Nothing to see here, just Angelenos shutting down the entire 101 Freeway through #LosAngeles.
The people of Minnesota are being absolutely heroic, but please remember that the only reason the national outlets were forced to cover the invasion there was the shooting of two white people. Everything that's going on in Minnesota is happening nationwide. Where the victims and crowds are not majority white, it's still ignored. LA pioneered a lot of the resistance tactics being use in Minnesota.
Protesters in LA did this a year ago and at first I thought this was old footage. It's not.
The point here is twofold: racism is still glaringly obvious in the media for what you *don't* see, and also: there is no city in the US that will not shut the place down to stop the Nazis.
This movement is entirely grassroots-- not only did we have none of the national leadership the South Koreans had, the media and social media oligarchs tried to suppress our organizing.
What's happening in Minnesota didn't randomly spring up from nowhere, like Aphrodite emerging from the sea full grown. Thousands of organizers and millions of protesters across the country have busted our asses for a year with every institution, all the elites, completely failing us.
The Minnesota uprising is a product of the wonderful people of Minneapolis, but also the ideas all the other cities came up with first, all the support shown by resistance groups in other states.
The US national outlets don't want to show you ANY of that, but they will show you the white people if forced-- hence, Portland and Minneapolis.
LA is doing everything Minneapolis is doing and came up with a lot of these tactics. Ditto for NYC, DC, Chicago, New Orleans, everywhere that's been attacked-- only those cities have more diverse crowds. We can't go celebrating their courage, now can we?
Follow and support the Minnesotans, just please don't forget all the others.
