Archipelago Issue 0

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DOSSIER OF ACTIONS JANUARY: 28 Minneapolis, MN: Over 50 people met at Stevens Square Park in Minneapolis and marched to an abandoned historic building for a dance party and food-share. This event coincided with a similar event in Oakland, and other solidarity actions around the country. 31 St. Louis: A demonstration against police violence and in solidarity with the Occupation movement in Oakland briefly took over South Grand Blvd. Fliers explaining the action were distributed, wheat pasted and thrown into the air. A banner reading, “Cops – out of our neighborhoods, out of our lives!” separated the unruly crowd from the police. Along the way a police substation was attacked with paint. This same night 3 more police stations report being doused in paint. FEBRUARY: 3 St. Louis: At sunrise, a banner appeared from the rooftop of the city’s Old Municipal Court Building downtown. The building, which on November 17th hosted an occupation and joyous dance party, had since been subject to the city’s greatest attempts

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