TC Workers Defense AllianceAug 23, 2023

THIS WEDNESDAY MORNING at 7am only hours away

Grab your bike (or scooter or shoes) and help defend the Wall of Forgotten Natives and nearby camps that have faced continual destruction by the #Minnesota Department of Transportation at and #Minneapolis #mayor Frey's #PublicWorks

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Report of 20 state troopers on Franklin.
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#Minnesota state #police are handing out notices of #eviction TOMORROW at the Wall of Forgotten #Natives

Continuing #genocide against #unhoused #NativeAmerican relatives in #Minneapolis instead of #LandBack or #Housing

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The madness continues.

Look at this party invitation.

The #violence from the #state is ceaseless.

Unless you show up and outnumber the #police two to one or better.

Here at the #WallOfForgottenNatives people stake out space on visible unused #land to demand suitable support and housing and the state preposterously claims all needs are met and threatens anyone who remains alive, visible, resisting erasure.

Aug 23, 2023 at 2:25pmWeb
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At some point these people need to stop letting themselves be used as the rationalization that constant #displacement of people who are OBVIOUSLY not receiving sufficient "advocacy", "outreach", or "shelter"

They need to say their names being evoked every #eviction is not OK and take a stand against the violence.

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Please share! From folks at the Wall of Forgotten Natives, pending an eviction (notice served today, see above)
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Note MNDOT will not be answering calls until 8am and does not take voice messages because they are not here to serve us they are here to brutalize us if we are unfortunate enough to be unhoused.
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"The visibility of poor Black bodies (as well as certain non-Black POC, trans people, homeless people, differently-abled people, and so forth) induces anxiety, so these bodies must be contained, controlled, and removed."

https://www.liesjournal.net/volume1-10-againstinnocence.html

Against Innocence | LIES Journal

Show threadbenjamin melançonAug 24, 2023
There is a good number of people here in support and holding #Minnesota state #police at bay by simple numbers please come join!
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Things are wrapping up here, food and transportation may be welcome.
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Even my small presence at one corner of the police cordon was helpful— helping one person get the courage to go up to police and get allowed in to get his stuff including an ID, and making the paramedics do their job and provide a woman with injured feet or ankles with medical help, and providing some solidarity and cash.
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One Native man staying at the Wall had recently gotten housing and then lost it because as he said his landlady not like natives evicted him for letting on housed friends use his shower.

Trying to get his life back together and facing displacement after displacement, eviction after eviction.

Show threadbenjamin melançonAug 24, 2023
And of course telling these dweebs that they have made terrible life choices is always worthwhile.
Show threadpollinator stanAug 24, 2023
@WorkersDefenseAlliance having a premade encampment eviction notice that you can just grab and fill out with a sharpie is... not huge in the big picture of state violence, but still so dystopian and indicative of the city’s attitude it truly boils my blood