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‘I’m not the guilty one’: the water protector facing jail time for trying to stop a pipeline
(www.theguardian.com)
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This is really hard to read. The degree of criminalization, the coordination in intimidating activists... it's bad, man.
It seems like Minnesota arrested almost the same number of nonviolent protesters against a pipeline in a few days as the DOJ has arrested for storming the capital on Jan 6. The sense of misguided priorities is really alarming.
One serves interests of big businesses. The other doesn't.