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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.
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 then saw a liberated and empowered Minnesota stand up and voice their outrage after the murder of George Floyd. The people not only – once again – owned their streets in a subsequent uprising, but they continued to be 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…
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Federal judges Mark Pittman and Reed O’Connor have handed down the final sentences for activists connected to a July 2025 protest outside the Prairieland Detention Center. According to the defendants, the Prairieland 9 intended to hold an ordinary noise demonstration and shoot off July 4th fireworks in solidarity with immigration detainees, until a police officer drew his gun on a fleeing protester.
According to the federal prosecutors, the defendants were the members of a murderous “North Texas Antifa Cell.” All together, the Prairieland defendants received over 562 years in federal prison — the longest sentence a U.S. court has ever given to a group of political anarchist defendants.
Additionally, the State of Texas intends to hold their own trials in connection with this protest.
“These convictions for what was intended to be a noise demonstration in solidarity with people detained at the facility send a message that anyone exercising their right to protest and more broadly, anyone critical of the government, will face the full wrath of the state,” said Muslims for Just Futures in a statement, decrying “the federal government’s willingness to stretch national security and terrorism frameworks to their maximum, terrifying edges.”
According to court observers, Judge Reed O’Connor said at sentencing that he “wants to send a message to anyone else with similar ideology.” This ideology, in the words of FBI Director Kash Patel, is “Antifa-aligned anarchis[m].” Last year, Patel described the Prairieland case as being the first time that “the FBI has arrested anarchist violent extremists and charged these Antifa-aligned individuals with material support of terrorism.”
As previously reported by Unicorn Riot, the Prairieland case represents the first prosecutions of “antifa” following the release of National Security Presidential Memorandum-7, which inaugurated what Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller described as an “all-of-government effort to dismantle” anti-fascist organizing.
“This is a decision on ideology, and that is very troubling,” Xavier de Janon told Unicorn Riot. “None of the charges required proving that they were part of a ‘terror cell,’ that was just added after NSPM-7. In fact, the whole case could have been prosecuted without even mentioning any group, alleged ‘cell,’ alleged ideology. That was what the government brought in as part of its political prosecution.”
During the trial, the government called Kyle Shideler of the Center for Security Policy (CSP) to testify as an expert witness on antifa. “Antifa members,” Shideler told the court, typically espouse “strong anarchist ideology or some of these other non-authoritarian socialist ideologies.” In a piece published earlier this year, Shideler suggested that fears of an impending “anarcho-communist insurgency” could only be dismissed by those who “have yet to take seriously the extent of the revolutionary fervor now underway.”
“The Trump administration is attempting to use the far left, especially the anarchist and anti-fascist left, as a kind of fantasy villain,” Albert from the defendants’ support committee told Unicorn Riot.
“The fantasy that there is a militant underground left-wing violent movement in the United States has no basis in reality, but it’s being used by the right wing to justify their authoritarianism and to build the legitimacy of their power.” Albert, DFW Support Committee
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A look at the Minnesota gubernatorial campaign expenditures of Mike Lindell, the Trump supporting former crack addict and MyPillow CEO.
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