From a witness. #ICE agents kidnap a victim in downtown #SaintPaul, #Minnesota
They place a black bag over their head.
This can only be to brutalize, murder, or disappear the victim without perpetrators or locations being identified, or to psychologically torture them to make them fear that outcome.
ICE has targeted asylees and asylum seekers fleeing places where exactly this kind of incident. This is sick and sadistic.
After a general strike on January 23 that drew tens of thousands of protesters and shut down hundreds of businesses, some residents concluded that ...
When our safety depends on it, we have the right — and the responsibility — to defend our communities together, even if that looks like celebrating National Night Out while in a parka.#blockades #ICEoccupation #Minneapolis #StPaul
When Community Defense Meets Public Streets: The Cedar Avenue and Hamline Park Blockades
#TwinCities Unions Planning ‘Largest US #RentStrike in 100+ Years’ as #ICEOccupation Drives #EvictionCrisis
“Tenants in #Minnesota are in a crisis,” said #Minneapolis City Council Member #AishaChughtai. “The federal invasion forced many of our neighbors to stay home and devastated our #LocalEconomy.”
Stephen Prager, Feb 17, 2026
"Tenant and labor unions in Minneapolis and St. Paul have announced plans to carry out what they said would be the 'largest rent strike in the United States in the last 100 years.'
"Beginning on #March1, if Democratic Minnesota Gov. #TimWalz does not meet their urgent demands for an #EvictionMoratorium and #RentRelief, a coalition of nearly 26,000 workers has pledged to withhold rent, which they said could create a massive economic disruption.
"The plans were announced on Tuesday by the tenants union #TwinCitiesTenants, which is joined by five labor unions: Service Employees International Union (#SEIU) Local 26, SEIU Healthcare Minnesota/Iowa, UNITE HERE Local 17, the Amalgamated Transit Union (#ATU) 1005, and Communication Workers of America (#CWA) 7250.
"They argued that a freeze on rents is desperately needed after 'nearly three months of federal occupation' under President Donald #Trump’s '#OperationMetroSurge,' which sent nearly 3,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE) and other immigration agents to the area, resulting in multiple fatal shootings and a wave of #CivilRights violations, including explicit #RacialProfiling."
Read more / listen:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/minnesota-rent-strike-ice
#USPol #AbolishICE #AbolishDHS #ICEOut #ICEOutForGood #Strike
"Tenants in Minnesota are in a crisis," said Minneapolis City Council Member Aisha Chughtai. "The federal invasion forced many of our neighbors to stay home and devastated our local economy."
Fighting the #ICEoccupation of #Minnesota
#JewishCurrents talks w/ 3 organizers on the ground in #Minneapolis - Lily Cooper, Kandace Montgomery & Jesse Meisenhelter
"They discuss the legacies of local organizing since George Floyd’s murder in 2020, the opportunities for the left-liberal coalition in this moment, and navigating the steep risks involved in this resistance work."
https://jewishcurrents.org/fighting-the-ice-occupation-of-minnesota
#ICE #ICEoutOfMN #MinneapolisResists #FuckICE #USpol #stateRepression #activism
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