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Nationwide shut down
January 30
NO WORK
NO SCHOOL
NO SHOPPING
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Somali Student Association on Instagram: "JUSTICE FOR ALEX PRETTI & RENEE NICOLE GOOD — NATIONWIDE SHUTDOWN We witnessed a historic general strike on Friday in Minneapolis. Just yesterday, ICE killed yet another community member, Alex Pretti. This ICE te
16K likes, 265 comments - ssa.umn on January 25, 2026: "JUSTICE FOR ALEX PRETTI & RENEE NICOLE GOOD — NATIONWIDE SHUTDOWN We witnessed a historic general strike on Friday in Minneapolis.Instagram
Huge turnout against #ICE and #DHS, #protest/ #generalStrike in #Minneapolis #Minnesota yesterday
International observers and even some domestic observers:
You may ask why Americans aren't doing more
And I agree
But much is being done that you don't see because a lot going on is purposefully deemphasized in the #USA #newsmedia
Btw, this was in -10 F (-20 C) weather
"Minneapolis was home to a landmark #GeneralStrike nearly 100 years ago...
The #strike caused #Minneapolis’ industrial area... to shut down.
#police shot 67 picketing workers — most of them were shot in the back — and 2 were killed. 100,000 people attended the funeral procession for one of the strikers. The governor dispatched the #NationalGuard, and the [business owners] eventually agreed to the union’s demands, making the general strike a success.
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Friday’s ‘ICE Out of Minnesota’ day is a general strike. Here’s what that means.
Citing the killing of Renee Good by federal agent Jonathan Ross, the “ICE Out” day organizers say the general strike is intended to be a day of nonviolent reflection.KAXE
"A #GeneralStrike is a work stoppage across multiple industries. The overall goal is to pause #economic activity to compel change. General strikes are uncommon in modern #America but were once a staple of #protest politics and are still frequently employed in #Europe.
Citing the killing of #ReneeGood by federal agent Jonathan Ross, the “ICE Out” day organizers say the general strike is intended to be a day of nonviolent reflection."
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Friday’s ‘ICE Out of Minnesota’ day is a general strike. Here’s what that means.
Citing the killing of Renee Good by federal agent Jonathan Ross, the “ICE Out” day organizers say the general strike is intended to be a day of nonviolent reflection.KAXE
"Friday may be the largest worker action in the state’s history, said Christa Sarrack, president of a labor union... Ms. Sarrack said some of the #union members’ employers had decided to close for the day, while others were allowing employees to not come to work.
“We cannot simply sit by and allow this to continue,” Ms. Sarrack said. “We must use every tool that we have to fight back.”"
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"More than 50 #Minnesota labor unions, nonprofits, and other #community organizations have signed onto a January 23 Day of Action, which calls for a complete “economic blackout” in the state. “No work. No school. No shopping,” its posters declare.
... This would be the first #GeneralStrike in Minnesota since 1934, when the Teamsters set off a months-long work stoppage in the state."
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"Tomorrow, tens of thousands of workers in #Minneapolis are expected to take to the streets in a mass #GeneralStrike. The “Day of Truth and Freedom” has been endorsed by all the major #labor organizations in #Minnesota. Every major #school & cultural institution, as well as hundreds of restaurants & small businesses, are expected to close.
... Minneapolis shows other cities how to fight back when #ICE comes to occupy their cities."
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Minnesota Labor Leaders Talk Organizing Lessons as Strike Movement Goes National
“Flexibility is important. I also think having initiative and decentralizing the campaign, letting different people put their own sort of stamp on it, is just a normal way movements exist,” says Knutson.Mike Elk (Payday Report)
"growing #strike movement across the country against ICE's occupation of #Minneapolis. So far... there are Minneapolis #GeneralStrike solidarity actions in at least 215 cities across the #UnitedStates.
... Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, the Minnesota AFL-CIO, and several large #labor federations around #Minnesota have called for a “Day of Truth of Freedom" as workers intend to strike and walk out on Friday"
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MAP: Minneapolis General Strike Movement Spreads to 300 Cities on Friday
At least 300 cities plan to held solidarity actions with the Minneapolis General Strike.Mike Elk (Payday Report)
Fair play to Minneapolis. This is the fight back the whole US needs.
#Minneapolis #generalStrike #fuckICE #MinneapolisProtests
Live coverage of the #GeneralStrike march in #minneapolis
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LIVE GENERAL STRIKE March Against ICE in -10 DEGREES | LIVE From Minneapolis
Status Coup reporter JT Cestkowski is LIVE ON THE GROUND in Minneapolis as thousands march as part of a statewide general strike to protest against President...YouTube
Solidarity with #Minneapolis #GeneralStrike in 250 cities in the US
#ICE #ICEout #FuckICE #DHS #protests #50501movement
MAP: Minneapolis General Strike Movement Spreads to 300 Cities on Friday
At least 300 cities plan to held solidarity actions with the Minneapolis General Strike.Mike Elk (Payday Report)
Hundreds of Businesses Join General Strike Against ICE – Mother Jones
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Hundreds of businesses join general strike against ICE
“We cannot simply sit by and allow this to continue,” one labor union president said. “We must use every tool that we have to fight back.”Mother Jones
Demonstrators Flood Minneapolis Streets as Hundreds of Businesses Close to Protest ICE
Thousands of protesters shut down streets throughout Minneapolis-St. Paul to demand that federal immigration agents end their weekslong crackdown. Businesses closed in solidarity.
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From Harsha Walia (author of Undoing Border Imperialism, 2013):
With so many of us watching the tremendous mobilizations in Minneapolis, culminating in the call to action against ICE today, I wanted to share some of what I have gathered from talking to comrades in Minneapolis over the past few weeks. A few things stood out:
1) The general strike came from organizing for a general strike. Not from social media posting about going on a general strike, but organizing in neighbourhoods, organizing power in unions, and organizations drawing out members and networks.
This is critical because the past two years have seen a lot of viral calls for general strikes on a range of vital issues, but these have rarely materialized into the organizing power & logistical coordination necessary for an actual general strike.
2) Movement history and infrastructure: Every comrade I know is deeply rooted in that city's movement history and infrastructure - whether networks emerging from the American Indian Movement to labour organizing against Amazon to the George Floyd uprising.
This has meant: a grounding in the long arc of struggle helping people avoid repeating some of the same mistakes over and over again; learning across generations; not getting either easily overconfident or easily jaded; and relying on (while sharpening) existing movement infrastructure and informal networks especially around care, movement dynamics, and conflict resolution.
This is totally subjective but I have long felt that the most significant part of movement infrastructure is ensuring that people who are newly politicized to and joining the struggle are: able to keep learning and have their political consciousness expand, able to find political homes to keep organizing, don't burn out when things get long and hard, and people are brought into the absolute longevity of struggle with no false promises or false solutions (to avoid the cycles of fizzling out that we constantly see repeat).
3) The neighbourhood as central to political, social and civic life: It's not a coincidence that we are seeing some of the strongest and most effective rapid response networks in cities like Minneapolis precisely because the ethic of being a good neighbour - despite political differences - still rings true. What many may call mutual aid is basically people looking out for their community members, their neighbours, their teachers, their co-worker, their local street vendor etc.
This is precisely why any kind of organizing that reaches for relationality is central, not secondary - it breaks the capitalist idea of us as atomized, individual consumers and compels us to act in service to and in solidarity with others. And, perhaps more than anything, it's a politics more rooted in cultivating belonging than ideology.
