The Midwest People's History Project is an ongoing chronicle of moments when ordinary people got organized and made history.
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elephant seals, welcome to The Resistance
Elephant seals completely took over a beach during the government shutdown and they're refusing to give it back bit.ly/2Bdgi1R
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Looks great, thanks for sharing
This is what ICE is dealing with in Chicago.
Groups of people — mostly foreigners — follow their every movement, running red lights, honking their horns to warn illegals of their whereabouts and trying to box in their vehicles.
It’s insurrectionist activity plain and simple.
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ICE is failing. Keep it up y’all
ICE has taken 35 of 2,000 people they were trying to deport into custody. They are blaming community defense efforts for their lack of success.
Keep it up y'all.
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Community note
This is NJ Hwy 17 in Paramus, New Jersey. Not South Dakota.
Source: context clues in picture (such as the NJ-17 sign)
Additionally: maps.app.goo.gl/PnMYVeveruHibV…
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In Chile, someone bravely climbed a pole to disable a surveillance camera and then was joyously caught by the crowd below 🙌
Teamwork makes the dream work❣
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The Philando Feeds the Children Fund just wiped the school lunch debt of EVERY kid in St. Paul — $166,000!
Before his murder by the @StAnthonyPolice, he was known to pay kids' debts at the cafeteria he worked in.
"He is STILL reaching into his pocket, and helping a kid out."
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Remember when everyone kept posting videos of a white woman setting the Wendy’s on fire and calling her an “outside agitator”?
Well it turns out she was #RayshardBrooks’s long term girlfriend and now she is looking at years in prison because of you snitches. Well done, assholes.
Woman identified as suspect in fire at Atlanta Wendy's where Rayshard Brooks was killed hill.cm/lBkoKy6
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For two days, residents in Portland have surrounded the local ICE detention center with a 24 hr encampment.
Tonight, without a fucking shred of irony, ICE agents complained those blocking their trucks were "keeping them apart from their families."
#SurroundICE
#OccupyICEPDX
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Imagine having strangers on a balcony shouting down at you how to escape the police.
Insurrections really do bring out the best in people, its so beautiful to see 😿
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This is also the same Wendy’s that called the cops on him for sleeping in his car
The Wendys where Atlanta Police shot and killed #RayshardBrooks has been lit on fire by protesters:
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"quietly being adopted" is a weird way of saying kidnapped
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The first concession of the #PrisonStrike.
They scared.
#BREAKING Texas prison system just voted to drastically slash the cost of inmate phone calls - the new contract will be 6 cents per minute instead of 26 cents.
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Plot twist for White America:
It turns out billionaires are actually the ones taking your children's spots at Ivy League schools and pushing opiates down your family's throats
Exclusive: Johnson & Johnson was the "kingpin" that fueled the country's opioid crisis, serving as a top supplier, seller and lobbyist, according to a state official leading the legal fight against the companies that helped create the crisis.
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Flint, Michigan is an image from the future, in which the bare necessities of survival are denied to more and more people who are considered to be superfluous to the needs of capitalism
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That's fucking beautiful for real
Police say the man checked his wife out of a nursing home and threw her a death party, where they used meth and listened to their favorite music before she died.
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This was taken outside of Cook County Jail in Chicago, where 304 people inside have already tested positive for COVID-19, making it the largest cluster in the country.
Jails and prisons across the country are quickly turning into death camps. What are we going to do about it?
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Employees of the largest freight railroad network on the continent just declared a strike 👇
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when you are 100% committed to having absolutely no fucking idea who is treading on you
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THREAD:
As police and politicians insist that this wave of uprisings is the sole work of "outside agitators" to justify violent crackdowns, now's the time to revisit the long, racist history of the term and its role of fracturing solidarity in the name of counter-insurgency.
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Last week in the East Bay, Joseph Malott was attacked by police dogs and violently arrested after throwing a tear gas canister back towards the police.
His charge?
"Assault with a deadly weapon."
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And now here's a video of farmers slinging horse shit at the cops
#GiletsJaunes
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Outraged neighbors are beginning to gather in the Russell neighborhood of Louisville after waking up to news that David "Yaya" McAtee was murdered by the LMPD and National Guard last night outside of his beloved BBQ stand.
#DavidMcAtee
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Her name was #MakhiaBryant and she was 15 years old.
Protesters have gathered at Legion Lane off Chatterton Road in SE Columbus after @ColumbusPolice confirm an officer shot and killed someone.
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ALSO BREAKING:
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho prison officials say 364 inmates hacked the JPay tablets they use for email, music and games and collectively transferred nearly a quarter million dollars into their own accounts. #idpol
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After serving four years in a California federal prison for felonies related to the 2016 uprising at Standing Rock, Red Fawn Fallis was released yesterday.
This is how her family and friends greeted her at the Bismarck Airport
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And now here's a video of farmers in Limoges painting a government building with multiple coats of liquified horse shit
#GiletsJaunes
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"Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls."
R.I.P. Ursula K. Le Guin
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Sex is cool but have you ever convinced dozens of nazis to dox themselves thedailybeast.com/website-pr…
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Shout out to one or more jurors
Hung jury: One or more jurors refused to convict border activist Scott Daniel Warren for providing two migrants with water, food and lodging. He faced up to 20 years in prison if convicted. apnews.com/2fe6f48dc23c4a688…
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Dykes to watch out for. #StopCopCity
ALT This Dyke says save the Weelaunee forest. Stop Cop City. Elder with sign and solidarity fist.
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