Minneapolis, MN β€” Minneapolis city council members repudiated Mayor Jacob Frey twice in one week before voting down his last minute effort to allocate more than $15 million to the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) for recruitment and retention bonuses.

β€œThey had six months to speak…

Bloomington, MN β€” As shoppers flowed into the Mall of America at 8:00 a.m. on Black Friday, anonymous groups dropped flyers and banners from rotunda balconies encouraging the boycott of large brands complicit with Israeli apartheid and the military occupation of Palestine.

“These companies profit from…

A recently released Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) document titled β€œDomestic Terrorism Symbols Guide”* links common protest symbols to β€œterrorism” β€” another marker in a common theme of conflating militant protest for social justice with deadly terrorist violence within the United States.Β Groups like the…