Time for a protest round up!
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Time for a protest round up!
Starting, of course, with some words from the streets of Minnesota.
"The Alex Pretti shooting was a public execution. There's no other way to put it. The working class are the majority, and if we want to not have a society where few exploit many for a gain they don't really need, then the many need to take power."
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Time for a protest round up!
Starting, of course, with some words from the streets of Minnesota.
"The Alex Pretti shooting was a public execution. There's no other way to put it. The working class are the majority, and if we want to not have a society where few exploit many for a gain they don't really need, then the many need to take power."
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"I was just a nerdy gamer guy but until we get ICE out of Minnesota - and hopefully abolished - I'm gonna continue fighting. It's gotten to a point where empathy needs to win over those on the fence where it's not affecting them now."
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"I was just a nerdy gamer guy but until we get ICE out of Minnesota - and hopefully abolished - I'm gonna continue fighting. It's gotten to a point where empathy needs to win over those on the fence where it's not affecting them now."
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Businesses around Minneapolis are keeping their doors locked, hosting "warm areas" and offering free drinks to protesters and observers.
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Businesses around Minneapolis are keeping their doors locked, hosting "warm areas" and offering free drinks to protesters and observers.
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ICE arrests 58 year old man working at McDonalds outside of Minneapolis. His teen son takes his dad's life-saving heart medication to the detention facility and ICE agents laugh at him.
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ICE arrests 58 year old man working at McDonalds outside of Minneapolis. His teen son takes his dad's life-saving heart medication to the detention facility and ICE agents laugh at him.
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A large Anti-ICE noise demo took place outside Graduate Hilton Hotel in Minneapolis on Wednesday night. Police protected the building and the nazis inside, arresting numerous protesters.
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A large Anti-ICE noise demo took place outside Graduate Hilton Hotel in Minneapolis on Wednesday night. Police protected the building and the nazis inside, arresting numerous protesters.
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Twin cities rapid responders continue to innovate. If ICE occupiers want to continue moving rapidly through town, they will have to pass through a maze of checkpoints set up by neighbourhood defenders, run for and by community volunteers.
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Twin cities rapid responders continue to innovate. If ICE occupiers want to continue moving rapidly through town, they will have to pass through a maze of checkpoints set up by neighbourhood defenders, run for and by community volunteers.
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Judge Patrick Schiltz cancelled a contempt hearing set for today, where ICE chief Todd Lyons was to be forced to testify, but excoriates ICE for defying almost 100 court orders in the last month"
The whole lot are really worth reading.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26513986-1-28-26-fulton-warrant/#document/p1
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Judge Patrick Schiltz cancelled a contempt hearing set for today, where ICE chief Todd Lyons was to be forced to testify, but excoriates ICE for defying almost 100 court orders in the last month"
The whole lot are really worth reading.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26513986-1-28-26-fulton-warrant/#document/p1
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Savannah Thissen, a Minneapolis healthcare worker, told Matt Lavietes of NBC this is why she was protesting on Sunday night.
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Savannah Thissen, a Minneapolis healthcare worker, told Matt Lavietes of NBC this is why she was protesting on Sunday night.
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Tom Morello and others are holding a solidarity concert in Minneapolis today.
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Tom Morello and others are holding a solidarity concert in Minneapolis today.
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A U.S. citizen, who was illegally assaulted and illegally detained by ICE agents, says that while an agent had his knee on her neck, he said:
“You don’t feel so tough now, bitch.”
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A U.S. citizen, who was illegally assaulted and illegally detained by ICE agents, says that while an agent had his knee on her neck, he said:
“You don’t feel so tough now, bitch.”
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"I cannot support the national GOP’s stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.”
Chris Madel, MN GOP gubernatorial candidate.
He has withdrawn from the race.
Full Minnesota Star story quoted below:
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"I cannot support the national GOP’s stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.”
Chris Madel, MN GOP gubernatorial candidate.
He has withdrawn from the race.
Full Minnesota Star story quoted below:
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"Hate Has to Scatter When Minneapolis Arises"
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/hate-has-to-scatter-when-minneapolis
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"Hate Has to Scatter When Minneapolis Arises"
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/hate-has-to-scatter-when-minneapolis
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Protesters gathered outside Governor Tim Walz's office on Tuesday:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/tim-walz-ice-protest?share_id=9142718
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Protesters gathered outside Governor Tim Walz's office on Tuesday:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/tim-walz-ice-protest?share_id=9142718
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“Power stands with the people.”
At a press conference on Wednesday, representatives from New Justice Project MN, Movement for Black Lives and CAIR-MN explained why they are joining the nationwide shutdown today.
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“Power stands with the people.”
At a press conference on Wednesday, representatives from New Justice Project MN, Movement for Black Lives and CAIR-MN explained why they are joining the nationwide shutdown today.
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Nurse colleagues from Alex Pretti's intensive care gathered at the memorial in front of the hospital in Minneapolis. They had to be out there, because the hospital is federal ground and refused to let them congregate on the premises.
A vigil was also held at the site of his murder on Wednesday.
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Nurse colleagues from Alex Pretti's intensive care gathered at the memorial in front of the hospital in Minneapolis. They had to be out there, because the hospital is federal ground and refused to let them congregate on the premises.
A vigil was also held at the site of his murder on Wednesday.
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Volunteer vets have also formed a network to look after animals needing treatment at homes where people are scared to go outside.
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Volunteer vets have also formed a network to look after animals needing treatment at homes where people are scared to go outside.
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Nurses across the country held vigils for their union comrade Alex on Wednesday, vowing to join today's strike.
Hannah Drummond from Mission Hospital Asheville said: "I cannot believe, but I also can believe, that we live in a time in America where a government is actively lying to us"
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Nurses across the country held vigils for their union comrade Alex on Wednesday, vowing to join today's strike.
Hannah Drummond from Mission Hospital Asheville said: "I cannot believe, but I also can believe, that we live in a time in America where a government is actively lying to us"
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A nurse on the picket line in San Diego said: "This should light a fire under everybody that we need to come together against this regime."
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A nurse on the picket line in San Diego said: "This should light a fire under everybody that we need to come together against this regime."
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"Capitalism is a very finite game. And at some point, you've got to flip the board."
From the healthcare workers picket line in Oakland.
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