Friday, January 30
2:00–4:00 pm
Indianapolis Liberation Center
1619 Prospect St
Give to the fightback movement against ICE terror!
Indianapolis is answering the call from Minnesota to expand the general strike and for no business as usual during ICE terror! Join us during the national day of action on Friday, January 30 for a community teach-in to prepare the infrastructure to expand and sustain the call for a nationwide shutdown to end ICE and Trump’s right-wing reign of terror. We cannot wait until mid-term elections when the terror unleashed on our communities continues to intensify throughout the country.
Students are staging walk-outs at their schools throughout the city, people are walking off of their jobs and staying home. People are pledging to refrain from shopping to slow the economy to a halt.
The teach-in will focus on building the infrastructure to sustain a shutdown in Indianapolis. Participants will learn the history of general strikes and their effectiveness at creating change, as well as hands-on training to organize our neighborhoods into a united fighting force against Trump’s ICE thugs. Participants will receive a whistle to warn their neighbors of ICE in their area.
Why we’re shutting it down
The day after a historic general strike by the people of Minnesota, federal agents involved in Trump’s mass deportation campaign have committed yet another shocking act of deadly violence. Video footage shows federal agents in south Minneapolis wrestling a man to the ground, pinning him on the sidewalk, and shooting him multiple times while he was restrained and fully surrounded by officers who were striking him. Authorities confirmed shortly after that the victim had been killed.
The only appropriate answer to this murderous violence is to expand the general strike. The entire country was electrified at the moving images of massive unity and resistance from the Twin Cities. Federal agents have answered this mobilization with yet another murder. Now, the struggle must widen and grow stronger.
Trump plans to continue his ICE invasions city by city, sending in thousands of agents to rip families apart and murder anyone who stands in their way. The people need to use our power to shut down business as usual and make it impossible for this reign of terror to continue.