Huge turnout against #ICE and #DHS, #protest/ #generalStrike in #Minneapolis #Minnesota yesterday

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

Huge turnout against #ICE and #DHS, #protest/ #generalStrike in #Minneapolis #Minnesota yesterday

International observers and even some domestic observers:

You may ask why Americans aren't doing more

And I agree

But much is being done that you don't see because a lot going on is purposefully deemphasized in the #USA #newsmedia

Btw, this was in -10 F (-20 C) weather

#ReneeGood

[macacator@mastodon.social]

@benroyce it's not "anti-ice," it's "Fuck ice." Stop using their vocabulary.

[gnaddrig@mastodon.social]

@macacator @benroyce
If Fuck ICE isn't anti-ICE, what is?

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@macacator

Ok I edited it but I didn't say "fuck" because of my delicate shy nature

[gabriel@mastodon.samfira.com]

@benroyce

[deberupts@mastodon.social]

@benroyce Did they get an official head count?

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@DebErupts

I don't know but I saw an estimate of over 100k

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

Some video from yesterday

I don't know how many people. I've seen 50k, 100k, 150k chatted about on social media

Of course the media is only saying "thousands"

Again this is -10 F/ -20 C

#Minneapolis #ICE #ReneeGood

[diekehrseite@mastodon.social]

@benroyce „a few payed riots“ 🫩 sigh.

[bjb@fosstodon.org]

@benroyce

City of about 1/2 million people. Many, many people were doing defensive work around the city and could not attend the crowd. I could believe tens of thousands.

[jwcph@helvede.net]

@benroyce Danish media did the exact same when somewhere between 50-100K protesters gathered last year in Copenhagen, in support of the people of Gaza - "thousands".

You get the feeling they at least tried "several" on for size, before realizing it might give the game away a little to hard...

[apostateenglishman@mastodon.world]

@benroyce @DebErupts It's difficult with large demos, because organisers will tend to optimistically inflate numbers, while the hostile media will always go with the most conservative figure - or even revert to simply "thousands", which gives little sense of true scale without actually lying!

Based on all the footage I've seen so far, I'm gonna stick my neck out and say 50 - 60,000 at this one event. But that's to say nothing of all the other resistance efforts that happened in the twin cities.

[kristen_d@mastodon.social]

@benroyce Man! ️