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Minnesota Teachers and Grocery Workers: ICE Out of Our Workplaces

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Teachers, families, community groups, and grocery workers are calling for federal immigration authorities to stay out of their workplaces, and out of Minnesota, one day after an ICE agent shot and killed Minneapolis resident and mother Renee Good. 

“On the day of Good’s murder, federal agents deployed chemical irritants and abducted an educator overseeing safe dismissal from Roosevelt High School grounds (who has since been released),” reads a January 8 statement from Minneapolis Families for Public Schools, TakeAction Minnesota, Minneapolis Federation of Educators, and ISAIAH, a coalition of educator unions, workers, and community organizations. “ICE is putting our freedoms, our futures, and our lives at risk,” the statement continues. “Immigrant families, allied families, and educators are standing together to say ICE OUT now,” continues the statement, which announces a press conference the following morning. Laura Proescholdt, communications director for TakeAction Minnesota, emailed Workday Magazine a list of the coalition’s demands. They include, “ICE out of our schools, ICE out of Minnesota.

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No Wheat, Milk, Rice, Medicines: How the U.S. and Israel Are Starving Yemen

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This article is a joint publication of Workday Magazine and In These Times. It is the second part in a series about how U.S. policy impacts working-class people in Yemen. The first one was published in 2023 and showed how the Biden administration was contributing to policies that made it near impossible for poor people in Yemen to get medical care to treat dire health conditions. At Workday Magazine, we report on the lives of poor and working people not only in Minnesota and the Midwest, but around the world. Most of Mohammed Mohsen’s neighbors live in a state of deprivation and hunger, reliant on the World Food Programme for daily survival.