Gender Studies Program at U. Minnesota Hands Out Whistles to Alert People of ICE Activity
“We encourage you to use these resources to keep you and your community safe.”
The activities of ICE have absolutely nothing to do with gender studies. What this story reveals is that the gender studies program is really about far-left politics.
Campus Reform reports:
University of Minnesota gender studies program offers whistles to ‘alert’ peers of suspected ICE activity
The University of Minnesota’s Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies recently advertised free whistles to “alert your community of suspected ICE activity.”
The department publicized the resource on its Instagram page on Dec. 15, saying there was an “increase in ICE activity near and outside of campus.”
The post states: “We are sending SO much love to our immigrant communities both in and outside of the University. We encourage you to use these resources to keep you and your community safe.”
ICE refers to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the primary federal agency for immigration law enforcement.
The gender studies department says it is providing the whistles for students to “alert your community,” but does not offer further instructions. Campus Reform did not find any mention of the whistles on the department’s website.
The Instagram post further adds that the whistles come “with a zine of how and when to use” them. “It also has cards with what to say if stopped by ICE in English, Spanish, and Arabic.”
According to its website, the “Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota promotes feminist scholarship, teaching, and programming that centers on the relationship between knowledge, power, and social justice.”
The description further makes “a commitment to restructure institutional relationships between the University and vulnerable communities in order to address and undo structural inequalities.”
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When they give out the whistles, do they happen to mention that using them could be considered the arrestable offense of obstruction?
I’m guessing they don’t.
No, it can’t. Informing people of ICE presence is protected speech, just like flashing your headlights to alert other drivers to a speed trap.
Interfering with an arrest is obstruction. Blocking ICE in with your vehicle is obstruction. Assisting an individual whom you know ICE is after to escape is obstruction; but if you don’t know that for a fact then it isn’t. That was the difference between Dugan and the judge in Massachusetts.
No, the judge in MA, Shelly Joseph, got a break from Brandon’s “Justice” Dept.
She did not “get a break”. The charges were dropped because she claimed not to have known that ICE was looking for the guy, and there was no evidence that she did know. That makes what she did not a crime.
Her story was that the guy’s lawyer simply informed her that his client was here illegally, and was therefore nervous about ICE being in the building so he would prefer to avoid them if possible. The lawyer didn’t inform her, and perhaps didn’t even know, that they were there specifically with a warrant for his client. Legally that makes all the difference.
I know two people who were fined for blinking their headlights to warn of a radar ahead. Both in Massachusetts. Apparently, at that time, it wasn’t protected speech in that state.
There have been a number of court cases that found it is protected speech (for instance here), but it’s never been to the supreme court, or apparently to the 1st circuit, so there’s no binding precedent in MA.
Had your friends decided to fight the tickets they could probably have got pro bono representation from someone looking to establish a 1st circuit precedent.
My thoughts are the exact opposite — blow the whistle at random times and places to feed the paranoia. So it was the physical plant guys — I thought they were ICE and prove that I didn’t….
OTOH, if those are “rape” whistles, have these ladies ever heard about the little boy who cried ‘wolf’?
“The activities of ICE have absolutely nothing to do with gender studies.”
Unless ICE will be going after transsexuals. I might have voted for that.
“It also has cards with what to say if stopped by ICE in English, Spanish, and Arabic.”
Aw, dammit, now I have to learn how to read Arabic in case I meet up with ICE?
Pro Tip: It’s right to left like Hebrew.
“The gender studies department says it is providing the whistles for students to “alert your community,” but does not offer further instructions.”
They’re in the same baggie with the… um… whistle lube.
OK, everybody whistle, all the time…
As Lauren said to Bogie, press your lips together and blow!
Bring a whistle to empty parking spaces, checkout lines, food truck queues… wait, probably not that last one, the truck may book it too…
What if ICE stops you in some other language?
My ancestral tongue is Highland Gaelic…
So what if I go on campus with a whistle and start blowing it in classroom buildings?
Would that be a crime?
I can’t think of one that it could be.
Just to be clear would they have to prove my intent for this crime?
Also I said classroom buildings not classrooms themselves just to be clear.
I can’t even think of a crime that it could be in the first place. As far as I know there’s no law against blowing whistles whenever and wherever you like, so long as you’re not violating noise ordinances or disrupting a class or something like that.
Minnesota has really gone to the dogs….
I assume University funds were used to buy the whistles. Time to cut off federal funding to the University.
why didnt they just use the whistles that they have when they see wht men
U of Minn: “We will only be safe when criminals are shielded from law enforcement!”