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The 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.

Hackers Without Borders

Securing your information, supporting radical technology, and building that better world

We are a group of people who are interested in technology, information security, making things, and breaking things— in a word, hacking. We are pro-privacy, anti-surveillance, anti-capitalist, pro-freedom, anti-borders, supporters of open-source software, and believers in the right to repair. Our work focuses on education, mutual aid, and supporting direct action.

We believe anyone who is curious about the world around them and likes to think creatively can be a hacker - not just people who work in the tech industry. Our members come from a variety of fields, from penetration testing to nursing. "Hacking" can take a variety of forms, many of them far different from what hackers do in movies.

July 22, 2020

Abolition of the Police, Part 5: Longtime activist groups shamefully opposing abolitionist movement

Ever since the Minneapolis Uprising, different police brutality groups have been grappling with how to deal with the mass popularity of the “Abolish the Police” demand - and the shocking maneuver of the City Council to at least pay lip service to this demand.

October 18, 2022

Build-your-own portable air filter to reduce COVID-19 and airborne pollutants this Saturday Oct 22 1pm

Join Hackers Without Borders, Freedom Street Health, and Northsiders for an afternoon of building box-fan filters that can protect people from air pollution and reduce COVID-19 transmission in homes, classrooms, and gathering places.

1pm–3pm, Saturday, October 22, 2022
Cleveland Park (North Russel Avenue & North 33rd Avenue, near North Penn & North Lowry Avenues, behind the Lowry Avenue Post Office)

Filters and masks sponsored by Agaric Technology Collective.

Health

Twin Cities Solidarity Network

Mutual defense of workers and tenants

Twin Cities Solidarity Network (TC SolNet) is mutual defense group of workers and tenants. We deal with problems with landlords and bosses, and also help people organize and strengthen unions and tenant associations. We are affiliated with the Twin Cities Worker Defense Alliance, a network of groups aiding one another in anti-authoritarian, abolitionist, working class organizing.

October 25, 2022

Anti-Drag Campaign Attacks Queer Community, Art, and Workers; Antifascists Fight Back

Visitors to St Paul public libraries in recent weeks may have found an atmosphere quite different from the usual quiet and calm among the bookshelves. On two separate occasions since September, our libraries have played host to competing rallies - on the one hand, members of a hate mob gathered to oppose queer cultural events, particularly Drag Queen Story Hour. On the other hand, antifascists and other community members there to defend queer people and freedom of expression.

Although the far right street presence in the Twin Cities has been beaten back multiple times in the last five years, it is undergoing a resurgence - and its target is the queer community, through a manufactured outrage around drag events.

cw: mentions of CSA, transphobic & racist violence, anti-trans and antisemitic conspiracy theories

Anti-fascism Community defense

Picket Training @ East Side Freedom Library

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The picket training provides the basic skills for planning successful pickets, protests, and marches.

East Side Freedom Library

1105 Greenbrier Street
St. Paul, MN 55106

 

 

Picket Training
Community defense Workers organizing

Defend Unhoused People at Quarry Encampment in Northeast Minneapolis

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The City of Minneapolis announced an eviction date for the last major encampment not already forced off city-owned, unused public land.  It is tomorrow, Wednesday, December 28th.

People living at the Quarry encampment have called for defense, and the wider community has responded.  (The Twin Cities Workers Defense Alliance is posting this event listing to provide publicly-available information about the defense, but is not coordinating it in any fashion.)

Community defense Sanctuary Movement