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3 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Just to be clear: 1 year after George Floyd's murder & the burning of the 3rd Precinct, after the mayor vowed to permanently preserve George Floyd Square as a memorial & city council voted to disband MPD, the city cleared George Floyd Square & shot someone dead on the same day.
Correction: City of Minneapolis is ATTEMPTING to clear George Floyd Square.
**Person killed by some combo of sheriff's deputies and US Marshalls. Shooting occurred ~4 mi from George Floyd Square. MPD responding to clear the scene & hold off crowds.

great time for Minneapolis to A: stop trying to clear GFS & B: find other agencies to do crowd control.

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1 Jun
Jail support completely swept by PPB this morning & needs supplies. This is targeted, coming as prominent activists have been arrested on sealed indictments.

It’s June 1st. PPB & feds know summer is coming. With trump gone, local & federal crackdowns will be better coordinated.
Lots of food, water, and soft drinks have now arrived at jail support. A couple more tables would be much appreciated.
As of 4:00 pm, jail support had two pop-up shade structures, 3 dedicated food tables, a dedicated coffee table, 2 tables of hygiene and medical supplies, and a ton of coolers full of drinks.
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7 May
All of this is true, so I’m going to post some links of information about grand juries and grand jury resistance
The civil liberties defense center has a bunch of information on grand juries. To start with here is an overview of what a grand jury is and how they work.
cldc.org/grand-juries/
Here is one story of how grand jury resistance works and why.

“In a strange twist of juridical logic reserved for grand jury investigations, Koch was imprisoned for the very same reason he was freed nearly eight months later: his silence.”

salon.com/2014/02/03/the…
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6 May
Okay, late to bandwagon but this collective believes in gardening. Sure, it may not replace the global food distribution network, but everything that we grow doesn’t need to be transported, contributes to local food security and means we can feed our friends and neighbors. A🧵
First I love this book. When I was 15 years younger I had friends who lived at the food not lawns house in our town. They had torn the entire lawn out of their rental and raised piles of food. This is the only garden book that also has chapters on how to start pirate radio Food not lawns how to turn ...
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30 Apr
May Day is Saturday, & we’re terribly excited. It’s been 2 years since we had one. A bunch of folks might not know about May Day. So welcome: May Day is one of the fun holidays. (A thread)
May Day is, legit, about as close to an Anarchist festival day as you get. It’s got all the holiday traditions: you spend time with distant relatives, you sing the traditional songs, chant the chants. Someone might ceremonially break something.
May Day (this version of it) started in Chicago in 1886. It is not an exaggeration to say that nearly every other country in the damn world celebrates it. The US doesn’t. Because the United States might be more than a little scared of what May Day implies. officeholidays.com/byday/labour-d…
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16 Feb
Lots of grocery stores all over the country lost power in the last few days, so literal tons of perfectly usable food are getting thrown in dumpsters and compactors.

Be wary of anything that’s not cold, or inflated packages. If you wouldn’t eat it, don’t donate it.
Dumpster diving is illegal-ish in lots of places. Which is, of course, very dumb, since at worst you’re removing garbage for free.

Food not Bombs would never have existed without dumpstering. And there’s a pandemic and a societal collapse on. People might be hungry.
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Anyway, gonna go drink some fancy coffee drink i found somewhere.
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16 Feb
Some of y’all weren’t around for the Green Scare, or the raids before the RNC protests in 2008. This is what it looks like: a Trump-appointee just listed “eat the rich” memes in arrest documents for a leftist vet, to paint him as a leftist terrorist. 1/ reason.com/2021/02/16/fbi…
Even the FBI probably doesn’t think that posting memes, or calling for community self-defense, or posting info on protest medicine, makes you a terrorist. The point is to make everyone a little more paranoid about even being willing to say those things in the open. 2/
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