Minneapolis

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.

Trauma Of ICE Raids Is Rippling Through Public Schools

February 14, 2026 Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout. Organize! Children, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Minneapolis, Schools, State Repression

In several Minnesota communities, public school teachers and community volunteers are now riding school buses with their students to ensure that at each afternoon drop-off, the adults who were expected to be waiting at home for their child’s arrival have not been taken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids during the school day. “The president’s decision to send thousands of masked, heavily armed agents into our communities has forced educators to adapt in many ways,” Monica Byron, the president of Education Minnesota, told Truthout via email.

Minnesota Teachers, School Districts Go To Court To Evict ICE

February 12, 2026 Mark Gruenberg, People's World. Resist! Education, ICE, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Teachers

Minneapolis, Minnesota - In Inver Grove Heights, Minn., ICE agents arrested a special ed paraprofessional in the Concord Education Center parking lot in that suburb south of St. Paul. In Brooklyn Center, another Twin Cities suburb, a parent of an elementary school student “was detained by federal agents while waiting at a school bus stop.” Both those arrests were on January 12. Both of those arrested were “profiled” by ICE. On January 7, ICE agents grabbed teachers at a Spanish-language children’s center in Apple Valley and a Spanish immersion academy in Minneapolis. They pulled the second teacher from her car.

How To Build A Real General Strike Against ICE

February 9, 2026 Eric Blank, Labor Politics. Organize! General Strikes, History, ICE, Labor Movement, Minneapolis

What will it take to stop ICE and Donald Trump? More and more Americans are coming around to the following answer: a general strike. They’re right to move in that direction. General strikes are a powerful tactic that have defeated corrupt and authoritarian rulers across the world, most recently in Egypt and Tunisia in 2011, Puerto Rico in 2019, and Sri Lanka in 2022. As the union anthem “Solidarity Forever” puts it, “without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn.” Unfortunately, last Friday’s national call for “no work, no school, no shopping,” billed widely as an anti-ICE general strike over social media, came nowhere close to the projections of its most vocal advocates.

February 7: National Day Of Action In Solidarity With Minneapolis

February 4, 2026 Fight Back! News. Resist! ICE, Immigrant Rights, Minneapolis, National Day of Action, Solidarity

The Legalization for All (L4A) Network is calling on all affiliated cities to act NOW. Community observer Renee Good was killed by ICE on January 7th. This is why L4A is calling for a national day of action on the one month anniversary. As ICE continues their terror — raiding, killing, and disappearing undocumented immigrants and also U.S. citizens, we must stand up and fight back. Together we will protect our Mexicano, Centroamericano, Somali families. As well as anyone under attack by ICE. On January 14th, Nicaraguan immigrant Victor Manuel Díaz (detained in Texas) and Mexican immigrant Heber Sanchaz Domínguez (detained in Georgia) died under ICE custody and under very suspicious circumstances.

Judge Dismisses Bid To End ‘Occupation’ Of Minneapolis

February 4, 2026 Marjorie Cohn, Consortium News. Educate! ICE, Legal System, Minneapolis, Occupation, State Repression

U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez last Saturday found evidence that ICE and border patrol agents in Minneapolis “have engaged in racial profiling, excessive use of force, and other harmful actions.” Nevertheless, she refused to issue a preliminary injunction temporarily halting “Operation Metro Surge.” The state of Minnesota and the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul sued Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other immigration officials five days after ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents murdered Renee Good and 12 days before the public execution of Alex Pretti by border patrol agents in the streets of Minneapolis.

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