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With the repealing of federal abortion protections this past Friday, we want to highlight some of our past coverage of reproductive rights and abortion access. Here's a thread of some excerpts from an October 2021 article.
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Among numerous incidents linked to alleged racist teaching at Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) in the recent years is an incident at Lake Harriet School exposed by a viral TikTok video that a student made calling out a teacher-a protest was held at MPS Davis Center in response.
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Image 7: "Since then, the 'loins' of people who can become pregnant have been fiercely debated—as if the internal flesh of a person is a communal resource that needs regulation."
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Image 6: “[Should our country] be filled by our own children or by those of aliens? This is a question our women must answer; upon their loins depends the future destiny of the nation.” - Dr. Horatio Storer, an OB-GYN who was a leader in the AMA anti-abortion campaign
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Image 5: The American Medical Association (AMA) also argued against abortion because they wanted the medical profession to remain male-dominated—if women couldn’t have abortions, they had to stay at home to raise children.
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Image 4: Abortion first became criminalized nationwide around 1880 partly out of fear that if white Protestant women (for whom legal abortion was most accessible) continued having abortions, America would fill up with “aliens.”
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Image 3: A shift occurred when settlers invaded the continent, but because the legality of abortion in each of the colonies depended on the stance of the European country which controlled it, it wasn’t widespread. People could still have legal abortions up until the 'quickening.'
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Image 2: "In recent history, control over one’s own body and fertility (including abortion) was broadly normal and not only for 'Indigenous people, but every person who could become pregnant, that was part of life,' Lorenzo points out."
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Image 1: "It’s easy to forget, or perhaps many haven't learned, that less than 150 years ago, the now polarizing hot-button issue of abortion was a widely accepted part of life in this country. In fact abortion 'is absolutely traditional, it is sacred,' says Rachel Lorenzo."
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Check our full report for plenty of difficult-to-find documents, reports and testimony about the military role in #January6. Mike Flynn's brother Charles was a key leader on the U.S. Army staff during the incident. The DC National Guard took the fall for the lack of response.
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Michael Flynn told Newsmax Trump "could also order, within the swing states, if he wanted to, he could take military capabilities and he could place them in those states and basically rerun an election in each of those states." Former defense secretaries quickly refuted the idea:
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Michael Flynn promoted ‘martial law’ On Dec 1, 2020, Flynn tweeted a press release from Ohio group wanted Trump to “declare a limited form of Martial Law, and temporarily suspend the Constitution and civilian control of these elections,” putting them under military control.
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A photo of Gen. John Singlaub, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, and Phyllis Schlafly Eagles President Ed Martin, posted by Martin on November 29, 2020, four days after former President Trump pardoned Flynn. Martin and Flynn were subpoenaed by the January 6 Committee.
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Today's action (in above tweet) at the Ministry of Migration in Athens, Greece, was similar to an action 5 years ago nearly to the day, when a large coordination of refugee squats marched to the ministry. The demands in 2017 were #HandsOffSquats. [Video]
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#Greece: Today, dozens of migrants/refugees and solidarity activists marched on the Ministry for Migration in Athens against the closing of Eleona Camp and refugee relocations to closed detention camps far outside the the city.
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Episode 8: Hope Coleman X Terrence Coleman Diagnosed with schizophrenic paranoia as a child, Terrence is one of several victims killed by police in the first season of #TheMothersPodcast who was dealing with mental illness and was having a bad day.
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In the last few years, dozens of racist acts in Minnesota schools have been reported. From racism towards Black educators to racist teachers, we take a glance at a few of the anti-Black & pro-police incidents which occurred in the Twin Cities metro area.
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Grieving families of loved ones murdered by Twin Cities police share the incessant “psychological terrorism” they’ve experienced at the hands of on and off duty officers in various departments across the metro, and want their stories to be made public.
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NEW: Unhoused in Minneapolis - 'King' chronicles a recent history of sweeps that led to the inception of the 29th St. & 14th Ave. encampment which is now facing an eviction threat. "They keep coming, bulldozing us, plowing our stuff." - King, encampment resident
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Update: The George Floyd Memorial Foundation sent a statement to stating that Suzanne Medes (the owner of GeorgeFloyd.com) is "not affiliated with our organization," despite her statement in a UR interview & elsewhere. (Post updated)
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NEW: Website Business Named for George Floyd Spurs Controversy Local activists question if Black death is exploited by project unicornriot.ninja/2022/website-b
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