Minneapolis Town Hall Highlights
Native Land Pod
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🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Some of our favorite moments from Tuesday’s town hall in Minneapolis, including a conversation with local faith leaders, a rallying cry from Minnesota's attorney general, Keith Ellison, and a poignant history lesson from Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan. Music by Thomasina Petrus.
On January 27th, Native Land Pod hosted a town hall in Minneapolis in solidarity with the local community, which has been under threat from ICE and CBP agents.
Watch the entire town hall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqkcDY3BQq8
Guests:
Honorable Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General
Rev. Dr. Karen McKinney, Professor & Community Liaison at Bethel University
Minister JaNaé Imari Bates, Co-Executive Director of Faith in Minnesota and ISAIAH
Wintana Melekin, Executive Director, Groundwork Action
Peggy Flanagan, Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota
Resmaa Menakem, NYT Best Selling Author My Grandmother’s Hands
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Native Lambot is a production of IHeart Radio in partnership with reason choice media. |
| 0:13.0 | And speaking of elected officials who are accountable to the people who are regularly representing what we need done, |
| 0:22.9 | ensuring that our voices are heard and that there's an advocate in one of the highest offices in Minnesota. |
| 0:29.3 | Please join me and welcoming your attorney general, Keith Ellison. |
| 0:38.4 | He's got a receiving line, y'all. |
| 0:40.2 | He's coming. |
| 0:43.4 | Attorney General Keith Ellison, ladies and gentlemen. |
| 0:49.3 | I mean, I said I'm channeling Angela Davis. |
| 0:53.5 | That's who I was named after. |
| 0:54.6 | I yield the floor to the Attorney General there. |
| 0:57.1 | Thank you, Angela. |
| 0:58.5 | Hey, thank you guys for being out here tonight. |
| 1:01.4 | I can't think of a more important place for you to be. |
| 1:04.7 | Our country and our state and our city in this very moment has been the site of the largest |
| 1:10.5 | single escalation of ICE agents |
| 1:14.3 | of immigration officials in the history of the United States. Ordinarily, ICE has about |
| 1:21.4 | 100 people for the five state area, the five state area. |
| 1:35.1 | Now, they have 4,000 ice agents for just the state of Minnesota, |
| 1:38.6 | which is a 4,900% increase. |
| 1:41.8 | I don't have to tell you what's been happening. |
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