[Marxism] Samsung Heir Apologizes for Corruption and Union-Busting Scandals

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NY Times, May 30, 2020
Samsung Heir Apologizes for Corruption and Union-Busting Scandals
By Choe Sang-Hun

SEOUL, South Korea — The de facto head of Samsung, Lee Jae-yong, 
apologized on Wednesday for the corruption and union-busting scandals 
that have bedeviled his conglomerate, declaring that he will be the last 
of his family members to lead the South Korean corporate empire.


During a nationally televised news conference, Mr. Lee, 51, said Samsung 
would also respect its workers’ right to organize independent labor 
unions, ending its decades-old “no-union” philosophy. That stance was 
often cited as one of the key reasons Samsung could grow so rapidly 
while other conglomerates, like Hyundai, were often crippled by militant 
labor activism at their work sites.


Mr. Lee — known as J.Y. Lee in the West — officially holds the title of 
vice chairman of Samsung, but his influence there goes much further. He 
has been running the conglomerate founded by his grandfather Lee 
Byung-chull since a heart attack incapacitated his father, Lee Kun-hee, 
the chairman, in 2014. But he has also stood trial on charges of bribing 
Park Geun-hye, the former president of South Korea, who was impeached 
and ousted for corruption and abuse of power.


“Samsung has not strictly complied with laws and ethics,” Mr. Lee said 
with a bow during the news conference at a Samsung headquarters in 
Seoul. “Although it has been lauded for being first rate in technology 
and products, Samsung has faced harsh criticism.”


“This is my fault,” he said. “I apologize.”

Over the decades, Samsung and its top leaders have often apologized for 
bribery, tax-evasion and other crimes. But corruption scandals have 
continued at Samsung, South Korea’s largest and most profitable business 
group.


Both analysts and critics have said those scandals stemmed largely from 
the Lee family’s attempts to ensure a father-to-son transfer of 
managerial power over Samsung at all costs, even if that meant breaking 
laws and buying political influence.


On Wednesday, Mr. Lee accepted such criticism.

“All of the problems basically started from this succession issue,” he 
said. “From now on, I will make sure that no controversy happens again 
regarding the succession issue.”


Mr. Lee said he had no intention of bequeathing managerial powers to his 
own children and vowed to give professional managers greater roles in 
Samsung.


The Samsung scion still faces his own legal issues, in a courtroom back 
and forth that has kept his name and the name of his empire in the 
headlines.


In 2017, Mr. Lee was sentenced to five years in prison for providing Ms. 
Park and one of her friends with $7 million in bribes to obtain the 
government’s support for a merger of two Samsung affiliates that was 
seen as crucial to tightening Mr. Lee’s control over the Samsung 
conglomerate.


Then, in February 2018, an appeals court judge reduced Mr. Lee’s prison 
term to two and a half years and suspended the sentence, releasing him 
from prison. The judge ruled that the amount of bribes Mr. Lee had 
provided was less than half of the sum determined by the trial court.


That was not the end of the matter. In August, the Supreme Court of 
South Korea ruled that the appeals court had underestimated the value of 
the bribes, and sent the case back to the lower court for retrial. That 
raised the possibility that Mr. Lee could be imprisoned again.


More setbacks followed.

In two separate court rulings in December, 39 people — most of them 
current or former Samsung managers — were convicted of conspiring 
illegally for years to sabotage efforts to organize independent unions 
at two Samsung affiliates and their subcontractors, and of plotting to 
keep the conglomerate free of union activism.


Several top Samsung figures — including Lee Sang-hoon, chairman of 
Samsung Electronics’ board of directors and widely considered the No. 2 
figure in the conglomerate’s hierarchy — were sent to prison.


In October, the appeals court judge reconsidering Mr. Lee’s case ordered 
Samsung to present a plan on how to ensure that the conglomerate would 
not break laws again. Samsung started its “compliance commission” in 
January.


The commission has since made a series of recommendations for Samsung, 
including ending its “no-union management” and apologizing for the 
corruption scandal.


On Wednesday, Mr. Lee was acting on the committee’s recommendations.

“From now on, I will make sure that Samsung is no longer accused of 
pursuing no labor union management,” he said, adding that Samsung will 
respect South Korea’s constitutionally guaranteed right for workers to 
form 

[Marxism] Minneapolis update

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From Rick Sklader on FB:

Justice For George Floyd Demonstration update, Government and corporate 
media spin.


From this afternoon and continuing (it’s now 6:15pm) there so been a 
massive and peaceful Rally maintaining the Call fir Justice For George 
Floyd. This rally was broadly attended. It included LaKota dancers, 
couples with their children in total a real cross section of Minnesotans 
furious about George Floyd’s Murder.


At 52nd & Oliver Avenue South in tonier Southwest Minneapolis there’s 
been a demonstration this afternoon at DA Mike Freeman’s office, where 
white fragility and white Class privilege are terribly upset that their 
neighborhood has to be treated in this manner.


At 8:00PM a Metropolitan Twin Cities Curfew goes into effect until 
6:00AM. The Governor, the Mayor and every other elected official have 
been telling people to go home because there’ll be no repeat of last 
night. People in Minneapolis neighborhoods have been told to take 
certain precautions for self protection. Meanwhile, it feels like we’re 
back to the future with all the rhetoric about “outside agitators” and 
“bad” people without any differentiation going on and blame being placed 
at the doorstep of organized white supremacists and their gang leader 
Donald Trump. It’s 6:45PM and law and order wanna be Jacob Frey is 
vomiting reactionary rhetoric attacking the movement for Justice while 
simultaneously attacking it.


Waiting for 8PM.

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[Marxism] Trump Threatens White House Protesters With ‘Vicious Dogs’ and ‘Ominous Weapons’

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NY Times, May 30, 2020
Trump Threatens White House Protesters With ‘Vicious Dogs’ and ‘Ominous 
Weapons’

By Maggie Haberman

A day after claiming he didn’t mean to suggest that law enforcement 
officials should shoot people who were part of the unrest in Minnesota, 
President Trump said on Saturday that the Secret Service had been 
prepared to sic the “most vicious dogs” on protesters outside the White 
House gates on Friday night.


“Great job last night at the White House by the U.S. @SecretService,” 
Mr. Trump tweeted in a string of four posts on Saturday. “They were not 
only totally professional, but very cool. I was inside, watched every 
move, and couldn’t have felt more safe.”


He continued that the Secret Service allowed the protesters to “scream & 
rant as much as they wanted” and only acted when “someone got too frisky 
or out of line.”


“The front line was replaced with fresh agents, like magic,” he added. 
“Big crowd, professionally organized, but nobody came close to breaching 
the fence. If they had they would have been greeted with the most 
vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons, I have ever seen. That’s when 
people would have been really badly hurt, at least.”


Mr. Trump claimed that Secret Service agents told him they were 
clamoring for engagement with the protesters. “We put the young ones on 
the front line, sir, they love it, and good practice,” he claimed he had 
been told.


He also appeared to invite his own supporters to amass outside the White 
House on Saturday to counter the protesters, despite a ban against 
gatherings of more than 10 people in effect in Washington amid the 
coronavirus pandemic.


“Tonight, I understand, is MAGA NIGHT AT THE WHITE HOUSE???” he tweeted, 
using the acronym for his first campaign slogan, “Make America Great 
Again.” And he tried to paint the protesters as recruited agitators 
instead of people organically making a statement.


Mr. Trump’s renewed threat of violence against the protesters came as 
protests erupted in cities across the country.


And it came a day after he tweeted — and then tried to walk back — that 
“when the looting starts, the shooting starts” in response to protests 
in Minneapolis against the killing of George Floyd, a black man, at the 
hands of a white police officer.


That phrase was used in 1967 by a Miami police chief in reference to 
crackdowns on young black men. The chief, Walter Headley, accused the 
men of operating under cover of the civil rights movement and said his 
police force didn’t mind being accused of police brutality.


Mr. Trump waited nearly 14 hours to try to walk that statement back, 
claiming he had meant that when people loot, they then sometimes fire 
guns as well. And in remarks at a late afternoon event at the White 
House, Mr. Trump conceded that some of the protesters had legitimate 
grievances.


Mr. Trump traveled to Florida on Saturday for the second time this week 
to watch SpaceX try to launch a rocket to the International Space 
Station. The initial launch was scrubbed shortly before it was set to 
take place on Wednesday.


Talking to reporters as he left the White House, Mr. Trump was asked 
about his tweet that seemed to invite his own supporters to rally 
outside the White House. As he often does, Mr. Trump distanced himself 
from his own statements, saying he was merely asking a question and that 
he didn’t know if people were coming. He claimed not to be trying to 
stoke racial strife.


“By the way, they love African-American people, they love black people,” 
Mr. Trump volunteered, unprompted, describing his own supporters, who 
are overwhelmingly white.


“MAGA loves the black people,” he added.

He reiterated his condemnation of Minnesota’s governor and the mayor of 
Minneapolis, both Democrats, painting the matter in starkly political 
terms as his opposition to “liberal” activists.


“They’ve got to get tougher. They’ve got to get tougher,” Mr. Trump said 
of the responses to the unrest, which resulted on Thursday night in the 
burning of the police station where the officers involved in Mr. Floyd’s 
death worked. “They’ve got to be strong. Honor the memory of George 
Floyd, honor his memory. They have to get tougher, and by being tougher 
they will be honoring his memory, but they cannot let that happen.”


He again raised the prospect of sending in the military to quell the unrest.

“We could have troops on the ground very quickly if they ever want our 
military,” Mr. Trump said.


At Mr. Trump’s behest, the Defense Department ordered the Army to 
prepare active-duty military police units to deploy from several army 
bases to Minneapolis. The move 

[Marxism] No More Cop Unions | Kim Kelly | The New Republic

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[Marxism] The rebirth of Black Lives Matter

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The nearly spontaneous wave of demonstrations against the police murder of
George Floyd is a truer measure of what is going on in the USA today than
the headlines of the papers.

First of all these were not riots when they began. They were nearly
spontaneous demonstrations. Those that became riots were usually triggered
when the riot police attacked the demonstrators. Almost certainly police
provocateurs spurred vandalism on to increase the harvest of the arresting
officers. This is certainly what happened in Oakland, California.

Second, these demonstrations have occurred all over the country and are not
being systematically reported on. In California they occurred in San Jose,
Sacramento, Oakland, LA, San Francisco, Fresno, Bakersfield and who knows
else where.

The crowd in Oakland was mostly white, mostly young, but with a lot of
black and Asian participants. There were no apparent leaders.

These young people far outnumber the right wing open-the- economy
astro-turf demonstrators paid for by Devos and the Koch brothers.

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Re: [Marxism] Riots? Maybe not so radical

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MSNBC is reporting Boogaloo and similar groups, but also the shades on
anarchism, dubious at best.  At worst, the Nihilists from "The Big
Lebowski."

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Re: [Marxism] Are riots revolutionary? | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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My gut reaction is that if riots were revolutionary the police wouldn't put
so much energy into using agents provocateurs to start them.  They may
allow an expression of anger but only in a way that is unsustainable,
doesn't go anywhere or build anything, and which excludes most people from
participating. They (most people) instead hide in their homes in fear and
emerge to burnt neighbourhoods.

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> About a week ago, someone posted a link to a Verso book by Joshua Clover
> titled “Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings” that I took a
> quick gander at on the Verso website. It stated that “Political theorist
> Joshua Clover theorizes the riot as the form of the coming
> insurrection.” I didn’t pay that much attention to it except to note
> that insurrection is a problematic term if you are a Marxist, at least
> if it is understood as anything like October 1917. There wasn’t much
> that was insurrectionary about it or for that matter neither was there
> much rioting going on in Russia. Mostly, there were mass protests
> demanding peace, bread and land.
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[Marxism] ‘Brutal and unacceptable’: Calls for arrest of NYPD cop who put woman in the ER during protests

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>  We'll see how much guts the "progressive" sheep deBlasio has when it
> comes to taking on the Blue Klux Klan of the NYPD!
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[Marxism] Are riots revolutionary? | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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About a week ago, someone posted a link to a Verso book by Joshua Clover 
titled “Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings” that I took a 
quick gander at on the Verso website. It stated that “Political theorist 
Joshua Clover theorizes the riot as the form of the coming 
insurrection.” I didn’t pay that much attention to it except to note 
that insurrection is a problematic term if you are a Marxist, at least 
if it is understood as anything like October 1917. There wasn’t much 
that was insurrectionary about it or for that matter neither was there 
much rioting going on in Russia. Mostly, there were mass protests 
demanding peace, bread and land.


full: https://louisproyect.org/2020/05/30/are-riots-revolutionary/

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[Marxism] The politics of riots and how our rulers see them | Editorial | The Morning Star

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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/e/politics-riots-and-how-our-rulers-see-them


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[Marxism] Reclaiming Harrisburg

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(All this fucking bullshit from Jacobin continues as if over the next 20 
years electing 'democratic socialists" can turn the USA into Sweden. By 
then, Sweden will look like Somalia. As Willy Loman said in "Death of a 
Salesman", "the woods are burning." Willy said it because his world was 
falling apart. We say it now because our world is falling apart. If 
those 65,000 members of DSA started getting jobs in Amazon warehouses 
and used their social power to squeeze Jeff Bezos's balls in a general 
strike, that would be the kind of revolutionary socialism that is 
needed, not that weak tea "democratic socialism" that is nothing except 
left-liberalism of the George McGovern variety. At least, McGovern never 
pretended that his campaign had anything to do with socialism.)


There’s a pandemic raging and Bernie Sanders is off the ballot, but 
other candidates inspired by his campaign are still running — like Rick 
Krajewski and Nikil Saval, two candidates for the Pennsylvania state 
legislature with roots in working-class fights, who are backed by 
Sanders and the Democratic Socialists of America.


https://jacobinmag.com/2020/05/pennsylvania-nikil-saval-rick-krajewski-reclaim-philadelphia

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Re: [Marxism] Riots? Maybe not so radical

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It may be seen as a good thing, Mark, that so many people demonstrated without 
the kind of mass coordination you are used to. Numbers are indeed paramount 
when demonstrating against the police and against official misconduct, but the 
most important thing, as I see it, is commitment -- and apparently many 
Cincinnatians are committed to opposing police violence and police murders. 
When you and your friends swell those numbers, the uprising will be even more 
significant. In solidarity, Wythe

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> There was apparently a big demonstration last night in Cincinnati. It
> reportedly blocked Highway 75 for forty-five minutes. I live only a few
> streets away from the entrance ramp to that interstate. I don't know yet
> who organized it, but I assume the remains of BLM with some of the "cadre"
> groups. The point is that I am on every local list and site I could be and
> didn't hear a goddamned thing about it. I also live in a neighborhood
> where people surely should have heard about it and I'd be surprised that
> any of them did.
> Are we so far from the last wave of ongoing mass movements that the
> organizers don't know how to build these things--even to the point of not
> circulating notices. Or maybe they think the way to do is on the masonic
> model?
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> The only way to address issues like police brutality and racism is with
> numbers. It's an old lesson and we shouldn't have to reinvent the wheel
> every generation.
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Re: [Marxism] Riots? Maybe not so radical

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 It's obvious that nobody is ever going to join an action we don't know is
taking place.

I don't know what you mean by asserting that "so many people
demonstrated."   We need the numbers and a network of support, particularly
in the black community.  An issue like this--and I used to say this about
BLM--should be able to mobilize people in the thousands or tens of
thousands in any major American city.

It would be peachy keen if we could help a generation of new militants to
avoid having to relearn the hard-won lessons of earlier movements.

Cheers,
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Re: [Marxism] Riots? Maybe not so radical

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I wonder if who she is seeing is the Boogaloo Movement 
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/27/the-boogaloo-movement-is-not-what-you-think/

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[Marxism] In the morning paper

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On Saturdays I get two newspapers at my door.
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[Marxism] New York City Bus Drivers Defy the NYPD, Refuse to Transport Arrested Protesters | Left Voice

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[Marxism] Every Single Worker Has Covid at One U.S. Farm on Eve of Harvest

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Re: [Marxism] Riots? Maybe not so radical

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There was apparently a big demonstration last night in Cincinnati.  It
reportedly blocked Highway 75 for forty-five minutes.  I live only a few
streets away from the entrance ramp to that interstate. I don't know yet
who organized it, but I assume the remains of BLM with some of the "cadre"
groups.  The point is that I am on every local list and site I could be and
didn't hear a goddamned thing about it.  I also live in a neighborhood
where people surely should have heard about it and I'd be surprised that
any of them did.
Are we so far from the last wave of ongoing mass movements that the
organizers don't know how to build these things--even to the point of not
circulating notices. Or maybe they think the way to do is on the masonic
model?

The only way to address issues like police brutality and racism is with
numbers.  It's an old lesson and we shouldn't have to reinvent the wheel
every generation.

Cheers,
Mark L.
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[Marxism] Target helped fund the Minneapolis Police's crackdown on minor crime.

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(Target is a Walmart type store.)

https://slate.com/business/2020/05/targets-long-history-with-minneapolis-police.html

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[Marxism] US Border Patrol Denounced as 'Rogue Agency' for Using Predator Drone to Spy on Minneapolis Protests | Common Dreams News

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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/29/us-border-patrol-denounced-rogue-agency-using-predator-drone-spy-minneapolis

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[Marxism] The Monster Enters: Covid-19, Avian Flu and the Plagues of Capitalism - book review - Counterfire

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[Marxism] Riots? Maybe not so radical

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(Linda Mann shared this message from a 3rd Precinct resident on FB.)

Dear friends

Thank you for all your kind messages & offers of help and comfort. To 
answer your question: No. We are not okay. I mean, we are all here, we 
are alive. The kids are doing good. But this situation is fucked. We are 
at failed state level. The last several nights have had trucks of armed 
men cruising through the streets. Fire everywhere. Fire department 
unable to respond. The ivy building fire behind my house was kept at bay 
for hours by two young women with a garden hose on the roof. Greg Green

and family fought a raging fire at the roofing company with buckets.

Shaleen Rae  saved residents of an encampment from being engulfed in 
flames. If these fires had not been put out, our whole block would burn. 
Yesterday a police officer came by and told us that "You know what you 
need to do if they come to your house" - basically acknowledging that 
there will be no law enforcement response if we are threatened and 
telling us we need to defend ourselves by shooting to kill (ummm...I 
dont have guns). When I asked a national guard member how to call them 
when armed gunmen threaten my life and my neighborhood is burning, he 
told me I need to leave the neighborhood. When I pointed out I feel my 
neighborhood will burn if we leave he said, "Its not my city."
Right now the national guard, state police, and MPD are lined up 
opposite protestors at the new protest zone right on 29th Av and Lake 3 
blocks from my house. They are defending a blocked off section of lake 
street which has already been totally decimated and continuing this 
destructive face off with protestors. Our grocery stores, restaurants, 
library - they are already looted, burned. This neighborhood- where you 
didnt need a car, where you could walk or bike and pretty much find 
everything you need...its destroyed. Now we want to save our homes and 
remaining businesses.


I want to be clear on one thing. I and my family have been protesting 
this whole time. We've been gassed along with everyone else; my son was 
shot with a rubber bullet. The cops sat on the rooftop aiming guns at us 
& never said a word/ made an announcement/ acknowledged our pain. I feel 
rage and I hear the totally justified rage from the community about the 
murder of george floyd and the police terroristic violence on black and 
brown bodies. In response to the community standing up and demanding 
accountability, the cops have maliciously abandoned the city.

There are some protestors out there looting and burning, its true.

But there are also a whole lot of other folks coming in from elsewhere 
who want to see this city burn. Who want to prove that we are the 
cartoonish dystopian city villified by the right. They're here too and 
they are fucking shit up. Theyre parking their cars with out of state 
plates in front of my house and heading down to the protest like its a 
big party. Theyre zipping through my street at night, intimidating us.
Whether its legit protestors fed up with the status quo or these right 
wing interlopers (or both), these people are terrorizing my working 
class neighborhood and destroying businesses that serve and employ my 
neighbors. If all this burns, it will just be rebuilt as a place for 
rich folks. A totally gentrified not-Lake street.


Some ugly suburbanesque sprawl. Its hard to say this, but we fucking 
need order. It does not feel like there are enough ntl guard down at 
lake street to patrol our streets and they dont seem to care, either. We 
on my block are taking things into our own hands and going to try to 
keep our neighborhood from burning down again tonight. But thats fucked. 
Hopefully the ntl guard doesnt antagonize people and make this worse. 
There doesn't seem to be enough of them to enforce curfew. Night 4, here 
we come.


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[Marxism] The Minneapolis Uprising in Context | Elizabeth Hinton | Boston Review

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http://bostonreview.net/race/elizabeth-hinton-minneapolis-uprising-context


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