45 Small City Social & Cultural • Respondents store. At the same time, I would have to remind myself: I am a U.S. born citizen, entitled to the rights and freedoms guaranteed to me by the Constitution. I am educated. I have access to lawyers. I have access to money. I am safe. After psyching myself up, I would drive down to the Whipple Federal Building which is located about one mile from my house and a site of daily protest. I would stop by, on my way to work, joining hundreds of others chanting obscenities at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and demanding the release of those arrested and detained. Now, this is Minnesota. It’s cold. No. It’s fucking cold. The kind of cold where you no longer take the will to live for granted. But you show up, outside, anyway because your community needs you. And so, someone brings pots of hot chocolate and urns filled with hot coffee. There are boxes with hand and foot warmers for the You Can't Take it With You An American-Muslim Remix (Cornerstone Theater Company)
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