LIVE SOON: As RFK Jr. and Trump officials visit Minnesota, the Zero Burn Coalition demands accountability over a new EPA lawsuit -- and the rollback of PFAS standards -- intensifying the fight to close the HERC trash burner. WATCH: www.facebook.com/share/1B6Jmk... #FreedomToBreathe

Delay is indefensible. Delay = harm. Everyone in #mpls deserves the #FreedomToBreathe clean air!

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We need Rep. Berg's working-class voice in Congress now more than ever. Onward! #MN02

We're proud to stand in solidarity with Eastside Neighbors for Health and the Climate Justice Committee in the fight to end Northern Iron's pollution impacting the health of a East Side STP community. Whether it's a garbage burner or a foundry, we are united in the fight! #FreedomToBreathe

The #FreedomtoBreathe hunger strike is over. Phase 2: Accountability has begun. Henn Co Comrs. have refused to vote to close the HERC burner. Constituents are paying attn, and we'll evaluate Comrs. on their commitment to EJ principles ahead of the County Convention. www.youtube.com/shorts/LSfX8...

RELEASE: Zero Burn Coalition Launches Campaign to Hold County Commissioners Accountable to Closing HERC, Building Momentum On Heels of "Freedom to Breathe" Hunger Strike | READ: www.zeroburncoalition.org/news/zero-bu... #mnleg #FreedomToBreathe

🧵 Today, the people showed up. A multigenerational, multiracial, multifaith community came to demand justice for neighbors in the shadow of the HERC trash burner. We sang for the demise of this polluter. We shut down 6th Street. We testified with truth. #FreedomToBreathe #mnleg (1/6)

This isn't theory. This isn't just mobilization. This is praxis — organizing to end the largest industrial polluter in Hennepin County. Be part of the movement for everyone in Minneapolis to have the #FreedomToBreathe

Thanks for proving the point, I guess?

4 days until the hunger strike begins. The HERC trash burner's permit was written in 1989 using technology that is now understood as outdated. Under the EPA's own 2024 standards, the HERC would fail. Demand the Board call a vote to close it: bit.ly/endthestrike26 #FreedomToBreathe #CloseHERC

HAPPENNG NOW: us02web.zoom.us/j/84940196368

Proud to be in this fight alongside these badass community members. “People have lost patience,” said Geoff Dittberner, a coalition leader. “All traditional advocacy has failed.” #FreedomToBreathe #Mpls

We're at #NoKingsMN because what's happening to the EPA is happening in #mpls. A captured EPA. A complicit county. A 37-year-old trash burner poisoning a BIPOC working class community. NO KINGS. NO TRASH BURNERS. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE. SIGN: bit.ly/dontburntrash #FreedomToBreathe #NoKings

Doesn't this piss you off? It has been so normalized, and the county is complicit. We're raising the alarm. Join us on Tuesday! #FreedomToBreathe #Minneapolis

Today is Global Recycling Day. And every day, Hennepin County burns 365,000 tons of trash — including materials that could be recycled. Trash burners don't complement recycling. They cannibalize it. As long as the HERC exists, the county has a financial incentive to keep feeding the furnace...

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)

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."

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.

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

🧵 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!!!!

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.

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

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:

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...

🧵 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...

🧵 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!

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

Thanks to Senator Jen McEwen and Representative Liish Kozlowski for helping us sound the alarm. Northland families are being pushed to the brink by massive healthcare cost increases that MAGA GOP politicians like Pete Stauber let happen. #duluth #mn08 #UnionStrong #mnleg

We stand with our union brother, @seiuca.org Pres. @davidhuerta-seiu.bsky.social, who on 11/25 faces baseless charges by the MAGA Regime for peacefully exercising constitutional rights during an ICE raid. When they try to silence one of us, we rise together. ✊💜 #JusticeForDavid @seiu.org