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The Community Defense Working Group on Militant Sesame Street

Chad Washington Socialist
In many ways, Minneapolis has shown us what is possible. Not simply the response of a mobilized, militant community, but also the lengths that a despotic administration will go to in order to increase its power and accomplish its racist policies.

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A Nurse Is Killed — and Labor Erupts in Protest

Don McIntosh NW Labor Press
We protest the illegal detainment of immigrants and non-immigrants, United States citizens murdered in the streets of Minneapolis. Not all of us share the same opinion, but this is a labor issue when our members are afraid to leave their house.

The Nation Nominates Minneapolis for the Nobel Peace Prize

The Nation editors The Nation
The editors of The Nation magazine are in the process of formally nominating the city of Minneapolis and its people for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. The following nomination statement, which is addressed to the Norwegian Nobel Committee...

Tidbits-Feb 5- Reader Comments: May Day General Strike; Trump “Prison Camps” ARE Concentration Camps; What Mark Carney Gets Wrong About End of the ‘Rules-Based Order’; Body Cameras Are Hands-Free Killing Tool for ICE; Two Soldiers Who Refused Orders

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Reader Comments: May Day General Strike; Trump’s New “Prison Camp” ARE Concentration Camps; What Mark Carney gets wrong about end of the ‘rules-based order’; Body cameras are a hands-free killing tool for ICE; Two Soldiers Who Refused Orders; more..

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting

J. David McSwane ProPublica
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

The Innocence Trap: Survival Should Not Require Sainthood

Andrea Pitzer Degenerate Art
The answer is not just to get rid of an individual official. It's to insist on human rights for everyone, and to create a system in which punishment is not the central and defining feature of government for whole sectors of the U.S. population.
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