A Minneapolis yarn store has launched a red hat based on a Norwegian hat used to protest Nazi occupation, using proceeds to support immigrant housing due to concerns about federal immigration enforcement tactics. The initiative has garnered significant funds and international support.
Linking federal immigration enforcement efforts in Minneapolis to fascism, a yarn store has popularized a red cap based on a Norwegian hat used to protest the Nazi occupation of Norway in the 1940s.“What’s been happening in Minneapolis has been so egregious and awful and so destructive to our community,” shop owner Gilah Mashaal said of federal agents’ “use of aggressive tactics,” as they werefor $5, the shop has raised nearly $400,000, Mashaal said Friday.
So far, she said, they have donated a total of $250,000 to two local nonprofits focused on housing support for immigrants in the community — STEP and the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund. The red hat has become a movement in the crafting community, popping up on social media and reaching other countries. Mashaal and her daughter have received messages from people around the world, from Israel to South Africa to Norway, expressing their support for the movement, Mashaal said. Shop employee and history buff Paul Neary chose the pattern based on a Norwegian hat used to protest the Nazi occupation of Norway during World War II. Mats Tangestuen, the director of the country’s Resistance Museum in Oslo, Norway commented after receiving an email with a link to the hat pattern. MinnesotaTangestuen told NPR that for Norwegians, the hat was meant to be “distinctively non-violent” and “not a threatening symbol.” “It was used in the period of the war where everything looked very dark,” Tangestuen said. “The main purpose of it was just to keep up morale, keep up hope and not descend into hopelessness and apathy.”NPR also quoted Peter Fritzsche, a history professor at the University of Illinois, who said the Nazis were operating on “obviously a very, very different scale,” but with the presence of federal agents in Minnesota, people can still feel “occupied.”of convicted killers, rapists and pedophiles — whom immigration agents have removed from the Twin Cities during their “occupation” of Minnesota.'Charlie Kirk Show' Producer Andrew Kolvet Reveals Charlie's Top 3 LessonsBreitbart Fight Club Exclusive with 'Invisible Coup' Author Peter SchweizerNolte: Disgraced Former CNN Anchor Don Lemon Arrested for Church Riot Nolte: ‘Melania’ Humiliates Media, Exceeds Expectations with Best Documentary Box Office Opening in Decade Nolte: Rotten Tomatoes — Audiences Rave for ‘Melania’ with 98% Rating While Bitter Critics Try to Destroy It Former Ben & Jerry’s Cofounder Debuts ‘Maxi Hearts of Minneapolis’ Ice Cream Honoring Renee Good, Alex PrettiAn ‘Invisible Coup’ Is Underway in America: Ask the Man Behind the #1 NYT Best-Selling Blockbuster in a February 5 Fight Club ExclusiveNBA Star Draymond Green Blasts ‘Caucasian’ Ref: ‘As a Black Man in America, Don’t Put Your Hand in My Face’Exclusive—Fred Fleitz: We Must Stop China from Stealing Our Military Secrets
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