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.”

  • aaaa@piefed.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    The money doesn’t care till you fuck with the money, and this does in a way that they can’t exactly lash out in retaliation.

    This is true, but this doesn’t fuck with the money. A one-day strike just moves the spending to a different adjacent day. People still need their food and stuff.

    Data-wise, this would come up as a tiny blip in an otherwise unchanged pattern of spending. Easily rejected by most analysts as an outlier.

    I guess I have more faith in a massive crowd demonstrating than I do in a one-day strike. At least one of them puts on a public spectacle

    • osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org
      11·
      2 days ago

      It’s a warning shot fired at the money. If spending on that day drops 80%, it shows the money that the strike threat has teeth. It also puts that population on the street that day, and i would bet AFL-CIO in Minneapolis outnumbers the jackboots on the ground 10:1

    • yonderbarn@lazysoci.al
      0·
      2 days ago

      Sounds like you enjoy the politics of strongly worded letters then.

      It might be a one day strike and then they do it again with an even bigger crowd spanning two days. Then the next time the crowd size doubles and it’s a three day strike. Then…

      • aaaa@piefed.worldEnglish
        11·
        2 days ago

        Compared to “Fuck you, I’m not buying my groceries until tomorrow”?

        Yeah, the words have more impact than that