In #Minneapolis today, four days before Christmas, the temperature is -5F/-21C and a blizzard is expected. So today is the day when Mayor Frey and the Metro Transit Police decided to destroy an under-bridge homeless encampment and confiscate their tents and propane tanks.
All homeless resources in the city are full.
No mainstream news covered this story.
Pictures by @SWVoicesMPLS on birdsite
#homelessness #JacobFrey #ACAB #MetroTransitPolice #MerryChristmas #ThatWasSarcasm #journalism

@Albatross I believe this was another MNDOT operation, which Frey has been denying coordination with— but also today the Quarry encampment, the only sizeable encampment on city land not already destroyed by Frey's many goons under his direct control, has been served eviction notice for *the 28th*.

I believe they are trying to make us think the cruelty is the point, to distract from the fact that neoliberal capitalism may indeed crash down if people can camp outside in the winter for free.

Seriously though this is as @Katyrex said on twitter when posting this, directly causing deaths by exposure. Call the lines yourself. Find out how many beds there are. Temporary shelters are never a replacement for the stability of a permanent camp (let alone, y'know, actual housing) but there aren't even spaces available right as the cold is downright deadly.
Apparently this needs to be said for some people, but if sub-zero temperatures and 50mph winds do not drive people to use the resources allegedly provided the next step is not military destruction of outside survival shelters people have built for themselves it is to provide some acceptable resources or grant people permanent title to the land so they can build what is evidently superior to government offerings in peace and safety.
A solid refresher on why the temporary shelters prominently promoted as resources when encampments are destroyed (to confuse liberals into giving petty cruel reactionary tyrants the benefit of the doubt) are a sham, shared in a mutual aid chat:

1) there are not enough beds, I estimate that for every shelter bed there are 12 unhoused people, so calling is kind of useless bc 2) if you call and they have no beds they just hang up, there are no other options
3) shelters have rampant theft, violence, and assault due to underfunded, understaffing, and the orgs and workers just not caring 4) if you're not sober you are excluded from most shelters 5) you can't bring possessions in with you so going to a shelter to sleep means you could return to your outdoor spot tomorrow and everything is gone 6) regular shelters don't allow pets, children, or keep family together, so you would have to split up, which fairly most people don't want to do

the defense (physical, and in the media narrative) of the Quarry encampment is in full swing today

https://social.coop/@WorkersDefenseAll[email protected]/109591519039380572

TC Workers Defense Alliance (@[email protected])

Put some of this information about the city's impending attack TODAY on one web page you can share anywhere: https://workersdefensealliance.org/events/defend-unhoused-people-quarry-encampment-northeast-minneapolis

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