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BREAKING: Minneapolis ceasefire resolution that calls for the end of aid to Israel PASSES WITH VETO PROOF MAJORITY!
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This is HUGE.
🇵🇸Huge crowd outside the Minneapolis city council meeting for the final vote on the STRONGEST CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION IN THE COUNTRY.
The people want a resolution that condemns Israel’s genocidal onslaught and occupation of Palestine, and calls for an end to aid to Israel!
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Palestinians “are facing similar situations as Black and Brown americans” say family members of George Floyd, at a protest on the fourth anniversary of his murder by Minneapolis police office Derek Chauvin.
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The cops had to scramble to throw up barricades to stop us from crossing the Mississippi to where Biden was.
Massive march toward President Biden’s fundraiser.
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Biden was confronted by Palestine solidarity protesters EVERYWHERE he went in Minnesota yesterday: the airport; at his photo-op on a farm near Northfield; both inside & outside his secret fundraiser in downtown Minneapolis.
Hey Biden, you can’t hide! We charge you with genocide!
As President Joe Biden arrived in Minnesota for a political stop, demonstrators protested at the main terminal of the MSP Airport calling for an end to the siege on Gaza and an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands.
Protesters are now in Northfield at a farm where
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Last night
@AntiwarMN
members DISRUPTED First Lady Genocide Jill Biden’s speech at the
@EducationMN
Representative Conference:
“Money for Schools, Not for War!”
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🇵🇸Huge crowd outside the Minneapolis city council meeting for the final vote on the STRONGEST CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION IN THE COUNTRY.
The people want a resolution that condemns Israel’s genocidal onslaught and occupation of Palestine, and calls for an end to aid to Israel!
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Protesters have shut down the very busy Hennepin-Lyndale intersection in Minneapolis! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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University of Minnesota - Twin Cities has begun a Gaza Solidarity Encampment
JOIN UMN STUDENTS ON THE MALL TO SUPPORT PALESTINE!!!
This morning at 4am, UMN Divest set up an encampment on Northrop Mall in solidarity with the people of Gaza and Palestine and to demand divestment from our university.
Check the replies for our demands and action items!
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Hundreds of Palestine supporters marched through the Arbor Lakes mall in Maple Grove, MN today! No shopping while bombs are dropping! Free Palestine in 2024!
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Gaza solidarity encampment at Hamline University won a victory today: amnesty for the students occupying the Old Main building & a meeting with the university president on Monday to discuss disclosure+divestment. Encampment continues until then!
Follow sfj_hamline on IG for info
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Lockheed Martin subsidiary ForwardEdgeASIC in St. Paul, Minnesota is CLOSED by protesters - no one made it into work today!
We’re still out here! Join us in solidarity!
#FreePalestine
#EndAidToIsrael
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With today’s city council vote overriding
@MayorFrey
’s veto, Minneapolis has officially passed the strongest ceasefire resolution in the country, calling not only for IMMEDIATE, PERMANENT CEASEFIRE but also ENDING U.S. AID TO ISRAEL and FREEING PALESTINIAN PRISONERS!!
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🇵🇸The tents are gone (for now) but the UMN student protesters are STILL HERE and will KEEP SHOWING UP until the administration follows through with divestment!🇵🇸
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Activists with the Free Palestine Coalition announced this morning that they have blocked the entrances to the site of weapons manufacturer
Lockheed Martin's new microelectronics subsidiary, ForwardEdge ASIC, preventing employees from accessing the facility as part of a civil 1/2
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Truly amazing turnout. Minnesota stands with Palestine even if our elected officials won’t.
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VICTORY!! Production was stopped ALL DAY at ForwardEdge ASIC, Lockheed’s subsidiary in St. Paul that makes microelectronics for weapons systems.
Activists with the Free Palestine Coalition blocked entrances & faced down police for almost 8 hours! Building got decorated too!
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BREAKING: Palestine activists dropped banners at Rosedale, Ridgedale, and from the Mall of America parking ramp overlooking Hwy 77 today.
No Christmas as usual during a genocide! Bethlehem is in occupied Palestine!
#ShutItDown4Palestine
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🚨NOW in Minneapolis:
EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROTEST
ALL EYES ON RAFAH - STAND WITH GAZA!🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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Huge overflow crowd for Minneapolis city council’s debate on the ceasefire resolution.
This is what democracy looks like. Palestine is bringing hundreds of young people into politics at every level. Our electeds should CELEBRATE them, not order them to “stay in their lane.”
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George Floyd remembrance demonstration underway at Chicago & Lake. Lots of Black-Palestinian solidarity on display!
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NO WAR WITH IRAN!
U.S. OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST!
STOP ARMING ISRAEL!
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We’re still out here!
Palestinians and community have shut down Hennepin and Lyndale in both directions! Stop the bombing of Gaza!
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#LandDay2024
: Palestine protesters in Minneapolis shut down the massive Lake Street/Excelsior Blvd intersection between Lake of the Isles & Bde Maka Ska, forcing traffic to divert for miles.
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NO ZIONISTS IN OUR VENUES!
On March 6,
@FirstAvenue
is scheduled to host Matisyahu, who has shown support for Israel throughout its genocidal campaign against the people of Palestine.
Call & email First Avenue’s leadership, & sign the petition here:
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🇵🇸🇵🇸Student walkout for Palestine currently underway at Kennedy and Jefferson high schools in Bloomington, MN!
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BREAKING: Palestine protesters have begun a sit-in on the property of
@GovTimWalz
to demand state divestment from Israel and its system of occupation, apartheid and genocide.
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⚠️ MAYOR FREY HAS VETOED THE RESOLUTION 🇵🇸
Join us in protest to support the ceasefire resolution! We must tell our 9 pro-ceasefire council members that they MUST vote again to override his veto & stand on the right side of history!
📅 Thurs, Feb 1 @ 5 PM
📍 300 S 4th St, Mpls
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HAPPENING NOW: sunrise Palestine bannering over I-35W in downtown Minneapolis
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MN Palestine solidarity activists confront
@RepAngieCraig
for voting to CENSURE
@RashidaTlaib
and FUNDRAISING during a US-FUNDED GENOCIDE!
awakened the Karen energy in the fundraiser host...
#FreePalestine
#FromTheRiverToTheSea
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BREAKING: Palestine solidarity activists have entered
@BettyMcCollum04
’s St. Paul office and are refusing to leave until she pledges to vote NO on the $14 billion in aid to Israel that Biden wants, and demands an immediate end to Israel’s war on Gaza!
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🚨STUDENT PROTESTERS ARRESTED AT UMN GAZA SOLIDARITY ENCAMPMENT!
Jail support rally:
⏰NOW!
📍Hennepin County Jail, 401 4th Ave S, Minneapolis
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VICTORY! 3 days after unjust, racist arrests at a Palestinian-led car caravan on I-94, we took the streets & I-94 AGAIN!
Despite state patrol trying to intimidate us with a massive presence & turning their lights on, they knew they couldn’t stop us this time! NO ARRESTS
✊🇵🇸🚔😹
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Chicago following Minnesota’s lead - don’t let Genocide Joe go ANYWHERE without seeing our rage at his support for Israel. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
President
#GenocideJoe
Biden will be in
#Chicago
Thurs, November 9th!
Chicago Coalition for Justice in Palestine & USPCN are calling on all
#Palestinians
& supporters to join us to protest his support of
#Israel
&
#GazaGenocide
!
Stay tuned for exact time & location!
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Minneapolis teachers union:
“We condemn the role our government plays in supporting the system of Israeli occupation and apartheid, which lies at the root of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.”
The labor movement is standing with Palestine! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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UPDATE: ALL ARRESTEES HAVE BEEN RELEASED!! 🇵🇸💖🇵🇸💖🇵🇸
UPDATE ON I-94 ARRESTS: 5 protesters were released overnight. The other 3 are being held on bogus probable cause holds. The arrests were unwarranted, arbitrary, and an attack on the Palestine movement’s right to protest.
Keep calling and demand their release and charges dropped!
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Last night, 12 of us were arrested for refusing to leave
@BettyMcCollum04
’s unless she pledged to cut aid to Israel for its crimes against Palestine! She refused our demands & instead signed the HR 771 “stand with Israel” bill. SHAME!
Thanks to the hundreds who rallied outside!
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🇵🇸🇵🇸another Palestine solidarity march this weekend, this time organized by the MN Peace Action Coalition, Indigenous Roots, and Black Lives Matter Minnesota.
⏰Saturday, Nov 4 @ 2 p.m.
📍Mayday Plaza, 301 Cedar Ave, Minneapolis
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The crowd keeps growing.
Protesters have shut down the very busy Hennepin-Lyndale intersection in Minneapolis! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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🗝️Yesterday, Minneapolis’s annual Nakba protest started at
@amyklobuchar
’s office downtown, temporarily shut down the I-35W on/off ramps at Washington Ave, then marched through Cedar-Riverside where hundreds of local residents joined in solidarity.🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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🇵🇸STAND WITH PALESTINE🇵🇸
⏰Sunday, October 22 at 2 p.m.
📍Loring Park, Minneapolis
Our message will be seen by people on Hennepin, Lyndale, I-94 and I-394!
Meet at the southwest corner of the park, across from the Walker Art Center.
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Introducing , a resource for understanding Minnesota’s complicity in the Israeli system of occupation, apartheid and genocide.
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.
@FirstAvenue
may not have canceled Matisyahu’s show on Wednesday, but we made the optics so bad for them that House of Blues Chicago said no thanks!
CHICAGO VICTORY: Through our relentless pressure on
@HOBChicago
& Live Nation, the concert of the racist, zionist Matisyahu was canceled! Chicago has made it clear that it stands with Palestine and supporters of the
#GazaGenocide
are not welcome here!
#ZionismIsRacism
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🚨WALK OUT FOR PALESTINE!🇵🇸
This morning UMPD arrested 9 peaceful protesters demanding that UMN divest from Israel.
STOP THE POLITICAL REPRESSION OF PALESTINE ACTIVISTS ON CAMPUS!
DIVEST NOW!
📍Memorial Union front lawn
⏰TODAY 4/23 at 2pm
Organized by UMN Divest coalition
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Anti-zionist Jews and Palestinians stood together to face down Matisyahu’s genocide-supporting fans (and a whole lot of cops🐷) outside First Avenue last night! NO ZIONISTS IN OUR VENUES! Let’s keep up the fight to erode support for Israel & end the occupation once and for all.🇵🇸
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Amazing, historic Palestine solidarity statement from the indigenous Red Lake tribal council in northern Minnesota.
Powerful Indigenous solidarity with Palestine from Red Lake Nation ✊🏽❤️
Calling for:
- a ceasefire
- Palestinian right of return
- ending U.S. funding to Israel
- rejection of a two-state solution in favor of Palestine’s self-determination
This is what leadership looks like.
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All the proposed amendments only strengthened the resolution, to potentially be the most pro-Palestine ceasefire resolution in the country! And they all PASSED!!
The council’s final vote is THURSDAY at 9:30 a.m.!!!
We’re here at Minneapolis City Council, where the Committee of the Whole is about to debate amendments to the ceasefire resolution…
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For Human Rights Day, we took Lake Street in Minneapolis to demand:
-Divest MN from apartheid Israel!
-Money for human needs, not for war!
-No more money for Israel's crimes!
-Right of Return for Palestinians!
-Land Back from Turtle Island to Palestine
-Self-Determination for 🇵🇸
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Palestinians need an end to genocide, not a “pause”. END U.S. AID TO ISRAEL
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🚨EMERGENCY PROTEST🚨
Hundreds killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza hospital. STOP THE GENOCIDE NOW! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
⏰TODAY at 5 p.m.
📍Walker Art Center, 725 Vineland Pl, Minneapolis
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Palestinians and community have shut down Hennepin and Lyndale in both directions! Stop the bombing of Gaza!
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🇵🇸🇵🇸Mass uprising for Palestine continues in Minneapolis. Yesterday protesters shut down the city’s busiest intersection and bannered in huge numbers along I-94’s Lowry Hill Tunnel. These are historic images!
#FreePalestine
#EndUSaidtoIsrael
#LetGazaLive
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HANDS OFF YEMEN 🇾🇪
US airstrikes on Yemen are a DIRECT CONTINUATION of the Saudi war on Yemen that many characterized as genocidal. Biden even campaigned on ending US support for that war. But ultimately it was a war on behalf of US imperialism - and now the mask is off.
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Yesterday we shut down Washington Ave in downtown Minneapolis, marching from
@amyklobuchar
’s office to the Federal Building, to say:
NO WAR WITH IRAN!
STOP ARMING ISRAEL!
U.S. OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST!
FREE PALESTINE!🇵🇸
Organized by
@MnPeaceActionC
& the Free Palestine Coalition
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While they back a genocide no one from this government should be allowed to speak without protest - as MN educators our pensions are invested directly in apartheid Israel by the MN State Board of Investments in addition to the billions from the Biden admin.
#DivestMN
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Photos from yesterday’s march to
@GovTimWalz
’s residence in St. Paul to demand the State of Minnesota to divest public pension funds from Israel.
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People are gathering in the streets outside Hennepin County Government Center where Derek Chauvin’s trial begins today.
#JusticeForGeorgeFloyd
#GeorgeFloydRevolution
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🇵🇸MARCH FOR PALESTINE ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
⏰Saturday March 9 @ 1 p.m.
📍Snelling Ave & Shields Ave, St. Paul - gather at the parking lot (but don’t park there)
Palestinian women are at the center of the resistance!
Organized by the Free Palestine Coalition.
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Photos from this morning’s press conference calling for the State Board of Investments to DIVEST MINNESOTA FROM APARTHEID ISRAEL!
🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
At 10 am we head to the MN Senate Building to take the demand to the SBI meeting itself.
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The anti-war movement must prepare to stop it.
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UPDATE: After 2 hours of sitting-in on the grounds of the governor’s residence, demonstrators attempted to get closer to the house to try to speak with Walz. State troopers quickly began making arrests. In all, 14 protesters were arrested and released onsite.
FREE PALESTINE! 🇵🇸
BREAKING: Palestine protesters have begun a sit-in on the property of
@GovTimWalz
to demand state divestment from Israel and its system of occupation, apartheid and genocide.
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STATEMENT: NO WAR ON YEMEN!
“These airstrikes on Yemen demonstrate the lengths the US is willing to go to prop up Israel & protect imperialist interests: potentially escalating a regional war over Palestine while reigniting the war on Yemen that’s already killed so many…[1/2]
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Photos from the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at the University of Minnesota.
Support students protesting for Palestine! Tell UMN to meet the demands: 1) divest; 2) ban; 3) boycott; 4) disclose; 5) thawabit; 6) amnesty.
More info at
@DivestUMN
on how to support!
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Photos from the Palestine bannering in Columbia Heights yesterday
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This is an important victory against the wave of repression in the U.S. for which DeSantis’s Florida has been the tip of the spear.
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Community MARCH to the UMN Divest Accountability Rally!
@DivestUMN
has won concessions from the U, but if admin doesn't follow through, tents will go back up!
Join the Free Palestine Coalition to stand with students!
📅 TODAY
🕜 5:30pm
📍Humphrey School (301 S 19th Ave, MPLS)
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Hey
@Ilhan
—you know us, we’ve been on the same side on lots of local progressive issues, & we’re definitely not Russian propagandists!
We want the US to stop fueling the war in Ukraine. Last week we marched in Minneapolis with hundreds of your constituents who agreed.
I am sorry, you all aren’t “anti war protesters”, you are dangerous propagandists who are literally making a mockery of the anti war movement.
I have never had the pleasure of responding to 🇷🇺 ridiculous internet disinformation in person before. Thank you for the opportunity ✌🏽
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Yesterday the anti-war movement took over all four corners of the Lake & Minnehaha intersection in Minneapolis — where the 3rd precinct burned during the George Floyd uprising — and said NO to U.S. wars.
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🇵🇸THE
@DivestUMN
GAZA SOLIDARITY ENCAMPMENT CONTINUES!
The University administration & police will not stop the movement for a free & liberated Palestine!
Join UMN students & faculty at the Student Union (300 Washington Ave SE)
2:00pm — Die-In
2:30pm — Study-In
4:30pm — RALLY
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Free Palestine Coalition members including AWC here at Minneapolis City Council 6 am to defend the HISTORIC ceasefire resolution and END US AID TO ISRAEL!
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Join us for a protest of Matisyahu’s show at First Avenue!
🗓️ WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6
🕰️ 6:30 - 8 PM
📍 GATHER ON THE CORNER OF N. 1ST AVE & N. 7TH ST, OUTSIDE OF THE PARKING GARAGE ACROSS FROM FIRST AVENUE
🛑BOYCOTT MATISYAHU ON WEDNESDAY MARCH 6!
Over 1,000 people & bands have signed the petition, yet
@firstavenue
still hasn’t cancelled the show.
Matisyahu openly supports & recently performed for the Israel Occupation Forces – DURING the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
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We are out here saying NO to Biden’s bombing in Syria!
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AWC's New Members Meeting tonight
turned out TONS of Minnesotans looking to get active and organize for a
#FreePalestine
and an End to US Aid to Israel!
#Minnesota
#endusaidtoisrael
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Powerful message delivered by an Anti-War Committee member!
Black activists with Free Palestine coalition highlight Black-Palestinian Solidarity and confront Governor Walz!
#freepalestine
#blackandpalestiniansolidarity
#mlkday
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DEMAND DIVESTMENT FROM ISRAELI APARTHEID
On Thursday, Feb 29 the MN State Board of Investment (SBI) will hold its first meeting of the year. The SBI is responsible for managing the investments of public employees pension & retirement funds, state trusts, & agency cash accounts.
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🚨EMERGENCY PROTEST to say:
STOP arming Israel and ABSOLUTELY NO to a U.S. war with Iran!
⏰Monday 4/15, 5pm
📍Sen. Klobuchar’s office, 1200 Washington Ave S, Minneapolis
SEE YOU THERE!
Called by FREE PALESTINE COALITION & MN PEACE ACTION COALITION
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We’re here at Minneapolis City Council, where the Committee of the Whole is about to debate amendments to the ceasefire resolution…
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We were LOUD today at the Humphrey Mondale dinner calling out Democrats like
@amyklobuchar
,
@GovTimWalz
,
@SenTinaSmith
and
@AngieCraigMN
for their support of U.S. aid to Israel, and for their silence!
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UPDATE: 16-year-old Ubayda has been released!
Let’s keep up the pressure to get the other two out!!
UPDATE ON I-94 ARRESTS: 5 protesters were released overnight. The other 3 are being held on bogus probable cause holds. The arrests were unwarranted, arbitrary, and an attack on the Palestine movement’s right to protest.
Keep calling and demand their release and charges dropped!
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Not a moment of peace for any of these imperialist politicians
Sen.
@ChrisCoons
sat across from me on the train. With Israel using US weapons to kill thousands of Palestinian civilians, including 4600+ children, I asked him why he refuses to call for a ceasefire:
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UPDATE ON I-94 ARRESTS: 5 protesters were released overnight. The other 3 are being held on bogus probable cause holds. The arrests were unwarranted, arbitrary, and an attack on the Palestine movement’s right to protest.
Keep calling and demand their release and charges dropped!
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Retired nurse Sarah Martin: “My pension, which I get because I took care of sick and injured people in a state-of-the-art hospital just down the street, was used to destroy the hospitals of Gaza.”
@MPRnews
coverage of yesterday’s divestment action:
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Veterans for Peace Chapter 27 rang the peace bells for Aaron Bushnell today at this week’s
@WAMMwomen
rally in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Tell the State Board of Investments:
🇵🇸🇵🇸DIVEST MINNESOTA FROM APARTHEID ISRAEL!🇵🇸🇵🇸
TONIGHT:
📍Rally outside the State Capitol
⏰6 pm
TOMORROW:
📍Press conference in the Capitol rotunda
⏰8 am
📍quarterly public SBI meeting, State Senate bldg, rm 1200
⏰10 am
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Our billboards are already getting people talking!
You can find our billboards in the Twin Cities by visiting .
Take a pic/vid and be sure to tag us at
@AntiwarMN
when you find them!
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“I was arrested for 24 hours, but my heart stays with Gaza and I'll do this again and again and I'm not worried about it. I won't stop until Palestine is free from the river to the sea.”
Arrested Minnesota Palestine protesters released after public pressure campaign
@AntiwarMN
#FreePalestine
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Today, Students for Palestine-Normandale, Bloomington for Palestine & the MN Peace Action Coalition marched on weapons manufacturer General Dynamics in Bloomington!
The MN State Board of Investments has invested over $31 million in public pension funds in General Dynamics.
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