Protesters gather outside of South Minneapolis enraged Wednesday night and confirm and confront officers due to a black man from a traffic stop.

This fatal shooting is the first time a black man has been shot and killed by law enforcement since the George Ford killing in May. In response to the shooting, a group of protesters gathered outside a gas station to confront the police.

Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey released a statement late on Wednesday, in which he said he was working with Mr Arradondo to get information on the shooting.

“Events of this past year have marked some of the darkest days in our city,” the mayor said.

He added: “We know a life has been cut short and that trust between communities of color and law enforcement is fragile...We must all be committed to getting the facts, pursuing justice, and keeping the peace.”

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​By: Ryan Grenoble

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said Tuesday that a state laboratory confirmed the variant known as B.1.1.7 in a male in his 20s, who is currently in isolation in Elbert County.

State authorities say the man had no travel history, and so far, no close contacts have been identified.
The mutant COVID-19 variant has already been detected in at least 18 other countries, including the United Kingdom. 

Denver International Airport isn’t currently operating a direct flight to the United Kingdom, the Colorado Sun notes, though direct flights to some other countries, including Canada, are available.
A couple in Ontario, Canada, tested positive for B.1.1.7 earlier this week.

“There is a lot we don’t know about this new COVID-19 variant, but scientists in the United Kingdom are warning the world that it is significantly more contagious,” Polis said in a statement. “The health and safety of Coloradans is our top priority and we will closely monitor this case, as well as all COVID-19 indicators, very closely.”
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Researchers in the U.K. warned last week that B.1.1.7 is around 56% more contagious than the initial strain of the coronavirus that first emerged late last year in China. So far, however, the mutations do not appear to make it more deadly.
Recently approved COVID-19 vaccines produced by Pfizer and Moderna are expected to be effective against the new strain.

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(Backus, MN) Monday morning, a water protector bravely ascended a tripod high in the air blockading an Enbridge pipe-yard, as dozens of supporters held space below.

Since giving the final green light on November 30th for Enbridge to bulldoze through Minnesota’s watersheds for its tar sands expansion project, the Walz administration has met a series of escalating direct actions with complete silence. Actions have ranged from mass arrest, prayer walks to proposed river drilling sites, tree sits, and locking to heavy equipment.

On December 19th, a Line 3 construction worker was killed at an Enbridge worksite. After an hours-long halt, work resumed.

Before ascending into the air in front of a tar sands pipe-yard, Emma Harrison said, “I’m part of the Line 3 resistance movement because this pipeline embodies everything I believe is wrong with the world. Profits for a few over the well-being of all communities near and far, present and future. Stopping Line 3 is a tangible way to fight for the world I want to live in.”
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By L​IONEL DU CANE

A Ukrainian City Council Member has asked for the names of five African students who were hosting a Black Lives Matter protest–in order to deport them following the incident.
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On June 11, five students held a protest against racism in Ternopil in concert with the wave of massive Black Lives Matter protests taking the Western world by storm following the in-custody killing of suspected fraudster George Floyd.

He wrote: “They either incite unrest to take goods out of local stores during the riots, as it is currently in the United States, or act on instructions from abroad and involve our country in an international scandal.”
Bobko reportedly believes that the students were attempting to incite protests parallel to the scenes emanating from the U.S., and the UK–with protests devolving into riots and wanton destruction.

In his post, he appealed to the Ukrainian Secret Service to identify and deport the students for the protests.
“I demand that the police and the Security Service of Ukraine identify all persons involved in the action and deport them outside Ukraine. To hand over a package of crackers and a yellow vest to everyone for the road. To remember,” he continued.

5 African students organized a #BlackLivesMatter protest in Tarnopil, Western Ukraine this weekend.

In response, the Deputy Chair of the City Council, Volodomyr Bobko from the nationalist "Svoboda" party, states that he will ask the security service to find them and deport them. pic.twitter.com/FhyrSHbjp8

Social media was largely supportive of the calls to deport the protesters. However, the sentiment was not echoed by all.
“A black friend of mine in Hungary was hassled by police every time he went out. He told me this after we went downtown together. He warned me it would happen. We were interrogated ten feet from the train exit. Blacks are indeed discriminated against in many “white” countries,” one person wrote.
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To which another, disgruntled with the recent protests in the UK, replied: “But they are not discriminated against here in the UK. They have more rights than me, yet they smashed up London assaulted our police and vandalized our monuments–what more do they want? They’ve divided my country.”
https://twitter.com/Deborah61003233/status/1272469967217340417

The actions of Eastern and Central European countries has gained ample support among populists of various stripes for their resistance to globalism and devil-may-care attitude toward political correctness.

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Greek anarchists in the Athens port neighborhood of Piraeus marched through the borough’s university campus against police. The Puerto Negro collective, who organized the march, demanded an end to police presence in neighborhoods and universities.

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MEMBERS OF THE ANARCHIST ANIMAL LIBERATION FRONT DESTROYED 2 HUNTING TOWERS IN GERMANY, LABELING THE “SPORT” AS A PRACTICE OF MURDER OF SENTIENT BEINGS FOR FUN.

Turbulent times are upon us. Already, blockades, demonstrations, riots, and clashes are occuring regularly. It’s past time to be organizing for the upheavals that are on the way.

But getting organized doesn’t mean joining a pre-existing institution and taking orders. It shouldn’t mean forfeiting your agency and intelligence to become a cog in a machine. From an anarchist perspective, organizational structure should maximize both freedom and voluntary coordination at every level of scale, from the smallest group up to society as a whole.

You and your friends already constitute an affinity group, the essential building block of this model. An affinity group is a circle of friends who understand themselves as an autonomous political force. The idea is that people who already know and trust each other should work together to respond immediately, intelligently, and flexibly to emerging situations.
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This leaderless format has proven effective for guerrilla activities of all kinds, as well as what the RAND Corporation calls “swarming” tactics in which many unpredictable autonomous groups overwhelm a centralized adversary. You should go to every demonstration in an affinity group, with a shared sense of your goals and capabilities. If you are in an affinity group that has experience taking action together, you will be much better prepared to deal with emergencies and make the most of unexpected opportunities.

Affinity Groups are Powerful​

Relative to their small size, affinity groups can achieve a disproportionately powerful impact. In contrast to traditional top-down structures, they are free to adapt to any situation, they need not pass their decisions through a complicated process of ratification, and all the participants can act and react instantly without waiting for orders—yet with a clear idea of what to expect from one another. The mutual admiration and inspiration on which they are founded make them very difficult to demoralize. In stark contrast to capitalist, fascist, and socialist structures, they function without any need of hierarchy or coercion. Participating in an affinity group can be fulfilling and fun as well as effective.

The Affinity Group is a Flexible Model

A particular team can act together over and over as an affinity group, but the members can also break up into smaller affinity groups, participate in other affinity groups, or act outside the affinity group structure. Freedom to associate and organize as each person sees fit is a fundamental anarchist principle; this promotes redundancy, so no one person or group is essential to the functioning of the whole, and different groups can reconfigure as needed.

Decide Your Appropriate Level of Security

Affinity groups are resistant to infiltration because all members share history and intimacy with each other, and no one outside the group need be informed of their plans or activities.
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Once assembled, an affinity group should establish a shared set of security practices and stick to them. In some cases, you can afford to be public and transparent about your activities. in other cases, whatever goes on within the group should never be spoken of outside it, even after all its activities are long completed. In some cases, no one except the participants in the group should know that it exists at all. You and your comrades can discuss and prepare for actions without acknowledging to outsiders that you constitute an affinity group. Remember, it is easier to pass from a high security protocol to a low one than vice versa.

Pick the Scale That’s Right for You

An affinity group can range from two to perhaps as many as fifteen individuals, depending on your goals. However, no group should be so numerous that an informal conversation about pressing matters is impossible. You can always split up into two or more groups if need be. In actions that require driving, the easiest system is often to have one affinity group to each vehicle.

Go Into Action

Stop wondering what’s going to happen, or why nothing’s happening. Get together with your friends and start deciding what will happen. Don’t go through life in passive spectator mode, waiting to be told what to do. Get in the habit of discussing what you want to see happen—and making those ideas reality.

Without a structure that encourages ideas to flow into action, without comrades with whom to brainstorm and barnstorm and build up momentum, you are likely to be paralyzed, cut off from much of your own potential; with them, your potential can be multiplied by ten, or ten thousand. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world,” Margaret Mead wrote: “it’s the only thing that ever has.” She was referring, whether she knew it or not, to affinity groups. If every individual in every action against the state and status quo participated as part of a tight-knit, dedicated affinity group, the revolution would be accomplished in a few short years.

An affinity group could be a sewing circle or a bicycle maintenance collective; it could come together for the purpose of providing a meal at an occupation or forcing a multinational corporation out of business through a carefully orchestrated program of sabotage. Affinity groups have planted and defended community gardens, built and occupied and burned down buildings, organized neighborhood childcare programs and wildcat strikes; individual affinity groups routinely initiate revolutions in the visual arts and popular music. Your favorite band was an affinity group. An affinity group invented the airplane. Another one maintains this website.

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