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February 18, 2020

Prompting quick action from an unresponsive rental management company

In 2019 a dozen people with the Twin Cities Solidarity Network joined in support of a tenant as we all together confronted the Rental Management Guys (no we have not changed any names to protect the guilty, that's what they call themselves) and won immediate fixes and changes for several tenants.

Call Now: No encampment evictions under a mask mandate.

Call to Call: Tell Minneapolis officials to cancel their plan to violently destroy Near North camp

Tell the City of Minneapolis to disavow government violence as a response to poverty

Sample call script: I am calling on you to cancel Tuesday's plan to displace people from Near North camp. I support the demands of camp residents:

No forced removal or destruction.
All decisions about Near North camp happen with residents' consent.
No use of police or other public resources to displace people ever.
Permanent or at least transitional housing, or even alternative vacant land, provided before leaving this camp.

A frontloader dumps a mangled tent and wooden platform materials into a dumptruck. A grey-mustached white man in a fluorescent vest and a police officer holding a piece of paper watches. Several police squad cars are in the foreground. A second frontloader is partially visible over a large pile of crushed tents, wood, bicycles, and clothing. The Minneapolis downtown skyline is in the background.

April 25, 2022

City Attacks Unhoused People's Encampment, Destroys Personal Property, in Pre-Dawn Raid

On 2022 April 19, on Tuesday starting at 5am the city of Minneapolis destroyed the homes and personal possessions of 20 residents of Minneapolis.

Tenants organizing