The Brief
- Bay Area residents gathered at multiple protests to voice their support for Minnesotans, who organized their own anti-ICE protests on Friday.
- Minnesota protesters have called for a statewide shutdown to protest the federal raids that have rocked their communities in recent weeks.
- Bay Area protesters rallied at 4th and Mission Streets in San Francisco, as well as outside San Jose City Hall and in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood.
SAN FRANCISCO – Residents of the Bay Area are gathering at 4th Street and Mission in San Francisco in solidarity with protesters in Minnesota.
Minnesotans called for a statewide shutdown on Friday, and urged residents not to go to school, or work, or to go shopping.
“In the Bay Area, we’re coming together in solidarity with Minnesota to march on ICE profiteers on Friday… at 4:00 p.m. outside the Target on 4th and Mission,” a release from Bay Resistance, one of the protest’s organizers states. “If we push the corporate pillars whose silence or collaboration is enabling the occupation of Minnesota, we can end ICE terror and topple corporate support for the MAGA regime.”
Attendees at the event carried a large banner bearing the name of protest organization Refuse Fascism, the text of which read, “Trump must go now!”
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