Notices by benjamin melançon (mlncn@social.coop), page 2

"MPD CAME & SERVED US A PAPER WITH RESOURCES ON IT & SAID WE HAVE A WEEK UNTIL THEY CLEAR BUT JUSS TO BE SAFE WE SHLD START EVACUATING NOW & TECHNICALLY U HAVE LESS THEN THA WEEK HE SAID.. LIKE OH WOW!!"

"I ASKD HIM FOR A EVICTION PAPER WITH THE DATES & HE SAID HE JUSS TOLD ME HAHA HE WAS ACTUALLY A NICE OFFICER HAHA NO EXTRA POLICE BRUTALITY & WHAT NOT HAHA"

These camps are on properties of two different railroads— this is a city-led attack.

We have less than a week #Minneapolis

You ready to defend people who have been pushed around relentlessly by the agents of capital? In person or by researching the city's possible legal overreach, evicting from non-city land?

Or do you have land? Money in the thousands you would put into a cooperative social housing venture? Fundraising skills or a willingness to canvas neighborhoods?

(The where to donate money part is easy at least: https://opencollective.com/mpls-northside-mutual-aid/ )

Other ways to help: One person living there is a veteran, but has been cut off from the programs he knows about for helping veterans. Anyone have a comprehensive list and recs?

And burn up the phone/fax lines of the people who have, at this point, dedicated their lives to destroying the lives of unhoused people simply because they want #Minneapolis for the rich (and willing servants) alone

https://northdef.wordpress.com/2022/12/27/these-officials-have-no-conscience/

Oh and after finding a place to move, help moving— in particular a couple residents are looking to purchase a used-but-working four-wheeler or similar to help people move out from under the bridges (not car accessible).

Direct cash support for one family about to be displaced by#Minneapolis city structural violence: $biqmama19 Ashley Cook

Where are my #Zillow experts? We need to buy some land, move this fight onto different terrain (literally). Anything in the near Northside area would be ideal.

10,000 sq ft to do https://envisioncommunitymn.org/proposal/ ideal but we'll take anything.

Anyone else in a #software consultancy or an independent #programmer and thinking through what to do about #GitLab's increasing determination to extract money?

We have long suggested GitLab for most @agaric clients because it is in part (but decreasingly?) #OpenSource and, well, you could do pretty much everything on the free plan.

That is being clawed back, and user-based pricing gets expensive fast. From $0 to nearly $3K/year for a project with 12–14 people able to casually participate.

Capitalists propped up the value of mined diamonds—blood diamonds—for decades when synthetic are entirely suitable.

And capitalists will try their best to flood every creative endeavor with artificially-created derivations and drivel, trying to drive down the the price of all labor, no matter the human cost on both sides of that.

The problem is #capitalism

@zens a dim understanding of this fragility of complexity makes me a "conservative radical"— what big things must be changed, while letting other things adapt to that?

@zens Most of our systems are set up for managing inequality, whether police/prosecutors/prisons (inc. militarized borders & criminalized migration) for repressing the dispossessed, or corps & complex high finance shenanigans for concentrated capital to have ways to become more capital for the same rich people.

Redistribute wealth only, and systems adapt away from repression and towards cooperative ventures, where we get institutions to pool resources bottom up rather than wield power top down.

@zens but we also know a mild tweak to the system like a 2% or more annual redistribution of wealth would be fought by the capitalist class so intensely as to require a revolution anyway. So we need to keep imagining our best possible futures, but with a lot more attention to how things will actually work, from logistics and decision-making, and looking at what now works 'well enough' to be worth trying to preserve while building a better society in the face of violence from elites.