“I want my rocking chairs back/Solipsistic sunsets/& coastal jungle sounds, tercets (Italian verse forms; ed.) of cicadas and pentameters of the hairy legs of cockroaches.” This is how it begins Poem the former literature student Renee Nicole Goodwith whom she won a poetry competition in 2020 under the pseudonym Renee Nicole Macklin.
But those mother of three (37) will no longer be able to enjoy sunsets or write poetry – she was arrested last week by a US immigration officer ICE in Minneapolis (Minnesota) in her car with one Headshot killed. Out of grief and anger, thousands of people took to the streets across the country.
During the US administration under President Donald Trump of absolute Self-defense speaks, seems Videos to prove the opposite. Accordingly, she may not have driven her car towards the ICE man, as claimed, but away from him. The accusation that she is part of a left-wing extremist terrorist network is also likely to be fabricated.
The fact is that Renee Nicole Good was part of a civil society movement that closely follows ICE’s actions and warns the population about the agency’s current operations. Equipped with cameras (usually cell phone cameras) document the intervention of ICE. And when the activists see representatives of the authority, they blow twice briefly in theirs WhistlesIf a (supposed) migrant is arrested, the identifying mark is a long-lasting sound from the whistle.
“We had these whistles, they had shooting irons” said Rebecca “Becca” Good after the death of her wife, which she had to witness. And she added to a local media: “We recently stopped this form of support for our neighbors,” said her partner just took the son to school.
Such groups, which want to warn vulnerable parts of society about possible attacks by the US authorities, have emerged after the death of the black man George Floyd formed. On May 25, 2020, a white police officer knelt on the 46-year-old’s neck until he died. This incident also occurred in Minneapolis.
Since the massive appearance of the ICE people, innocent citizens have repeatedly been targeted and, above all, Schoolsthe activist groups there are particularly active: they form themselves, among other things, to protect themselves Human chainsso that the boys and girls can enter and leave the educational institutions unmolested. They get it elsewhere Migrant families Food that fears arrest their Hardly leaving apartments anymore.
Austria: Writers express solidarity
The violent death of the young mother also affected Austria Caused sadness and horror. Austrian writers around Franzobel and Gerhard Ruiss have set up a people’s committee “Renee Nicole Good”. Reason: Until recently, it was inconceivable that “such a scene could occur in the USA, which would not be followed by consternation and insight, but by justifications such as ‘self-defense and self-inflicting’… instead of allowing grief and those who were shot to express theirs Would to admit.”