Unlawful Assembly is a Twin Cities (MN) radical marching band (and flag corps!) collective founded in January 2017 to support causes of social justice, liberation, and equity. We bring music and chanting support to marches, picket lines, and other actions and events in line with our Points of Unity.

Unlawful Assembly is a Twin Cities radical marching band (and flag corps!) collective founded in January 2017 to support causes of social justice, liberation, and equity. We bring music and chanting support to marches, picket lines, and other actions and events in line with our Points of Unity: http://unlawfulassembly.org/points-of-unity/

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New blood, bringing more radical music and politics to Somerville!
We’ll bring a fresh take from the midwest - a region without a ton of representation at Honk.
We recently led a Chant Workshop in Minneapolis and are planning another one this summer, so we will definitely be bringing chanting and ways to infuse our performances with politics.

Line 3 (pipeline) resistance actions
Super Bowl protests
Hosted a Chant Workshop at the MNxMN conference
Supported St. Paul teachers on the precipice of a strike
International Human Rights Day march
Supported the “Release the MN 8” campaign for Cambodian Americans being detained and deported by ICE
Anniversary of the police murder of Jamar Clark
Drop the Charges actions against Louis Hunter - cousin of Philando Castile - who was facing felony charges for protesting the police murder of Philando
etc.

Our Points of Unity make it clear that we stand for intersectional movements that support collective liberation for all. We review these with all prospective members to ensure we’re on the same page, and to ensure we create a welcoming space for all.
Being a multi-skill level band is important to us.
We include songs in our repertoire that are relevant to and can connect with diverse communities that we support in actions, and we recently started playing a song written by a local Black woman in the movement for Black lives here in Minneapolis (with her permission).
We are planning an Anti-Oppression workshop for our band in the coming months to help us get a shared understanding of oppression as we continue to develop our group and take on the continuous work to eliminate all forms of domination (white supremacy, class oppression, patriarchy, hetero-sexism, ageism, ableism, transphobia, etc).
We aim to work WITH organizers from local community groups as opposed to simply showing up and playing FOR them.

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