Minneapolis

Twin Cities Bicycle Protest Calls For Justice For All Stolen Lives

July 28, 2026 Mikael Pensec, Fight Back! News. Resist! ICE, Immigrant Rights, Minneapolis, State Violence

Minneapolis, MN – On Saturday, July 25, the first riders of a protest on wheels started arriving at George Floyd Square before the sun had fully risen. By 10 a.m., the crowd swelled to around 100. Three days earlier, Corey Ruiz was fatally shot in Madison, Wisconsin. Nine days before that, Joan Sebastian Guerrero was brutally murdered by ICE in Maine, in front of his one-year-old daughter. And just the night before, word came through that the “drugs” DHS had used to smear Lorenzo Salgado Araujo had tested negative, too late to undo the damage of the accusation.

Coalition Urges Minneapolis To Reject Proposal To Give Police AI Drones

June 27, 2026 Fight Back! News. Resist! Drones, Israel, Minneapolis, Police

Minneapolis, MN – On July 24, pro-Palestine and police accountability advocates as well as local media gathered in the Minneapolis City Hall rotunda around a banner that read, “Drones out of MPLS. Drones out of Palestine. Say no to Skydio.” The Twin Cities-based Free Palestine Coalition (FPC) proceeded to hold a press conference calling on Minneapolis City Council to reject a proposal that would enact a trial program of so-called “drones as first responders” supplied by U.S. drone manufacturer Skydio. Organizers explained that Skydio was complicit in Israel’s genocide in Gaza for supplying cutting-edge, AI-powered drones that autonomously surveil urban areas and identify potential targets.

Shadow Of Minneapolis Hung Over 2026 Labor Notes Conference

June 19, 2026 Sou Mi, Left Voice. Strategize! Elections, Labor Movement, Minneapolis, Unions

More than 4,000 workers, organizers, and self-described “troublemakers” braved brutal weather and travel changes to pack into a Chicago-area hotel this past weekend for the 2026 Labor Notes Conference, filling nearly 300 workshops, panels, and meetings over three days. By most measures, this was the largest and most explicitly political iteration of the biennial gathering in recent years. As always, it served as a barometer of what’s animating the labor movement’s most advanced sectors.

Feds Charge 15 Minnesotans With Conspiracy For Anti-ICE Protests

June 17, 2026 Shireen Akram - Boshar, Truthout. Educate! ICE, Legal System, Minneapolis, State Repression

Federal prosecutors announced charges against 15 protesters in Minnesota on Tuesday, accusing them of “conspiring to interfere with law enforcement” during Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) surge in Minnesota earlier this year. On Tuesday morning, Homeland Security officials raided and arrested 12 of the 15 individuals. One was already in custody; two remain at large. Daniel Rosen, the U.S. attorney for the District of Minnesota, began Tuesday’s press conference by asserting that “political violence is a national scourge in our times.”

The Community Defense Working Group On Militant Sesame Street

May 17, 2026 Chad, Portside. Strategize! Community Defense, ICE, Militancy, Minneapolis, Rebellion2020

"...we are simply neighbors gathering, looking out, exchanging notes. We are calling ourselves 'Militant Sesame Street' because that's what it feels like to live here. ...'militant' does not mean militaristic, or recklessly violent, or highly trained; 'militant' means being deeply committed to a collectivist sense of well-being, and being willing to set aside the norms of daily life in order to pursue that horizon." -- Keep Whistling: Life Recently in Autonomous Minneapolis by Militant Sesame Street In 2025, 2,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents descended onto the city of Minneapolis in an unprecedented show of federal overreach and state violence.

Three Pillars Of Civil Resistance: Lessons From The Twin Cities

May 17, 2026 Paul Bauknight and Bill Droessler, Next City. Organize! Community Defense, ICE, Minneapolis, Mutual Aid

On a cold morning in Minneapolis last winter, one of us stood outside a local school to ensure that all children and families could move safely to and from school without fear. Bill was there not as an official or community organizer, but as a concerned neighbor alongside other parents, volunteers, and community members. ICE’s brutalization of our people in the Twin Cities drew plenty of attention in the media and elsewhere. But what mattered most that cold day, and so many other days this winter, was not quite as public. It was what happened somewhat invisibly

Building Power From No Kings To May Day

April 28, 2026 Truus Van Iperen, Left Voice. Resist! Capitalism, Immigrant Rights, May Day, Minneapolis

March 28th brought a rare hint of spring to Minnesota—50 degrees, clear blue skies, and a brisk wind that felt very welcome after a punishing winter. But the season’s hardship extended beyond the weather. It was also marked by the presence of more than 2,000 ICE agents deployed as part of Operation Metro Surge. With national attention fixed on Minnesota as a focal point of the No Kings movement, the weight of this moment runs deeper than recent immigration enforcement alone. Less than a year earlier, in June 2025, State Representative and former House Speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband, and their dog were killed in a political assassination at their home.

Second Minneapolis Workers’ Assembly Prepares For May Day

April 13, 2026 Rachel and Pola Posen, Left Voice. Organize! May Day, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Worker Rights and Jobs, Workers Assembly

Minneapolis, Minnesota - On Saturday, April 4, in another meaningful demonstration of worker power and solidarity, nearly 200 workers and activists gathered for a second Workers’ Assembly in Minneapolis to prepare for May Day. The room filled with rank-and-file teachers, bus drivers, logistic workers, and workers from other sectors, both unionized and non-unionized. In contrast to union or social movement meetings where attendees are treated as constituents rather than political actors, members of the assembly brought proposals, openly debated them, and voted decisions to act on.

Trans Day Of Visibility: Minneapolis Calls For Sanctuary For Trans People

April 7, 2026 Janelle Carlson, Fight Back! News. Resist! Minneapolis, Sanctuary City, Transgender Day of Visibility, Transgender Rights

Minneapolis, MN – On Tuesday, March 31, more than 100 community members rallied outside of the Walker Library on Trans Day of Visibility to protest national policies targeting the rights of trans people. The rally was called by the Minnesota Abortion Action Committee in response to anti-trans measures, including the Trump administration’s executive orders E14168 and E14187, which have been used as templates to remove access to healthcare for adults and minors, remove protections against rape for trans prisoners in jails and immigration detention centers, and expose trans prisoners and detainees to conversion therapy, which is considered by the United Nations to be a form of torture.

Minneapolis Protests Recall Long Lineage Of Women’s Peace Movements

March 24, 2026 Jodi Vandenberg-Daves, Waging Nonviolence. Strategize! ICE, Minneapolis, Mothers Day, Women's Activism

Witnessing the powerful images of the protests in Minneapolis against state violence aimed at brown and Black neighbors during this intense winter of ICE escalation, I saw a beautiful sea of brave humanity. I also noticed a lot of women — singing, shouting their rage and putting their bodies on the line. The media is noticing, too. Right-wing media is so incensed by white women showing interracial solidarity in this anti-violence movement that they’ve gone on a crusade against “organized gangs of wine moms.” They seem entirely flummoxed by white women identifying with mostly non-white people the Trump administration seeks to dehumanize and brutalize.

Residents’ ICE Blockades: Community Defense Meets Public Streets

March 10, 2026 Cole Hanson, Next City. Resist! Community Defense, ICE, Minneapolis, road blockades

In late January and early February, residents in South Minneapolis erected what they called “filter blockades” at multiple intersections along Cedar Avenue between 32nd and 34th Streets. Using traffic cones, furniture and makeshift barriers, organizers stopped vehicles, checked license plates against databases and asked drivers for identification — all in an effort to identify and block potential ICE vehicles from entering the neighborhood. The practice quickly spread. The Star Tribune reported blockades on Lyndale Avenue, Pillsbury Avenue and 14th Avenue, with residents describing the actions as “neighborhood meetings” and displaying banners reading “Join Us, Block ICE.”

Postal Workers Demand To Kick ICE Off Postal Property

March 8, 2026 Emmett Bongaarts, Labor Notes. Resist! Community Defense, ICE, Minneapolis, Postal Workers

As federal agents laid siege to the city of Minneapolis, rank-and-file postal workers in the Twin Cities organized two anti-ICE rallies. The first, on December 15, was held in response to ICE agents using the employee parking lots at the Lake Street and Powderhorn Post Offices to stage their operations. The second demonstration was held on January 18, after the killing of Renee Good. This was a much larger affair with around 250 participants, and involved other local unions such as the teachers, communications workers, and bus drivers.

Keep ICE Out Of Stores, Say Starbucks Workers

March 7, 2026 Natascha Elena Uhlmann, Labor Notes. Resist! Community Defense, ICE, Minneapolis, Starbucks

Since more than 4,000 ICE agents descended on the city of Minneapolis, Starbucks barista Alex Rivers has tried to balance the exacting focus the job requires—baristas are expected to write on every cup and complete every order in four minutes or less, he said—with the gnawing fear that agents could burst in at any moment. “It became a fear of not if, but when,” Rivers said: “We’ve seen ghost cars on the highway, just abandoned cars. We’ve seen really scary stuff. In some of the neighborhoods that my co-workers live in, we would hear whistles [used by activists to flag the presence of ICE] throughout the day and night.”

Labor Backs Coming Tenant Strike In Minneapolis

February 19, 2026 Cameron Harrison, People's World. Resist! Eviction Moratorium, ICE, Minneapolis, Rent Strike, State Repression

Minneapolis - A coalition of labor unions and tenant unions in Minneapolis and St. Paul has announced a massive rent strike drive set to begin March 1. Organizers here are calling it the largest rent strike in nearly a century. They are continuing their demands from the statewide shutdown on Jan 23, particularly ICE out of Minnesota, and also demanding that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz immediately enact a statewide eviction moratorium and allocate $50 million in emergency rent relief. The strike, announced on Tuesday in a press release, will bring together five of the major labor unions that mobilized for the shutdown, alongside the newly formed Twin Cities Tenants Union.

The Empire Crumbles Part II: Creative Dissidence And Mutual Aid

February 17, 2026 Richard Heinberg, Resilience. Strategize! climate crisis, ICE, Minneapolis, Mutual Aid, Polycrisis

Part I of this article argued that the world is now crossing a threshold from decades of growth and increasing integration to decades of economic shrinkage and political breakdown. This shift will create stresses that extend in scale from ecosystems and international relations down to households and individuals. Everyone will be personally—and likely profoundly—impacted by the polycrisis. There are three components to this tectonic shift: environmental, economic, and political. It’s useful to think of this in terms of disasters, e.g. natural disasters, economic calamities, and government repression or civil war.

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