Anonymous submission to Conflict Minnesota
This was spotted in the MPD Union’s parking lot the weekend before Halloween.
Fuck Kroll.
Fuck 12.
May we end the MPD’s reign of horror and the so-called “union” that protects the killer cops who terrorized our streets. Much love to those who continue to resist in every way possible.
Anonymous submission to Conflict Minnesota
We remember Scout Schultz with love in our hearts and fiery passion for continuing their work.
Scout’s murder was premeditated by the violent policing apparatus that operates on our campuses and is enabled by liberal institutions in the name of “safety”. Let us be clear, there can be no safety at our universities while there is a publicly-funded, armed gang that roams our campuses providing security to fascists, protecting rapists, harassing and killing queer, disabled, indigenous folks, and targeting people of color at large. Our campus lies on stolen native land, and as young, queer radicals we stand in solidarity with the struggle of Scout Schultz and their comrades in fighting for communities and space free from the brutalizing capitalist security apparatus that binds us. Through community self-defense and mutual aid, we’re building the networks of support and resistance that enable us to fight back. Minnesota nice is for comrades—not cops and their sympathizers.
Rest in power Scout. This ain’t over.
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Anonymous submission to Conflict Minnesota
Here’s the thing: frats are a very real and material expression of systems of destruction—from white supremacy and heterosexism, to toxic masculinity inspired by patriarchy, to the elitist classism bred by capitalism. All across the nation students & neighboring communities live under the blight of fraternities, which brings scores of racist and homophobic crimes, endemic sexual violence and a squandering of resources by the elite. Despite many recent news stories including frat boy intervention into an investigation of a serial rapist in Sig Ep, a disgusting leaked commentary on the Bachelor TV show by Delta Chi, and the suspension of Delta Upsilon involving multiple rapes, UMN invests in a milquetoast “We all belong here” campaign and continues to support Greek Life by showering them in money and resources, all the while claiming the need to raise tuition. Usually the frats recruit without question, but not this year. Danger Collective held a vigil turned protest at the start of the chapter tours. Graffitti and stickers have appeared throughout dinkytown and frat row. And finally we took the streets on September 7th during Fraternity Rush Week for a good ole fashioned dance party.
30 to 40 folks gathered near frat row, ready to show the boys how to throw a real banger. Our party decorations included flares, a sparkly pink “KILL RAPISTS” banner imploring bystanders to connect with the rage that thousands of survivors feel, and our middle fingers. We casually strolled onto University Ave, chanting “fuck frats!” and “anytime, any place, punch a rapist in the face!” Our voices were accompanied by a marching band, cuz what good soirée is complete without a brass section?
Frat boys stared on dumbfoundedly as their walkways were redecorated with slogans ranging from “fuck frats” to “kill frat boys.” Campus was beautifued with circle A’s and copious amounts of paint. While some folks joined from the sidewalk, crust punks cheered us through dinkytown as they realized their spanging couldn’t compete with the masked up group shouting “fuck the frats!”
So… this happened tonight in Minneapolis pic.twitter.com/amylZkVBet
— Grant Simons (@GrantSimons2) September 8, 2017
Like at any good, rowdy party the cops showed up eventually. We quickly let the cops know how much of a party foul they were committing. Middle fingers flew and shouts of “fuck 12” greeted the berries of the cruisers. Bystanders may be confused and think we had planned this “police escort,” but let’s clear that right up: fuck cops. We want them gone just as much as we do frat boys. The two “brotherhoods” stand for the same things: rape culture, heterosexism, patriarchy and white supremacy. The only real difference is one group’s uniform is salmon and not navy (but god knows neither group has any worthwhile fashion sense).
Like all good things in life, the festivities did have to come to an end eventually. We quickly dissolved into the night, hopefully scaring a few dumbass freshman out of rushing a fraternity, inspiring a few phonecalls to daddy’s lawyer, and having taught them that there are better ways to make friends than paying for them (namely not being a sexist, racist, or homophobic slice of wonder bread).
No space exists for racist, sexist, homophobic and xenophobic frats. These parasites are not welcome here & we’ll continue shaking up the block until the pests have been extinguished.
From Nightfall
On June 17th, 2017 Officer Jeronimo Yanez was let off the hook by a majority white jury after murdering Philando Castile in cold blood. Obviously, the verdict was devastating, cruel and absolutely absurd. Most of all, though, it was unsurprising. That night over two thousand people took to the streets in the Twin Cities. Tensions were high and so was energy from the growing crowd. Young people came out by the hundreds, clad in masks and armed with anger. Earlier in the day, on a video posted to social media, Philando’s mother Valerie Castile tore in to the verdict and the police:
“They murdered my motherfucking son with his seat belt on. So what does that say to you? Now they got free reign to keep killing us any kind of way they want to. So I just want to say one thing to everybody out there, I don’t give a fuck what you do. Do what your heart desires… Fuck the police!… I hope that mother fucker die tonight.”
And yet, as in demonstrations time and time again before that night, a somewhat small group of Black Lives Matter organizers led the massive crowd in a winding route around the city of St. Paul and ultimately, via an orchestrated effort, onto Interstate 94. Police, in communication with organizers, quickly re-routed traffic to flow far around the people standing on the highway. During the march, liberal-minded activists and their dutiful ‘white allies’ shouted at and shamed people expressing their anger through graffiti, and in some instance even attempted to turn them in to the authorities.
Accusations of “violence” flew, along with claims that “that’s not what this is about,” even after Valerie Castile explicitly called for people to express their anger in whichever manner their heart desired. People donning masks in order to avoid further police repression and information doxxing by the far-right were called “cowards” and “instigators”. It almost seemed like these people had forgotten that a man’s life was taken by the state, and that earlier that day it had been made clear that officers who do the same thing in the future will not be punished. But somehow writing on a traffic sign to remember and avenge Philando Castile is considered “violence”.
At the end of the night, as the crowds trickled out and went home, police moved in and arrested 18 people. The police were careful not to let crowds gather on the pedestrian bridge or along the side of the highway, from where volleys of rocks and fireworks seemed to originate last July when I-94 was first shut down following Philando’s murder.
The State should consider itself lucky that the city was not in flames after the verdict came out. There is a process of silencing that is occurring that is enacted not by the police departments or National Guard but by the very organizers of such rallies as well as some of the attendees. One in which a young person who fears for their life in the face of police violence is held to unrealistic and ahistorical standards of respectability towards public property and corporate shop windows. Where the dispossessed are still expected to take orders from the wealthiest and loudest non-profit voices. One where they are commanded to politely ask the slave owners to give up their plantation.
The marching, the signs, and the chants aren’t enough. They never were. It’s time to put the ‘peace police’ to rest, and to make the State fear our strength instead of re-routing traffic for us. The white supremacist police institution of the United States has a vested interest in getting away with shooting black folks, and it is clear that until it faces consequences for its actions it won’t stop killing.
Anonymous submission to Conflict Minnesota
Fuck all these symbols of hate. Fuck all these symbols of genocide. Fuck one-sided history. Fuck the erasure of people and cultures.
It’s time to leave no racist statute un-touched. From Minneapolis to Charlottesville.
Anonymous submission to Conflict Minnesota
On Saturday night Minneapolis antifascists reacted to the deadly attack of white supremacist against antifascists in Charlottesville. We organized a vigil at Loring Park in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis. After a short moment of silence to remember Heather Heyer, who was murdered by a white supremacist earlier that day, we climbed the pedestrian bridge over Lyndale Ave and held up banners in solidarity with our comrades in Charlottesville and antifascist struggle worldwide.
On Monday August 14th, a rally was called for in solidarity with Charlottesville and Heather Heyer. Antifascists called for a free flowing anti-fascist bloc, and utilized the mass rally as a way to weave in and out of the crowd to allow for actions to commence without the obstruction of peace police and the state. The street poles, walls and barricades along the route received hundreds of new anti-fascist stickers and several paint jobs—letting the fascists know they are not welcome in these communities or anywhere else!
When we reached the Hennepin County building we seized the moment, and played a game of capture the flag. We removed the Hennepin County flag, and replaced it with the Anti-Fascist Action flag, and placed a placard of Heather Heyer on the flag pole. The crowd cheered and helped shelter anti-fascists while removing and replacing the flags. Moments later an effigy of a neo-nazi went up in flames along the hedge of the Hennepin County building.
Those of us and other participants carried out our love and rage in response to the deadly attack on our fallen and fellow anti-fascist comrades. Their brave actions of confronting white supremacists will never go in vain.
With Love & solidarity,
Antifa 161
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Anonymous submission to Conflict Minnesota
Antifa 161 stands in solidarity with the survivors and the family of the deceased that stood up to the fascist creeps of Vanguard America that drove intentionally into a crowd of counter-protesters, and fuck the other white supremacists/white nationalists that hosted the Unite The Right event in Charlottesville this weekend.
We know that fascism must be confronted, and vigils, banner drops, marches, and murals will never stop their acts of violence. But symbolic action is necessary, especially for those in mourning. It won’t stop with art, for we will continue our fight to expose nazi scum both locally and regionally, and ruin their way of life as an act of vengeance for the countless lives they have ruined.
RIP Heather
In Revolutionary Solidarity,
Antifa 161
Anonymous submission to Conflict Minnesota
In the last week, a small graffiti spree stained the pristine walls of Minneapolis in solidarity with the J20 defendants. Over two hundred people are facing severe charges stemming from a mass arrest in D.C. during the inauguration. Yet this is only one of an enormous list of repressive attacks on rebels, a list that only ever seems to grow.
It is small acts like these which hold the potential of keeping the fires lit during the dark times we are experiencing. Insurgent greetings to all who resist, on the inside or outside.
Anonymous submission to Conflict Minnesota
For the past several days, the people of Hamburg, Germany and thousands of others who have traveled from across the globe have been resisting thousands of heavily armed and highly trained cops in an inspiring display of fierce street fighting. The fact that police have been forced to retreat several times and have not been able to contain the insurrectionary fury gives us hope for a future beyond capitalism and State domination. We stand in uncompromising solidarity with the brave combatants fearlessly defending their streets from the pigs. Welcome to Hell!
From Indybay
Love and solidarity from Minneapolis to our Berkeley comrades ♥
Nothing but love for those who turned up to confront fascism on the 15th, nothing but hate for fascists.
Anonymous submission to Conflict Minnesota
Last night in France was the night of the barricade. Rebels in cities across so-called France took to the streets to attack police and take space, rejecting any legitimacy of the ballot box or the state in general. These upheavals fall in a long chain of revolt most notably was the revenge taken by the people in response to the French police’s rape of Theo a black Frenchman.
In so-called Minneapolis anarchists tagged a message of support to French rebels as well as a declaration that revenge will be taken here…
onward
Anonymous submission to Conflict Minnesota
In the spring of 1972, while the US was bogged down in an imperialist war in Vietnam and Cambodia, students at the University of Minnesota rioted for days on end. They fought with police, built barricades, destroyed the ROTC armory, and wrote graffiti on the walls of lecture halls. On one building in particular, Ford Hall, the graffiti read: “U.S OUT OF CAMBODIA, PIGS OUT OF DINKYTOWN!” It is in the spirit of this uprising and as a tribute of insurrectionary memory that we write this communique:
On a windy Tuesday afternoon a banner was hung in the Dinkytown neighborhood of Minneapolis over I-35 that read “US OUT OF MIDDLE EAST, PIGS OUT OF DINKYTOWN.” The banner was hung as the evening rush hour was about to start. This action, while small and symbolic, takes place in the context of rising conflict everywhere. The continuing escalation of the perpetual civil war we see, especially in Berkeley, but here locally as well on the Capitol steps in St. Paul on March 4th. The war in Syria, with the Trump administration dramatically escalating our involvement by launching nearly 60 Tomahawk missiles and bombing a mosque full of civilians. The war in Afghanistan that has been going on for almost 16 years, with the so-called “mother of all bombs” dropped on a cave system used by Daesh to hold prisoners. The possibility of war re-starting on the Korean peninsula and potentially in the South China Sea against the DPRK and China. The ongoing cold war between Russia and the United States, with both states waging proxy wars through various rebel groups and terrorist organizations. Everywhere we look, we see this war escalating. The prospect of World War III is not only becoming a real possibility, it quite possibly has already begun.
Needless to say, this is terrifying. It carries with it the horrifying prospect of a nuclear armed superpowers clashing in open warfare with one another. We know that these wars will not make anyone safer, especially those of us who are poor, and most especially those of us outside of the Empire and on the receiving end of this imperialist aggression. We also know that the best way to end an imperialist war is to bring that war home. To answer imperialist war with revolutionary civil war! To destroy the State, to disband the military, and to make revolution and seize everything from the capitalists and ruling class! So consider this banner drop, a small and symbolic action, a call for more creative resistance that can effectively damage the Empire’s ability to make war on poor folks like ourselves overseas.
We stand in uncompromising solidarity with the Rojava revolution and the YPG/YPJ and their fight for autonomy and a better world beyond capitalism. We stand in uncompromising solidarity with the people of Syria who refuse the tyranny of Assad, the domination by an imperialist power like Russia or the United States, and the fascist Islamic State. We stand in uncompromising solidarity with all who resist aggression in their home countries and fight for their own autonomy, and we urge people everywhere to fight a united struggle against capitalism, empire, and the State for a global insurgency against these forms of domination and power.
Against empire.
Against democracy.
Anonymous submission to Conflict Minnesota
In response to the call for a week of solidarity against repression, a banner was hung on Cedar Ave in Minneapolis. Flyers declaring solidarity for all rebels facing repression were scattered in the area. This effortless act joins those others across the territory in expressing unwavering support for all who take action. Be they water protectors who continue the struggle against industrial development projects, or those who tore through Washington D.C. during the inauguration, or those who dared defy the implementation of the so-called social parasite law in Belarus.
The banner not dropped from an overpass but hung facing the street. The former, no doubt a relic of the activist mentality inherited by so many. Instead, this banner offers a statement of encouragement in a neighborhood already familiar with social conflict.
“We aren’t declaring war; we’re just revealing it.”
From It’s Going Down
“Next time you see me, I may be smiling
Oh bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao!
I’ll be in prison or on the T.V
I’ll say the sunlight dragged me here!”
On Saturday, March 4th at the Minnesota State Capitol, alt-righters, white nationalists, Bikers for Trump, and various other right-wing supporters of the Trump regime attempted to hold a rally and march as part of the nationwide “March for Trump” called by President Cheeto himself. Students for a Democratic Society and various autonomous anti-fascist groups in the Twin Cities called for counter-demonstrations in response. The day was sure to be a heated confrontation, and it was. A more detailed reportback and firsthand account will hopefully be written by those who were there but for now, a few important details:
In light of these things mentioned above, those involved in anti-repression work in the Twin Cities as well as friends/comrades of the arrested anti-fascists decided to call for a noise demo in support of them. Noise demos have a storied history in the anarchist movement of breaking down the walls of the prison if only for a moment to show that those locked up inside are not forgotten. They also have a proven track record of hastening the release of comrades snatched up by the State.* It was the hope of those doing the demo that, in addition to the phone blast of city attorney John Choi already underway called by the Twin Cities General Defense Committee’s Anti-Repression Working Group, enough pressure would be put on the police state to release our comrades without charges.
It was late at night. We were gathered in the parking lot of a gas station just about to close. Confused passersby gawked at the gaggle of bad kids in black and wondered what the hell was going on and just went on about their business. Once a few late arrivals finally made it in and a bullhorn was ready, we started. Chants of “burn all the jails, burn all the prisons, just make sure the cops are in ’em!” echoed off the walls of the Ramsey County Adult Detention Center and St. Paul police headquarters.
Without a cop in sight, we decided to up the ante a little and get closer. As we approached a nearby courtyard marked with “No trespassing” signs singing “Do You Hear the People Sing” only a single police cruiser drove by and didn’t even slow down. Feeling emboldened, we decided to actually venture in to the forbidden courtyard. We were literally in the cops’ own backyard! Fuck the police chants continued to fill the air, the cacophony of pots and pans, the screaming of whistles, flutes, and recorders joining in. Shortly after 10:00PM, when a noise ordinance goes into effect in the city, we decided to wrap it up and disperse. A few shadows of those inside the jail were seen in the windows, and we greeted them with chants of “You are not forgotten” and “We’ll be back!”
As we dispersed, an anti-fascist song “Bella Ciao” was sung. Just as the lyrics say, we came to “shake the gates of hell.” We went into the belly of the beast, into the St. Paul police department’s own backyard, and woke up the motherfuckin’ neighbors. Police repression of our movements will only embolden us. Kidnapping our comrades will only invite our rage and our wrath. It is the love for our comrades and passionate devotion to total liberation that fuels our hatred of the police and the fascists representing the Trump regime. We will not be intimidated by right wing violence against our movements. We will not be intimidated by police repression. We will only be further enraged.
Our passion for freedom is stronger than their prisons!
*As of the writing of this article, all 5 arrestees have been released without charges. This doesn’t mean that they are totally out of the woods yet as there is still a chance that they could still be charged with something else, perhaps more minor charges, but it is certainly good news and proof that putting the pressure on them works!
Anonymous submission to Conflict Minnesota
On Thursday February 9th a group of accomplices in Minneapolis took action in response to the Army Corps Of Engineers announcement granting Energy Transfer Partners the “right” to drill under Lake Oahe and complete the Dakota Access Pipeline. These accomplices targeted a National Gaurd office on the U of M Campus in Minneapolis (Stolen Anishinaabe and Dakota land).
The windows of the office were covered with graffiti reading NO DAPL, NO JUSTICE ON STOLEN LAND and other messages against the National Guard’s brutalization of Red Warriors and their accomplices. Much of the resistance up to this point taken place outside of standing rock has focused primarily on banks which have funded the pipeline. These accomplices acted to expand the terrain of resistance to include the National Guard and the state in general whose physical repression has been the only thing stopping Red Warriors from defeating this pipeline.