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Solidarity With Kurdish Insurgents

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Some posters expressing solidarity with Kurdish insurgents were flyposted around south Minneapolis.

The posters appear to say “Solidarity With Kurdish Insugents – Smash Repression! Smash the State!” with an image of an armed militant in the streets of Istanbul. The past few days, many Kurdish cities in Turkey have been ablaze with riots after a suicide attack killed dozens of people on their way to help rebuild Kobanê, which withstood several months of clashes with ISIL. The Turkish state responded by arresting hundreds of rebels and launching airstrikes on Kurdish areas of Iraq. For updates on the rapidly developing situation, follow @OccupiedTaksim and @cahitstorm on Twitter.

Fuck the Fourth!

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A number of American flags liberated from the neighborhood found themselves burnt to ashes on the 4th of July. This was a small gesture of solidarity to all those in struggle against domination. America, as any system of exploitation, cannot be reformed, only obliterated.

Nevertheless, this constitutes nothing but a symbolic gesture. Burning the flag does not burn white supremacy, it does not burn the myriad of oppressive systems that so many of us see clearly in the stars and stripes. Much of the country has their attention drawn to the outcry over the use of confederate logos and other symbols that represent this oppression. While it is worth noting how deeply embedded white supremacy is in the history of the United States, we must set our sights on the material, not the symbolic.

Report Back on the Bay Area Revolt

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Saturday, June 27th at 7:00pm

Minnehaha Free Space, 3747 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis.

On November 24th, 2014, Oakland, CA exploded in revolt against the non-indictment of Darren Wilson for the murder of Mike Brown in Ferguson.

This rebellion spread across the Bay Area and lasted for nearly three weeks straight.

Join a participant in the rebellion for an intimate look at what went down, the broader social context in which it occurred, and an update on the current situation in the Bay Area as of June 2015.

There will be a short movie and discussion, as well as free literature (including a number of pamphlets and flyers distributed during the rebellion.)