January 18, 2026
[contains 3 parts: an editorial by World-Outlook; an article from In These Times and Workday Magazine; and a press release from the Minneapolis Regional Federation of #Labor, AFL-CIO.]
MINNEAPOLIS — #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.”
If people really want to get rid of ICE they would do this anywhere ICE is for as long as ICE is there.
I wish them luck but I have serious doubts about the effectiveness of a single day general strike. You could optimistically expect maybe 20% of people to even participate and without them coordinating with their coworkers or with a broader movement to target specific industries it’s basically just like calling in sick.
While I too have my doubts, it’s useful because it’s a day where everyone is either taking a day to rest, protest, or stall ICE detainments. It will be quite valuable in that regard. We’ve all been wishing for a major snowstorm to give us some time to breath. Ice been hearing a lot more people talking about it than previous attempts at this.
