cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7465045

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/22953

By members of the Ernst Thälmann Division of the APL | Minnesota– Friday, Jan. 23 – over 50,000 workers and protesters in the Twin Cities showed out for multiple protests and picket lines on a one-day “general strike” organized by major unions and progressive organizations. The protests expressed the rage of Twin Cities workers over ICE abducting and deporting immigrants, murdering peaceful observers such as Renée Good, and profiling and brutalizing national and racial minorities.

Protests and strikes were held at many unionized workplaces; the metro system continued to run, but fares were not enforced; many workers who did not show up to protests participated in an “economic blackout.

Throughout the whole day, continuing from coordinated actions taking place this entire month, protests were held at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, which headquarters ICE’s activity in Minneapolis. On Jan. 23, the protests escalated to block off key accessways to and from the building. Local police gave a dispersal order around noon. At around 3:00 PM, reports of water canons being rolled in began circulating. And then around 8:00 PM, some reports indicated that protesters had been “kettled” – a protest control tactic where police trap protesters between either a closed area or multiple walls of police, and then rush in, making as many arrests as possible. These reports have not been confirmed by bourgeois media outlets.”… Read More ›

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