7 Twin Cities-area grocery stores announce closures for anti-ICE strike

[Omaha Steve]

Source: bringmethenews.com

Co-ops in Minneapolis, St. Paul and Stillwater are observing a "Day of Truth and Freedom" on Friday.
Brianna Kelly Updated:3 hours ago Original:3 hours ago

A coalition of seven grocery stores in the Twin Cities area will be closed Friday as part of a strike and economic blackout protesting the Trump administration's escalating immigration crackdown across Minnesota.

A spokesperson for Mississippi Market Co-op announced Monday that its three locations in St. Paul are participating in the effort, known as a "ICE Out MN: Day of Truth and Freedom," along with the two Wedge Community Co-ops in Minneapolis, Eastside Food Co-op in Minneapolis, and River Market Co-op in Stillwater.

Employees who are scheduled to work Friday will still receive pay.

"As a cooperative, we believe our shared labor, time, and economic participation are powerful tools. Along with communities across Minnesota, we are taking unified action with no work, no school, and no shopping to show we will not quietly endure fear and violence in our communities," the grocery stores said in a statement.


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[TygrBright]

1. A sweet gesture, but a fart in the wind as to effect. n/t

[flashman13]

3. It is a baby step. But babies grow up. I think before this is over there will be large scale strikes and boycotts.

ICE agents have already been tossed out of their hotels.

Momentum will grow in direct proportion to the insanity. I'm afraid we ain't seen nothing yet.

[IronLionZion]

5. It needs to snowball

if ICE can't stay anywhere or eat anywhere, they will eventually leave. Same with restaurants and gas stations and anything else they want. Gas station attendants can turn off the pumps when ICE arrives.

[flashman13]

8. It will snowball. How fast that happens is up to Trump. Momentum builts in proportion to the insanity.

[OldBaldy1701E]

12. Which is a losing proposition.

'Reacting' is not going to save us. That is too little too late.

Acting will.

[flashman13]

14. You want action? Replace the Democratic leadership with some doers. AOC for Speaker would be a good start.

[OldBaldy1701E]

16. Hear Hear! (n/t)

[Roy Rolling]

6. Certainly a welcome gesture

But only time will tell about the effect. It may have little effect for me 1,000 miles downriver, but for the people in Minneapolis the effect may be enormous immediately and beyond.

Only time will tell, but a lack of media coverage will curtail any positive effect and turn it into a stinky….you said it….fart.

[littlemissmartypants]

9. Would you want their support if the shoe was on the other foot?

[maxrandb]

15. Call me when Kroger, or whatever Kroger owns in ALL of MN joins

because I am sure Kroger owns something there.

Better yet, call me when enough people stop shopping at fascist supporting Kroger that it changes Krogers actions in support of fascism.

[efhmc]

2. Great.

[vapor2]

4. And miller can go screw himself

[MuirHero]

7. What we need is a national strike.

Get the independent truckers involved. Shut the whole damn country down as 10 million of us take to the streets. We need to step up the pressure to rein in this madman and the complicit Republican Party.

[littlemissmartypants]

10. There are planned opportunities to do that. One is tomorrow. Will you be participating...

Then?

https://democraticunderground.com/10114810

[OldBaldy1701E]

13. What we need is a consistent, continued strike.

Don't do anything until they change their actions and remove that idiot. I don't care how long it takes. Weeks, months, whatever. Stop it all.

Don't. Do. Anything.

Of course, we are too programmed to do that, so...

However, it is the only thing that will work. Other than direct action, but that seems to scare people so horribly that it appears to me that we would rather just be killed than actually stand up and stop them.

I guess history does repeat itself.

[EX500rider]

17. "Of course, we are too programmed to do that, so.."

Less programming and more desire to pay my rent & eat on my part.

Asking people who live paycheck to paycheck to not work is easier to say then do.

[OldBaldy1701E]

18. If we had understood how things were going to play out...

(As some of us did... )

We should have been prepared or preparing for such a thing.

But...

[EX500rider]

19. Preparing how? Most jobs will fire if you take more then a few days off without a doctors note (or vacation time)

[OldBaldy1701E]

21. Prepared by having food banks ready to support the masses as they stop making the oligarchs richer.

Prepared by having medical people ready to start creating what would essentially be M.A.S.H. units around the cities to have medical care without the federal ability to interfere.

Do you think that France in the 1940s was whining about their jobs? They created the French Underground. They started working on saving people and taking down the regime. They fought for years. They made sacrifices. But, they also saved lives and shortened their occupation by those actions. Which would have been shortened further if the people who correctly pointed out that all of this was coming had been listened to.

Do you really think we are so far away from that?

I salute you, then. And, wish us all luck. We are definitely going to need it.

[mysteryowl]

11. We The People --- is the power!

[intrepidity]

20. If the point of a strike is to hurt the owners

then co-ops doing it seems moot.

If, however, the point is to allow employees time off to protest, then it makes more sense. Is that it?