Memorial

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MEMORIALS:
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Literary Hub – Letter From Minnesota: Finding Reverence in the Face of Brutality

Letter From Minnesota: Finding Reverence in the Face of Brutality

E. Bok Lee on the Courage the of Alex Pretti and His Fellow Minnesotans

By Ed Bok Lee, January 29, 2026

So far this year, in Minneapolis, there have been three homicides, two of them by ICE.

Eat Street in the Whittier neighborhood, where Alex Pretti was gunned down Saturday morning, is historically the closest thing to a “Chinatown” in the city, though really, it’s much more diverse. Mexican, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Jamaican, Greek, German, Irish, East African, Mediterranean, Malaysian, Tibetan, etc. restaurants, grocers, and other businesses reflect some of the best aspects of Minneapolis, on many levels of community—the rawness of its arts, music, and culture; the diversity and hungry American bustle; the high number of transitional housing units, shelters, churches, non-profit agencies.

As one the most diverse neighborhoods in Minneapolis, Whittier is home to some 25 languages from 30 countries. For a good decade, I lived, worked, and had a writing office all right on Eat Street (Nicollet Avenue).

If one word had to describe the feeling on this first night of the new year’s second killing by ICE in South Minneapolis, it would be this: Reverence.

You could say the future lives in Whittier. Literally, aside from being one of the most racially and economically diverse, it’s a Midwestern neighborhood with one of the highest populations of folks 18 to 34 in the city. On the night after Alex Pretti’s brutal and brutalizing killing, long into night, amid -9 F cold (with a -20 F windchill), many hundreds of folks (coming and going), mostly zillennials, kept vigil late into the night, setting up tables for hot soup and coffee, chanting, holding space for Mr. Pretti’s and one another’s spirits, and keeping shops open. Resale, a women-owned, LGBTQ-friendly curated secondhand clothing boutique, stayed open so the vigil keepers could sit and thaw, or get a free, extra pair of tube socks, or hand warmers, or bottles of water. Meanwhile, next door at Glam Doll Donuts, right across the street from the scene of the killing, mourners warmed up with free coffee and hot chocolate.

For the hour I could lay a flower down and pay my respects at the memorial site on the sidewalk in front of New American Development Center before my toes in my heavy boots went numb, our call and response never ceased:

“Say his name!”/“Alex Pretti!”/“Say his name!”/“Alex Pretti!”

Near the memorial site of hundreds of flower bouquets and candles, a few controlled fires raged, warming fingers, noses, and lips. The mood was somber, glowing, and peaceful. But if one word had to describe the feeling on this first night of the new year’s second killing by ICE in South Minneapolis, it would be this: Reverence. Reverence for Mr. Pretti’s intentions and actions. Reverence for all the others in recent—and distant—memory gunned down by the law, or, in one recent murder of the state’s DFL Speaker of the House of Representatives, Melissa Hortman and her husband, gunned down in their pajamas this past summer by someone impersonating the law.

Amid the call and response on Eat Street last night, many names began to mix in my head.

“Say his name!”/“Alex Pretti!”
“Say her name!”/“Renee Good!”
“Say her name!”/“Melissa Hortman!”
“Say his name!”/“George Floyd!”
“Say his name!”/“Amir Locke!”
“Say his name!”/“Daunte Wright!”
“Say his name!”/“Philando Castile!”
“Say his name!”/“Jamar Clark!”
“Say his name!”/“Fong Lee!”

And the list goes on.

Yes, it’s true. Minnesota, and especially Minneapolis—in recent years, the nation’s epicenter of violence—is deeply traumatized. There are layers and layers of trauma here. From the very beginning with the government’s brutal policies toward Indigenous peoples, to Dred Scott, to a bloody history of labor crackdowns, to vigorous redlining, to uncommonly high Korean adoptee and Southeast Asian, Somali, and other refugee populations leading to anti-Asian and anti-African sentiments, to being a sanctuary city, to some of the highest levels of racial, economic, and educational segregation in the US to this day, there is no shortage of collective traumas to reckon with.

Since Covid, the traumas have outpaced many of our personal capacities to productively process this history and our present society. To this day, you see and feel it in the still-shuttered storefronts in the once lively Uptown area, and well beyond; the still-closed, burnt-down Third Precinct Police Station; the ongoing, ever-shifting human encampments; the many struggling restaurants; the long carlines outside at the food shelves; the curtains drawn in conspicuously ICE-monitored neighborhoods; and, yes, the shuttered day cares and other services, some of which are, or were, as is repeated over and over by the right, run by immigrant and refugee business people currently under investigation for wide-scale fraud by the government.

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

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BBC: Why Sydney is preserving thousands of flowers after deadly Bondi attack. “Plastic sheeting is taped across all the windows and there’s a large padlock hanging on the door handle. Step inside, though, and you’re greeted by cuddly toys, candles, trinkets and messages of hope scribbled on large sheets. All of them come from a makeshift memorial that was created after the 14 December attack at […]

#Kyiv, #Ukraine
Portraits of fallen Ukrainian and foreign fighters lie blanketed in snow at the Independence Square memorial in Kyiv.

Photograph: Sergei Gapon/AFP/Getty Images

#photography
#memorials

"Remember🚨everyone who's out there defending cold-blooded #murder.🚨They’ve shown you exactly who they are."
-M Touch

"Men🚨who murder innocent women & then destroy their pub #memorials aren't LE. They’re a fucking rogue admin at war with the American ppl."
-A Standal

"If you let🚨#ICE murder #immigrants, they'll eventually murder anyone who disagrees with them➡️if you let them murder anyone who disagrees with them➡️they'll murder anyone they want.🚨may be YOU."
-C S&G
#USPol
https://metro.co.uk/video/ice-officer-stamps-candle-left-memory-shooting-victim-renee-good-3583053/?ito=vjs-link

MEMORIALS (Electrelane/Wire) announce "All Clouds Bring Not Rain" (March 27 on Fire). "Cut Glass Hammer" inspired by Yoko Ono, recorded in French barn studio. Two modular synth lines, motorik beat.
#Memorials #BestNewMusic2026 #Week02 #FireRecords
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MEMORIALS (Electrelane/Wire) announce "All Clouds Bring Not Rain" (March 27 on Fire). "Cut Glass Hammer" inspired by Yoko Ono, recorded in French barn studio. Two modular synth lines, motorik beat.
#Memorials #BestNewMusic2026 #Week02 #FireRecords
https://go.stereobar.net/gq1wg21

"It is the height of hubris to suggest the events we now commemorate, which we measure maybe in hundreds of years, as recollections that will last more than a few generations, never mind forever." #holidays #memorials

https://covell.ca/2026/01/01/a-modest-proposal-for-holidays/

"It’s been an intense year. Over the past 12 months, J. staff #photographer Aaron Levy-Wolins documented many of the moments that will stick with us: #celebrations and #memorials, incidents of #antisemitism, trauma over the #Israel-#Hamas war and the installation of a new #Jewish mayor in #SanFrancisco. As the year ends, we invite you to reflect on #BayArea Jewish life in 2025, as preserved in these striking #photos."

https://jweekly.com/2025/12/30/best-photos-bay-area-jewish-life-2025/

A former South Park writer, Toby Morton, predicted that Trump would rename the Kennedy Center and secured the domains trumpkennedycenter.org and .com. Now, a satirical site displays the altered logo, blurring satire with reality by turning columns into jail bars. Despite its origins as a memorial for JFK, the center’s name has been officially changed to include Trump’s. White House spokesperson Leavitt even praised the move as a “great team,” and workers added “The Donald J. Trump and” to the signage. Satire and news are increasingly indistinguishable. More here: https://www.creativebloq.com/design/logos-icons/unofficial-trump-kennedy-center-logo-is-the-sharpest-design-trolling-of-2025 #Trump #KennedyCenter #Satire #Politics #Memorials #FakeNews

A Name Too Many: When Ego Tries to Rebrand History

https://jtwb7689.wordpress.com/2025/12/26/kennedy-cntr-renaming/

Chattri War Memorial

A shot of Chattri war memorial in Sussex, just inland from Brighton, taken from a drone.

Found In: To the Skies

Following controversy, all names will be left off Canadian monument to ‘victims of communism’ – The Art Newspaper

A year after the official opening of Canada’s monument to the victims of communism in Ottawa, the Department…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Canada #Memorials #ottawa #PublicArt #World
https://www.newsbeep.com/318460/

‘We need to be here’: a paddle-out for Bondi

Hundreds of swimmers at Bondi have formed human circles – in the beach and in the ocean – in honour of the victims of the attack on a Jewish community event in which 15 people died.

#photography
#Sydney
#Bondi
#surfers
#memorials

Exhibition in Doha displays young victims of Israel’s genocide in Gaza

The exhibition takes place in Msheireb Museums in Doha, Qatar [Mahmud Hams/AFP]

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#memorials
#Qatar
#Gaza
#children

In The Weeds par MEMORIALS
https://song.link/fr/i/1855976160
#NowPlaying #Musique #MEMORIALS

Associated Press: Detroit’s own crime-fighter RoboCop finally stands guard in Motor City. “RoboCop has finally found a permanent home in Detroit. A statue looming 11 feet tall (3.3 meters) and weighing 3,500 pounds (1,587 kilograms) has been drawing fans since it began standing guard over the Motor City on Wednesday afternoon, after about 15 years in the making.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/07/associated-press-detroits-own-crime-fighter-robocop-finally-stands-guard-in-motor-city/