After serving sixteen months in Minnesota Correctional Facility-Shakopee for fatally shooting unarmed Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, former Brooklyn Center veteran police officer Kim Potter was released from prison last week: https://t.co/NI2hihbhEY
As the deadly crisis continues in Sudan we bring you back to our comic episode Sudan: Building Power from Below which reflects some of the viewpoints of the Sudanese Revolution that toppled Omar Bashir, ending his 30-year rule. Read in full: https://t.co/XkllsqjM7z
Ramsey County prosecutors & the corporate press played down racial implications in the murder of AJ Stewart by Brian Kjellberg & the evidence pointing to racial motivations were held tight by authorities & never leaked to the public prior to the trial. 9/ https://t.co/e7Nt8Qh1FY
#OtD 14 April 1988, French libertarian communist theorist, historian, gay liberation activist, and staunch opponent of colonialism, Daniel Guรฉrin, died at the age of 83 https://t.co/2bdyRdv9Kr
In addition to occasionally racist messages suggesting Daniel Perry, the man Governor Greg Abbott wants to pardon, was fantasizing about shooting protesters, there are some where he is chatting with underage youth.
"No nudes until you're old enough," Perry wrote in one message.
#OtD 14 Apr 1816 a slave uprising known as Bussa's rebellion, named after its leader, broke out on Easter Sunday night in Barbados. Enslaved people took advantage of the temporary freedom from work and the cover of permitted gathering for festivities
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Watch our new film on The Case of Marvin Haynes & read the 3rd in a UR investigative series that focuses on the framing of Marvin Haynes, incarcerated for a 2004 Minneapolis murder despite no evidence & claims of innocence.
On April 11, the Finding Alexis White Hawk-Ruiz Facebook page posted that Alexis had โbeen found, unfortunately deceased.โ
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The post stated that the family is โheartbrokenโ & โasking for privacy to grieveโ after five months of searching & hoping. #MMIW
UPDATE: Unicorn Riot's Legal Battle for Press Freedom Continues
Our legal battle with Energy Transfer / Dakota Access Pipeline continues in the courts & we need your support as we continue to stand for a free press & protecting our sources & documents. https://t.co/hkNsX8hdKA
A secretive grand jury has been hearing the evidence in the police killing of Jayland Walker this week.
A Black Power fist statue sent from George Floyd Square in Minneapolis to Akron, Ohio remains at Walker's family church. Full story: https://t.co/Bx0WmYYPG3
#OtD 14 Apr 1919 in Limerick, Ireland, a general strike was declared in protest against the declaration by the British military of a โSpecial Militarised Zone' in the area. The general strike saw the creation of the short-lived Limerick Soviet.
Our latest podcast episode, about the Edelweiss Pirates and the Swing Kids, two anti-fascist youth culture movements in Nazi Germany, is now available for everyone!
Check it out wherever you listen to your podcast, or on our website here:
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I will always hate RedBull with undying passion, but credit to their supporters who are not giving an inch over their playerโs racist abuse. They deserve our solidarity.
#OtD 13 Apr 1953 the director of the US CIA approved a project called MKUltra. The agency then secretly conducted mind control experiments on unwitting subjects, including sex workers and cancer patients, e.g. dosing them with LSD. At least 2 people died
#OtD 13 Apr 1906, Samuel Barclay Beckett, the novelist, poet, and playwright was born. During the Nazi occupation of France, Beckett joined the French Resistance as a courier. After the war, he was awarded the Croix de guerre and the Mรฉdaille de la Rรฉsistance for his efforts