Nicole, who lives in the East Phillips neighborhood, speaks with us on the ground. "We don't matter to them [. . .] they've been doing this to us for too many years."
"I appreciate everybody that has come out here to fight for our people. We can't stand any more pollution. You know, our kids are sick, our elders are sick, and, we can't do this, we're gonna fight, so I hope you're seeing this, Mayor Frey." - Nicole Perez
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This morning, East Phillips community residents started an occupation at the Roof Depot site demanding the City of Minneapolis drop it's plans to demolish the site. [Watch the morning's stream in thread above and more in the article] unicornriot.ninja/2023/indigenou…
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AIM (American Indian Movement) and East Phillips community members occupy the Roof Depot site in South Minneapolis until demands are met
Demands are to halt demolition to stop arsenic plume pollution from spreading.
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LIVE NOW: Mike Forcia from the American Indian Movement says it is a "racist process" and the 50th anniversary of 1973 Wounded Knee occupation will be commemorated at the Roof Depot.
Opponents of the Roof Depot project are demanding a moratorium on encampment evictions, and other policy shifts from city officials. LIVE NOW twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
For the past year, Terán spent their time between Atlanta and Florida, where they participated in Tallahassee Food Not Bombs and disaster relief efforts through building housing for low income communities hit by hurricanes. unicornriot.ninja/2023/protester…
East Phillips’ residents are 76% people of color. Many members of the East Phillips community are immigrants and non-English speakers, and over a quarter live on income below the state poverty threshold.
In fall 2017, we released a documentary about Standing Rock called 'Black Snake Killaz: A #NoDAPL Story'. You can now support our independent media by getting a mug, reusable water bottle, shirt or sweatshirt with artwork from the film poster: tinyurl.com/2b3hhtfhtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Nearly seven years ago, on Feb. 22-23, 2016, the #NoDAPL water protector encampments were evicted and destroyed by militarized forces. At its height, more than 10,000 people lived at the camps. Learn more about the movement here: unicornriot.ninja/black-snake-ki…
Unicorn Riot recently sat down with the Poet Laureate of San Francisco & cousin of AJ Stewart, @_Tongogara_ (Tongo Eisen-Martin) for an exclusive interview about the racial politics of Stewart’s murder, Brian Kjellberg’s upcoming trial in MN & more. unicornriot.ninja/2023/family-of…
“I think it begins with this white guy sharpening a metal pipe into a shank, wrapping it with a black tape handle & ideating about murdering someone Black,” @_Tongogara_ said of Brian Kjellberg, a white military veteran who killed his unarmed cousin AJ Stewart in Dec. 2021.
The Temple University Graduate Students Association (TUGSA) has gone on strike, and undergraduates who support them have organized a walk-out from class and campus work on February 15.
The graduate students are demanding base pay of $32,800, dependent healthcare, longer parental and bereavement leave and improved working conditions.
@TempleUniv admins already revoked grad students' tuition remission and health insurance coverage in retaliation for striking.