FRIDAY: Day of solidarity and action with the people of Minnesota. It doesn't get more 🆘 urgent 🆘 than this!

[usonian]

https://indivisible.actionkit.com/mailings/view/123474



DU'ERS!

The people of Minnesota are an inspiration.

They’re out in the freezing cold protesting ICE brutality. They’re blowing whistles to warn their communities when raids are imminent. They're delivering groceries to their vulnerable neighbors and forming human chains around schools during afternoon pickups.

And they’re doing it all in the face of a full-on terror campaign by the Trump regime that’s already taken the life of one member of their community and shattered countless others.

We can’t leave them to do this work alone. So in response to calls from activists, labor groups, clergy, and other community leaders in Minneapolis, we’re mobilizing for a nationwide day of solidarity and action -- concrete, strategic action -- this Friday.

Find an event in your area* and explore other ways to take action



About the events

While Friday will be a nonviolent day of solidarity, we’re not talking about sitting around singing kumbaya. We’re talking about putting pressure on some of the economic powerhouses of Minnesota to end their complicity with Trump’s deportation machine and demand that ICE get the &$*^ out for good.

Following the lead of organizers in Minnesota, activists across the country will be holding visible solidarity events in public spaces outside Targets -- the brand most identified with the Gopher State. No Target? No problem. Events can also be held in public spaces outside other businesses that’ve enabled ICE activity or remained silent about its impact on their customers, including Home Depot, Enterprise, and Hilton hotels.

These events will focus attention on ICE brutality, celebrate the bravery of those standing up for their neighbors in Minneapolis and across the Twin Cities, and demand that businesses speak out and take immediate action to protect their customers and communities from ICE.

Find an event near you here
No event nearby?* There’s still time to host your own

Other ways to take part in the day of action

If you can’t attend an event -- or if you want to do more after you attend an event -- the ICE Out of Minnesota coalition has put together a toolkit allowing anyone to dial up the pressure on its corporate targets by emailing the companies’ leadership, printing out flyers to hang near the businesses, or posting online.

Use ICE Out MN's corporate power toolkit to put pressure on businesses to do the bare minimum to protect their customers from kidnapping, harassment, and violence from Trump’s masked thugs

Note: The toolkit includes dates for focused action on corporate targets, some of which have passed. But the actions remain relevant, regardless of the date.

And to make it even easier, here are the direct links for the tools to email those businesses and demand immediate action in defense of Minnesotans and all communities harmed by ICE:

🎯 Target
🟧 Home Depot
🚗 Enterprise
🏨 Hilton
✈️ Delta

We can do this.

We know these businesses aren’t going to do this out of the kindness of their hearts. Every day since Trump’s election has shown us how willing corporations are to submit to fascism if they think it helps their bottom line.

But it’s past time to put the question to them: How is having your employees snatched up, customers afraid to leave their houses, and members of your community brutalized helping your bottom line? How is being identified with an increasingly detested, lawless paramilitary force good for business?

And if they aren’t clear on those answers yet, hundreds of events outside their stores and all the media we shine on them might just help bring things into focus.

In solidarity with the people of the Twin Cities and all those harmed by ICE,
Indivisible Team

*Events are being added by the hour, so if you don't see one in your area now, check back soon.

[Ocelot II]

1. Please help us!

I live in Minneapolis, not far from the place where Renee Good was murdered, and it's worse than you might imagine. Restaurants and other small businesses have had to close. Kids are afraid to go to school. Whole families have been unable to leave their homes for weeks and have had to rely on volunteers to bring them food. ICE agents are targeting non-white people almost at random, including even off-duty city police officers. And anyone who just observes and tries to record their activity runs the risk of being tear-gassed, roughed up and detained for hours or even days. They even arrested a five-year-old kid! And they'll come to your city, too, if there isn't enough public outrage on a national level to get Congress to do something. There's an enormous, very organized resistance movement here, but we need all the help we can get from the rest of the country. They're trying to crush us and they won't stop with us.

[usonian]

2. "It can never happen to me" Famous last words.

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[leftstreet]

3. DURec

[usonian]

4. Kick for urgency

And call Jeffries, today.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220959033

[iemanja]

5. Organizers are asking people not to go to work, school, not shop, and to stay offline

The last one is the hardest.
I'll be honoring the general strike.