Transcript of Breaking: Massive General Strike Begins in Minnesota in Historic Moment

We have some significant news right now. A massive general strike has officially begun in the state of Minnesota. This general strike will close down businesses. Parents will not be shopping. Children will not be going to school, all to protest ICE, to protest a Trump administration, to protest what has been happening on the ground in Minnesota. It all comes as ICE is escalating efforts on the ground targeting children in Minneapolis, now targeting police police officers in a state like Maine and more. But a lot of people have said, Well, what can we do? Can we launch a general strike of sorts? I see them in my comments every single day. Well, this general strike, this economic blackout in Minnesota, is set to work. Why? Because hundreds of businesses today have closed their doors, have shuttered their windows. They will not be open and instead, are going to pay their employees to remain at home. The unions have endorsed this strike, and it's a massive general strike in protest of what we're seeing right now in Minnesota. I'm going to be providing you coverage all day about it to make sure to like, comment, share, and subscribe so people know.

At the same time, please consider subscribing to my sub stack by clicking the link below. As overnight, a TikTok deal has been executed. It is official. Tiktok is under control of Oracle, and those align with this administration, and the censorship on that platform is already growing. I need your help here and elsewhere to continue getting this news out to millions of people. This general strike launch today is focused on Minnesota and Minnesota only. A no work, no school, no shopping, blackout day of protest has been kicked off by community leaders, faith leaders, and labor unions in protest against ICE. The Day of Truth and Freedom comes in the wake of the horrific killing of Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed by Jonathan Ross, an ICE agent, earlier this month. The demands are simple. Ice needs to leave Minnesota. The ICE officer who killed Good needs to be held legally accountable, and there needs to be an end of additional federal funding for ICE and for the agency to be investigated for human rights and constitutional violations. Businesses across Minnesota have announced closures in solidarity. The Minneapolis City Council even endorsed the Day of Action and the General Strike.

There'll be a march several hours later, 2: 00 PM local time. But what's significant here is not just the Minneapolis City Council, but also the Minnesota AFL-CIO, the largest union in the state of Minnesota, has endorsed a strike alongside other dozens of local labor unions. I think what generated the idea for this action comes out of the need to figure out what we can meaningfully do to stop it, said the President of the Communication Worker of America, Local 7250. The government in the state of Minnesota has not offered any path towards stopping these attacks, this violence. It comes as ICE is actively escalating its efforts to target children. A childcare worker in Minneapolis who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation explained that they are shutting down for the day after consulting and receiving immense support from their families of the children they care for. I reported yesterday that schools were receiving flyers from ICE saying that we will provide food assistance to your family members. This food assistance wasn't actually food assistance. It likely was entrapment to try to get low-income family members to be contacted by ICE and continue with the detention process. It all comes as ICE is escalating efforts, not just in Minnesota, but also in Maine.

I want you to watch this clip that I'm about to show you. Ice agents, about 5-7 of them, armed, decided to detain a Cumberland County in Maine, a Sheriff recruit at a correctional institution. He was a citizen, or rather had legal paperwork. Look, you should not have been detained. I want you to watch this.

I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. Thank you, my long term. I don't care. Come on, come on. My uniform is right there. No, you need to talk to me, man. You're going to go to jail. I want you to look at me. I have an issue. I want you to work with the government. What's the location?

That's real. And that happened. But I want you to hear the response from the Cumberland Sheriff because he blasted ICE efforts for going after one of his recruits when they definitely should not have.

We've all seen the three-minute video. I've heard some people say, Oh, it's hard to watch. What was hard is that there were 5-7 ICE agents there. In my world, my colleagues, we've arrested some dangerous people on the backroads of Cumberland County with three or less deputies. Yet this was a show of force, a show of whatever they were trying to do with seven people. What's even more disturbing is the comment made by the witness that videotaped this encounter, who said that in the three minutes, they got out, they pulled a guy from the car, handcuffed him, put him in the car, they all took off, leaving his car with the windows down, the lights on, unsecure, and unoccupied. They left it right on the side of the street. Folks, that's Bush League policing. Again, in my world, you wait for a wrecker. You wait for somebody to pick it up that the individual wants, or you get permission to drive the vehicle into a public parking spot, and you lock it up, and you give the person their car keys. You don't leave their personal belongings unsecure along the streets of the city of Portland.

It's not fair to the guy that owns the car. It's surely not fair to the Portland police. It's what my understanding is is going on. I'll end with this. We're being He told one story, which is totally different than what's occurring or what occurred last night.

That's from the Cumberland County Sheriff's office. Bushley Policing is what he called it. That's a pretty significant statement as ICE detained one of his own. Moving westward to the town of Philadelphia, I want you to watch this clip because overnight, a slavery memorial, a slavery recognizing the horrors of slavery were removed at the direction of the Trump administration from a museum in Philadelphia. I want you to watch this. They're actively removing exhibits in Philadelphia at the orders of the National Park Service, on the orders of the Trump administration, whitewashing history in real time. This morning, Philadelphia and the state of Pennsylvania are suing the Trump administration to get these exhibits back up and to get them back up immediately. Folks, we have a very long day ahead of us, and I will be providing you real-time updates throughout the day, especially into the weekend. Make sure to like, comment, share, and subscribe. That's the way you boost this. That's the way you get this in front of other people. Please consider subscribing sub stack by clicking the link below to support my work, especially as platforms are going to start cracking down and moving closer to this White House.

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