Hi, I’m Chelsie Glaubitz Gabiou, president of the Minneapolis Regional
Labor Federation, and I want to thank Progressive Change for the chance to
speak to you about what’s been happening on the ground in Minneapolis
under ICE occupation.

For more than 50 days, ICE’s ‘Operation Metro Surge’ has created fear,
instability, and violence in our community. Minnesotans have watched our
neighbors disappear in front of us, and we have come together to protect
each other.

Let’s be absolutely clear on this point: Minnesota and its neighborhoods
are under attack from our own federal government. 

That’s why on January 23rd, in -20 weather, 90,000 Minnesotans took to the
streets peacefully, in solidarity, to demand ICE OUT of our communities.
Labor has played a key role in this resistance.

[ [link removed] ]Minnesota Labor is stepping up to keep the resistance going. Can you
join us by splitting a tax-deductible donation with the Minneapolis
Regional Labor Fed’s Working Partnerships fund and the Progressive Change
Institute to build local rapid response networks that are meeting the
needs of workers in Minneapolis?

[ [link removed] ]Enormous march in Minneapolis.

Every single one of our unions have a story about a member, whether they
were at work or not, who have been illegally detained―folks who are here
working legally with their papers.

Some of the folks that are being arrested work at workplaces that have
significant background checks that require all of your paperwork to be
absolutely impeccably in order to work, and yet they are still being
arrested and whisked away to a camp in the middle of Texas within hours of
being arrested.

And then they're in these facilities for days, detained illegally for
weeks on end when they've had every right to be working here. And it's
just causing havoc and fear, widespread fear across all kinds of
industries.

Teachers are teaching to half-empty classrooms. Restaurants are having to
close. Peaceful observers have been gunned down in the street. This is
what a community under siege looks like.

Acts of solidarity puts all our collective muscle together to say: This
has to stop.

It's a message that resonates beyond Minneapolis and beyond the state of
Minnesota. It's a message where our entire country has to take this very
seriously, and we all need to work together to make what is happening in
our community and this occupation of our community and other communities
stop immediately.

Specifically, your donation will be used for:

 1. Mutual aid supporting families who can’t safely work with food, rent
relief and rides
 2. Legal defense for the detained workers and constitutional observers
 3. Rebuilding our communities vast organizing networks

[ [link removed] ]Even if ICE leaves Minneapolis tomorrow, rebuilding our communities
could take years. Your tax-deductible donation today will make sure we are
able to respond and rebuild. Rush a donation today!

We’ve been overwhelmed by the outpouring of solidarity throughout the
nation. Minneapolis thanks you. I thank you.

In solidarity,

– Chelsie Glaubitz Gabiou, President, Minneapolis Regional Labor
Federation

 

 

 


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