"Donald Trump's ICE, a Gestapo-like agency, has run rampant for weeks in Minneapolis, snatching thousands of people and even children off the streets, citizens and immigrants alike, breaking into peoples' homes, shooting and murdering people, and trying to suppress lawful protests. In response, the people of Minneapolis have organized a massive fightback, flooding the streets to confront ICE agents and protecting the people from the transgressions of the state-sponsored neo-Nazis who are trying to occupy the city."
"On Friday morning, January 23, thousands of people occupied the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, through which ICE has deported over 2,000 people. This demonstration was led in large part by Local 17 of UNITE HERE, the sister Union to the San Francisco Bay Area's Local 2. Demonstrators held up photos of Local 17 workers abducted and deported by ICE. Those abducted Local 17 members included workers at the airport. Many airport workers did not show up for work on Friday."
"The people of Minneapolis are showing us the way forward. On Friday, January 23, they staged what even The New York Times is calling a general strike organized by residents, faith leaders and labor unions. There is truly a grassroots mass movement that has sprung directly from the people of Minneapolis. This is the city that spearheaded the resistance to the racist murder of George Floyd during Trump's first term as President."
Residents, faith leaders, and labor unions organized a general strike on January 23 and staged large-scale direct actions across Minneapolis. Federal immigration enforcement agents carried out widespread raids that included abductions, home invasions, shootings, and suppression of protests, prompting mass community mobilization. Thousands flooded streets to confront ICE agents and to protect residents from attempted occupation by state-aligned neo-Nazi forces. Minneapolis draws on a history of labor militancy and anti-racist resistance, including the 1934 General Strike and the response to George Floyd's murder. An airport occupation led by Local 17 impeded deportation operations and resulted in numerous arrests.
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