OCCUPY MINNESOTA

united together. solidarity forever.

Community strategy is key.

People across Minnesota, alongside national and international activist partners, have come together to create strategy guides that help individuals, groups, and communities respond to— and support one another through—moments of oppression and injustice. Many of us have come to believe that government power is being used against our communities. In recent months, federal immigration enforcement actions in Minnesota, including ICE raids and arrests, have disproportionately affected vulnerable people and neighborhoods. At the same time, Minnesotans continue to stand united, rooted in the compassion that defines our diverse state.

We continue to honor our ancestors and support all individuals, regardless of race, gender identity, nationality, or ability. These are fundamental human rights, protected by constitutional principles. Our state and movement have also faced intensified scrutiny and divisive rhetoric, especially in the years of the Trump administration, which critics say helped normalize targeting and vilification of our communities. We affirm that this is not only an issue for Minnesota or any single grassroots movement or set of organizers. It is about upholding justice and liberty for all. We will continue to stand strong, protecting ourselves and each other in the face of adversity.

Community Defense Guide

Street Medic Guide

Online Security Guide

Prisoner Support Guide

Continued action, extended legacy.

The Occupy Movement stirred up many discussions, theories, and questions about how it would impact the future. While we may have been removed from The People’s Plaza, one can be assured that unity built and solidarity extended within The People’s Plaza cannot be removed from the occupier. When we first occupied in 2011 we witnessed a revolution in the American heart and mind. Countless individuals began thinking critically about their government, corporate corruption, and the lack of representation for “the 99%”.

We came together as a community and worked to establish long-lasting friendships, comradery, working-groups, and other networks that continue create change into today. Since the occupation of Minnesota we have worked together to help create and realize many other brilliant movements of focus and actions together, such as Occupy Homes, Strike Debt, Fight for 15, March Against Monsanto, March Against Corruption, Idle No More, NoDAPL, Black Lives Matter, to the now emerging No Kings movement – along with countless others.

As a community we have worked to support a liberated and empowered Minnesota stand up and voice their outrage in instances of injustice. Our reverberations continue, such as after the murder Jamar Clark, as community connected to occupy the 4th Precinct. We saw this same energy re-emerge again after the murder of George Floyd, with the subsequent actions and occupation of George Floyd Square. As Minnesotans, we own our streets and continue to be collective agents of change. Indeed, many of us have been there through it all in body, spirit, or both. We continue to support and play a role in social change today. We are grateful for those who are joining in and especially those who are returning to the fight.

Our efforts continue to be brought to you by the same people who originally helped bring you the Occupy Movement. We didn’t stop doing what we do – and we won’t stop doing what we do – as we can’t stop… and we won’t stop. We run things, things don’t run we. Don’t take nothing from nobody…