Minnesota

ICE Killings Fuel Nationwide Protests

July 16, 2026 Devin B. Martinez, BreakThrough News. Resist! ICE, Mass Action, Minnesota, Murders

Less than one week after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shot and killed Houston father and construction worker Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, ICE agents fatally shot Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday, July 12. According to witness accounts and video footage, ICE agents rammed their vehicle into the 26-year-old Colombian’s car and approached the driver-side door. Moments later, they shot him and proceeded to drag his limp body out of the vehicle, handcuffing him on the pavement, where his body was left for five hours. Guerrero’s three-year-old daughter and partner were in the car and witnessed the killing.

Meeting Erupts In Protest Over Contract With Israeli Company

July 15, 2026 Meredith Aby, Fight Back! News. Resist! BDS Movement, City Council, Israel, Minnesota

St. Paul, MN – The Saint Paul Board of Water Commissioners, which governs the public water utility for the city and surrounding suburbs, voted on July 14 to renew Israeli tech company Waterfall Security Solutions’ contract for five years, after an hours-long public hearing. The chamber was full of people prepared to testify in what Chris Tolbert, the water board’s president, called the most well-attended meeting in the board’s history. Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) mobilized for the meeting, and over 50 people turned up to give testimony against the contract renewal.

Activists Drop ‘Stop Line 5’ Banner From Stone Arch Bridge

July 7, 2026 Akičita Šuŋka-Wakaŋ Ska, Unicorn Riot. Resist! Banner drop, Enbridge, Fossil Fuels, Line 5 Pipeline, Minnesota, Water Protectors

Minneapolis, MN — Stop Line 5 activists dropped a huge banner that read “Stop Line 5” from the Stone Arch Bridge, which spans across the Mississippi River on Tuesday morning and called on Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer to “Deny the Line 5 tunnel permits.” One of Enbridge’s two contentious oil pipeline construction proposals for Line 5 includes tunneling across the Straits of Mackinac, a sacred land to the Anishinaabe people of the Bay Mills Indian Community, who’ve banned the project. The Line 5 permit would use horizontal directional drilling for a planned 21‑foot‑wide concrete tunnel beneath the straits, which split Lake Michigan and Lake Huron.

Minnesota Activists Prepare To Defend Anti-ICE Protesters

July 3, 2026 Ibrahim Hirsi, Truthout. Resist! Community Defense, ICE, Legal System, Minnesota, State Repression

Minnesota activists and scholars are decrying the recent federal indictment of 15 people who took part in demonstrations against the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities metro region earlier this year. The indictment accuses the protesters of surveilling federal agents, disrupting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations, and training people on how to delay or prevent arrests, among other allegations. It also alleges that the defendants are members of antifa-linked groups like the Black Cat Worker’s Collective, which prosecutors describe as an organization committed to “militant class struggle” and “revolution.”

Minnesota Protests War On Iran Outside Army Recruitment Center

June 18, 2026 Peter Kellner, Fight Back! News. Resist! Antiwar Movement, Iran, Military Recruitment, Minnesota, Wars and Militarism

Richfield, MN – On June 14, over 50 protesters gathered outside a U.S. Army recruitment center to demand an end to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and Lebanon, highlighting the war crimes committed by U.S. military personnel while admonishing recruiters for preying on vulnerable people’s basic needs. The event was organized by the Minnesota Anti-War Committee (AWC) with a wide range of grassroots organizations participating in the event. The day also marked the Flag Day holiday. Instead of flying the U.S. flag, protesters displayed the flags of Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, Cuba and other countries targeted by Trump, calling on Americans to respect the sovereignty of other nations. Hundreds of passing cars honked in support.

Women Against Military Madness Marches On Lockheed Martin

June 10, 2026 Cedar Larson, Fight Back! News. Resist! Antiwar Movement, Lockheed Martin, Minnesota, Weapons Maker

St. Paul, MN – On June 6, a beautiful Saturday morning, over 100 people gathered in Langford Park in Saint Paul’s Saint Anthony Park neighborhood for Women Against Military Madness’s (WAMM) 19th annual Walk Against Weapons. This year WAMM marched on Lockheed Martin subsidiary ForwardEdge ASIC, which makes application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC) for F-35 jets which have been used in the U.S.-funded Israeli genocide of Palestinians and now in the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. WAMM’s new director and emcee for the event, Meredith Aby, said, “Today we are marching to Forward Edge to highlight the role of Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest manufacturer of weaponry.

Protesters Bring ‘Conejo’ Hats And Sanctuary State Demands To Governor

May 31, 2026 Montana Hirsch, Fight Back! News. Resist! Governor, Immigrant Rights, Minnesota, Sanctuary State

Saint Paul, MN – On Wednesday, May 27, the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) brought its demands for a sanctuary state executive order to the office of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, along with dozens of blue bunny hats that they left on the floor outside of his office. MIRAC has been calling on Governor Walz to issue an executive order making Minnesota a sanctuary state and on all gubernatorial candidates to commit to implementing statewide sanctuary policies. With no response from Walz, the group took their demands to his office in person.

Minnesota: Pro-Choice Mother’s Day Rally For Reproductive Justice

May 13, 2026 Fight Back! News. Resist! Abortion, Minnesota, Mothers Day, Reproductive Rights, Women’s health

Minneapolis, MN – On Mother’s Day Sunday, May 10, the Minnesota Abortion Action Committee (MNAAC) organized a pro-choice Mother’s Day protest across from what was an anti-abortion, Pro Life Action Ministry (PLAM) billboard. A few days leading up to the protest, members of MNAAC learned the billboard was replaced with a local orthopedic billboard. Despite this change, they continued with the protest with about two dozen attendees to fight for comprehensive reproductive healthcare, oppose abortion restrictions and the attempts of “pro-life” organizations to influence legislation and to shame women.

Anti-War Protesters Remove Army Recruiters From Career Fair

May 5, 2026 Ben Sullivan-McKone, Fight Back! News. Resist! Anti-militarization, Career Fair, Military Recruitment, Minnesota

Brooklyn Center, MN – On April 29, a career fair organized by Hennepin County at the quiet Brookdale Library became the scene of a successful action against the presence of U.S. military recruiters in communities. Roughly a dozen activists from the MN Anti-War Committee and the anti-war veterans’ organization About Face disrupted the fair with the demand that recruiters for both the U.S Army and the Minnesota Army National Guard leave immediately. Protesters began by inconspicuously entering the fair before unfurling a banner reading “Recruiters out – stop the war” and taking the floor to speak and chant against the military personnel present, refusing to leave until the recruiters did.

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.

Twin Cities Electrical Workers Build Solidarity

April 2, 2026 Gabriel Legierski, Mike Plante, and Peter Rachleff, Labor Notes. Organize! ICE, Labor Movement, Minnesota, Unions

For months, the country and the world have been watching Minnesota, where the Trump administration’s military occupation by ICE, Border Patrol, and Homeland Security has been met by a multi-faceted grassroots resistance. As rank-and-file electricians, we sought to involve our local unions in the campaign to push ICE out of the Twin Cities and to support our immigrant neighbors and fellow workers. In early February, three weeks after the murder of Renee Nicole Good and just eight days after the murder of Alex Pretti, 40 members of the Electrical Workers (IBEW) joined an “ICE OUT” potluck to talk about the occupation and its effects on working people.

Protesters Fill Capitol, Read Letters From Children Held In Immigration Custody

March 24, 2026 L. Cam Anderson, Unicorn Riot. Resist! Children, Human Rights, ICE, Immigrant Solidarity, immigrants rights, Minnesota

Saint Paul, MN — More than 100 people filed into the Minnesota State Capitol on Feb. 26 to protest the prolonged detainment of children in Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities around the country. The crowd, led into the capitol building by the immigrant rights-oriented nonprofit Unidos MN to protest a legislative session, pooled into the second floor outside of the Senate Chamber as an array of speakers read letters sent by children detained in ICE detention centers in Texas aloud. The protest follows a recent trend in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detaining more and more children, the Associated Press reported.

A Snapshot Of The Possible

March 21, 2026 Alex Han, In These Times. Strategize! Community Defense, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Minnesota

In 2023, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party held a slim, single-seat majority in the Minnesota State Senate and control of the State House and Governor’s Mansion. It had been a decade since the last Democratic trifecta in the state, which like many similar moments of prior eras, produced only incremental wins for progressives and the Left. Since the financial crisis and Great Recession of the early Obama era, a core group of community and union organizers in Minnesota had been building what they called “alignment.” It would go beyond the traditional coalitions so many of us were used to — ones coalesced around a single fight but too pragmatic to inspire people to action.

From Mogadishu To Minneapolis

March 8, 2026 Elizabeth Schmidt, Africa is a Country. Educate! Immigrant Rights, Minnesota, Somalia, US Intervention

The Trump administration’s crackdown on Somali refugees, immigrants, and US citizens of Somali descent in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the home of some 80,000 people of Somali heritage, has been headline news in recent weeks—especially since the Immigration and Customs Enforcement killing of two American citizens—both white—who witnessed ICE brutality. The presence of so many Somalis in Minneapolis and the special antipathy the Trump administration has for them has roots that go far deeper than the president’s hostility toward Minneapolis Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, one of his most forceful and outspoken critics.

Minneapolis: Organizing For The Protection Of The Community

February 17, 2026 Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. Strategize! Community Defense, ICE, Minnesota, State Repression

Last week I was in Minneapolis, Minnesota to observe and learn from those who have attempted to protect members of their community from the brutal assaults by ICE and other government agencies and hold those agencies accountable for the violence they are wrecking on the community. The Trump administration’s decision to surge 2,000 ICE and Border Patrol agents into Minneapolis to uphold White House Deputy chief of Staff Steven Miller’s directive for the arrest in the U.S. of 3,000 persons each day to teach immigrants, and everyone in the U.S. a lesson, backfired as the actions of the federal agents in Minneapolis outraged the city, state and nation.

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