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‘ICE Out!’ No Work, School, or Shopping on Jan. 23 in Minnesota (world-outlook.com)

submitted 1 month ago by pete_link@lemmy.ml to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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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.”

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[+] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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[+] aaaa@piefed.world -6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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 9 points 1 month 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 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.world -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Compared to "Fuck you, I'm not buying my groceries until tomorrow"?

Yeah, the words have more impact than that

[–] yonderbarn@lazysoci.al 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

See my edit