 1:00.0 | So that's just one striking example of all it takes to get the power of the federal government brought down on to universities. |
| 1:07.0 | The purpose of this is to get everyone to understand what we go through as nurses. |
| 1:12.2 | Heaven forbid you call a general strike and your membership does not cooperate. It's all over. |
| 1:20.8 | And we'll also hear from some folks who can help us laugh through all the pain. |
| 1:24.6 | We're doing it big. Ain't nothing in the bathroom. Ain't no toilet paper in there. Just tens and 20s. |
| 1:29.5 | Unruly Subjects is produced in partnership with Roe Home Productions. |
| 1:34.2 | And my daughter in Yola. |
| 1:35.9 | Hey, hey, ho. |
| 1:37.8 | This is the donut party. |
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