Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown

In These Times -   Unions and community groups gathered in front of the Hennepin County Government Center in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota this morning to announce a day of ?“no work, no school, no shopping” on January 23 to oppose the ferocious assault on the state by federal immigration authorities.

“We are facing a tsunami of hate from our own federal government,” Abdikarim Khasim, a Minnesota rideshare driver, told the crowd.  “We’re going to shut it down on the 23rd. We’re going to overcome this.” 

JaNaé Bates Imari, representative of the church Camphor Memorial UMC, told the crowd that the joint action will be “a day when every single Minnesotan who loves this state — who loves the idea of truth and freedom — will refuse to work, shop and go to school. We are asking every single person, every family member, every teacher, every bus driver, every childcare worker, to come together, to be in community, to stand with one another.”