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By Amie Stager

Terrorized By ICE, Unable to Pay Rent, Minnesotans Are Getting Ready for a Rent Strike

This article is a joint publication of Workday Magazine and In These Times. First, she started checking for suspicious cars each day before leaving the house for work. Then, she began skipping work whenever she saw Facebook posts about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents nearby. By the end of December, she wasn’t working at all.

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Waiters, Cooks, and Bartenders Are Calling on Hospitality Industry to Ban ICE From Minnesota Restaurants

On February 13, restaurant workers rallied outside the Hospitality Minnesota building in downtown Minneapolis to deliver a Valentine’s Day card asking industry leaders to ban ICE from restaurants. The workers also want stronger protocols for protections at restaurants, and know-your-rights trainings for restaurant workers on the front lines. It’s not radical to refuse service to […]
Demand Grows for Statewide Eviction Moratorium in Minnesota

On January 30, educators and children from the Twin Cities demonstrated in front of the governor’s mansion in St. Paul, Minn., led by rank-and-file members of Minneapolis Federation of Educators (MFE) Local 59, to demand that Gov. Tim Walz enact a statewide eviction moratorium. On the same day, a press conference was held in front […]
Organizador de Trabajadores secuestrado por agentes federales en Minnesota

Agentes federales de inmigración han secuestrado a Eustaquio Orozco Verdusco, un organizador de derechos de los trabajadores muy conocido en Minnesota por luchar contra el robo de salarios y la trata laboral. Su abogada y su hijo dicen que actualmente está detenido en el Centro Correccional del Condado de Cibola en Nuevo México, dirigido por […]
Minnesota

Worker Organizer Abducted By Federal Agents in Minnesota

This article is a joint publication of Workday Magazine and In These Times. Federal immigration agents have abducted Eustaquio Orozco Verdusco, a workers’ rights organizer well known in Minnesota for fighting wage theft and labor trafficking. His attorney and son say he is currently held at the Cibola County Correctional Center in New Mexico, run […]
Trabajadores de la construcción ocupan el vestíbulo de una promotora inmobiliaria y exigen medidas contra las redadas del ICE en las obras.

El 21 de enero, trabajadores de la construcción y aliados de la comunidad cantaron, corearon consignas y marcharon hacia las oficinas de D.R. Horton, que, según los organizadores, es la mayor promotora inmobiliaria de viviendas unifamiliares del país. Su objetivo era entregar cartas en las que pedían a la empresa que protegiera a los trabajadores […]
Minnesota

The Minnesota Target Workers Who Walked Out Against ICE

This article is a joint publication of Workday Magazine and The American Prospect. Rob doesn’t want anyone else to experience what his co-workers at the Target store in the Minneapolis suburb of Richfield went through. On January 8, federal immigration agents violently tackled and detained two Target workers during their shift. Rob was on the […]