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Here's the indictment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Indictment – #1 in United States v. Sant (D. Minnesota, 0:26-cr-00115) – CourtListener.comINDICTMENT (Unsealed 6/16/2026) assigned to Judge Katherine M. Menendez referred to Magistrate Judge David T. Schultz by USA Sommer Honeycutt as to Isaac Auman Sant (1) count(s) 1, 4, Emmett James Doy...storage.courtlistener.com“This past winter, the Trump administration tried to break Minnesotans’ solidarity and basic sense of decency by flooding our state with armed agents. They failed. Now they are trying to break us in the courtroom. They will fail again.” --Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bernie Burnham
Minnesota Trade Unionists Among Those Targeted in Federal Indictments of ICE Observers - Workday MagazineMinnesota trade unionists active in worker assemblies are among the 15 people indicted by the federal government today, as part of a sweeping crackdown on organizing in opposition to the ICE and Borde...workdaymagazine.orgThe first May Day was a strike wave. Spring of 1886 in Chicago, workers struck, marched, and rallied. This map was compiled from newspaper accounts at the time www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1769.h...
Check out the interview with Chris Brooks at the @cunyslu.bsky.social podcast discussing his two article in New Labor Forum: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
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