Minnesota

Minnesotans Demand ICE Out Of Twin Cities

November 29, 2025 Mira Altobell-Resendez, Fight Back! News. Resist! ICE, Immigrant Solidarity, Minnesota, St. Paul

St. Paul, MN – Dozens of Minnesotans gathered in the pouring rain on Tuesday, November 25 to show their solidarity with those affected by federal immigration raids. The Trump administration is launching racist attacks through ICE in Saint Paul. Meanwhile there are no official protections for the most vulnerable against this violence. The rally by the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) took place outside of Bro-Tex Inc. in Saint Paul. It is a manufacturing company where an ICE raid took place one week earlier on November 18.

11 Arrested Protesting Minnesota Investment Board’s Israel Ties

October 24, 2025 Wyatt Miller, Fight Back! News. Resist! BDS Movement, Israel, Minnesota, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Saint Paul

Saint Paul, MN – On Tuesday, October 21, the typically quiet Retirement Systems Building was filled with chants of “Free Palestine” as advocates of divestment from Israel staged an all-day sit-in. The building houses the staff offices of the State Board of Investment (SBI), whose long-delayed quarterly meeting was held that morning in an online-only format in the board’s latest effort to avoid Palestine protesters. The SBI is chaired by Governor Tim Walz, joined by Attorney General Keith Ellison, State Auditor Julie Blaha and Secretary of State Steve Simon. Growing numbers of public employees, pension holders and other community members have spoken at quarterly SBI meetings, calling on it to divest state-managed funds from the state of Israel and companies complicit in Israel’s apartheid system and genocide in Gaza.

Minneapolis Says US Hands Off Venezuela

October 12, 2025 Allison Gunderson, Fight Back! News. Resist! Anti-war Movement, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Venezuela, Venezuela solidarity

Minneapolis, MN – On Saturday, October 4, the MN Anti-War Committee held a protest at Mayday Plaza in response to the recent attacks and escalated targeting of Venezuela by the Trump administration. Trump’s administration has intensified U.S. attacks on Venezuela. Starting in late August and early September, the U.S. has deployed warships and troops to the coast of Venezuela. They struck four Venezuelan fishing boats; three of those four strikes resulted in the killing of upwards as 18 people with one ship being illegally boarded. The U.S. carried out these attacks based on the false claims that President Maduro has cartel ties and Venezuela is trafficking drugs. Trump’s administration has intensified U.S. attacks on Venezuela. Starting in late August and early September, the U.S. has deployed warships and troops to the coast of Venezuela. They struck four Venezuelan fishing boats; three of those four strikes resulted in the killing of upwards as 18 people with one ship being illegally boarded. The U.S. carried out these attacks based on the false claims that President Maduro has cartel ties and Venezuela is trafficking drugs.

Teamsters Win University Of Minnesota Strike, With Help From Farm Aid

September 18, 2025 Randy Furst, Labor Notes. Resist! Farm Aid, Minnesota, Strikes, Unions, University Of Minnesota, Victory, Worker Rights and Jobs

Some 1,400 Teamster service workers at the University of Minnesota won a resounding victory in a five-day walkout that showcased their militancy and underscored the power of solidarity. “This is what happens when people stick together,” said Steve Tesfagiorgis, a shop steward and strike captain for Teamsters Local 320 and a senior custodian on the Minneapolis campus. “Our members are from different places and speak many different languages, and we all worked together and won.” The union includes more than 400 East African workers. At rallies, on flyers, and during Zoom meetings, members communicated in five languages.

Teamsters At The University Of Minnesota Begin Strike!

September 11, 2025 Fight Back! News. Resist! Minneapolis, Minnesota, Strikes, Unions, University Workers, Worker Rights and Jobs

Minneapolis, MN – Roughly 1400 Workers at the University of Minnesota walked off the job on Monday night, September 8. beginning an open-ended strike. The workers are represented by Teamsters Local 320 and do grounds maintenance, facilities, dining services and many other important jobs that keep the university running. The strike began on Monday night on the Crookston campus. After that, Duluth joined in, and the Twin Cities campus, which is the largest of the university campuses, began striking on Tuesday night with a large opening rally. In the Twin Cities, around 500 Teamsters and union supporters rallied Tuesday night at 7 p.m. to support and kick off the campus pickets.

The Deep Ties And Deeper Pockets Of Minnesota’s Far-Right

August 2, 2025 L. Cam Anderson, Unicorn Riot. Educate! Conservatives, Dark money, Minnesota, Right wing politics

Maple Grove, MN – The Rush Creek Golf Club’s event space was filled with the din of knives and forks, scraping and tapping ceramic to the tune of conspiratorial chit chat, as a fluorescent white audience –mostly over the retirement age — shared with one another the latest misinformation to come across their Facebook feeds. At one of the many tables in the room, an old man in a trucker hat broke the ice with the man sitting next to him by diving right into the assassination of former House Speaker Melissa Hortman. For him, it was just another example of how the Democrats will stop at nothing to steal his tax dollars.

As Private Equity Comes For The Utility Sector, Minnesota Is A Test Case

July 26, 2025 Derek Seidman, Truthout. Resist! BlackRock, Minnesota, Privatization, Public Utilities

There’s been a significant development in hotly contested proceedings happening in northern Minnesota over whether Allete, owner of the region’s main electric utility, Minnesota Power, will be acquired by two new private equity owners, including the asset management behemoth BlackRock. After months of hearings, an administrative law judge published a report that unambiguously recommended state regulators deny approval of the deal, concluding that, based on the evidence from proceedings, Allete and the acquiring partners “have not met their burden of proof to show the transaction is consistent with the public interest.”

Healthcare Workers Stand Strong 11 Days Into Open-Ended Strike

July 21, 2025 Fight Back! News. Resist! Health Care, Health workers, Minnesota, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Duluth, MN – On Friday, July 19, striking workers were on the picket line at Essentia Health, Duluth Clinic 2nd Street. Friday marked the 11th day of an open-ended strike by around 700 Registered Nurses and Advanced Practice Providers (APP) who formed a union in 2024. The workers are demanding that management sit down with them and negotiate their first union contract, more than a year after they won their union election and formed a union. In February of 2024 the RNs at Essentia Clinics voted to join the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) and soon after, in July 2024, the Advanced Practice Providers also joined MNA.

Minnesotans Denounce ICE Kidnappings At Federal Court

July 19, 2025 Latifah Moss Hernandez, Fight Back! News. Resist! ICE, Immigrant Rights, mass deportations, Minnesota

St. Paul, MN – Hundreds attended a press conference on Monday, July 14 organized by the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) to demand ICE stop kidnapping people after immigration hearings in the federal courthouse. The press conference was called in response to what MIRAC members witnessed a few days before while they accompanied a community member to immigration court. While there, they watched as Judge Brian Sardelli dismissed all cases. Judge Sardelli has a denial rate of 78.4% reported in 2024 compared to the national average of 57.7%.

Minnesota Supreme Court Rules On Unicorn Riot DAPL Subpoena

July 18, 2025 Dan Feidt, Unicorn Riot. Resist! DAPL, Journalism, Legal System, Minnesota, Press Freedom

St Paul, MN — Unicorn Riot’s long legal battle in Minnesota to protect newsgathering materials from attorneys working for Energy Transfer reached yet another phase: The Minnesota Supreme Court released its ruling Wednesday about the subpoena in Hennepin County that has attempted to probe our organization. The court rejected Energy Transfer’s attempt to compel the release of newsgathering materials and reporter communications; it also ruled that a judge could order a complex document called a privilege log to be created.

Union Healthcare Workers Strike Across Minnesota

July 12, 2025 Fight Back! News. Resist! Health Care, Healthcare workers, Minnesota, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights

Minneapolis, MN – On Tuesday, July 8 around 300 registered nurses working at clinics for Essentia Health In Northern Minnesota began an open-ended strike. The nurses are represented by the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) and have filed unfair labor practice charges against their boss Essentia Health. Management is refusing to bargain in good faith with the unionized workers. Two days into the nurses’ strike, on July 10, around 430 MNA members, advanced practice providers (APP), also walked off the job in dozens of locations. These workers began an open-ended strike of their own against Essentia Health.

Minneapolis Teamsters Fight For Safety In Summer Heat

July 6, 2025 Sorcha Lona, Fight Back! News. Organize! Education, Extreme weather, Minnesota, Teamsters, Unions, UPS, Worker Rights and Jobs

Minneapolis – Local 638 Teamsters tabled at the northeast Minneapolis UPS hub on Thursday, July 3. They distributed flyers on heat safety and union contract enforcement. Drivers coming in, and warehouse workers leaving for the day, stopped to learn about their rights, grab some lemonade, and share experiences as temperatures reached the 90-plus range in Minneapolis. Inside the warehouse and inside package cars, temperatures are regularly five to ten degrees higher for workers. As the result of a months-long contract campaign and credible strike threat in 2023, UPS workers won strong contract language. This requires UPS to install 2500 new water fountains, 18,000 new warehouse fans, and 28,000 new or replacement delivery vehicles equipped with air conditioning over the life of the five-year contract.

As The State’s Complexion Darkens, Minnesota’s Liberalism Wanes

June 23, 2025 Jon Jeter, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Liberalism, Minnesota, Racial disparities, Racism, Violence

My, how times have changed. Ninety-three percent white as recently as 1970, the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St, Paul has seen its minority population nearly quintuple to 31 percent since Mary Tyler Moore last tossed her bonnet towards the Minneapolis skyline in the iconic opening of her eponymous show. An influx of African Americans, Hmong, Laotians, Latinos and east African refugees has reshaped the politics of this metropolitan area that was widely regarded as among the most liberal in the country a generation ago, eclipsed only by San Francisco and Seattle in the minds of many. The arrest Monday of a Minnesota man on charges that he assassinated one state lawmaker and shot another is yet another reminder that the state is not the quaint, Scandinavian enclave that was the basis of Garrison Keillor’s Lake Wobegon.

Pressure Builds To Protect Manoomin (Wild Rice)

June 14, 2025 Wabigonikwe, Unicorn Riot. Resist! Food and Agriculture, Indigenous culture, Minnesota, Wild Rice

St. Paul, MN — With only 24 hours notice, advocates mostly associated with Rise and Repair Alliance packed the hearing room for the fourth time at the Minnesota Senate Building on May 1, 2025. Activists have been showing up to meetings since the start of the 2025 legislative session in an attempt to create legal protections for wild rice. Wild rice, often known by its Objiwe name, manoomin, has been a means of sustenance for Dakota/Lakota and Ojibwe peoples since time immemorial. It is the reason that Ojibwe people migrated to this region, “the land where food grows on water” – without it, people’s health and wellbeing would suffer from not being able to live their way of life and not getting essential nutrients from the rice.

Immigrant Rights Organizers: Hands Off Health Care! Health Care For All!

May 31, 2025 Brad Sigal, Fight Back! News. Resist! Health Care, Health Care for All, Immigrant Rights, Minnesota

Saint Paul, MN – With Governor Tim Walz and legislators huddled behind closed doors making deals for a looming legislative special session, around 50 people from the immigrant rights movement protested May 27 at Walz’s office in the State Capitol. The protest was in response to Governor Walz and legislative leaders announcing that they intend to pass a budget that takes away access to health care from adult immigrants in the state. In the hallway outside Governor Walz’s office, four speakers talked powerfully about the human and social costs of denying health care access to immigrants.

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