Yesterday, comrades began building for our Oct 3rd solidarity demonstration with the Minnesotan 15! We believe that an attack on the MN15 is an attack on the entire working class. This defense campaign provides an opportunity to build a nationally coordinated network to combat repression and surveillance. That’s why we’re participating in the Oct 3rd nationwide day of action.
On January 23, the working class of Minnesota demonstrated what this could look like. Labor leaders, faith groups, and community organizations called for a day of no work no school and no shopping. Hundreds of thousands of people across Minnesota answer the call and shut down the economy in protest of ICE. Now the Trump administration is retaliating!
The prosecution of the Minneapolis 15 is intended to intimidate everyone prepared to organize resistance. We must answer that attack with solidarity! Join us on Sept 19th to begin planning our response. We’re helping to build an international defense campaign for the MN15 that doesn’t rely on passive appeal to politicians. We’re organizing an offensive against the entire system that gave birth to ICE, Trump & the MAGA movement. If you’re ready to get organized, join us on Sept 19th from 1 pm at the palm beach Quakers house in lake worth beach to begin planning our offensive together!
FAU stands in solidarity with the MN15!
If you understand that:
• Resistance to ICE should not be a crime
• We must have a complete withdrawal of all ICE operations
• ICE must be put on trial for their murders of civilians
• The complete abolition of ICE is the only path forward
• We must have a redistribution of ICE funds towards public schools, affordable housing,
Then join Socialist Alternative in Orlando to discuss how we can build a revolutionary workers party and how we defend the MN15 THIS Wednesday, September 9 at 7PM EST!
Angie Nixon has won the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Florida, but what does that mean for the socialist movement? Nixon identifies as a democratic socialist, but we’ve seen other DSA Democrats get elected only to retreat from their promises under pressure from the capitalist Democratic Party establishment.
Winning elections isn’t enough. We need to build independent movements strong enough to fight for what working people need and force politicians to deliver!
Join us on September 4 at 5 PM to talk about the historic opportunities available to us and what it’ll take to not only fight back against the rise of the far right but also fight for the things that working class people desperately need. DM us for the meeting location!
“We need to abolish ICE. We don’t want it here in Maine. It needs to leave. And we would be a lot better off if it was just gone through the whole country”
Join us on Wednesday, September 2nd at 5 pm for a discussion in South Florida about how we can fight for & actually win the things we need.
Federal prosecutors have charged 15 Minnesota activists for their participation in the struggle against ICE’s violent occupation of the Twin Cities. The operation, dubbed “Operation Metro Surge,” directly killed two people, detained thousands, assaulted thousands more, and, according to Human Rights Watch, “caused a human rights crisis” in Minnesota.
These arrests represent an attack on the broader movement that resisted ICE. They are an attempt to roll back the confidence and power built by the hundreds of thousands of people who took action against ICE’s repression. Crucially, the Trump administration is also seeking to restore a climate of fear and silence the lessons of that struggle.
The Minnesota 15 are accused of taking actions intended to impede ICE operations. But stopping ICE from carrying out detentions and repression was at the heart of the broader struggle against Operation Metro Surge. The fightback in the Twin Cities reached an unprecedented level, which is precisely why the administration is now attempting to push the movement back.
Just as mass mobilization and collective strike action helped force an end to Operation Metro Surge, mass action will be necessary to respond to these prosecutions. We need a coordinated public defense campaign for the Minnesota 15, alongside mass democratic meetings that bring together activists, union members, and immigrant communities to discuss the next steps.
Hundreds of student organizers from around the country gathered to discuss how we can combat surveillance & repression on our campuses. We left feeling energized & with concrete plans to begin organizing on our campuses across the country next semester. If you’re ready to get organized & join the fight back, join us!
Puerto Rico is surrounded by water, yet hundreds of thousands of people are being told to ration it. This is not just a drought. It is the predictable result of decades of austerity, and a political system that has treated basic public services as an afterthought. While families go days without reliable running water, officials admit the island’s aging system has been allowed to deteriorate for years. While working class Puerto Ricans pay the price, the politicians who created this crisis ask people to be patient. Access to clean water is not a privilege. It is a basic human necessity. Puerto Rico deserves massive public investment to rebuild its water infrastructure under democratic public ownership and workers’ oversight, not more excuses. The people who keep Puerto Rico running should not have to fight for something as basic as turning on the tap!