Will ICE Ignite a Mass Strike in Minnesota?

[Omaha Steve]

Labor federations and many other groups have called for a day of protest January 23. The momentum is growing from mass protests, like this one in downtown Minneapolis on January 10 that drew 10,000, and building on long-term organizing. Photo: Brad Sigal

January 16, 2026 / Luis Feliz Leon

Minnesota appears to be in gear for a mass uprising. Unions, community organizations, faith leaders, and small businesses there are calling for a statewide day of “no work (except for emergency services), no school, and no shopping” on January 23.

Festering grievances swelled into a national outcry on January 7, after ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed poet and mother of three Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis while she and her wife were observing federal agents swarming her neighborhood.

A week later, another federal agent shot a Latino immigrant from Venezuela in the leg. ICE agents have sprayed chemical agents in protesters’ eyes. On Wednesday night, they detonated a tear gas canister underneath the car of a family just trying to get home from basketball practice; the baby, strapped in his car seat, was knocked unconscious.

Trump’s regime has ramped up racist attacks targeting Somali, Latino and Asian communities —battering down doors, raiding small businesses and forcing them to shutter, trailing school buses, dropping tear gas outside schools, circling hospitals. He has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, which would allow him to deploy the military to Minneapolis.

FULL story: https://labornotes.org/2026/01/will-ice-ignite-mass-strike-minnesota

[31st Street Bridge]

1. An American state has been invaded by a fascist army

... from an illegitimate regime in Washington.
Waiting for our own Fort Sumter moment.