Her GUTS album is notably influenced by Babes in Toyland, a Minneapolis all-female punk band that my close buddy was friends with. I was friends with him around 12 years old - and then around 16 we played in a roots reggae band together. I was already going against Western music. He and his buddies picked me up in their Ganga filled car - to drive to our practice place (just a park drive so no on coming traffic).
her mother would wake her up each morning by dropping the stylus on Babes In Toyland's Fontanelle album.
“Rock in that feminine way, that’s just the coolest thing in the world to me,” Rodrigo tells the magazine, revealing that she tried to tap into the Minneapolis band's aggression and energy on the punkier songs on GUTS,
Rodrigo remembered sleeping with a turntable next to her bed at the age of 14 and being awoken by her mom putting on Babes in Toyland's sophomore album,
My buddy went on to work at First Ave and we opened for a Ska band from LA - while we were 16 years old. We sucked - and admittedly I was not trying to put it mildly. He then befriended Babes in Toyland who had a big party house in Uptown. I lost contact with my friend after this - until he went into recovery....and I visited him... that was in his 20s sometime....
Now Olivia Rodrigo grew up listening to Babes in Toyland first thing every morning - played by her therapist mom - and she says her GUTS album tour is greatly inspired by Babes in Toyland.
Certainly the enthusiasm is contagious and the frission - chills - is serious on her new Netflix GUTS tour rock show. Post punk pop is the genre.
I'm glad Minneapolis could help spread the magic of music and that Olivia Rodrigo has amplified that Minneapolis post-punk sound to global fame!! We didn't call it "grunge" - we were before grunge. It's now known as the "Minneapolis Sound" - from the 1980s to the mid-90s...but this also includes MST3K - and even a band called Zeitgeist (that mainly played in Europe - avant garde classical).
by 2020 the George Floyd Uprising was now an extension of this Minneapolis Sound and it still reverberates around the global as a definitive protest.
movement that quickly spread from Minneapolis throughout the country. Between 26 May, the day after Floyd's death, and 22 August, ACLED records over 7,750 demonstrations linked to the BLM movement across more than 2,440 locations in all 50 states and Washington, DC.
Ivan Harrison Hunter, a Texas rightwing extremist, bragged about helping to set the fire then was seen shooting 13 rounds at the building
Hunter is the third alleged “Boogaloo Boi” to be charged in connection with protests in Minneapolis. Across the country, the “Boogaloo” movement has been linked to more than two dozen arrests and at least five deaths this year, including the alleged plot to kidnap the Michigan governor, Gretchen Whitmer.
During the first two days of protests, a small number of Boogaloo Bois—white, male, heavily armed, and clad in Hawaiian shirts—deployed to the streets of Minneapolis. They vocally supported the protestors, but they primarily focused on confronting the police. The Boogaloo Movement is far from united in support of this new idea of allying with BLM and antifascists against the government. Some within the movement have expressed skepticism, outright racism, and notions of white supremacy in response to various large Boogaloo social media pages expressing solidarity with the protesters. Others note that antifascist and leftist social media accounts have urged that protesters exercise caution around Boogaloo Bois. Few, if any, recognize that their own focus with anti-government accelerationism, penchant for firearms, and the history of their movement have made them vulnerable to the influence of the extreme right.
Facebook users active in the Boogaloo movement saw the protests in Minneapolis that began May 26 as a possible catalyst for revolution, upheaval, even a civil war, based not on racial tensions but on anti-government and anti-police resistance. Within the Boogaloo movement, gun ownership and individual liberty generally precede white supremacist and neo-Nazi sentiments, and many Facebook groups make a point of disavowing racism and National Socialists (“Natsocs”). [9, 10, 11] Administrators of pages such as Big Igloo Bois and Boojahadeen Memes actively supported the anti-racist and Black Lives Matter protests. They adopt a combination of serious moral tirades against police brutality and government capriciousness with memes and images typical of informal political groups. The Boogaloo movement claims a distinctly non-racial approach to anti-government action. As an example, affiliates on Facebook share images supporting gun ownership in African-American communities as a means of defense against abuses by police. Similarly, these Facebook groups draw clear parallels between George Floyd and figures of libertarian and gun-rights movements who have been killed by police in the past. [12]
16 Boogaloo supporters showed up to protest and engage with police, and that one among them was struck by a rubber bullet. [14, 15, 16]
CTEC’s investigation of social media evidence and reports from journalists on May 26 suggested that at least a few Boogaloo Movement supporters were present, although likely not as many as 16. Though Boogaloo supporters did not make a significant show of force, they were active online. Many expressed sympathy for the protestors and offered tactical advice for those who attended the protest. [17] Some discussed capturing a police station and pages posted photos of the damage to police cruisers and standoffs with officers, indicating the desire to harm and kill police.
Reports of armed white men in masks made antifascist and BLM protestors nervous—reports even circulated of efforts to disarm a white man with a handgun, who was variously described as a white nationalist or a Boogaloo Boi. [18] Antifascist groups on Twitter expressed concerns about unknown allies, particularly those who frequent alt-right mainstream and fringe social media accounts. [19, 20] On Facebook, Boogaloo supporters debated the best way to express sympathy for the protestors.
3rd Precinct did routine "anal searches" among other forms of torture - illegal searches
I got mugged across the street from that precinct! I had my arms up in the air and no cop came to help me. hahaa. I only had $2 on me so no big deal - except the mugger said, "Put your arms down!" hilarious. The mugger was about 350 pounds and I swear he soon after became my housemate! I kid you not. Very strange.
prosecutors have been forced to drop charges for searches found to be illegal, according to court records.
The brand of aggressive policing on display in the Floyd video has long been standard practice for some Third Precinct officers when dealing with suspects of nonviolent, low-level crimes, often involving people of color, said Abigail Cerra, a commissioner for Minneapolis' Police Conduct Oversight Commission.
"My clients were constantly getting anal searches," said Cerra, who also has been a public defender. "Not at the hospital. At the Third Precinct."
The fence was just taken down around the 3rd Precinct. Should be interesting.
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