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..ICE at Work -- Cartoon by Mike Luckovich
Mike LuckovichNovember 7, 2025Atlanta Journal-Constitution
First They Came For.... -- Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad
Adapting this poem to fit the current situation and anyone who thinks this does not apply to them.
Benjamin SlyngstadJanuary 25, 2026slyngstad_cartoons
Re: Minnesota Is the Beginning of an American Color Revolution
Commenting on the great Minnesota strike, Paul Krugman gets it wrong comparing it to a color revolution. What we have just experienced is remote from the regime changes in eastern Europe, involving American or Western interference or soft coups after the Soviet collapse. There is no force exploiting the anti-ICE solidarity. Its political focus is just starting to take shape. Its uniqueness is the first feature we need to recognize if we want to understand what it means.
Ethan YoungPosted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
Re: Organized Labor Escalates Against ICE Summary Executions
I believe the ICE murder list should be:
- Silverio Villegas González in Chicago
- Keith Porter Jr. in Los Angeles
- Renee Good in Minneapolis
- Alex Pretti in Minneapolisshot and killed; many more died in ICE custody, and in the hospital, others killed by Border Patrol agents.
It looks to me as though the protests are focusing exclusively on the white victims, reminiscent of 1970 when students were shot and killed at Kent State, Jackson State, and Augusta, but only Kent State became a cause.
Ken LawrenceSpring Mills, Pennsylvania
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I think we're sharpening our realization about the source of the thugs of ICE and other right-wing organizations and our need to do something to defeat them via ourselves and our labor/community group allies. About time.
Solidarity,
Jim YoungHarrisburg, PA
The Children Are Always Ours...Every Single One of Them -- Meme
Re: US’s Largest Nurses’ Union Demands Abolition of ICE After Alex Pretti Killing
(posting on xxxxxx Labor)
Thank you, NNU, for your call for the abolition of ICE.
Marcia Slatkin
Re: The Democrats’ Long-Awaited Spine
Homeland Security is unconstitutional. So is the Patriot Act.
Kathryn Evann WegnerPosted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
Deadly ICE -- Cartoon and Commentary by Rob Rogers
Trump's DOJ is threatening to continue the ICE crackdown if Minnesota doesn't give up personal voter data that could be weaponized by the president and his allies to make false claims of voter fraud.
Rob RogersJanuary 27, 2026TinyView
Re: Special Address by Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada at World Economic Forum
Thank you for helping to broadcast Mark Carney's sobering yet inspirational speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos. It should remind everyone that there is always another way to look at things, even under the threat of overwhelming oppression.
To say most of us have lost sleep since Trump took office twice is understated. It has only proven to be further disrupted due to his exponentially escalating cruelty, greed, and drive for vile powers.
Carney eloquently articulated how we can all sleep better by building on truth--the anchor to sustainable reality.
Comedians will now rue the day that the maple syrup-coated border ice-wall actually solidified by virtue of intellectual might. Canada and the unhardened world were never more proud. Thank you, Prime Minister Carney.
Respectfully,
Natalia KuzmynVancouver Island
One atrocity after another. One lie after another. -- Cartoon by Nick Anderson
Nick AndersonJanuary 24, 2026Pen Strokes
National Basketball Players Association Speaks Out
NBA Players Association Releases Statement After Fatal Shootings in Minneapolis
by Ryan PhillipsJanuary 25, 2026Sports Illustrated (SI.com)
The NBA Players Association has issued a statement following the shooting deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by federal agents in Minneapolis.
The text of the statement follows:
New York, Jan 25, 2006 — Following the news of yet another fatal shooting in Minneapolis, a city that has been on the forefront of the fight against injustices, NBA players can no longer remain silent.
Now more than ever, we must defend the right to freedom of speech and stand in solidarity with the people in Minnesota protesting and risking their lives to demand justice.
The fraternity of NBA players, like the United States itself, is a community enriched by its global citizens, and we refuse to let the flames of division threaten the civil liberties that are meant to protect us all.
The NBPA and its members extend our deepest condolences to the families of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, just as our thoughts remain focused on the safety and well-being of all members of our community.
In the aftermath of Pretti’s death on Saturday, the NBA postponed a matchup between the Golden State Warriors and Minnesota Timberwolves. It was rescheduled for Sunday at 5:30 p.m. ET.
Good was shot in her car by an ICE agent on January 7, 2026, while Pretti was killed on Saturday.
On Sunday, Timberwolves coach Chris Finch addressed the shootings hours before the rescheduled game was set to begin. His statement is below.
“For the second time in less than three weeks, we've lost another beloved member of our community, in the most unimaginable way,” Finch said. “Now, as an organization, we are heartbroken for what we are having to witness and endure and watch, and we just want to extend our thoughts, prayers, and concern for Mr. Pretti, the family, all the loved ones, and everyone involved in such an unconscionable, situation in a community that we really love, full of people who are, by nature, peaceful, and prideful. And you know, we just stand in support of our great community here.
RECAP: National Briefing - Minnesota and Beyond: Rapid Response to ICE in Occupied Cities (Movement Voter Fund and Solidaire Network)
Tune in for this MVF briefing to hear from organizers of the incredible rapid response against ICE in Minnesota and beyond.
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Briefing Co-Sponsors
- Movement Voter Fund funds local organizing and movement-building groups working to shift culture, expand democracy, and shape policy. MVF operates like a “mutual fund” for civic philanthropic giving: We raise money from donors, then channel it toward the most impactful organizations and power-building work around the country.
- Solidaire Network nurtures relationships between social movements and members to create regenerative systems rooted in love and justice.
Featured Speakers
- Doran Schrantz is a Senior Advisor to ISAIAH, a multiracial, interfaith organization that has been building grassroots power in Minnesota for over a decade.
- Emilia González Avalos is Executive Director of Unidos MN Education Fund, a grassroots organization that builds power for working families — and runs MONARCA, which has trained over 26,000 Minnesotans to observe, document, and respond to ICE presence.
- Laura Flynn is on the Board of Movement Voter Project, MVF’s 501(c)(4) sibling. A writer, organizer, and Minnesota native, she has been instrumental in mobilizing resources in support of organizing groups in her state and across the Midwest.
- Nikki Marín Baena is the Co-Director of Somos Siembra, an immigrant rights and economic justice organization in North Carolina that is helping to lead the national charge to stop corporations from enabling ICE.
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Support Organizers’ Work on the Ground
- Contribute now to Movement Voter Fund's Rapid Response Fund to support organizing in Minnesota as well as other critical hotspots around the country. Your support helps train legal observers, pressure ICE’s corporate collaborators, and mobilize people to stand up against authoritarian consolidation. Questions? Contact your MVF liaison or email [email protected].
- Contribute now to Solidaire Network's Movement Protection Fund. If you have questions, contact Solidaire at [email protected]. (For movement leaders and organizations interested in learning more about receiving support, please email [email protected].)
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- Unidos MN Education Fund (Minnesota)
- ISAIAH (Minnesota)
- Somos Siembra (North Carolina)
Get Involved
Visit the website of our national allied coalition, ICE Out For Good, for key actions you can take to support the fight against the authoritarian occupation of our cities.
Resources
- The Day of Truth & Freedom: Minnesota's statewide day of action on January 23.
- ICE Out For Good: One of our national allied coalitions, which has compiled a list of actions folks outside of MN can take to support fighting back against ICE.
- MONARCA: An immigrant-defense hotline (now fielding one call every minute) and rapid-response program that has now trained close to 28,000 Minnesotans to observe, document, and respond to ICE presence throughout the state.
- Fourth Amendment Workplace: A campaign by MVF partner Somos Siembra to organize workplaces to restore confidence in local businesses as places of refuge
Movement Voter Fund funds local organizing and movement-building groups working to shift culture, expand democracy, and shape policy.
Planning Call -- Stand with Minnesota. And plan for NO WORK. NO SCHOOL. NO SHOPPING. MAY 1ST - National Call - February 1 (MayDayStrong)
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We are inspired by the incredible wins coming out of Minnesota - and we know how they got them. More than 75,000 people took to the streets in Minneapolis January 23rd and hundreds of stores closed in solidarity. They shut the city down in a day of No work. No school. No shopping. And they’re ready to do it again.
Join this call to hear from Minnesota organizers, international experts on authoritarian regimes, and regular people who are leading the way in their neighborhoods. Together we’ll learn how we each can build the power we need to make a general strike real in our communities, wherever we are. And we’ll learn why it works and why we will win. Join us.
We are the many. They are the few. And we will not be silent.
ICE killed Renee Good in Minneapolis. This regime is terrorizing our cities and dropping bombs on Venezuela. We stand united against the occupation of other countries and our cities on behalf of a handful of billionaires.
SIGN THE MAY DAY SOLIDARITY PLEDGE MAP OF ACTIONS - as of Jan. 29
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Labor’s Fight for Justice in the Workplace and Society: Lessons from the UAW - New York - February 2 (The Worker Institute)
Join us for a discussion of this new book: Roy Reuther and the UAW: Fighting for Workers and Civil Rights, with the author Alan Reuther.
February 2, 20266:15 PM - 8:00 PM EST
570 Lexington Avenue12th floorNew York, NY 10022
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Join The Worker Institute on February 2 to discuss labor's role in the fight for justice, drawing insights from the UAW's history.
Hear directly from author Alan Reuther as he discusses his new book, Roy Reuther and the UAW: Fighting for Workers and Civil Rights. He will discuss auto workers’ historic fight to unionize and reflect on what lessons from the past today’s labor movement can utilize.
We will examine lessons learned from the UAW’s historic fight to unionize the auto industry and to advance social justice beyond its core industrial base.
In the current moment, how can the labor movement continue to organize workers? What is its role and responsibility in social justice movements, defending democracy against an existential threat posed by rising authoritarianism, protecting immigrant workers facing cruel deportations, confronting the climate crisis, and addressing growing inequality? These are the kinds of questions we will be exploring.
Featuring:
- Alan Reuther - Author; Former Legislative Director, United Auto Workers
Alan Reuther is the son of Roy Reuther and the nephew of famed labor leader Walter Reuther. He received a law degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 1977. Following in his father’s and uncles’ footsteps, the author spent his career working for the United Auto Workers (UAW). In 1977 he began as a lawyer in the union’s legal department, litigating in federal district and appellate courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1982 he transferred to the UAW’s Washington office to work on legislative matters. He became legislative director in 1991 and supervised the union’s activities lobbying Congress and the executive branch on health care, pensions, worker rights, and other issues until his retirement in 2010.
Speakers:
- Patricia Campos-Medina - Executive Director, Worker Institute
Dr. Campos-Medina is a researcher, RTE Faculty and labor educator focusing on the intersection of race, immigration status and worker’s rights. She is a Senior Extension Associate Faculty and the Executive Director of the Worker Institute at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University where she leads research, policy innovation and training to advance worker justice, collective bargaining rights and the interest of workers in today’s economy and society.
She is a political scientist and policy expert on workplace and labor issues, women rights, voting rights, immigrant worker justice and US trade relations. She holds a PhD from Rutgers University and a BS and MPA from Cornell University. She is a member of the Diverse Solidarity Economies (DISE), a collective of Black and Brown Feminist Scholars focused on research that decolonizes and diversifies the field of political economy. She is a Visiting Fellow at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
- Elaine Kim - Senior Extension Associate, Labor Leadership Initiatives
Elaine H. Kim spent over a decade as part of the leadership team at 32BJ SEIU, the largest property service union in the country representing janitors, security officers, airport and residential workers, among others. While at 32BJ, she designed and led a year-long strategic planning process, resulting in a comprehensive ten-year plan to organize workers and continue to win for 32BJ’s 175,000 members. Elaine also served as 32BJ’s Assistant to the President for Communications, a role in which she drove and implemented a multi-year change process.
Elaine started out organizing low-income people around welfare issues and has worked as a trainer, facilitator and consultant to a broad range of community-based social justice organizations in the New York City area. Now Senior Extension Associate with Cornell University’s Worker Institute, Elaine is on the facilitation team for the Union Leadership Institute, the National Labor Leadership Initiative, and anchors the Managing with Labor’s Values course offering. Born in Ohio and raised in Michigan, Elaine lives in Brooklyn with her partner and their twins and does what she can to stay connected to her activist queer and Asian American communities.
- Brandon Mancilla - Director, UAW Region 9A
Brandon Mancilla was elected UAW Region 9A Director in December 2022 in the first ever direct elections for the International Executive Board.
Mancilla was the first President of UAW Local 5118, (Harvard Graduate Students Union) in Cambridge, MA. His experience with Local 5118 began as a rank-and-file organizer. After beginning graduate school at Harvard University, he joined the organizing drive which delivered one of the largest private sector organizing victories in the last 20 years. During the 29-day long strike of 2019,?he was on the strike coordinating team planning university disruptions. He joined the temporary organizing staff at HGSU in January 2020, while he also worked as a teaching and research assistant for the university. In 2020, he was elected President of the local. As President, Mancilla helped build the new local with an emphasis on developing member-led committees to address contract enforcement, anti-harassment organizing, and campus and Boston-area labor solidarity efforts. Under his leadership, Local 5118 went back on strike and won a successor contract in 2021.
Mancilla has also worked for UAW Local 2325 (Association of Legal Aid Attorneys) in New York City as a local staff organizer. He joined the local staff at an exciting time with their significant growth in membership and organizing victories at new shops in the legal services sector. He worked directly with members and shop leaders to organize bargaining campaigns and enforce existing contracts. At UAW 2325, he led negotiations on first contract bargaining campaigns and successor agreements, conducted new organizing drives, and designed and led delegate and Bargaining Committee member trainings.
He was born into a working-class Guatemalan immigrant family in New York City. His commitment to building worker power comes in large part from his experience seeing how union membership allowed his family to achieve a level of stability and job protections that working-class immigrants in non-union jobs rarely have. Shortly after his family left Guatemala during the brutal civil war in the 1980s, his grandfather joined a union in the packaging industry in Long Island in the 1980s when Central American immigrants worked overwhelmingly in non-union jobs.
Mancilla has a Master’s Degree in history from Harvard University and a Bachelor’s Degree from Williams College. He currently lives in Queens, New York.
- Zoe Carey - Servicing Representative, UAW's Higher Education Department
Zoe Carey is a Servicing Representative in the UAW’s Higher Education Department, where she has assisted with contract negotiations and supported the fight against federal attacks on higher education, from funding cuts to attacks on free speech and non-citizens’ rights.
Prior to joining UAW staff, Carey was President of UAW Local 7902, the union of NYU adjunct faculty and New School part-time faculty, academic student workers, and student health services employees from 2020-2024. Ushering the union through the pandemic, Carey helped rebuild the union’s internal organization and oversaw negotiations of successor agreements for all worker units. She believes the union’s power comes from the membership, and was proud to lead the union during the 25-day part-time faculty strike of 2022, and the 3-day student employee strike of 2023.
Carey helped found the student worker unit in 2014 and remained a lead organizer during the 4-day strike in 2018, joining the bargaining committee to help win their first contract. She holds a BA in International Studies from UC San Diego and an MA and MPhil in Sociology from The New School, where her research focused on surveillance technologies and accountability in policing. Carey attended the NY State AFL-CIO / Cornell Union Leadership Institute, graduating with the class of 2024 (the best class).
Webinar - General Strikes! - What are they? Reports from Minnesota; History of May Day and Next Steps for Our Movements - February 5 (New York City May Day Solidarity School)
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 57 - 8:30 pm ET
Featuring:
- Reports from Minneapolis
- Jackson Potter, Chicago Teachers Union and May Day Strong
- Claudia Magana, Organizing Power in Numbers and May Day Strong
- Samir Sonti, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
- Lamin Jatta, New York Taxi Workers Alliance
- Ms. Huang, Chinatown Tenants Union and CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities
Co-sponsored by:
New York Communities for Change, UAW 9A, PSC-CUNY/AFT, Alliance for Quality Education, The Action Lab, Hands Off NY!, SEIU Committee of Interns and Residents, New York Taxi Workers Alliance, The FUN - New York, Our Time, Citizen Action!, WGAE-East, NewsGuild/CWA, CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities
To register:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/_uUiCKa6QM6zfNmVwVVmwQ
How we mobilize leading up to the next No Kings Day - Join the Eyes on ICE: Document and Record virtual training next Thursday, February 5, at 8pm ET/5pm PT (The No Kings Coalition)
Click here for Feb. 5 link
We are watching something historic in Minnesota. First-time protesters are taking to the streets, neighbors are forming human chains to keep each other safe, and, last Friday, Minneapolis held the first general strike in the US in nearly a century. Minnesotans are showing us how to stand in solidarity in the face of governmental abuse -- because the Trump administration isn’t slowing down.
Families continue to be terrorized in their own homes and neighborhoods, with masked ICE agents kicking down doors, ripping families apart, and killing people, including Keith Porter Jr., Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and at least six people in their custody so far in 2026. Another 32 people died in ICE custody last year, ICE’s deadliest year in over 20 years.
These tragedies are not isolated incidents. They are a compounding pattern of abuse that we must organize to fight back against. On Monday, we offered an Eyes on ICE training that more than 200,000 people tuned in for on a day’s notice. We know that some folks weren’t able to rearrange their schedules to attend, so we’re offering it again.Join the Eyes on ICE: Document and Record virtual training next Thursday, February 5, at 8pm ET/5pm PT to learn about your rights when documenting and recording law enforcement encounters. If you came to Monday’s training, commit to finding two friends to go to this one -- the more people who are trained, the safer our communities will be.
After holding the largest single-day, nonviolent protest in US history in October, we reminded you that No Kings Day is not an end or a beginning. No Kings Day is one piece of a continuing legacy of struggle in this country that began when the first colonists stepped foot on this land. We will continue to fight on the side of morality, freedom, equality, and kindness until we cannot anymore.
It is with that spirit of ongoing resistance that we announce the next No Kings Day on March 28.
Registration isn’t live yet, but we wanted to make sure to get you the date early this time around so that you can plan. In the meantime, the nonviolent resistance continues.
Join the Eyes on ICE training on February 5, invite your friends to join you, protect your neighbors, support cities occupied by the Trump administration, and find a way to ease the burden of someone less privileged than you. No Kings Day is a massive symbol of resistance, but don't wait for March 28 to make your voices heard. No Kings today. No Kings tomorrow. No Kings on our watch.
See you in the streets,
The No Kings Coalition
Confronting McCarthyism: Generational Lessons from Families who Resisted the Red Scare - New York - March 3 (Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, Columbia University Libraries and the Columbia University Department of History)
Tuesday, March 3, 20267pm - 8:30pm
St. John The Devine Cathedral1047 Amsterdam Avenue at 112th StreetNew York, NY 10025
“It Can Happen Here.” These were the chilling words whispered during the 1950s, as the witch hunt against communists claimed the livelihoods of thousands of citizens, trailed fear into the homes of millions, and stifled dissent nationwide.
McCarthyism impacted all Americans, but certain families faced its whole force head on. Join us for this historic conversation, as children and grandchildren of some of the Red Scare’s most significant targets reflect on these struggles and the continuing legacies of their families’ harrowing experiences:
- Michael Meeropol, son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
- MaryLouise Patterson, daughter of civil rights leaders Louise and William Patterson.
- Molly Jong-Fast, granddaughter of blacklisted novelist Howard Fast.
- Moderator Beverly Gage, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century.
At a time when authoritarians are reviving the tactics and terrors of McCarthyism, this conversation about the past and future of American civil liberties is more critical than ever before.
This event is being produced in collaboration with the Columbia University Libraries and the Columbia University Department of History.
Free with RSVP
Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives https://library.nyu.edu/locations/special-collections-center/
