The ordinary whistle

 On Jan. 25, the Rev. Margaret Fox delivered a sermon the day after Alex Pretti was killed by Border Patrol officers just over a mile away. She reflected on “acts of repurposing” that had taken place — parents who were now neighborhood patrollers, Signal chats that had become service networks, cellphone cameras that were now a form of accountability.

“But the one repurposed object that feels the most ubiquitous is the ordinary whistle,” she said. “On the lips of a referee, a whistle means stop. It means foul. It means you are out of bounds. A whistle says, this is a violation.”

-Rev. Margaret Fox,

Westminster Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis

... for our survival