🚨 Target has been in the news because of DEI, but too few know about Target’s DYSTOPIAN MASS SURVEILLANCE POLICE PARTNERSHIP 🚨
This Cocktails & Capitalism discussion with South Minneapolis activist and freelance journalist Marjaan Sirdar breaks it down
Marjaan Sirdar talks about Target and his 12 Part Series for @unicorn.riot titled ‘21st Century Jim Crow in the North Star City’
Follow Marjaan: @popsemcee
How Target Funded a ‘Tough On Crime’ Prosecutor’s Office, Driving Black Youth Incarceration in Minneapolis
https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/how-target-funded-a-tough-on-crime-prosecutors-office-driving-black-youth-incarceration-in-minneapolis/
Join us tomorrow 4/19 for the Free Mahdi Ali Campaign launch at the MFT building in NE. Mahdi Ali is a former South high school student.
Please support if you are able to because innocence alone is not enough to free the wrongly convicted. Mahdi needs a movement! Us educators and community members are building it. See you tomorrow.
Please join us virtually tomorrow (Saturday) morning at 10 am as we break down the case of former South High student Mahdi Ali who was wrongfully incarcerated in 2010 when he was 15 years old and sentenced to life for a crime he didn't commit. Learn how you can join the movement to help win his freedom. Mahdi will be calling in from prison to speak to you directly and address audience questions. Follow the QR code for the zoom link.
RIP Brother Malcolm who was murdered by the US govt 60 years ago today, although they tried to blame my family for his killing. Here is a photo of Malcolm X sitting behind my great grandfather - also taken out by the govt almost exactly ten years after they murdered Malcolm, and in the back is my grandfather, who too was at the center of a COINTELPRO plot and spent time in federal prison as a result of it. A story that has never been told. More to come soon. Long live Malcolm, Elijah and Nathaniel 🤲🏾✊🏾
TGT deserves more scrutiny: In 2023 it claimed to lose more than $1B in theft/shrink which amounts to more than $500k per each of its 2000 stores or $1400/daily. If this seems incredible it’s because it is considering the retailers long history of partnering with law enforcement including the fbi and its world class surveillance systems
https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/targets-critics-call-out-chicanery-new-report-contradicts-official-reason-behind-closings/
“They came and walked up on us and said they’ll ‘Trayvon Martin our little Black asses.’ His exact words.” A youth on the Downtown 100 list spoke about his encounter with the Minneapolis police
https://unicornriot.ninja/2021/targeted-young-black-and-harassed-in-downtown-minneapolis/
“Wherever there’s human rights violations, there’s a corporation turning a profit,” said Dr. Keith Mayes. “You’re going to always find throughout U.S. history that behind some of these draconian policies and practices are corporations.”
/2021/05/27/targets-role-in-criminalizing-black-youth/
Target has committed a whole lot of harm against Black communities and the Minneapolis press has helped provide cover for the retail giant
https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/unscathed-how-the-press-helps-hide-targets-harm-film/
“Yellow for friendship, red for love
Black for the universal stars above
Pink buds that I bought her on Valentine
She said it was forever then she changed her mind
I said a little prayer then I cleared my eyes
'Cause the jaw and my heart string join a line”
