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The Okay, welcome to the show this week, everybody. It is January 20th, 2006. We are joined by a panel of very special guests from Minneapolis, Minnesota. We had sort of teased this on the free episode late last week that we were going to have some people on from Minneapolis

to talk about what's going on there. But before we really get into it, I kind of wanted to

sort of fit this into the context of a few other things we've covered. We've covered the

operation, I think it was Midway Blitz in Chicago. We covered what was going on in Portland.

The L.A. occupation of ICE, I think it was called, like, Highway Sentinel or something.

The names they have for these things are completely absurd.

But now we're pivoting to Minneapolis.

And the name that Ice has chosen for Minneapolis is Metro Surge,

which is a interesting choice. It doesn't really like pack the punch you would really expect.

But I, you know, there's all kinds of different places we could begin with this.

But before we really get into it, I want to introduce our guests.

We have Brooke Bartholomew, who is the co-chair of Twin Cities Democratic Socialists of America.

We have David Gilbert Peterson, who's a local activist and organizer, and Ayesha Gomez, who is a Minnesota state representative.

So thanks all of you for joining us today. We really appreciate it.

Thanks for having us.

Thank you so much for having us, huh?

Thank you. And so I think like where I wanted to begin with this, what can you all tell me about when and how operation metro surge began and i guess maybe

to kind of put it into context how have you seen it change over time since it first began in

december and you know maybe we can just kind of take the round, you know, take the

rounds and whoever wants to start, you know, just kind of like set it up. And if any of you feel

compelled to jump in and add a little bit, feel free. So I kind of want to back up to the summer

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