Saint Paul, MN – As the Minnesota governor and legislators continue to meet behind closed doors and with a special session still looming, more than 50 people from the immigrant rights movement returned to protest Governor Tim Walz’s office in the State Capitol on June 2. This comes about a week after a similar action. The protest was another mobilization in response to Governor Walz and legislative leaders announcing that they intend to pass a budget that takes away access to healthcare from undocumented adults in the state.
Dallas, TX – Organizers from the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression-Dallas (NAARPR-Dallas) commemorated the fifth anniversary of the death of George Floyd and protested unjust deportation of a family from Austin.
On June 3, the Communist Party of the Philippines condemned the acquittal by the Special General Court Martial (SGCM) of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) of Jesus Durante III, former brigade commander of the 1001st Brigade and commander of the Presidential Security Group, who was accused as the mastermind in the killing of Yvonne Chua Plaza.
Santa Ana, CA – El martes 20 de mayo, cerca de 20 miembros de la comunidad y activistas llenaron la sala del ayuntamiento para exigir transparencia al Departamento de Policía de Santa Ana (SAPD) sobre las alertas recibidas de ICE. También exigieron el encarcelamiento de los asesinos de Noe Rodríguez.
San Jose, CA – On May 22, the Sustainability Commission voted unanimously to recommend that the county divest from Chevron and all fossil fuels. Community organizers joined the commission meeting to give public comments, exposing Chevron’s environmental crimes and urging the county to divest.
Chicago, IL – On the five-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, May 25, 300 activists and community members gathered in the streets of Chicago to protest against Trump’s Executive Order 14288 and demand community control over the police.
A broad group of forces was represented in the crowd, including the labor, immigrant rights, students, anti-war, Black, Palestinian and Filipino movements. Several elected officials joined in support as well.
San José, CA – On May 15, during Trump's attempt to revoke birthright citizenship at the U.S. Supreme Court level, up to 100 protesters came out in defense of Immigrant and Chicano rights and condemning ICE operations in San José.
The Silicon Valley Immigration Committee (SVIC) joined the Solidarity and Unity Network along with Amigos de Guadalupe, SIREN, City Council member Pamela Campos and the Legalization for All Network (L4A) national week of action against deportations of U.S. citizen children.
Jacksonville, FL – Dozens gathered at Brentwood Park in Jacksonville, Florida on Saturday evening for an event titled “Popular Education in the Park”. Brentwood Park is located in the Brentwood neighborhood of Jacksonville’s historically Black community on the Northside of Jacksonville.
Milwaukee, WI – On May 20, Milwaukee Reproductive Rights organizers were back out on the sidewalks picketing and shutting down another anti-abortion clinic or “crisis pregnancy center” (CPC). This so-called clinic, Women’s Care Center, is notorious for its location right across from where a real abortion clinic used to be housed.
Milwaukee, WI – March 25 marked the five-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder at the hands of Derek Chauvin and the Minneapolis Police Department. In 2020 Floyd’s murder sparked the largest uprising against police in decades in the United States, and even five years later his life brought together 250 Milwaukeeans to rally, march and eat as a community to honor his memory.
The Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (MAARPR) and All People’s Gathering Church (APGC) cohosted the afternoon events in order to commemorate Floyd as a person, give voice to the lives of the many Milwaukeeans murdered by police and jails, and recommit to the struggle to end police crimes.
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The English translation appeared on the Resistance News Network on Telegram.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine affirms that the occupation’s announcement of opening “humanitarian aid-distribution centers” in various areas of the Gaza Strip—run directly by the Zionist occupier and financed and sponsored by the United States—amounts to setting up collective death traps. These sites serve as arrest points and instruments for entrenching racist policies, marketed under a “humanitarian” veneer while actually forming part of the genocidal war and Holocaust being waged against our people. They come amid a continuing siege and extermination campaign that targets civilians—especially children, women, and the elderly—and function as one of the occupation’s displacement schemes.
Minneapolis, MN – An online event to mark the 40th anniversary of the founding of Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is set for Thursday, May 29, at 5:00pm Pacific, 6:00pm Mountain, 7:00pm Central, 8:00pm Eastern time.
Founded in 1985, FRSO emerged from the New Communist Movement and is now the leading Marxist-Leninist organization in the U.S.
Jena, LA – On Thursday, May 22, hundreds of protesters gathered in Jena, Louisiana, outside of the ICE detention center where the Trump administration has detained Columbia student activist Mahmoud Khalil. Protesters from New Orleans, Austin, Dallas, Houston and other nearby cities traveled for hours to join the rally as Khalil appeared before an immigration judge inside the Jena facility.
New Orleans, LA – On Saturday, May 17, New Orleans organizers and community members gathered in the Jackson Square amphitheater in New Orleans’ French Quarter, drawing attention from onlookers and tourists about the 77th anniversary of the Nakba – or catastrophe – perpetrated against the Palestinians.
Minneapolis, MN – Just days before the five-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, rumors swirled that Trump planned to pardon former police officer Derek Chauvin on his federal conviction for violating Floyd’s civil rights. While critical of a pardon, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz told reporters he was preparing for the possibility.
Instead of waiting for bad news, organizers from Twin Cities Coalition for Justice and Black Lives Matter Minnesota called an emergency protest on Monday, May 19. Nearly 100 people gathered outside the Hennepin County Government Center – the building where killer cop Derek Chauvin was convicted – to say, “No to a pardon!” and “No to all of Trump’s attacks!”
Washington, D.C. – A crowd of 50 activists and community members gathered in Lafayette Square on Sunday – the fifth anniversary of the murder of George Floyd. They protested the Trump administration’s new Executive Order 14288.
The action, hosted by the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression DC (NAARPR DC), called on attendees to “Fight the Trump Agenda!” Leaders demanded that the U.S. Congress overturn Executive Order 14288, pass the George Floyd Act, and establish community control of the police in Washington DC.
Santa Ana, CA – El domingo 18 de mayo, cerca de 30 miembros de la comunidad marcharon hacia el Departamento de Policía de Santa Ana (SAPD) para exigir el encarcelamiento de los oficiales Luis Casillas y Isaac Ibarra por el asesinato de Noe Rodríguez y que SAPD haga públicas de inmediato todas las alertas de ICE y DHS que reciba.
La Organización de Servicio Comunitario del Condado de Orange (CSO OC) obtuvo de forma independiente los nombres y las imágenes de las cámaras corporales de los oficiales que asesinaron a Noe Rodríguez mediante una solicitud de la Ley de Registros Públicos, ya que esta información nunca se compartió con la familia de Rodríguez. En esos videos se puede ver que el oficial Casillas disparó a Rodríguez 18 veces y el oficial Ibarra le disparó 11 veces.
Santa Ana, CA – On Tuesday, May 20, about 20 community members and activists filled the city council chambers to demand transparency from Santa Ana Police Department (SAPD) regarding alerts they have received from ICE. They also called for the jailing of Noe Rodriguez’s killers.
An article from journalist Ben Camacho published earlier this month revealed that SAPD received notifications from ICE/DHS that they would be present in the city at least 42 times since Trump’s inauguration. SAPD did not share this information with the public, despite being asked by council members and police oversight commissioners multiple times about communications with ICE. An item was presented at the city council meeting to implement a policy requiring SAPD to disclose these ICE alerts to residents.
Minneapolis, MN – But wait there’s more! After the final count, we kept climbing and obliterated our goal. $181,000 was raised in the Freedom Road Socialist Organization $100K fund drive. That means we can put even more money into paying down the mortgage than we had planned. This victory belongs to all of us and is a loud and proud declaration that we are building something real and can exceed even our own expectations.
