🚨🚨Urgent actions to support Camp Nenookaasi! Tonight, come to MPLS City Hall for City Council Budget Hearing (350 S 5th Street, Room 317), 6pm. Bring people and signs.

Police Fraternal Associations represent a powerful political force that stands in the way of progress on virtually every front of social justice movements. How do we organize against them? Check out our newest resource, Fight the (FOP) Power! here: bit.ly/laborplaybook

While I have yalls attention via #fruitgate pls take a look at this spreadsheet I made with Mpls City Council candidates and their stances on alternatives to policing, rent control, and workers' rights for Reviving Sisterhood

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If you are a lawyer/legal worker/national legal organization/legal clinic outside Atlanta who wants to support folks on the ground fighting to #StopCopCity given the RICO charges (especially if you have RICO experience) please reach out to coordinate w/ what's already moving.

With the news that Georgia has charged 60 stop cop city activists with RICO charges, it’s a good time to learn how the state has used RICO against leftists. One place to start: Ray Luc Levasseur. 1/

Looking for some recommended listening this long weekend? 🎧New episode of our #1MExperiments podcast with AirGo and Project NIA is out now! On this episode, we chat with Candace McKinley of Philadelphia Community Bail Fund—check it out wherever you get your podcasts! millionexperiments.com/podcast/season…

Featuring works by NYC Tw*tterati, Puff the Magic Hater, @KayJWhitlock, Cameron Rasmussen, Kalonji Changa, Stephen Wilson, Sonya Huber, Garrett Felber, Rachel Herzing, and many others, our end-of-summer reading list looks back at the words that moved us and our readers. inquest.org/our-end-of-sum…

I've just published an article about how news outlets often refuse to tell the public the specifics of what progressives are proposing, and why that is dangerous. equalityalec.substack.com/p/what-we-dont…

After the murder of George Floyd, many Minneapolis residents believed that armed response could longer be relied on as a one-size-fits-all solution to the varied issues facing our communities.

#HereIsMPLS honoree Canopy Mental Health & Consulting agreed.

Read more here: hereismpls.org/canopy-roots

Good morning! S&P NY is still chipping away at a $40k goal that has to be met to keep its commissary and mutual aid support for criminalized survivors afloat. This support is a literal lifeline to survive the unlivable conditions of prison. Pls give/boost! bit.ly/SPNYfund

So grateful for & honored by NYC Tw*tterati's kind words & invitation to jump into #PracticingNewWorlds - and for everyone who is pre-ordering!

And for @amirkhadar's gorgeous cover art - it was often my main motivation to keep going. Available soon as a poster ++! 👀Stay tuned!

They do this so our ideas sound like endorsements of them. We said 'we don't want violent police, we want community safety' so they act like that's what they're selling, instead of the same bullshit in new words.
Poke their 'community safety hub' and a police state will ooze out

Minneapolis City Council's POGO Committee approved an extension through August 2024 for the city's Behavioral Crisis Response teams. The current contract with Canopy Roots, who runs the program for the city, expires next month.

'If we fight, we might lose. But if we don’t fight, we’re definitely going to lose. And I think that this book ultimately encourages us to fight, to keep fighting, to stay in the game, to refuse to abandon each other through the ongoing struggle that we’re all engaged in.'

One of the ways we're marking our 5 year anniversary this year is through a special newsletter series, where members of our team write about 'Connecting the Dots' of our work. The latest is by NYC Tw*tterati, who writes about transformative justice at IC: bit.ly/ICConnectingTh…

Join us on 7/13 for this event exploring the presence of abolition & what this means for our labor, political demands, budget priorities, mutual aid & scale of our efforts, ft. tn Kenyon Farrow New Left Urbanist Raúl Carrillo & Mo Weeks.

Register: bit.ly/abolition-work

The BREATHE Act has laid the groundwork for us to get closer to abolition! Next: It's time to divest from the police forces that are killing us, and invest in the resources that actually work to keep all of us safe.