Geoff Dittberner

Hennepin County is burning millions of taxpayer dollars to keep a trash incinerator running that was supposed to close in 2009. The HERC is now losing millions each year, and in 2024 was strapped with $37 million in debt — all while releasing lead, mercury, and dioxins...(1/3)

Screenshot of Lauren bobert for Congress. The text says no new wars in the image says thank the Trump administration signed the card and it has a picture of Donald Trump on a greeting card.

Bless her heart. #NoWarOnIran

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

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.

Greg Nammacher, president of SEIU Local 26, says his union has ​“learned the hard way” that gains at the bargaining table can quickly be eroded by economic pressures, like rising housing costs. “We cannot limit ourselves narrowly to just traditional wages and benefits.”

Rev. Jesse Jackson taught us that environmental justice is civil rights in our time.

For decades, toxins from the HERC have filled the lungs of Northsiders and surrounding communities. 🧵(1/3)

#minneapolis #ShutDownHerc

Community members from the Zero Burn Coalition testified today at the Hennepin County Board about the ongoing harm caused by the HERC trash incinerator.

Despite years of promises to close HERC, the County has still not set a closure date.

Screen grab of a social media post from Heather Edelson, Hennepin County Commissioner. The text of the original post is visually corrected like so: “Today, my office joined colleagues Angela Conley Hennepin County Commissioner District 4 and Irene Krissie Fernando on the Hennepin County Board in calling on Tom Homan [‘in calling on Tom Homan’ is crossed out] to provide a clear timeline and plan to end Operation Metro Surge. [Operation Metro Surge replaced with Trash Incineration in Communities of Color].” A Zero Burn Coalition logo is included.

🧵We have notes.

Our communities do deserve stability, safety, and humane treatment — and that includes the freedom to breathe clean air.

Caucus for Clean Air Resolution: the DFL party will combat environmental racism by demanding that the hennepin county board keep its promise and shut down the HERC trash burner as it resolved to do on october twenty fourth, 2023. HERC must be shut by twenty twenty seven in line with a resolution the city of minneapolis passed on October thirty first twenty twenty four.

🧵 Neighbors come together at caucuses to demand change from the institutions that shape our lives. It’s a moment to show up collectively and make our expectations clear.

This should be for the People of Minnesota.

insisting on calling every mass day of protest or one-day boycott a "general strike" is not the move. it's good to see people rallying around the cause, it matters, but if you want to be part of a large-scale labor action that shuts down the gears of capital, start by unionizing your workplace!!!

Minnesota stands with Georgia Fort and all arrestees! #freepress #iceout #chingalamigra

Tighten rules on warrants? Body cameras? HOW ABOUT A SIGNED JUDICIAL WARRANT FOR EVERYTHING! HOW ABOUT THEY LEAVE MINNESOTA AND NEVER CARRY OUT ANYTHING AKIN TO MINNESOTA IN ANY OTHER STATE. I DON'T WANT BODY CAMERA FOOTAGE OF THE ATROCITIES I WANT THEM TO STOP. I AM SO FUCKING FURIOUS!!!!

How Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Chills Organizing and Erodes Conditions for All Workers When one group of workers is terrorized or disappeared, it threatens all workers’ ability to fight for their labor rights.

Studies show that escalations in immigration enforcement make workplaces MORE dangerous for all workers (not just immigrants), lead to MORE minimum wage violations for all workers, and lead to FEWER jobs for US-born workers. I summarized the research here.

CITY of HEROES A new song of resistance

Hey @billybragg.bsky.social wrote a song for us #mpls #mn #ICEOut braggb.substack.com/p/city-of-he...

AFT President Randi Weingarten address the ICE OUT rally in Minneapolis.

Thanks for joining us! #Solidarity #IceOutMN

A person drumming. The drum says "this machine kills fascists"

People marching in downtown Minneapolis. The banner says ICE OUT OF MN

A person holds a sign that says "no one is illegal on stolen land"

CWA President Claude Cummings Jr. and SEIU President April Verrett dance on stage in between speeches.

Never get involved in a land war in Minnesota.

~100k strong today, and we're still just getting started.

#ICEOut #ChingaLaMigra #mn

sure hope so

Say her name: Renee Good.

ICE out of Minneapolis and Minnesota now.

This is Renee Nicole Good. She was murdered in cold blood by ICE today. Minnesota won't forget. Rest in power.

ICE came to terrorize us. Minneapolis is not having it.

My thoughts right now are with the loved ones of the victim murdered by ICE, an individual who was out in our community because of the care and love for our immigrant neighbors. The agent who murdered our neighbor must be arrested. 1/

Community, today I was on the scene at 34th and Portland where an observer was shot and killed by ICE. I am horrified, angered, and my heart is with the family who lost their loved one. She should still be alive.

EMERGENCY ALERT!
THIS IS AN ALL HANDS ON DECK MOMENT!
A LEGAL OBSERVER WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY ICE IN SOUTH MINNEAPOLIS AT 34TH AND PORTLAND S THROUGH THEIIR CAR WINDOW.
WE NEED EVERYBODY OUT IN THE STREETS OF SOUTH MINNEAPOLIS RIGHT NOW TO DRIVE ICE OUT OF OUR CITY!!

GET IN THE STREETS NOW!!!

A must-read message from Colin and Sophie Hortman, Mark and Melissa's children:

“No More Terrorizing Families”: Minnesota Workers Rally Against ICE Deportation Flights - Workday Magazine Workers are demanding facilities for rideshare drivers and an end to the airport’s operation of deportation flights.

Airport workers and rideshare drivers marched in freezing weather, demanding that the Metropolitan Airport Commission and private companies end ICE deportation flights out of MSP. workdaymagazine.org/no-more-terr...

YouTube video by SEIU MN State Council Minnesotans Rise Up to Stop ICE Flights Out of MSP

🧵 Minnesotans are rising up.
We joined community members as people from across the state came together to demand an end to ICE flights out of MSP and to stand with our Somali neighbors who are being targeted and torn from their families.
(1/5) #DeIceFlights @seiu.org youtube.com/shorts/4tuLP...

A retired airport worker addresses the crowd.

🧵 Today, SEIU Local 26 joined Minnesotans from all walks of life to push back against ICE raids and private carriers taking part in ICE flights out of MSP—part of the ongoing tearing apart of families... (1/5) #DeICEFlights #HereToStay @seiu.org @isaiahmn.org @mn50501.bsky.social

TMRW: We’ve watched in horror as neighbors and coworkers are taken by masked ICE agents—targeted for our skin color, language, or where we live and work—with no respect for due process. Join us and rally at MSP to end ICE flights and push for fair wages for airport workers!

YouTube video by SEIU MN State Council MAGA GOP is making healthcare more unaffordable so the rich get richer. #mnleg #politics #seiu

Billionaires keep getting richer.
Families keep getting squeezed.
And Rep. Pete Stauber and MAGA GOP keep making everyday life more expensive.
No one in this country should go broke to get the care they need — full stop. #mnleg #WorkersOverBillionaires @repliishkozlowski.bsky.social @seiu.org