MINNEAPOLIS — Community organizers have called for an economic boycott to force Trump’s storm-trooper units ton= witdraw their intrusions that have ignited citizen protests. It’s a one-day event on Friday, possibly to be extended. The theme: “No Work. No School. No Shopping.” Citizen group, including organized labor, claimed immediate support. Among them were units of the:
>AFL-CIO affiliated Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation.
> Minnesota Nurses Association.
> Communications Workers of America.
> St. Paul Federation of Educators.
>Service Employees Union.
> Transit Union.
Other early endorsers included Faith in Minnesota, Tending the Soil, United Renters for Justice, Unidos Minnesota, Communities Against Police Brutality, Indivisible Twin Cities, Women’s March Minnesota, Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha, and Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee. In all, 90 organizations, big and small, had endorsed the call. Most advertsing-dependent news media, however, were silent, unwillng to risk disfavor from local advertisers.
Boycott a=posters. Cropping up statewide. Question is how widely will the event gain sympathy nationally.
Boycott announcement. F faith leaders are among suporters. Pastor James Erlandson at the influential Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in St. Paul said his congregation plans a day of fasting and prayers.
Boycott demands
> ICE leave Minnesota now.
> The officer who killed Renee Good be held legally accountable.
> Federal funding for ICE in be deketed upcoming Congressional budget.
> CE fve jnvestgated or human rights and constitutional rights = of American citizens and their immiga=rant neighbors.
> Corporaions sever economic ties with ICE.
> Corporations deny CE entry on their property as staging grounds.