Anonymous ID: ad7189 June 8, 2020, 12:12 a.m. No.9530559   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0572 >>0597 >>0830 >>0888 >>1058 >>1137

Anons, I have been wondering since the Minneapolis council pledged to disband their police force how [they] would get this to spread, as surely that is their goal.

Well this dropped in my lap thanks to the company I keep, kek.

Solidarity means dismantling the system everywhere

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Our challenge, now as always, is to organize: to turn these spontaneous expressions of solidarity into an enduring international movement to dismantle the institutions of racist state violence and investigate the human rights abuses by US police departments, its prison system, and its military, in particular.

 

That is why we founded the Progressive International: to make solidarity more than a slogan. Marches in cities like Auckland and Amsterdam have sent an important signal to the US government that the world is watching. But bearing witness is not enough. Our task is to demonstrate the ways in which our solidarities can overcome borders to give meaningful support to people fighting unequal battles in thousands of places across the world.

 

That means learning from each other’s struggles against state violence, as in the case of the Lebanese activists who compiled a toolkit for protestors across the US. That means providing resources, where possible, to support the victims of police violence and their families. And it means identifying our own respective roles in this planetary system —wherever we may live — and delivering justice in our own communities.

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(that's an article it took 21 people to write)

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/solidarity-means-dismantling-system-everywhere/

http://archive.is/FCVYk

So, to this anon, it seems the answer will be peer pressure and possibly continued "protest".

Now, I am pretty sure the Minneapolis council is just paying lip service and nothing will actually happen, but if it does I would expect pressure to ramp up at council levels to achieve their goal.

Anonymous ID: ad7189 June 8, 2020, 12:24 a.m. No.9530626   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Found this while looking at the other issue.

''Minnesota law could change Minneapolis council elections (18 Feb 20 article)"

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In the past, city officials could hold an election after a census year using the old wards, and then implement the new ones in the election four years later. But because of what's now dubbed the Kahn Rule, that's not possible anymore.

In 2010, then-state Rep. Phyllis Kahn, a DFL member from Minneapolis, pushed a bill through the Legislature that requires Minneapolis and St. Paul to conduct City Council elections in years ending in 2 or 3 after a census is taken — in this case, in 2022 or 2023 — to ensure that voters are properly represented.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/minnesota-law-could-change-minneapolis-council-elections/ar-BB106qyp

http://archive.is/WAtKG

The long and the short, councillors will either stand for reelection next year, or in 2022?