Stop Weapons MN

Weapons for the genocide of Palestinian people are being designed and manufactured here, in our communities. How will you resist? #StopArmingIsrael #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

NEW Video: An Amazon worker joined pro-Palestine activists blockading an Amazon distribution center in a Minneapolis suburb during last week's #A15 global day of action against Israel’s war on Gaza. They spoke on why they protested. [CC] More: unicornriot.ninja/2024/amazon-bl… "Today is April 15th, which is an International Day of Action that was called to do an economic blockade in support of Palestinian liberation. People from around the Twin Cities area came together to blockade this facility and to stop work. We were able to completely stop work here for two hours this morning. No trucks were able to come in and out, which meant that the warehouse had to come to a standstill. This was a place of community and joy and hope for Palestinian liberation. Last year, Amazon committed $7.2 billion to Israel. That money is going to technology that is being used to surveil and target specific Palestinians. It's facial recognition technology like cloud storage that the IDF uses. It's, the Israeli state relies on technology that Amazon is actively selling to them. As an Amazon worker, I think it's important to speak up against the actions that the company is taking. Not only are they aiding Israel's apartheid and genocidal regime, they are also mistreating workers. They are surveilling workers here. Workers at Amazon are overwhelmingly poor immigrant people of color, and they are targeted by Amazon because Amazon knows that they will take jobs that underpay them and overwork them. We are standing here in the heart of the Empire. We're here because we are complicit. Places that we work for, things that we support with our everyday lives are actively supporting apartheid and genocide in Palestine. It's important to me as an Amazon worker, to make my voice heard and say, I do not support what this company is doing. And I am in support of Palestinian liberation. We have to stand up and say, this is not okay."

This action yesterday had four moving parts and dozens of organizers. How inspiring to see autonomous groups coming together and executing a complicated plan.

Amazon and Wells Fargo are investing in weapons and technologies used to murder Palestinians in Gaza For @#a15 autonomous groups in Minnesota shut it down!

Submitted: Shipping at Amazon facility in Maple Grove stopped for 2 hours for #a15actions for a #FreePalestine Amazon is deeply complicit in the Genocide in Palestine and today we halted over 100 shipment vehicles to slow the war machine

Remember this: try. (Photo from Feb 2024-Plymouth, MN)

"The day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try." - Nemik's Manifesto (from Andor)

land of the "free," home of the pigs

we are now taking bets on whether these cows will rise up against the new weapons manufacturing facility that maple grove is trying to build.

Submitted: Protestors showed up this morning on the 170th day of the jen.o.side in Ga..za to remind Governor Tim Walz that he is complicit and the bloood runs thick on his hands, as long as he continues to invest MN public pensions in the state of izzrahell.

yet military and policing budgets go up every year👀

@UR_Ninja . @SecBlinken you are allowing this to happen. we need to stop the war machine.

NEW: Starving Palestinians in Gaza Scramble for Aid Drops This is the first time in recorded history that 100% of a population has been “severely food insecure,” said U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken while speaking about Gaza. Full story: unicornriot.ninja/2024/starving-…

jokes aside maple grove just approved a new weapons manufacturing facility to be built and gave them 600k of city money to get started.

BAE manufactures artillery systems fitted with white phospherous bombs along with missile launching kits and fighter jet components. No genocide factory in our backyard or anywhere. #freepalestine #freegaza

Activists shut down Maple Grove City Council after coward elected officials vote yes on funding for BAE weapons manufacturing facility. #FreePalestine #StopArmingIsrael #EndIsraelsGenocide

bizjournals.com/twincities/blo… "BAE 's Fridley operation develops naval guns, launchers, artillery, advanced weapons and precision munitions."

UPDATE: Maple Grove City Council approves 600k TIF funding to BAE systems for new weapons manufacturing plant despite overwhelmingly negative community comments. The meeting was interrupted by protesters yelling “Shame on you” and “Free Palestine”

Submitted: Action alert! Today at 7:30pm BAE Systems is petitioning the city of Maple Grove, MN for 600k in TIF funding for a new weapons manufacturing facility. Show up to tell them we don't want tax payer money for weapons manufacturing in our communities! #StopArmingIsrael

More information about BAE systems, which is trying to expand their weapons manufacturing operations into Maple Grove, MN

Citations/further readings about BAE's project in Maple Grove

Contact the Maple Grove city council to ask them not to fund this project that will bring more weapons manufacturing to our communities.