Minneapolis’s 2020 Uprising Laid an Abolitionist Groundwork for ICE Resistance

https://murica.website/2026/01/minneapoliss-2020-uprising-laid-an-abolitionist-groundwork-for-ice-resistance/

This should surprise no one, but let it at least be a reminder: take security seriously.

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Last month, Georgia representative Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced a bill that would designate antifa—the shorthand term for anti-fascist militants who the GOP has repeatedly attempted to portray as a structured organization rather than an ideology (by the FBI’s own assessment)—as a domestic terrorist group. The current appointee to run the National Counterterrorism Center, former Green Beret Joe Kent, has also urged the FBI to target “antifa and cartels” and employed a Proud Boy as a campaign consultant during his failed 2022 campaign for a House of Representatives seat in Washington state.

“Tier-one priorities are political, and as priorities are defined by the new administration, there’ll be an effort to remove the focus on extreme right-wing groups and delegitimize any effort to tackle them,” said Terry Albury, a former FBI agent who was sentenced to four years in federal prison for leaking internal bureau documents to journalists at The Intercept, in a conversation with me this month.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/fbi-kash-patel-antifa-blm-terror-groups

#FBI #antifa #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #MovementForBlackLives #fascism #fcknzs #KashPatel

"Just as we march in defense of Black lives and against police brutality in our own country, we now march for Palestinian lives, demanding that our own government stop funding genocide."

#NinaTurner #RashidaTlaib

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/nina-turner-rashida-tlaib-black-palestinian-liberation/
#PalestineSolidarity #PalestineLiberation #BlackLiberation #MovementForBlackLives #USpol #USpolitics #DecolonialStruggles @palestine

Anti-Defamation League Maps Jewish #PeaceRallies With #Antisemitic Attacks

American Jews have mobilized several thousand #Jews across the U.S. to call for a #ceasefire in #Gaza. #ADL calls these Jewish organizations 'hate groups.'

Micah Lee
November 11 2023, 6:00 a.m.

“On October 27, several thousand Jews and their allies shut down the main terminal of Grand Central Station during rush hour in New York City, demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. Organized by Jewish Voice for Peace, the activists at the peaceful sit-in wore black T-shirts that read 'Not In Our Name.' 'It’s the largest sit-in protest the city has seen in over two decades,' Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman said. About 400 people were arrested, including rabbis.

“The Anti-Defamation League has classified the event — and dozens of other protests led by Jewish groups like Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow — as 'anti-Israel,' according to an analysis by The Intercept, and added them to their database documenting rising antisemitism across the U.S.

“’We’re seeing a genuine rise in antisemitic attacks and white nationalist, white supremacist, antisemitic hate and violence,' Eva Borgwardt, the national spokesperson for IfNotNow, told me. 'When white nationalism is on the rise, to cheapen the accusation of antisemitism by applying it to Palestinian rights advocates, including Jews, is incredibly irresponsible and dangerous.'

“Since Hamas’s brutal October 7 attack on southern Israel where Palestinian militants killed over 1,400 Israelis — most of them civilians — and took over 200 hostages, the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish advocacy group that tracks antisemitism and extremism, has been keeping track of the alarming rise of antisemitic incidents.

“In 2020, over 100 #progressive organizations — including the #MovementForBlackLives, #DemocraticSocialists of America, and Center for Constitutional Rights — signed an open letter asking the progressive community to not partner with ADL because the group 'has a history and ongoing pattern of attacking #SocialJustice movements led by communities of color, #queer people, #immigrants, #Muslims, #Arabs, and other marginalized groups, while aligning itself with #police, right-wing leaders, and perpetrators of state violence.' Now, ADL is targeting a new group of people: #ProgressiveJews.

“Israel’s indiscriminate massacre of civilians in Gaza — killing over 10,000 Palestinians so far in the densely populated Gaza Strip, including over 4,000 children — has led to the largest anti-war protests in the U.S. since the Iraq War, including a surge of renewed activism from progressive Jewish groups. Israel has bombed Gaza nonstop since the October 7 attack, ordered the relocation of over 1 million civilians, launched a ground invasion, and is blocking food, water, medical supplies, and fuel from making it into Gaza, triggering a #HumanitarianCrisis and leading to what legal scholars call a #genocide against #Palestinians.

"While the ADL told The Intercept that it does not consider the ceasefire protests 'antisemitic,' just 'anti-Israel,' its CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, has said otherwise. After several thousand Jews and their allies marched on the U.S. Capitol on October 18 calling for a ceasefire, ADL DC released a statement equating #antiZionism with antisemitism. Greenblatt piled on, calling the groups that organized the protest, including Jewish Voice for Peace, 'hate groups.'"

Full article:
https://theintercept.com/2023/11/11/palestine-israel-protests-ceasefire-antisemitic/

#JVP #CeasefireNow

#BLM protesters were targeted by federal government with stiffer punishments, an analysis shows

By Christina Carrega, CNN
August 20, 2021

"The Justice Department targeted more than 300 #protesters by charging them with federal crimes for their roles during the civil unrest last summer after the murder of #GeorgeFloyd, according to a new report from The #MovementForBlackLives, a coalition of #Black advocacy groups.

"The report found that more than 90% of federal cases against Black Lives Matter protesters could have been charged in state court – and that in 88% of those cases, the federal charges carried more severe penalties than similar state charges.

"'This persecution resulted in hundreds of organizers and #activists facing years in federal prison with no chance of parole,' the report read. It was co-authored by CUNY School of Law’s Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility Clinic.

"The report also contends that federal officials have tried to suppress Black social movements going back decades. For instance, at the direction of former #FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, officials spied on and interrogated leaders associated with the #BlackPanther Party as well as #AngelaDavis, #MartinLutherKingJr and #MalcolmX.

"According to the report, this was done 'in a deliberate bid to infiltrate, penetrate, disorganize, and disrupt the Black movements for rights, power, and freedom, and to preserve the established #WhiteSupremacist order.'

"The report, which focused on the period of nationwide civil unrest sparked by Floyd’s death in May 2020 at the hands of police in #Minneapolis, was released this week. It was first reported by The Associated Press.

"Federal officials filed a litany of charges against racial justice protesters over five months after Floyd’s death, including 105 for arson, 49 for civil disorder, 45 for assault against an officer and 30 felon-in-possession of a weapon cases.

"According to the report, the 'vast majority of charges brought were for non-violent offenses or offenses that were potentially hazardous but were restricted to #property destruction, not violence against people.'"

Read more:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/20/politics/blm-protesters-analysis/index.html

#BLMProtesters #CivilRights #Fascism #ACAB #Racism

One metric I'll be listening to carefully in evaluating #Threads moderation is how these orgs advocating for margalized groups view the #Threads experience it:

#BlackLivesMatter, #NAACP, #GLAAD, #MovementForBlackLives #WomensMarch #TranssgenderLawCenter

Each joined Threads yesterday and have all amassed tens to 100's of thousands of followers.

https://www.threads.net/@glaad
https://www.threads.net/@blklivesmatter
https://www.threads.net/@naacp
https://www.threads.net/@womensmarch
https://www.threads.net/@votolatino
https://www.threads.net/@translawcenter

"A new podcast out today called #AlphabetBoys documents how the #FBI disrupted #RacialJustice organizing after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020, including paying an informant at least $20,000 to infiltrate and spy on activist groups in Denver, Colorado."

#MovementForBlackLives #AlphabetAgencies #BLM #SpyAgencies

COINTELPRO 2.0

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/2/7/alphabet_boys_podcast_fbi_subterfuge

Alphabet Boys podcast :

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alphabet-boys/id1668980612