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Crafts

Elaine McCallig

The Minneapolis knitters taking on ICE

Norwegians wore red hats as symbols of resistance against Nazi occupiers. Now ‘craftivists’ are making them to protest Trump’s immigration crackdown

Tue 3 Mar 2026

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