Three months after the government of #Minneapolis conducted a "community enragement" process of manufacturing consent for a new 3rd precinct, either at the old location or a few blocks up the road, they are now proposing a different option: combining the 1st and 3rd precincts together at the edge of downtown, in the old Century Plaza vocational school/social service building.

This represents a partial victory for the communities that organized this spring against rebuilding a precinct. The city-sponsored meetings were met by various small to medium disruptions; some people jammed the official survey process while others boycotted it in favor of arts and cultural interventions. Outrage was widespread against a new precinct at the old site, even amongst those supporting police preservationist "reform" efforts.

The city-commissioned report on the process even notes, "Many participants feel that there is no justification for a new building when protesters will burn the building again no matter where it is located." It even notes which of the proposed options is more or less "likely to be destroyed by rioters"! Show this any time someone doubts that #RiotsWork (pdf): https://unicornriot.ninja/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/CityofMinneapolis3rdPrecinctEngagementFullReport.pdf

That said, folks living on the south edge of downtown don't deserve a double-pigpen in their area, either. The socialist councilwoman is calling this development a resounding "win" but the real W will be continuing to see MPD's force shrink, and to see them bullied to hell wherever they're located. Let's keep at it. No new precinct here, there, or anywhere.

@indigenous_commentator #riotsWork

2/🧵: Who Else Was There?

In addition to the "definitely-not-fash" contingent, there were many recognizable faces among the crowd that day, along with a slew of no-name streamers looking for content.

Among them [ image ❶ ]:
▪︎ Several Rebel "News" scuzzballs
▪︎ The Post Millennial,
▪︎ Fash photog Yan Parisien
▪︎ Global, and
▪︎ Freelancers whose work has appeared in many outlets.

(And no, my dear confused stalkers, I am not a journalist¹ or even a source for anyone.)

A fair contingent travelled from Ottawa and arrived early to bolster local paedifash in the high school, notably Chris Dacey and his TerrorTots. Dacey is known for being surrounded by a phalanx of twinks in red caps — and for his visible agitation at the phrase "fuck you, Dacey."

❕️❗️Shit!❗️❕️
I feel like I may have buried the lede here:
Were there Nazis, you might ask. Why yes! Gus Stefanis of the Canadian Nationalist Party attended, after an invite from fashy Save Canada #TerrorTot Josh🚮 [ image ❷ ], and defended by another fashy TerrorTot, Monty 🚮, who doesn't think anything on his Twitter feed is problematic. [ image ❸ ]

Totally not-a-Nazi(tm).

Inside, living legend Martin Boyce, one of the last known survivors of the Stonewall Riots. The fascist TerrorTots capitalized on the "Riot" bit, of course, in their outreach to shitlibs. We all know that #RiotsWork so the repeated harping on this word stood out.

I keep hearing that the racist/homophobic/sexist/gammon generation is aging out, but I remain unconvinced. You'll note the young faces at the forefront of "pushing for a better world" are almost to a one: girls.

Of course it's not a hard and fast rule; there are girls in Save Canada hats and boys who are not terrified to participate in Pink Shirt Day; the distribution with this, as with everything else, is bimodal, not binary.

Ironic, given the fascist need to push for and enforce an artificial gender binary.

Almost as ironic as the continued fascist use of the word "grooming" to deflect from their own indoctrination activities so obviously on display here².

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¹
https://kolektiva.social/@Gigi/110199584198579268
² https://kolektiva.social/@Gigi/110186614736262273

#SaveCanadaFash #DragDefence #DragDefense #DragStoryTime #DragDefenders #FuckHomophobes #FuckHomophobia #FuckTransphobia
#WhoKeepsUsSafe #CommunityDefence #FashWatch #FashWatchCanada #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/homeless-camp-residents-ask-city-for-reprieve/89-2a72b1ef-770c-49dc-8c88-208d4648181e

#RiotsWork
#unhoused
#Minneapolis

RT @SmashMagaGame
New trailer for #SmashMAGA Trump Zombie Apocalypse - CIVIL WAR DLC!

thanks to our special algorithmic guest, @SnoopDogg
#SmashMAGA #SmashFascism #TrailerTuesday #Indiegames #RiotsWork #AntifaGames PLAY NOW ON STEAM! https://twitter.com/SmashMagaGame/status/1589018575540727809?s=20&t=6oWwqwGxD3upxx4qesmg_Q

FINE! FUCKING FINE! I'LL JUST STEAL THE SHIT AND POST IT AS MY OWN, THANKS MASTADON:

Since power grid attacks are in the news, here's an excerpt from "The Theory and Practice of Armed Struggle in the Northwest" by George Jackson Brigader Ed Mead, circa 1980:

"On January 1, 1976 ... the Brigade planted a powerful pipe bomb at a transformer complex in the very rich Laurelhurst neighborhood. The attack was in support of the long and courageous strike then being waged by Seattle's City Light workers. The blast completely destroyed the two hundred fifty thousand dollar transformers and shut the power of the rich off during the height of their New Year celebrations. More importantly, the action had a marked impact on the length of the then-stalled negotiations and a positive effect on the terms of the settlement between the city and its workers. The morning after the action, strikers set up pickets on the bomb site to prevent scabs from repairing the damage. When the media tried to get City Light workers to denounce the Brigade, they refused to do so."

No credit to @riotmuffin for finding this because fuck you I'm doing a colonialism today I guess wtf IDK i'm tired.

#riotswork #foreverythingelsetherestheft
#andfuckmetallicatoo
#stillnotovernapster

@riotmuffin adding #riotswork so hopefully more people can find this, since when I search for that tag this doesn't come up even though it's your name

@HongPong Your analysis actually highlights the recuperative purpose of detaining and prosecuting cops, which affirms that calling for the state to do so was a major counterinsurgent tactic throughout the rebellion. Extrajudicial execution is a central function of policing, and Freeman’s decision reflected that.

The abolition of policing occurs, not when every killer cop is in prison, but when every precinct is ash. #RiotsWork

Today is the 22nd anniversary of the riots in Seattle that shut down the World Trade Organization summit in 1999. Personally this was a super formative event, which I watched on television, and it changed my entire life. Here is a history of those events and the dynamics that led to them by Crimethinc:

https://cwc.im/WTO22Years

https://twitter.com/crimethinc/status/1465720632562311169

#riotswork