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Yeshidagna is part of a coalition of student groups that organized the #Minnesota shutdown last Friday, in which thousands of people flooded the streets in sub-zero temperatures & hundreds of businesses shut their doors to demand #justice for #ReneeGood, who was shot by an #ICE agent while trying to protect a neighbor. Last weekend, agents killed #AlexPretti, another resident who was observing agents’ activities.
#GeneralStrike #law #immigration #RightToProtest #CivilRights #UseOfForce #Trump
Those deaths include #ReneeGood & #AlexPretti in #Minneapolis, #KeithPorter in #LosAngeles, & #SilverioVillegasGonzález in #Illinois. Friday’s #national #protest leaders, many of them students at the University of #Minnesota, are calling for #ICE to leave the city after its nearly month-long operation. They say economic pressure through work stoppages & consumer boycotts is just one way to demand #accountability & #reform.
#GeneralStrike #law #protest #CivilRights #murder #UseOfForce #Trump
“We are calling for this #strike because we believe what we have been doing in Minnesota should go national,” said Kidus Yeshidagna, president of the Ethiopian Students Union at the University of #Minnesota & one of the students organizing the strike.
“We need more people & lawmakers across the country to wake up.”
#GeneralStrike #law #immigration #RightToProtest #CivilRights #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #AbuseOfPower #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #Trump #authoritarianism #StateSponsoredTerrorism
Yeshidagna is part of a coalition of student groups that organized the #Minnesota shutdown last Friday, in which thousands of people flooded the streets in sub-zero temperatures & hundreds of businesses shut their doors to demand #justice for #ReneeGood, who was shot by an #ICE agent while trying to protect a neighbor. Last weekend, agents killed #AlexPretti, another resident who was observing agents’ activities.
#GeneralStrike #law #immigration #RightToProtest #CivilRights #UseOfForce #Trump
The student groups – including the associations representing Black, Somali, Liberian, Ethiopian & Eritrean students & the graduate #labor #union – first gathered on 21 January to plan the calls for local & national #strikes. “We came out in huge numbers despite the cold,” he said, referencing last week’s actions. “We are now doing it again.”
#GeneralStrike #law #immigration #RightToProtest #CivilRights #ExtraJudicialKillings #UseOfForce #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #Trump #StateSponsoredTerrorism
From restaurants & clothing retailers to bookstores & coffee shops, businesses across dozens of cities have announced that they are closed.
Protesters in Philadelphia, New York, Boise & Columbus are gathering at city halls, courthouses, statehouses & legislative buildings, according to an action tracker. Students at high schools & colleges in Florida, California & other states are staging walkouts.
#GeneralStrike #law #immigration #RightToProtest #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ICE #CBP #Trump
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