Husky Energy is requiring anyone with a health or injury claim from the Superior refinery fire to sign liability waivers. These waivers could prevent the signee from taking future legal action, or getting compensation for health problems that have not yet manifested themselves. Given the harm that our community has
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The Secret is to Begin
Getting Started Because these ideas are so ordinary, they can only be of use to people who are extraordinary. Fortunately, you fit the bill. When you resolve to take your destiny into your own hands, it’s hard to know where to start. Ceding responsibility to others is easy: you vote for
New Doc Release: BLACK SNAKE KILLAZ, A #NoDAPL Story, Enbridge Line 3 Resistance Update, #J20 Resistance Defense Update & More
Our latest communique provides detail in regards to the new Unicorn Riot documentary, BLACK SNAKE KILLAZ featuring the #NoDAPL water warriors along with information in regards to the newest oil blockade camp, Camp Makwa standing against Enbridge’s Line 3 and issuing a firm warning against any attempt to build
Creating Sanctuary, Standing Rock Standoff, Donation Report Backs, & More
Our latest communique introduces our new campaign to create ‘Sanctuary for Humanity’, an update on our comrades who are working to protect water in North Dakota, along with several campaign report backs and event announcements. __________ IN THIS ISSUE: -SUPPORT OUR SATELLITE SANCTUARY -THE STANDING ROCK STAND OFF -THANK YOU
The Reoccupation of the Minneapolis 4th Precinct
In light of the recent announcement by Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman and in continuation of the pursuit of justice for Jamar Clark individuals within Minneapolis, MN will reoccupy the Minneapolis Police Department’s 4th Precinct on April 15th. REOCCUPATION DETAILS: April 15th, 2016 - 12pm Minneapolis Police 4th
Evidence in Jamar Clark Case Does Not Exonerate Officers
On March 30th, 2016 Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced that no charges would be filed against two Minneapolis police officers in November’s fatal shooting of Jamar Clark which triggered a continuation of large public actions to demand justice for Jamar Clark. An open letter to Mike Freeman: I
[We Ain’t Scurred] State Harassment Won’t Stop Movement Against Police Brutality
The Twin Cities IWW General Defense Committee (GDC) wishes to make known a recent incident of state harassment directed at our organization and allied groups, and our work against police murder and brutality in Minnesota. We encourage our friends, families, co-workers, and all those struggling against injustice to be
URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Justice For Cecily McMillan!
NEARLY 150,000 PEOPLE ARE DEMANDING THE RELEASE OF CECILY MCMILLAN. ARE YOU ONE OF THEM? __________ Justice betrayed! Cecily McMillan is a young woman who was sexually assaulted and then falsely arrested by a NYC police officer! She is a committed social justice advocate with no prior criminal history, yet
Concerned About Minneapolis Police Brutality? Help Us!
As many people in the community are aware, Minneapolis police officers harass, beat, and even kill community members on a regular basis with impunity. The Star Tribune recently reported that out of 437 complaints against police officers in a year-long period, not one of the officers implicated had been punished.
Idle No More and OccupyMN To Gather in Solidarity with the Mi’kmaq Nation of Elsipogtog
Minneapolis, Minn. - Idle No More and OccupyMN will gather in solidarity with the Mi’kmaq Nation at noon on Monday, October 21, 2013 in Minneapolis. The groups call on all people of conscience to join them in a peaceful demonstration of solidarity with the Elsipogtog’s Mi’kmaq warriors. The groups
Wisconsin Citizens Oppose the Use of Dogs to Hunt Wolves
CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCEMENT: Senator Kedzie, we will be staging a protest in the of Elkhorn, WI., Sat. Oct 26th from 12-5pm! Do the right thing and let SB 93 out of your committee so it can be debated on its own merits on the Senate floor. Why are you for state-sanctioned
Occupy Anniversary Special: Highlights, Pitfalls and the Shifting of Public Consciousness
Abby Martin remarks on the tragic mass shooting that took place in Washington, DC, posing the question of how many more it will take to finally have a debate fueled by reality, not politics. Then second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, highlighting a recent Reuters poll showing that only 15
Supressing OWS: How the Police Use Arrests to Disrupt Peaceful Assemblies
On the eve of the second anniversary of the Occupy movement, two video activists, have released a 10 minute short film providing perhaps the most detailed civilian account to date of the NYPD’s process of crowd dispersion during mass mobilizations. The video, shot on September 17th, 2012, during Occupy Wall
Movements Without Leaders And Climate Change
Movements Without Leaders In recent months — and it’s the curse of an author that sometimes you change your mind after your book is in type — I’ve come to like the idea of capital L leaders less and less. It seems to me to miss the particular promise