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The Defender: Winter 2020/21

‘zine of the Workers Defense Alliance, Twin Cities, Winter 2020/21.

In this issue: We Build Solidarity, Not Pipelines • Politics Without Proud Boys • Reflections on Action Tactics • Copwatch in the Twin Cities • Recuperation, Collaborators, and Informants • Five Fascist Fuckers • Sanctuary: How I Came To Find a Home • A Powderhorn Neighbor on Solidarity • Housing and Racial Justice • A Summer of Militant Action for Housing Justice • Behind the Barricades at 18th Avenue • Frontline Fight Against Allina Workplace Retaliation • When The Man Tries to Tell You About Racism

Zine

Apo's Guide To Tekmîllin' Like A Villain

This Zine is a short guide, condensed from two articles originally published at the Komun Academy website--"Tekmîl: Creating a Culture of Constructive Criticism" by Philip Arges O'Keeffe (2018) and "Struggling Against the System in Ourselves: Criticism and Self-Criticism" (2020).

Zine
August 14, 2021

Building connections to revolutionary change while organizing

One of the basic questions aspiring revolutionary groups have to ask is, "How do revolutionary changes come about?", and then ask if what they are doing is in line with their own beliefs about how revolutions happen.

Workers organizing

SALUTE / ALERTA mnemonics for actionable information

We help protect one another by sharing useful and actionable information.

ALERTA: Activity, Location, Equipment, Request aid, Time & date, Appearance

SALUTE: Size, Activity, Location, Uniform, Time, Equipment

Guide
Anti-fascism Anti-repression Community defense Copwatching Uprising

Twin Cities Workers Defense Alliance

Workers’ Defense Alliance is a network of working class people and autonomous councils organized on the job and in the streets to practice militant rank and file labor struggle and community self defense. We are an anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian organization committed to building and maintaining autonomous worker and tenant councils, defense bodies, and mutual aid projects. We are an anti-racist and anti-sexist network that recognizes that an injury to one is an injury to all, and that the liberation of each is bound up in the liberation of all.  We set out to unmake this nightmare world we’re inheriting, and make a new one in the ashes of the old.

April 19, 2022

Statement on Ukraine

We express our solidarity with the people of Ukraine struggling against the attempt by the Russian state to re-colonize them. We condemn both the invasion, and the long campaign of aggression that Russia has waged against Ukrainians.

July 20, 2020

Minneapolis Police Department violently holding down the working class— 1934 July 20

On this date in 1934 the Minneapolis Police opened fire on strikers in the warehouse district, shooting 67 picketers and killing two men – a Teamster and an unemployed supporter.

September 26, 2022

Proud Boys Try to Start Violent Confrontation at Children's Event at Public Library, Fail

A joyous Saturday morning of story telling by beloved local drag performers for children and families was in danger of being disrupted by a group of Hold the Line MN and Proud Boys. A coalition of counterprotesters ensured the event proceeded as planned, thwarted the Proud Boys in inciting violence, shielded families and children from pornographic images displayed by Hold the Line MN and the Proud Boys, and made sure all attendees were able to leave safely.

cw: virulent transphobia, queerphobia, transphobic rhetoric

Anti-fascism Community defense

Know Your Local Transphobes

Printable PDF guide to some local Proud Boys and other far-right agitators to look out for at Drag Story Hour events.

Guide
Anti-fascism Community defense