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TIDBITS-JAN 29- READER COMMENTS: MINNEAPOLIS, NATION RESPOND; NBA
ASSOC SPEAKS OUT; NATIONAL BRIEFING – MINNESOTA AND BEYOND: RAPID
RESPONSE TO ICE IN OCCUPIED CITIES; PLANNING CALL-STAND WITH
MINNESOTA-PLAN FOR NO WORK, NO SCHOOL, NO SHOPPING-MAY 1  
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January 29, 2026
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_ Reader Comments: Minneapolis and Nation Respond to ICE; NBA Assoc
Speaks Out; National Briefing - Minnesota and Beyond: Rapid Response
to ICE in Occupied Cities; Planning Call-Stand with Minnesota-plan for
NO WORK, NO SCHOOL, NO SHOPPING-MAY 1st; _

Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
Jan. 29, 2026, xxxxxx

 

* ICE AT WORK  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH
* FIRST THEY CAME FOR....  --  CARTOON BY BENJAMIN SLYNGSTAD
* RE: MINNESOTA IS THE BEGINNING OF AN AMERICAN COLOR REVOLUTION
 (ETHAN YOUNG)
* RE: ORGANIZED LABOR ESCALATES AGAINST ICE SUMMARY EXECUTIONS
 (KEN LAWRENCE; JIM YOUNG)
* 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  (MARCIA SLATKIN)
* RE: THE DEMOCRATS’ LONG-AWAITED SPINE  (KATHRYN EVANN WEGNER)
* DEADLY ICE  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY ROB ROGERS
* RE: SPECIAL ADDRESS BY MARK CARNEY, PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA AT
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM  (NATALIA KUZMYN)
* ONE ATROCITY AFTER ANOTHER. ONE LIE AFTER ANOTHER.  --  CARTOON
BY NICK ANDERSON
 

RESOURCES:

* NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION SPEAKS OUT
* NBA PLAYERS ASSOCIATION RELEASES STATEMENT AFTER FATAL SHOOTINGS
IN MINNEAPOLIS  (RYAN PHILLIPS IN SPORTS ILLUSTRATED)
* RECAP: NATIONAL BRIEFING - MINNESOTA AND BEYOND: RAPID RESPONSE TO
ICE IN OCCUPIED CITIES  (MOVEMENT VOTER FUND AND SOLIDAIRE NETWORK)

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

* PLANNING CALL -- STAND WITH MINNESOTA. AND PLAN FOR NO WORK. NO
SCHOOL. NO SHOPPING. MAY 1ST - NATIONAL CALL - FEBRUARY 1
 (MAYDAYSTRONG)
* LABOR’S FIGHT FOR JUSTICE IN THE WORKPLACE AND SOCIETY: LESSONS
FROM THE UAW - NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 2  (THE WORKER INSTITUTE)
* 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)
* 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  (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)

..ICE AT WORK  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH

Mike LuckovichNovember 7, 2025Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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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
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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
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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
[[link removed]]) 

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
[[link removed]] 

 

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
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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
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NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION SPEAKS OUT 

 

 

NBA PLAYERS ASSOCIATION RELEASES STATEMENT AFTER FATAL SHOOTINGS IN
MINNEAPOLIS

by Ryan PhillipsJanuary 25, 2026Sports Illustrated
[[link removed]]
(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
[[link removed]]:

_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
[[link removed]]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 [[link removed]].

“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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Click on Arrow in image to Listen
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BRIEFING CO-SPONSORS

* MOVEMENT VOTER FUND
[[link removed]] _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 [[link removed]] _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
[[link removed]], 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 [[link removed]], 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
[[link removed]], an immigrant rights and economic
justice organization in North Carolina that is helping to lead the
national charge to stop corporations from enabling ICE.

NEXT STEPSGIVE FEEDBACK

Take a moment to SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS
[[link removed]] on the briefing!

SUPPORT ORGANIZERS’ WORK ON THE GROUND

* CONTRIBUTE NOW TO MOVEMENT VOTER FUND'S RAPID RESPONSE FUND
[[link removed]] 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
[[link removed]].
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].)
* CONTRIBUTE DIRECTLY TO OUR GRANTEE PARTNERS FROM THE BRIEFING:

*  

* UNIDOS MN EDUCATION FUND
[[link removed]] (Minnesota)
* ISAIAH
[[link removed]]
(Minnesota)
* SOMOS SIEMBRA [[link removed]]
(North Carolina)

GET INVOLVED

Visit the website of our national allied coalition, ICE OUT FOR GOOD
[[link removed]], for key actions you can take to
support the fight against the authoritarian occupation of our cities.

RESOURCES

* THE DAY OF TRUTH & FREEDOM [[link removed]]:
Minnesota's statewide day of action on January 23.
* ICE OUT FOR GOOD [[link removed]]: 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 [[link removed]]: 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 [[link removed]]: A campaign
by MVF partner SOMOS SIEMBRA [[link removed]] to
organize workplaces to restore confidence in local businesses as
places of refuge

MOVEMENT VOTER FUND [[link removed]] 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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Click here [[link removed]] 

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. [[link removed]]

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
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OF ACTIONS  - as of Jan. 29

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Click on image or here to find location near you
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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

Register Now
[//www.ilr.cornell.edu/worker-institute/events/labors-fight-justice-workplace-and-society-lessons-uaw] 

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
[[link removed]]:

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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) 

[[link removed]]

Click here for Feb. 5 link
[[link removed]]

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.
[[link removed]]
Another 32 people died
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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
[[link removed]]
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.

[[link removed]]

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,
[[link removed]]
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 [[link removed]] 

 

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 
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Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
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* Reader Comments
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* Minneapolis
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* Minnesota
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* Renee Good
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* Alex Pretti
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* ICE
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* DHS
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* CPB
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* US Border Patrol
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* summary executions
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* Solidarity
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* Donald Trump
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