On this episode of Start Making Sense, Deepak Bharvaga explains the lessons of the resistance in Minneapolis, and Beverly Gage describes a historian’s road trip across America.
A demonstrator holds an anti-ICE sign that reads “We Stand with Minnesota, Nationwide Shutdown” while joining a protest.(Probal Rashid / LightRocket via Getty Images)
Minnesota changed everything! Minnesota’s resistance to ICE provides a model and inspiration for a national pro-democracy movement. Deepak Bhargava explains; he’s president of the Freedom Together Foundation.
Also: July 4 will mark the 250th anniversary of the United States, which Trump is celebrating with a campaign to “eliminate” what he calls “divisive anti-American ideology” from American’s historic sites, national parks, and the National Zoo. Historian Beverly Gage has another idea—a road trip to visit some of those places where history happened. Her new book is This Land is Your Land: A Road Trip Through US History.
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Jon WienerTwitterJon Wiener is a contributing editor of The Nation and co-author (with Mike Davis) of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.