Twin Cities Workers Strike Against ICE. Two Hundred Cities Follow.
As workers in two hundred and fifteen cities prepare to walk out today in solidarity with Minneapolis, the whole world is watching.
WASHINGTON — By six o’clock this morning, as commuters across the Twin Cities reach for their car keys and parents pack school lunches, Minneapolis began an experiment in collective withdrawal that has not been attempted in an American city in nearly eighty years. The thermometer reads -21 degrees below zero. The buses, if the organizers are right, will not run. The schools will stand empty. The retail corridors will go dark.
By noon, tens of thousands of workers are expected to gather in downtown Minneapolis for what labor leaders are carefully calling a “Day of Truth and Freedom”—careful because “general strike” is a phrase that carries legal consequences in a country where such actions are functionally illegal, where union contracts forbid them, where the mere declaration can trigger lawsuits that drain treasuries. But whatever euphemism is deployed, the reality is plain: this could be among the largest coordinated labor stoppage in modern American history, and it is spreading.
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