Minnesotans will again take to the streets on Friday, January 23, in downtown Minneapolis to demand “ICE Out!” A coalition of labor and community groups has called a Day of Truth & Freedom, asking everyone to skip work, school, or shopping and instead march for an end to the Trump administration’s brutal anti-immigrant crackdown. It is a call that deserves support from all working people, youth, and everyone who cares about democratic rights.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/41890395

January 18, 2026

[contains 3 parts: an editorial by World-Outlook; an article from In These Times and Workday Magazine; and a press release from the Minneapolis Regional Federation of #Labor, AFL-CIO.]

MINNEAPOLIS — #Unions and community groups gathered in front of the Hennepin County Government Center in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, this morning to announce a day of ​“no work, no school, no shopping” on January 23 to oppose the ferocious assault on the state by federal #immigration authorities.

“We are facing a tsunami of hate from our own federal government,” Abdikarim Khasim, a Minnesota rideshare driver, told the crowd. ​“We’re going to shut it down on the 23rd. We’re going to overcome this.”

  • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    1 hour ago

    There is going to be an “extreme cold event” on that date so most of that’s is happening either way.

  • fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org
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    22 hours ago

    This needs to be national.

    What is the government going to do, when millions of Americans suddenly stop paying taxes? Stop going to school? Stop working? Stop shopping?

    They can arrest maybe dozens of us because we’re not contributing to the script they jotted in how they think the country should be ran. But, a good month long protest of this will really kick them in the knees. They will understand that they need us to function, because they sure as shit wouldn’t do what we have to in our shoes.

  • jim@lemmy.org
    512·
    22 hours ago

    This will have zero effect. It’s ice out until they are out.

    • triptrapper
      3·
      10 hours ago

      I shouldn’t bother responding to this energy-suck, but god damn I get so mad reading so many versions of the same defeatist comment. Why do you even take the time to write it?

      • jim@lemmy.org
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        57 minutes ago

        Because people need to know the truth. I’m sorry that it sucks your energy, but you’ll think it sucks a lot more when ICE shows up at your door.

        A single day of protesting will do nothing.