[Xmca-l] Re: My Hometown Minneapolis

Thu Jun 4 13:28:53 PDT 2020

I think it's also time to recognize that clarifying differences can
serve to divide, and to legitimize and endorse some voices,
experiences and expressions, at the expense of others.
That is a reminder i hear from organizers in oakland, many of whom are
rejecting - on fact and principle - characterizations of outsiders
versus locals. Also important are reminders that many outsiders were
or would be locals, if not for the policies and economics that enforce
dispossession and instability of communities of color. In other words,
"f**k your zip code" where 'your' refers to the police, media, who use
zipcode to understand voice and message.

Peggy's rhyming response to "why the riot gear" shows that the labels
of 'violent versus non-violent,' 'rally versus protest,' are often not
very useful when applied to protestors and organizers, but are better
applied to the interaction between protestors, authorities, other
players, and various means arrayed by both (or many) sides - not to
mention the histories and physical structures of the landscapes. This
way of understanding definitions in terms of interactions, not
intentions or some other seemingly inherent quality, seems like a good
place for CHAT's tools.

That said, there are of course differences in intentions, in tone, and
in message, of public actions. I like knowing when i can bring my
kids. As Helena mentions, some of these definitions are already coded,
eg "student-led", and understood by those who have been involved with
organizing for a while. Clarity in these definitions certainly makes
it easier for more people (current outsiders) to understand what they
are supporting and what risks might be, and then to join where they
feel safe and confident. But again, it raises a question of who these
definitions are for, how they might be used in ways other than
intended, and what assumptions underpin them. Who do the definitions
protect and create safe space for? Who do they leave vulnerable?

Lurking, listening and appreciating,
- Colin

On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 12:40 PM Helena Worthen <helenaworthen@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Time to clarify the differences among
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> riot
> protest
> demonstration
> rally
> non-violent direct action
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> I mention this because there are now specific events planned to be held in appropriate locations for different purposes.  For example, you might bring your elementary school-age kids to a rally, or even a demonstration, but not to a non-violent direct action event.  I am seeing demonstrations in my area planned to be safe for specific age groups - a call for a demonstration, for example, identified as “student-led."
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> Helena Worthen
> helenaworthen@gmail.com
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> On Jun 3, 2020, at 8:04 PM, Peg Griffin, Ph.D. <Peg.Griffin@att.net> wrote:
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> BTW, clearly the answer to the chant had to be: “We are here in riot gear to get you to start a riot, dear.”
>
>
> From: Peg Griffin, Ph.D. [mailto:Peg.Griffin@att.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 10:57 PM
> To: 'eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity' <xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu>
> Subject: RE: [Xmca-l] Re: My Hometown Minneapolis
>
> May, 3, 2020, DC, we march and chant,
> “Why are you in riot gear, there’s no riot here.”
>
> We stop for more testimonials about our dead and endangered.
> We march and chant again:
> “Why are you in riot gear, there’s no riot here.”
>
> More and more armed active duty military move closer to us, now behind us. Edging in, making our group, two groups.
>
> Our young leaders know that move and know what we can do next…
>
> From: xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of mike cole
> Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 9:00 PM
> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity <xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu>
> Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: My Hometown Minneapolis
>
> You might lay out the program of a second strike for the people of Minneapolis, David.
> It would deflect from stereotypes about what the range of demands can be.
>
> Of course Anthony was not throwing a sucker punch. But some ones are throwing sucker punches by using the
> peaceful rallies as a pretext for violence. At the moment (or last time I looked) analysts watching
> video are trying to figure out who is coming to protests with duffle bags full of bats. And everyone
> is scared witless by the fear of what Trump is doing with almost no opposition from the Republican
> Senate.
>
> It just all stinks of  1937-1939 to me.
> I'm a very premature antifacist by birth. With Global Warming and Covid-19 thrown in.
>
> mike
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> On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 5:45 PM David Kellogg <dkellogg60@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Anthony:
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> When I was a kid, there was a street fighting tactic called "sucker punching". You waltz up to your sucker, you point vaguely over his shoulder--suckers are invariably male--and you say something like "Wow! Look at that!" "Watch out!" or "Hey--what's over there?". Then as the sucker turns his head, ya let him have it.
>
> I would characterize ALL looting as a kind of "sucker punching", a kind of whataboutism"--a flash-bang distraction, a way of changing the subject.  I don't just mean what Biden, Cuomo, and this morning President Obama meant--that is, that looting is what allows Mr. Trump to bluster and bellow and get everybody to forget the murders of black people. He's gonna do that anyway, because it's all he knows how to do.
>
> I mean that looting doesn't address the police who murdered and who murder with impunity, doesn't redress the doctrine of "Qualified Immunity" brought in by the Supreme Court to protect killer cops, and doesn't eliminate the paramilitary "Police Union" in Minneapolis which  has SUCCESSFULLY defended the killers of Philando Castile and Jamar Clark.
>
> Now I assume you are not trying to sucker punch me--you know I'm no sucker. I assume that the long, informative list of looted venues you have supplied (many names I recognize from my slot-car racing, milk-shake sipping, mispent youth) is not trying to change the topic of this thread. I think it is a genuine--nay, a well-appreciated--attempt, to show me the scope of the problem.
>
> But I suspect you are not really aware that what you have actually done is to make, even more eloquently than I could have done, the case for a second Minneapolis general strike.
> A second Minneapolis General Strike would offer special protection to businesses run by community members the way that no National Guard or military repression can. In the First Minneapolis General strike, strike committees were community members.
> A second Minneapolis General Strike would prevent the spread of Covid 19 in a way that "reopening" small businesses has imperilled. (Today the Swedes admitted that the Swedish model was a mistake)
> A second Minneapolis General Strike would render the curfew irrelevant. Only essential neighborhood businesses, not milk shake parlors and slot car race tracks, would be allowed to stay open.
>  A second Minneapolis General Strike would allow a democratically elected strike committee to clearly distinguish between proportionate responses on the one hand and whataboutism and sucker-punching small business on the other.
>
> (Why can't Minnesotans rely on the democratically elected Democratic-Farmer-Labor city and state adminstration to do that? I'm glad you asked. For the same reason that Derek Chauvin had to be arrested by the state authorities and not by the Hennepin County cop shop--there is already a state of dual power in Minnesota, but it is led by Bob Kroll and his lawless, orderless "law-and-order" "Police Federation". Can we stop using the term "law enforcement" now?)
>
> David Kellogg
> Sangmyung University
>
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> On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 8:49 AM Anthony Barra <anthonymbarra@gmail.com> wrote:
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> David, interesting story - very - of The Bad and The Good, neatly characterized (too neatly?).  How about the Ugly; is this part of the proportionate response too:
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> In Minneapolis
> –MSP Jewelers Bryant Ave. S: Extensive property damage, looting.
>
> – Sanaag Resturant Lake and Cedar: Property damage, looting.
>
> – Moto convenience store with fuel, Hiawatha and 33rd: Property damage and looted.
>
> – Speedway at Hennepin and 25th: Property and fire damage.
>
> – Schubert & Hoey Outdoor Advertising on 26th and 28th: Destroyed by fire.
>
> – Scooterville 17th Avenue South: Property damage.
>
> – Pie and Mighty 35th and Chicago: Property damage.
>
> – Cal Surf on Lake Street: Property damage.
>
> – USPS Post Office Minnehaha and Lake: Destroyed by fire.
>
> – Mailbox Solutions Plus 44th Ave N. and Penn: Destroyed by fire.
>
> – Cellphone shop 44th Ave N. and Penn: Destroyed by fire.
>
> – Tom's Barbershop 44th Ave. N. and Penn: Fire damage.
>
> – Knights Chamber Calhoun Square: Property damage, looting, water damage.
>
> – ChicagoLake Dental: Extensive fire damage.
>
> – Mama Safia East Lake Street: Fire damage.
>
> – Bismallah Grocery & Coffee Chicago Avenue: Fire damage and looting.
>
> – Quruxlow Restaurant East Lake Street: Property damage.
>
> – Safari Beauty 405 E Lake St: Property damage.
>
> – Speedway 51st and 34th: Fire damage.
>
> – Basilica of Saint Mary Minneapolis: Property damage.
>
> – Nepp & Hackert Law Firm West Lake Street: Property damage.
>
> – Pharmacy at In Town on Lake Building: Property damage.
>
> – Blue Tree Music Education 23rd and 35th: Property damage; glass door smashed
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> – Drew’s Popcorn 23rd and 35th: Property damage; glass door smashed.
>
> – Domino's on 26th Ave So and E 28th Street: Destroyed by fire.
>
> – Popeyes Chicken Chicago Avenue: Destroyed by Fire.
>
> – Boost Mobile East Lake Street: Destroyed by fire.
>
> – Dream Haven Comics: 38th St and 23rd Ave: Looting, property damage.
>
> – Family Dollar, 3110 Penn Ave N: Extensive damage
>
> – Union Liquor, 3219 Penn Ave N: Extensive damage
>
> – Broadway Liquor Outlet: Extensive Damage
>
> – All Washed Up Laundromat, 3008 Penn Ave: Damage
>
> – Penn Gas Stop, 2606 Penn Ave N: Extensive damage, Looting
>
> – Aldi Grocery, Penn Ave N: Damage
>
> – Family Dollar, 505 W Broadway: Looting
>
> – Neighbors One Stop Inc. Gas station, 3759 Penn Ave N: Fire
>
> – North End Hardware, Penn Ave N: Property damage
>
> – Walgreens St Louis Park: Looting
>
> – Nokomis Shoe Shop at 4950 34th Ave: Property damage.
>
> – Sabri Commons at East Lake Street: Looting.
>
> – International Bazaar at East Lake Street: Looting.
>
> – 315 East Lake Street: Fire damage, looting.
>
> – Yusuf Center East Lake Street: Looting.
>
> – Plaza Mexico East Lake Street: Looting.
>
> – El Nuevo Miramar East Lake Street: Looting.
>
> – Extreme Noise Records Lake Street: Property damage.
>
> – Piff Streetwear Como Avenue: Property damage and looting.
>
> – Como Tap Como Avenue: Property damage and looting.
>
> – Chris Vale Cycles 27th Avenue: Property damage
>
> – Dollar Tree Nicollet Avenue: Property damage.
>
> – Kmart Nicollet: Property damage, looting.
>
> – Office Depot Nicollet: Property damage, looting, flooding.
>
> – Longfellow/Seward Healthy Seniors at US Bank building on Lake: Property damage and looting.
>
> – Atlas Staffing: 1st Ave and Lake: Destroyed by fire.
>
> – Uncle Hugo's/Uncle Edgar's 28th and Chicago: Destroyed by fire.
>
> – Holiday Gas Station 46th and Hiawatha: Extensive fire damage.
>
> – Walgreens 46th and Hiawatha: Property damage and looting.
>
> – Kitchen Window Uptown: Extensive property damage, looting.
>
> – Popeyes Lake: Property damage.
>
> – Hooks Fish and Chicken West Lake: Property damage.
>
> – Metro PCS West Lake: Property damage.
>
> – Pawn Shop West Lake: Property damage.
>
> – Grand Managament Inc. Lyndale: Property Damage.
>
> – Kyle's Market W 36th Street: Property damage.
>
> – Pearl Vision Nicollet: Property damage.
>
> – Galactic Pizza: Property damage.
>
> – Marathon Lyndale and 28th: Property damage.
>
> – Williams Uptown Pub & Peanut Bar: Property damage.
>
> – Iron Door Pub: Fire damage
>
> – Speedway LynLake: Extensive fire damage.
>
> – Family Dollar 36th & Nicollet: Destroyed by fire.
>
> – O'Reilly's Auto Parts 36th and Nicollet: Extensive fire damage.
>
> – Fade Factory Barber Shop: Extensive fire damage.
>
> – Hibachi Grill on Lake Street: Fire damage.
>
> – Wells Fargo 31st and Nicollet: Property damage, extensive fire damage.
>
> – Commercial building at 27th and East Lake: Extensive fire damage.
>
> – USPS at 31st Street and 1st Avenue: Extensive fire damage and looting.
>
> – Shell Gas Station Park and Lake: Property damage, fire, and looting.
>
> – Migizi Communications 27th Avenue South: Destroyed by fire.
>
> – Olympic Cafe West Broadway: Destroyed by fire.
>
> – Metro by T-Mobile West Broadway: Fire damage.
>
> – Lyndale Tobacco at 722 W. Lake St: Property damage.
>
> – Paper Source Uptown: Property damage and looting.
>
> – Everett’s Foods on 38th and Cedar: Property damage and looting.
>
> – El Nuevo Rodeo Restaurante East Lake Street: Destroyed in fire.
>
> – Holiday 36th and Cedar: Broken windows and looting.
>
> – Matt's Bar 35th and Cedar: Broken window
>
> – Subway at 36th and Cedar: broken windows.
>
> – E&L Supermarket and Deli on Lowry Ave: Property damage.
>
> – Nguyen Architects 26th and 27th: Destroyed in fire.
>
> – Pantry Food Market 52nd Ave N and Bryant Ave. N: Property damage and looting.
>
> – O'Reilly Auto Parts 35th and Nicollet: Property damage.
>
> – The Hub Bike Co-op: Property damage.
>
> – Family Dollar 35th and Nicollet: Property damage.
>
> – Pat's Tap 35th and Nicollet: Property damage.
>
> – B-Squad Vintage 35th and Nicollet: Property damage.
>
> – Tibet Store: Property damage.
>
> – Speedway 35th and Nicollet: Property damage.
>
> – Casablanca Foods 33rd and Nicollet: Property damage.
>
> – Valerie's 32nd and Nicollet: Property damage.
>
> – A Automall Inc. East Lake: Property damage, vehicles stolen.
>
> – Speedway at 60th and Portland: Property damage.
>
> – Broadway Clinic North Minneapolis: Property damage.
>
> – Juxtaposition Arts North Emerson: Property damage.
>
> – Sew Simple Nicollet and 24th: Property damage, looting.
>
> – Park and Lake Car Wash on East Lake Street Windows broken, graffiti and some interior damage.
>
> – Park-Nicollet Minneapolis Clinic: Property damage.
>
> – Arby's Lake Street: Destroyed by fire.
>
> – K-Mart Lake Street: Property damage.
>
> – Penzey's Spices Uptown: Property damage, looting.
>
> – Walgreens Hennepin and 27th: Property damage.
>
> – Midori's Floating World Cafe Lake Street: Fire damage.
>
> – GM Tobacco Lake and  27th: Fire damage.
>
> – McDonald's Lake and 31st: Property damage.
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> – Walgreens Central and Lowry in Northeast: Property damage.
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> – Wells Fargo Lake Street: Fire and property damage.
>
> – Ladditude Tattoo Lake and 27th: Fire damage.
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> – LV's Barbershop Lake and 27th: Fire damage
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> – The Hub Bike Co-op Minnehaha and 30th: Property damage.
>
> – J-Klips Lake Street: Property damage.
>
> – 5 Guys Hennepin and 24th: Property damage.
>
> – Holiday Hennepin and 25th: Property damage.
>
> – Honda Town Lake and 43rd: Property damage.
>
> – Tires Plus Lake and 34th: Property damage.
>
> – Hennepin County Human Service Center: Property damage.
>
> – ICC Wireless Lake Street: Property damage.
>
> – Jackson Hewitt Tax Service: Property damage.
>
> – Little Caesars Lake Street: Fire and property damage.
>
> – Teppanyaki Grill Lake Street: Fire and property damage.
>
> – Home Choice Lake Street: Fire and property damage.
>
> – Dollar General Lake Street: Extensive fire damage.
>
> – Twin Lake Dental: Fire and property damage.
>
> – HD Laundry Lake Street: Fire and property damage.
>
> – Citi Trends Lake Street: Fire and property damage.
>
> – Total Wireless Lake Street: Fire and property damage.
>
> – Pineda Tacos Lake Street: Property damage.
>
> – Subway Lake Street: Property damage.
>
> – 7 Mile Fashion Express East Lake Street: Destroyed by fire
>
> – The Fremont Bar Uptown: Property damage, looting.
>
> – O'Reilly Auto Parts West Broadway: Extensive fire damage.
>
> – Broadway Liquor Outlet West Broadway: Property damage, looting.
>
> – Quality Tobacco Lake and 1st: Extensive fire damage.
>
> – Skol Liquor Store 27th Avenue: Property damage, looting.
>
> – Max-It Pawn Shop Cedar Avenue: Extensive fire damage.
>
> – Minnehaha Liquor Lake Street: Property damage, looting, extensive fire damage.
>
> – Hexagon Bar at E 26th and 27th: Extensive fire damage.
>
> – Target Lake Street: Looting, graffiti, property damage, fire damage.
>
> – Wendy's Lake Street: Fire, destroyed.
>
> – AutoZone Lake Street: Fire, destroyed.
>
> – Cub Foods Lake Street: Looting, property damage, fire damage.
>
> – Under construction affordable housing development at 26th and 29th: Fire, destroyed.
>
> – 7-Sigma building, 26th and 29th: Fire, extensive damage.
>
> – Minneapolis 3rd Police Precinct: Destroyed by fire.
>
> – Dollar Tree off Lake Street: Property damage, looting.
>
> – Metro by T-Mobile Lake Street: Fire, extensive damage.
>
> – Hi Lake Liquor: Property damage, looting.
>
> – Speedway East Lake Street: Property damage.
>
> – East Lake Library: Windows smashed, graffiti.
>
> – Precision Tune Auto Care Lake Street: Property damage.
>
> – U.S. Bank Lake Street: Property damage, graffiti.
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> – Dairy Queen East Lake Street: Property damage.
>
> – Papa Murphy's Pizza East Lake Street: Property damage.
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> – Planet Fitness on Lake: Property damage.
>
> – Domino's Pizza 26th and 28th: Property damage.
>
> – Urban Forage Winery and Cider House, Lake and 29th: Property damage, looting.
>
> – Gandhi Mahal Restaurant, 27th and Lake: Extensive fire damage.
>
> – Car-X Tire & Auto East Lake Street: Property damage, vehicle smashed through windows.
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> – Frattelone's Ace Hardware East Lake Street: Property damage.
>
> – MN Transitions Charter School: Property damage.
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> – Laundro Max East Lake Street: Window smashed.
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> – Soderberg's Floral & Gift East Lake Street: Property damage.
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> – East Lake Clinic: Property damage.
>
> – Seward Pharmacy: Window smashed, graffiti.
>
> – Electra Tune Auto Care on Lake St: Property damage, vehicle stolen.
>
> – Walgreens at 43rd and Chicago: Property damage, looting.
>
> – Elevated Beer Wine & Spirits, Hiawatha Ave: Property damage, looting.
>
> – Schooner's Tavern, barbershop next door: Fire, property damage.
>
> – Seward Co-op, 28th and Franklin: Window smashed, attempted theft of ATM.
>
> – Midtown Global Market: Property damage, looting.
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> Seward Community Co-op, Facebook
>
> – Briva Health Lake Street: Window smashed.
>
> – Foot Locker East Lake Street: Property damage, looting.
>
> – BMO Harris East Lake Street: Property damage.
>
> – TCF Bank at 38th and Minnehaha: Property damage.
>
> – Studiiyo23 Hennepin Avenue, Uptown: Property damage, looting.
>
> – DTLR, Broadway, North Minneapolis: Property damage, looting.
>
> – Uptown Pawn: Property damage, looting.
>
> – La Familia Skate Shop: Property damage.
>
> – Target Uptown: Property damage, looting.
>
> Spencer Wallman
>
> – Chicago & Lake Liquor: Property damage, looting.
>
> – East Lake Liquor: Property damage, looting.
>
> – Ingebretsens on Lake: Property damage, windows smashed.
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> – Freewheel Bike: Property damage, windows smashed.
>
> – Hamdi Restaurant, Midtown: Property damage, graffiti.
>
> – Hudson's Hardware, East 42nd Street: Property damage and looting.
>
> – Birchwood Cafe, East 25th Street: Property damage.
>
> – CVS Uptown: Property damage, looting.
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> – Timberland Uptown: Property damage, looting.
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> – Sunnys Wigs 29th and Lyndale: Property damage.
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> – Thurston Jewelers West Lake Street: Property damage.
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> – Banadir Pharmacy West Lake Street: Property damage and looting
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> – Sephora Uptown: Property damage.
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> – Gamestop Uptown: Property damage, looting.
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> – Indulge and Bloom, Uptown: Property damage.
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> – H&M Uptown: Windows smashed.
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> – Apple Store Uptown: Windows smashed., looting.
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> – Urban Outfitters Uptown: Door window smashed.
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> – Smokeless Northeast: Vandalized, closed till further notice.
>
> – AutoZone at 501 West Broadway, North Minneapolis: Unconfirmed report of looting, property damage.
>
> – Buzzmart, downtown Minneapolis: Property damage.
>
> – Town Talk Diner, Lake Street: Extensive property damage.
>
> – Bondesque: Property damage.
>
> In St. Paul
> – Metro Sound and Lighting University Avenue: Substantial property damage and looting.
>
> – Axman Surplus University Avenue: Property damage.
>
> – Walgreens Lexington and Larpenteur: Property damage and looting.
>
> – T-Mobile Lexington and Larpenteur: Property damage.
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> – Turf Club: Property damage.
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> – Great Health Nutrition: Looting.
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> – Gordon Parks High School: Property damage.
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> – Trader Joe's St. Paul: Property damage, looting.
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> – A1 Lock Service on Snelling: Property damage
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> – Holiday Station at Wabasha and Plato: Property damage and looting.
>
> – Gold'n Treasures on Grand Ave: Property damage and looting.
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> – Speedway at Grand and Cleveland: Extensive fire damage.
>
> – T-Mobile at Excelsior and Grand: Property damage, looting.
>
> – 1st Grand Avenue Liquors on Grand and Milton: Property damage, looting.
>
> – Foot Locker Midway: Extensive fire damage.
>
> – GameStop Midway: Extensive fire damage, looting.
>
> – To New York Midway: Property damage.
>
> – Peking Garden Midway: Property damage.
>
> – Lloyd's Pharmacy Snelling and Minnehaha: Destroyed by fire.
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> – Target Midway: Property damage, looting.
>
> – CVS University Avenue: Property damage, looting.
>
> – Max It Pawn Shop University Avenue: Property damage, looting.
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> – Verizon Store Hamline Avenue: Property damage.
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> – Noodles & Co Hamline Avenue: Property damage.
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> – Vitamine Shoppe Hamline Avenue: Property damage.
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> – Big Top Liquors Midway: Property damage
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> – TJ Maxx Midway: Property damage, small fire.
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> – Sprint store Midway: Property damage, looting.
>
> – Midway Tobacco Outlet Plus: Property damage
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> – NAPA Auto Parts University Avenue: Property damage, fire.
>
> – T-Mobile on Arcade and York: Property damage, looting.
>
> – LeeAnn Chinn Midway: Property damage, graffiti.
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> – America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses Midway: Property damage, graffiti.
>
> – Furniture Barn Midway: Property damage, graffiti, fire.
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> – BP on University Avenue: Property damage.
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> – Walgreens on Randolph and Snelling: Property damage, looting.
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> – Discount Tire Co. Midway: Property damage.
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> – O'Reilly Auto Parts Lexington: Property damage, fire.
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> – TCF Bank Lexington and University: Property damage.
>
> – Lululemon Grand Avenue: Property damage, looting.
>
> – Speedway University Ave: Property damage, fire.
>
> – Sun Ray Shopping Center: Property damage and looting.
>
> – Ananya Dance Theater University Ave: Property damage.
>
> – Springboard for the Arts University Ave: Property damage, fire.
>
> – 7-Mile Sportwear University Ave: Property damage, looting.
>
> – Fire n Ice Chicken: Property damage.
>
> – Liquor Barrel on West 7th: Property damage, looting.
>
> – Moellers Jewelry, Highland: Property damage.
>
> – The Fixery, Highland: Property damage.
>
> – Bole Ethiopian Restaurant: Fire.
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> – Enterprise University Avenue: Fire.
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> – Goodwill: Property damage.
>
> In Twin Cities suburbs
> – Target Maplewood: Property damage and looting
>
> – The Jewelers Saint Anthony: Property damage.
>
> – GameStop Brooklyn Center: Property damage, looting.
>
> – Walmart Brooklyn Center: Property damage, looting
>
> .– T-Mobile Store Brooklyn Center: Property damage.
>
> – Family Dollar Brooklyn Center: Property damage.
>
> – Walgreens 63rd and Brooklyn Blvd., Brooklyn Center: Property damage.
>
> – Western Service Center, Apple Valley: Property, fire, and water damage.
>
> Or how about this?
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://twitter.com/DarrenJBeattie/status/1268003013425344514?s=19__;!!Mih3wA!QGu1NsodrpUwqCsyw3OiwsdEtSkTCCVsgct__5IiDOHxt42kOerJlOpRbWX2nIve8BKSBw$ 
>
> This sucks.
>
> Everyone in the country agreed on Day 1 -- prosecute the cops, mourn for the dead, seek a productive path forward. There was no one left to persuade! On at least this one thing, we were more united than any time in recent memory.
>
> 7 days later...half of that goodwill, natural fellowship, and brotherhood has been pissed away.
>
> The sale was already made, but the sellers kept selling and likely blew the deal.
>
> Sucks.
>
> Anthony
>
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, June 3, 2020, David Kellogg <dkellogg60@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I was born in Minneapolis and grew up on both sides of the 3rd Precinct (which burned down last week in what I have to say was an entirely proportionate response to the murder of George Floyd).
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> Minneapolis is a town that's very well known for progressive politics--but it's also known as one of the most tightly segregated cities in the USA. I went to elementary school in Prospect Park, which had a chain-link fence dividing the white part and the black part, and I remember the column of black kids coming through the single opening in the fence, because it was halfway to my own elementary school, Sidney Pratt, on Tower Hill.
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> Minneapolis also has a Police Federation, which is not a "union" but a paramilitary organization which has a long history of defying the Democratic-Farmer-Labor government, defending officers who murder black people (George Floyd, Jamar Clark, Philando Castile) and financing fly-by-night "Warrior Training" programmes that teach cops how to use hair-trigger weapons bought army-surplus from overseas deployments of the US military. Bob Kroll, the head of the federation, sported a "white power" badge, and called George Floyd a violent criminal (but he also said pretty much the same thing about Keith Ellison and Barack Obama).
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> There's another Minneapolis. In 1934, radicals in the Teamsters Union launched one of only four general strikes in American history (typical Minnesota tactics--coal drivers struck in the dead of winter!) It changed the Teamsters from a craft union to an industrial union. Yesterday a group of health experts (also in Minneapolis) issued a statement which recognized the need to mobilize in defense of the most-hard hit section of the population in this pandemic, but worried a lot about spikes triggered in mass demonstrations. As I watch events in my hometown from afar, I wonder if it's not time for a second Minneapolis general strike.
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> (Mike--I was going to post this on CulturalPraxis as you suggested, but there's some kind of log-in over there, and I'm not a member....)
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> David Kellogg
> Sangmyung University
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> New Article: Ruqaiya Hasan, in memoriam: A manual and a manifesto.
> Outlines, Spring 2020
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://tidsskrift.dk/outlines/article/view/116238__;!!Mih3wA!QGu1NsodrpUwqCsyw3OiwsdEtSkTCCVsgct__5IiDOHxt42kOerJlOpRbWX2nIuS37WM0Q$ 
> New Translation with Nikolai Veresov: L.S. Vygotsky's Pedological Works Volume One: Foundations of Pedology"
>  https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811505270__;!!Mih3wA!QGu1NsodrpUwqCsyw3OiwsdEtSkTCCVsgct__5IiDOHxt42kOerJlOpRbWX2nIvy0hnDqA$ 
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> Crush human humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seed of rapacious license and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit, according to its kind.  C.Dickens.
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