SEIU-led blackout expands Minnesota ICE protests nationwide
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The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is broadening Friday’s economic blackout in Minnesota against ICE operations into a nationwide action, with planned protests in several major U.S. cities as labor and faith groups express solidarity over immigration enforcement and related concerns; Minnesota AFL-CIO endorsed the day of action and dozens of local workplaces plan to close while communities call for ICE to stand down.
- ‘We have to stand together’: Minnesota economic blackout organizers push to take demonstrations nationwide The Guardian
- ‘High Alert, All the Time’: Minneapolis Sees ICE Around Every Corner The New York Times
- Businesses close, Minnesotans to stay home Friday in protest of ICE Star Tribune
- Walker Art Center joins growing list of organizations closing on Jan. 23 bringmethenews.com
- Baker says using Earned Safe and Sick Time to strike is abuse of the system willmarradio.com
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