“This is a really embarrassing moment for our council,” said Yang, before showing media copies of her resolution, authored with the help of the Free Palestine Coalition. She thinks council members individually support a ceasefire but are gun-shy about a vote.
“We need to avert an oil disaster in Lake Superior. We need to save our water and our future.” - Water Protector Gina Peltier, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa
🆕Protests Against Line 5 Continue in Wisconsin and the Courtrooms: https://t.co/XQe5EmWZoN
It's dangerous for communities across the midwest and the country for a 70-year-old leaking pipeline to still exist in our freshwaters. We need President Biden to revoke the Presidential Permit and shut down Line 5. #ShutDownLine5
"Biden’s UAW picket line visit reflects the fact that the strike by union workers is so popular that the leader of the most pro-capitalist country on Earth believed being seen standing alongside them was politically advantageous."
#StandUpUAW
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As a person who is pretty familiar with receiving veto letters from Mayor Frey, let me remind you:
In his ~6 years as Mayor, Jacob Frey has vetoed 9 Council actions. Of these, all were authored by Councilmembers who represent Southsiders. 7 were authored by people of color.
@TwinCitiesDSA has built its base but continues to show up for communities in struggle. What DSA has done for East Phillips, how they show up for Little Earth and how its members hold me accountable are why we rock with them. DSA’s endorsement means something to us. Up from here
On this day in 1978, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act was passed.
Native communities were given the fundamental right to organize for spiritual and ceremonial purposes. This legislation was and is an important step in a better direction for Indigenous sovereignty.
I was touched by so many kind words & honest reactions, even from comrades I hadn’t met before. Regardless of how you voted this weekend, I hope you left Convention with a renewed conviction for a better world and a resolve that we will be the ones to do it. Solidarity forever 🌹
@robin4mpls, the first Black democratic socialist city council member in Minneapolis, responds to the Justice Department’s report on the conditions that lead to the murder of George Floyd under Mayor Frey’s administration. “None of this is new.”
Today on Juneteenth we remember Black liberation is not over. It’s an ongoing struggle. Every single day as policymakers we have the responsibility and authority to make choices that contribute to Black liberation, or move it backwards.
After all, a fifteenth-century papal bull known as the "Doctrine of Discovery" is still the basis of federal Indian law, though the Vatican recently "repudiated" that dictate. And nine unelected people judge whether the original sovereigns are indeed sovereign.
The Supreme Court upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act, a major win for tribal sovereignty. The question is whether we allow it to get this far again. A white family and a state, backed by powerful corporate interests, threw into question the status of tribal sovereignty.