{"ancestors":[{"id":"111836811617750103","created_at":"2024-01-29T02:11:57.899Z","in_reply_to_id":null,"in_reply_to_account_id":"111432378159062646","sensitive":false,"spoiler_text":"","visibility":"public","language":"en","uri":"https://urbanists.social/users/nearnorth/statuses/111836811617750103","url":"https://urbanists.social/@nearnorth/111836811617750103","replies_count":1,"reblogs_count":2,"favourites_count":6,"quotes_count":0,"edited_at":null,"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://mastodon.social/@Radical_EgoCom\" class=\"u-url mention\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003eRadical_EgoCom\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat this happens repeatedly all over the US shows it is not an accident or a failure to do math.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe need to see this as the repression that it is to resist it and similar softer repressions, or too many people conclude prisons should be more awful and prisoners should be forced to work to pay for it.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCapitalism can\u0026#39;t take too many people in any way independent of it, so people on the margins of the economy are incarcerated at far greater expense than meeting basic needs.\u003c/p\u003e","reblog":null,"application":{"name":"Web","website":null},"account":{"id":"110135444087397070","username":"nearnorth","acct":"nearnorth","display_name":"Near North camp","locked":false,"bot":false,"discoverable":true,"indexable":true,"group":false,"created_at":"2023-04-03T00:00:00.000Z","note":"\u003cp\u003ePeople without formal housing but a strong community supporting one another and fighting for self-determination against the hostile mayor of Minneapolis (and food and water and shelter and heat and its a lot of work staying alive by the way if you haven\u0026#39;t done it all yourself before)\u003c/p\u003e","url":"https://urbanists.social/@nearnorth","uri":"https://urbanists.social/users/nearnorth","avatar":"https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/accounts/avatars/110/135/444/087/397/070/original/f25cffa1d2d321b5.jpg","avatar_static":"https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/accounts/avatars/110/135/444/087/397/070/original/f25cffa1d2d321b5.jpg","header":"https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/accounts/headers/110/135/444/087/397/070/original/4bc54acfc1de1ca9.jpg","header_static":"https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/accounts/headers/110/135/444/087/397/070/original/4bc54acfc1de1ca9.jpg","followers_count":284,"following_count":418,"statuses_count":2090,"last_status_at":"2025-08-12","hide_collections":false,"noindex":false,"emojis":[],"roles":[],"fields":[{"name":"Website","value":"\u003ca href=\"https://northdef.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener me\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"invisible\"\u003ehttps://\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003enorthdef.wordpress.com/\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"invisible\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e","verified_at":"2023-04-13T21:26:27.768+00:00"},{"name":"Open Collective fund","value":"\u003ca href=\"https://opencollective.com/mpls-northside-mutual-aid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener me\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"invisible\"\u003ehttps://\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ellipsis\"\u003eopencollective.com/mpls-norths\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"invisible\"\u003eide-mutual-aid\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e","verified_at":"2023-04-13T21:26:29.108+00:00"},{"name":"Location","value":"\u003ca href=\"https://urbanists.social/tags/Minneapolis\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\"\u003e#\u003cspan\u003eMinneapolis\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"https://urbanists.social/tags/Northside\" class=\"mention hashtag\" 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\u003ca href=\"https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/Download/FileV2/30901/Homeless-Encampment-Closures-Legislative-Directive-Response-Apr-11-2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"invisible\"\u003ehttps://\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ellipsis\"\u003elims.minneapolismn.gov/Downloa\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"invisible\"\u003ed/FileV2/30901/Homeless-Encampment-Closures-Legislative-Directive-Response-Apr-11-2023.pdf\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://northdef.wordpress.com/2022/10/06/minneapolis-destroys-near-north-camp-with-massive-militarized-police-led-attack/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"invisible\"\u003ehttps://\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ellipsis\"\u003enorthdef.wordpress.com/2022/10\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"invisible\"\u003e/06/minneapolis-destroys-near-north-camp-with-massive-militarized-police-led-attack/\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e$4.5M operating cost for the least-horrible shelter holding 100 people at a time \u003ca href=\"https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/10/04/resident-of-tiny-home-village-welcomes-safety-security-stability-of-avivo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"invisible\"\u003ehttps://www.\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ellipsis\"\u003emprnews.org/story/2023/10/04/r\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"invisible\"\u003eesident-of-tiny-home-village-welcomes-safety-security-stability-of-avivo\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStartup costs were $6.5M while our camp was asking \u003ca href=\"https://urbanists.social/tags/Minneapolis\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\"\u003e#\u003cspan\u003eMinneapolis\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e CPED to lease us their unused land so we could build community with some stability. And a higher % of people in our camp were getting into housing than Avivo has been able to boast about since.\u003c/p\u003e","reblog":null,"application":{"name":"Web","website":null},"account":{"id":"110135444087397070","username":"nearnorth","acct":"nearnorth","display_name":"Near North camp","locked":false,"bot":false,"discoverable":true,"indexable":true,"group":false,"created_at":"2023-04-03T00:00:00.000Z","note":"\u003cp\u003ePeople without formal housing but a strong community supporting one another and fighting for self-determination against the hostile mayor of Minneapolis (and food and water and shelter and heat and its a lot of work staying alive by the way if you haven\u0026#39;t done it all yourself before)\u003c/p\u003e","url":"https://urbanists.social/@nearnorth","uri":"https://urbanists.social/users/nearnorth","avatar":"https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/accounts/avatars/110/135/444/087/397/070/original/f25cffa1d2d321b5.jpg","avatar_static":"https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/accounts/avatars/110/135/444/087/397/070/original/f25cffa1d2d321b5.jpg","header":"https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/accounts/headers/110/135/444/087/397/070/original/4bc54acfc1de1ca9.jpg","header_static":"https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/accounts/headers/110/135/444/087/397/070/original/4bc54acfc1de1ca9.jpg","followers_count":284,"following_count":418,"statuses_count":2090,"last_status_at":"2025-08-12","hide_collections":false,"noindex":false,"emojis":[],"roles":[],"fields":[{"name":"Website","value":"\u003ca href=\"https://northdef.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener me\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"invisible\"\u003ehttps://\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003enorthdef.wordpress.com/\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"invisible\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e","verified_at":"2023-04-13T21:26:27.768+00:00"},{"name":"Open Collective fund","value":"\u003ca href=\"https://opencollective.com/mpls-northside-mutual-aid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener me\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"invisible\"\u003ehttps://\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ellipsis\"\u003eopencollective.com/mpls-norths\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"invisible\"\u003eide-mutual-aid\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e","verified_at":"2023-04-13T21:26:29.108+00:00"},{"name":"Location","value":"\u003ca href=\"https://urbanists.social/tags/Minneapolis\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\"\u003e#\u003cspan\u003eMinneapolis\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"https://urbanists.social/tags/Northside\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\"\u003e#\u003cspan\u003eNorthside\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e","verified_at":null}]},"media_attachments":[],"mentions":[],"tags":[{"name":"minneapolis","url":"https://urbanists.social/tags/minneapolis"}],"emojis":[],"quote":null,"card":null,"poll":null,"quote_approval":{"automatic":[],"manual":[],"current_user":"denied"}}]}