"Berkeley teachers, staff and supporters gathered outside Malcolm X Elementary Friday afternoon in a solidarity protest with people in Minneapolis, urging more funding for public schools instead of immigration enforcement. Another protest, in the Southside neighborhood, took aim at a hotel owned by Hilton, which has provided lodging for ICE agents in Minnesota. Congregations in Berkeley and across the Bay Area are participating in a national day of action sparked by Trump's immigration enforcement and Renee Good's killing."
"Protesters and federal officers have been clashing for weeks in Minneapolis, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross' fatal shooting of unarmed Renee Good on Jan. 7 caused tensions to explode. On Thursday, the federal Justice Department arrested three protesters who disrupted a St. Paul church service led by a pastor who works for ICE. The demonstrations in Berkeley were part of a national day of action against aggressive tactics by ICE."
Berkeley teachers, staff, parents, students and congregations staged solidarity protests with Minneapolis, calling for more funding for public schools rather than immigration enforcement. Demonstrators targeted a hotel used to lodge ICE agents and joined a national day of action responding to aggressive ICE tactics and the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent. Protesters clashed with federal officers in Minneapolis and three protesters were arrested for disrupting a St. Paul church service. Berkeley educators highlighted underfunded schools while negotiating higher pay and benefits in the statewide We Can't Wait campaign and chanted "ICE out!" during the demonstrations.
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