Junail Anderson Archives

🦄 COVID-19, Police

New Month Brings Added Urgency To Minneapolis’ Housing Needs

September 2, 2020September 3, 2020

Minneapolis, MN – Advocates for people without housing are meeting today outside of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board headquarters, hours after a sanctuary encampment in the Phillips area was cleared by police. They’re demanding immediate sanctuary for the Safe Haven Encampment (SHE), a sanctuary…

🦄 Borders & Migration, Community, COVID-19

image: a Black woman in an orange shirt is adding tape to a piece of paper, a list of demands for the Minneapolis Parks & Recreation Board Superintendent, Al Bangoura. On the woman's left is a Lakota man with chest-length black hair, as well as a media-maker with their back turned. On the right is a member of Minneapolis Parks & Power; he is wearing a mask and holding a blown-up photograph from when Minneapolis Police assisted in the violent clearing of the sanctuary encampment at Powderhorn Park on Friday, August 14, 2020.

Sanctuary Camp Residents Pressured to Move, No Housing Solution In Sight

August 22, 2020October 10, 2022

Minneapolis, MN – Houseless Twin Cities residents have recently endured arrests, the trashing of their belongings, and violent actions at the hands of Park Police, whose participation in these sweeps has been documented by local photographers.

Several hundred people living in dozens of camps across…

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