Jilla @Jilla@kolektiva.social

Many Minneapolis city staff - including those in the Race & Equity division, in which 90% of employees have quit or been fired over the past year - have been organizing around their racist toxic workplace culture, in particular demanding that City Coordinator Heather Johnston (basically the highest unelected city leader) not be re-confirmed to her post.

I'm very very rarely one to give a fuck about city council shit, but would appreciate MPLS folks sharing this:

Please keep an eye out for people trying to brand monkeypox as a "gay disease", explicit or otherwise, and push back hard and early!

I've already started seeing the same kind of "the damn gays fucking everywhere" rhetoric that also popped up during the first years of the AIDS epidemic in the US. That rhetoric was directly responsible for (tens of?) thousands of deaths.

We absolutely *cannot* afford to let homophobes gain control over the public narrative around monkeypox, and let them use it to once again kill queer folks by denying them crucially important healthcare.

My biggest lesson from the uprising, which will be on full display this coming week in the form of ticketed galas, peace vigils, hollow remembrances and other nonsense, is about the utter meaningless of words and images.

Unless it presents a direct structural threat, any words and any images can and will be used for recuperation. Words like “BLM” or “abolish the police” have very little to no power any more because of this. Don’t be fooled.

I’ve lost track of all the places getting smashed up in solidarity with #StopCopCity , but apparently this bank of amerikkka got it in Minneapolis last night:

https://scenes.noblogs.org/post/2022/05/20/attack-on-bank-of-america-in-minneapolis-in-solidarity-with-arrested-forest-defenders/

These stickers and other hot agitprop will be available at the Meatjacker Memorial BBQ/leftist hangout Saturday 12-4pm at Mueller Park, 25th and Colfax Ave S. Come spam it up!

Scroll up in the thread to my pinned post to see how to get the stickers otherwise

What's a Meatjacker, you ask? Well, somebody stole some meat last year and lefty Minneapolis twitter made it a big thing. Don't look at me on this one I'm just the sticker and zine dealer 🤣

Via @unicornriot -

"After clearing out the #AtlantaForest from environmental activists opposed to the construction of a police training facility called "Cop City" on May 17, police discussed using “deadly force” against protestors if they used Molotov cocktails."

https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/police-raid-atlanta-forest-occupation/

Minneapolis to Pay Army Vet Who Was Beaten to a Pulp After Returning Fire At Officers In Unmarked Vehicles $1.5M; Terms Include No Admission of Guilt https://atlantablackstar.com/2022/05/19/minneapolis-to-pay-army-vet-who-was-beaten-to-a-pulp-after-returning-fire-at-officers-in-unmarked-vehicles-1-5m-terms-include-no-admission-of-guilt/

Minnesota state patrol helicopter pilot sent to hospital after duck martyrs themself crashing through windshield

We honor your sacrifice comrade duck

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2022/05/19/minnesota-state-patrol-pilot-hurt-after-helicopter-hits-duck

Looks like NFT prices have hit rock bottom.

Get your monkey for nothin' and your chimps for free.

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What’s the only thing trees and cops have in common?

Dead ones help the next generation to live

While the now countrywide general uprising sparked by starvation continues,
so do the protests for livable pensions for retirees continue today as they have at least once weekly for at least about a year all across Iran.
Here are some videos of the protests today in Ahvaz, Arak, Isfahan and Qazvin as examples, merged from the Free Trade Union of Iran.

"Fuck Work, Let's Riot!"
Seen in Worcester, Massachusetts

leaving crimethinc's "police not welcome" stickers on the windshields of cars with pro-cop bumper stickers is #distroism

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People will literally be like “maybe Israel shooting a journalist in the head execution style is a bad thing” and zionists will call it hate speech

What’s yr fave all time false flag op? Pls boost for science