The demand for an Alamo City strike comes as Minneapolis residents staged the largest economic blackout in 80 years.
Organizers from the Party for Socialism and Liberation are calling for a general strike in San Antonio following Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s fatal shooting of 37-year-old Minneapolis man Alex Pretti.
“Yesterday, Minneapolis held the largest strike in decades,” PSL organizer Corrie Rosen said Saturday during an impromptu protest at San Antonio City Hall. “They demand an end to ICE terror, and so do we. A general strike is what we need – tens of thousands of San Antonians standing up, getting it loud and shutting it down.” Rosen’s shared the call to action shortly before roughly 100 demonstrators braved freezing rain to march through downtown to protest the federal government’s occupation of Minneapolis and its violent aftermath. PSL organizers told the Current that they plan to meet with union leaders and local business owners this week to inform, plan, and pick a date for the general strike. Calls for a general strike in San Antonio come after Minneapolis residents on Friday staged what some now consider the Homeland Security officials argue that Pretti, a Veterans Affairs nurse with no criminal history, was a “domestic terrorist” who planned to carry out a massacre against law enforcement. “Violence against a government because of ideological reasons and for reasons to resist and to perpetuate violence — that is the definition of domestic terrorism,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said during a Saturday press conference. While Pretti did have a firearm in his possession at the time of the fatal shooting, he was licensed to carry the weapon. What’s more,the Trump White House has engaged in a repeat pattern of vilifying the victims of shootings by federal immigration agents as part of a broad effort to thwart investigations into the acts.the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to preserve evidence related to Pretti’s shooting after state authorities asserted that DHS blocked them from accessing the scene of the shooting.‘They wanted us to get anxious. It worked,’ the award-winning food journalist said of his encounter with ICE agents.James Rodden, identified by the Observer last year as the operator of an account that routinely posted hateful statements, appeared to be back at work Tuesday.Protesters inside the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley demonstrated Saturday against their treatment and ICE’s detention of a 5-year-old Minneapolis boy.Since 1986, the SA Current has served as the free, independent voice of San Antonio, and we want to keep it that way. Becoming an SA Current Supporter for as little as $5 a month allows us to continue offering readers access to our coverage of local news, food, nightlife, events, and culture with no paywalls.Michael Karlis is a multimedia journalist at the San Antonio Current, whose coverage in print and on social media focuses on local and state politics. He is a graduate of American University in Washington,...This San Antonio mansion for sale comes with a massive pool, a putting green and an elevator
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