Seven Mountains AFL-CIO endorses Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation's call for "Day of Truth and Freedom," renews call to bar ICE from local establishments

A statement by Seven Mountains AFL-CIO regarding the January 23 Minnesota “Day of Truth and Freedom"

“Working people, from Minneapolis throughout our nation, cannot and will not stand for terrorizing our communities. 

Seven Mountains AFL-CIO endorses the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation’s historic call for a labor-led statewide Day of Truth and Freedom in Minnesota on Friday, January 23, and endorses their demands, including:

• The immediate removal of ICE from Minnesota
• Legal accountability for the ICE agent responsible for Renee Good’s death
• No additional federal funding for ICE in the federal budget, and for an investigation into ICE’s violations of human and constitutional rights
• For businesses to become “4th Amendment Businesses” refusing to engage in economic relations with ICE, refusing ICE entry to their premises, and refusing to allow ICE to use their premises as staging grounds

We further endorse and are working with Central Pennsylvania United on a solidarity vigil to be held in State College at 6:30 PM on Friday, January 23 at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in State College, and renew our call for local establishments to become “4th Amendment Businesses,” including refusing ICE entry.

Terrorizing working people is not about safety. It is about power for the boss class and their political allies, and it is putting working people in danger. 

The American working-class – not the Carnegies, Musks, and Trumps – made this nation.  Like working-class movements throughout our history, Minnesotans are responding to violence and repression with hope and resolve for a better nation.

We must and will stand with them.”