Working In These Times
Terrorized By ICE, Unable to Pay Rent, Minnesotans Are Getting Ready for a Rent Strike
A tenant organizing push in the Twin Cities has support from labor unions representing more than 25,000 workers.
Rebecca Burns and Sarah Lazare
Remembering Kent Wong (1956-2025)
Wong was an educator, organizer and visionary who saw immigrants as the heart of the labor movement—long before the idea had reached the mainstream.
Gregory Mantsios
“ICE Messed With the Wrong Profession”: The Country’s Largest Nurses’ Union Honors Alex Pretti
In the wake of an ICU nurse’s murder by federal agents, National Nurses United has joined calls to abolish ICE.
Maximillian Alvarez
Worker Organizer Abducted By Federal Agents in Minnesota
“It was just eerie to have to get in the car, drive it back to my house, knowing that I don't know when I'm going to be seeing my dad again.”
Sarah Lazare
Trump’s Assault on Immigrants Hurts U.S.-Born Workers, Too
The research is clear: when immigrant workers are targeted, it threatens all workers’ ability to fight for better pay and conditions.
Sarah Lazare
Poll Shows Massive Participation in Minnesota Shutdown Against ICE
One in four Minnesota voters took part in January 23 day of action, or had a loved one who did.
Sarah Lazare, Thomas Birmingham and Ari Bloomekatz
Minneapolis Fights Back: An Episode of The Dig
Host Dan Denvir speaks with Minneapolis organizers about the impact of the January 23, 2026, work stoppage amidst the continued ICE occupation of Minnesota.
Daniel Denvir
The U.S. Workers Who Went on Strike for Gaza
How one UAW local pulled off a mass strike in solidarity with the Gaza protest encampments, and in opposition to the US-Israeli slaughter of Palestinians.
Sarah Lazare
A Staggering Number of Minnesotans Took to the Streets Friday to Demand ICE Leave. The Next Day, ICE Responded by Killing Another Resident.
Saturday morning marked the third shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis this month. “How many more Americans need to die for this operation to end?” said Mayor Jacob Frey.
Thomas Birmingham and Ari Bloomekatz
"ICE Is Made Up of a Bunch of Cowards"
Artist Margaret Vail Palmquist eviscerates ICE in a series of illustrations over its abduction of a 5-year-old in the Minneapolis area earlier in the week.
Margaret Vail Palmquist
“Everybody Showed Up”: Stunning Crowds at Minnesota Day of Strike and Shutdown Against ICE
Extreme cold didn't stop the shutdown on Friday as some 100 faith leaders were arrested, residents stayed home from work, and an estimated 50,000 or more marched through downtown Minneapolis.
Sarah Lazare
“No Work. No Spending": Minnesota Workers Strike Today to Protest ICE
A critical conversation with Minnesota union leaders about a massive general strike that begins on Friday, January 23.
Maximillian Alvarez
How One Minnesota Union Is Helping Members Survive the Federal Siege
UNITE HERE Local 17 is one of many unions, community organizations and faith groups calling for a work stoppage tomorrow, showing a key way Minnesotans are organizing against ICE.
Sarah Lazare
Maybe a General Strike Isn’t So Impossible Now
At first glance it sounds impossible — but a strategic look back at the coordinated strikes and militancy of the past two decades shows we might be much closer than we think.
Alex Han
Capitalism Without Humans
As new technologies (not immigrants) replace human labor, "machine breaking" as a tactic of rebellion is taking on a renewed vitality.
Sarah Jaffe
"We Will Be Closed: ICE Out of Minnesota"
All the ingredients for a general strike are present in Minnesota.
Luis Feliz Leon
“We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate”: Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days
Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on January 23.
Amie Stager and Sarah Lazare
Workers Win As Longest Running Strike In The US Ends
After a lengthy legal process, the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals decisively sided with striking journalists at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Maximillian Alvarez