[From the Open Publishing Newswire]

We're converging under the banner of “Shut down, rise up!” to respond tothe Minnesota's expected government shutdown, and we'd like you to join us.

Starting on July 1st, we'll be coming together in Powderhorn Park (3400 15th Ave S, Mpls) every evening to share resources, organize political action, and build community. A free meal will be provided starting at 5pm every day, followed by a general assembly. We'll also have music and fun! Bring what you can and take what you need!

For more info, see: http://ShutDownRiseUp.org

For updates, subscribe to our announcements list by sending an email to: SDRU+subscribe@googlegroups.com

Check out our poster/pamphlet: shutdownriseup.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/shutdownriseup-poster-print-low-res.pdf

from http://ctul.net/

Hunger Strike, May 21-??:

Bringing to light the injustices workers face every day cleaning Cub Foods stores.

“Every night, we are surrounded by food as we clean the grocery stores in our community.  Yet often we cannot afford to put enough food on the table for our own families.”

Collapsing Budgets Be Damned: Feds and Both Political Parties Determined to Escalate Wars on Drugs and Independent Food Producers; Pharmacy Board Seeks Unlimited Power to Ban Cheeseburgers Without Pesky Public Hearings

By Dan Feidt for Twin Cities Indymedia – The State of Minnesota's budget looks terrible right now, as hardline freshman Republicans and Democratic Governor Mark Dayton look unlikely to cut a budget deal before the legislative session ends this month. However, the leadership of both major parties are avid players funding the thick patronage networks spawned by America's other endless war, the violent administrative system of moral panicking known as the war on drugs. There's action on several fronts and the news is all bad.

The status quo isn't good enough for the moral crusaders, pushing all-out to make Minnesota's drug regulation process itself more secret and totally unaccountable by shutting down public meetings and automating the drug banning system. On the federal level, the well-intentioned but horribly designed new food safety law instructed the Food and Drug Administration to write aggressive new administrative policies to seize all foods produced in ways they don't like, even without any evidence of contamination whatsoever – no doubt intended to neutralize the rapidly spreading raw food alternative distribution networks Americans are flocking towards, at the expense of the FDA's toxic and often lethal industrial food system.

Since the vastly expensive police programs making up the war on drugs cannot be justified at the state level, fiscal deception abounds; the same federal funding source that finances fusion center & police state programs, the little-known Bureau of Justice Assistance, (BJA) actually turns out to be the key linchpin in the drug war police state gravy train.

Below the fold: The latest findings in lethal FDA big pharma corruption; the BJA cash pipeline; State Constitutional Rights vs corrupt FDA operations; Legislative fiscal fraud a permanent feature in drug policymaking. The Board of Pharmacy's possible final public meeting ever, to re-justify Nixon's favorite rule, Cannabis on Schedule One, is Weds, May 11th, 9 AM, 4th Floor Conf Room A., 2829 University Avenue SE, Mpls