benjamin melançon"BASSETT CREEK JUSS GOT OFFICIAL NOTICE OF EVICTION! BOTH BRIDGES!!"
—from a person living there. I visited her yesterday and all was calm despite the unimaginable stress of the repeated city threats and bluffs before this 'official' one.
"MPD CAME & SERVED US A PAPER WITH RESOURCES ON IT & SAID WE HAVE A WEEK UNTIL THEY CLEAR BUT JUSS TO BE SAFE WE SHLD START EVACUATING NOW & TECHNICALLY U HAVE LESS THEN THA WEEK HE SAID.. LIKE OH WOW!!"
"I ASKD HIM FOR A EVICTION PAPER WITH THE DATES & HE SAID HE JUSS TOLD ME HAHA HE WAS ACTUALLY A NICE OFFICER HAHA NO EXTRA POLICE BRUTALITY & WHAT NOT HAHA"
These camps are on properties of two different railroads— this is a city-led attack.
We have less than a week #Minneapolis
You ready to defend people who have been pushed around relentlessly by the agents of capital? In person or by researching the city's possible legal overreach, evicting from non-city land?
Or do you have land? Money in the thousands you would put into a cooperative social housing venture? Fundraising skills or a willingness to canvas neighborhoods?
(The where to donate money part is easy at least: https://opencollective.com/mpls-northside-mutual-aid/ )
Other ways to help: One person living there is a veteran, but has been cut off from the programs he knows about for helping veterans. Anyone have a comprehensive list and recs?
And burn up the phone/fax lines of the people who have, at this point, dedicated their lives to destroying the lives of unhoused people simply because they want #Minneapolis for the rich (and willing servants) alone
https://northdef.wordpress.com/2022/12/27/these-officials-have-no-conscience/
Oh and after finding a place to move, help moving— in particular a couple residents are looking to purchase a used-but-working four-wheeler or similar to help people move out from under the bridges (not car accessible).
Direct cash support for one family about to be displaced by#Minneapolis city structural violence: $biqmama19 Ashley Cook
Where are my #Zillow experts? We need to buy some land, move this fight onto different terrain (literally). Anything in the near Northside area would be ideal.
10,000 sq ft to do https://envisioncommunitymn.org/proposal/ ideal but we'll take anything.
The building skills and desire are there among the people about to be displaced.
Unfortunately building a house for oneself isn't exempt the way making food for home use is but ah well any #legal experts able to research that part?
The people #Minneapolis is forcing out from completely hidden spots under bridges—railroad land but all city threats—are ready and very able to build. They do so everywhere they go but owning land cooperatively would kick that to another level.
Please support https://opencollective.com/mpls-northside-mutual-aid/projects/land
and see all this thread above.
Hello night crew please boost everything in thread above!
Also need people to help write up this stuff in more detail?
And in case i am not clear we still have a little under a week to try to stop this and/or help people to a safe place.
Good morning #Minneapolis if you missed this thread please read it. Another chance to stop the ongoing assault on #HumanRights by Mayor Frey.
If you call the ghouls at the city –https://northdef.wordpress.com/2022/12/27/these-officials-have-no-conscience/ – please articulate one key ask of the unhoused people living under the bridges:
"Let us have land and we will build housing."
And the carpentry, roofing etc skills are there! There has been no excuse for the city not meeting the people of Near North camp one third of the way—on still-unused "Office of Community Planning & Economic Development" for two years, no less!
Here is the original Near North camp land in #Minneapolis, still empty and unused.
The sign blatantly targets the survival of unhoused people—the land is fenced off from *anyone* using it at all anyway—by the impeccable logic that "This property is a future redevelopment site."
Bill Seitz@mlncn Is the property owned by the city, state, or a private entity?
The land in that picture is owned by the city— the #Minneapolis office of Community Planning and Economic Development.
The land that the Minneapolis Police Department just told people they will be evicted from is owned by railroad companies— two different ones under each bridge— but railroad company representatives themselves have come by and said this is city led, that "it turns out the city has jurisdiction".
"This property is a future redevelopment site."
That means #Minneapolis CPED is holding it at zero tax revenue for the city to give away to millionaire developers while keeping it out of desperately needed use by unhoused people.
People who were on that unused city land now on unused railroad land and being threatened with removal early next week *by the city* naturally ask if there are spots open at any other camps to move to. No. They are all being destroyed this week.
City is actively destroying a camp at 26th St E and Clinton Ave S despite multiple people, including a city council member, asking for just a day's delay.
Help requested by people there for assistance relocating.