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Action • January 20, 2026 • By 18MR Staff
The reality is stark: since Trump’s return to office, the federal administration has accelerated an era of fascist violence against immigrant, refugee, and working class communities. We are facing daily attacks on our people, from increased ICE raids to expanded travel bans to the rapid militarization and surveillance of our communities, homes, and workplaces. This […]
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Action • March 3, 2026 • By 18MR Staff
“In Minnesota, we work together as much as we possible can.” – Kandace, ICE Out of MN ICE is terrorizing our communities, dragging elders out into the street in freezing weather, conducting door to door raids, and committing murder in broad daylight. But organizers in Minnesota are organizing mutual aid distributions, ICE defense networks and […]
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Communities • February 12, 2026 • By 18MR Staff
Hi friends, I’m Macy-Chau! I’m a Vietnamese-American organizer, writer, and restaurant kid of a 40+year Vietnamese food legacy in Minneapolis called Pho 79/Caravelle. I owe my love of food to the people who’ve raised me and taught me everything I know about good food, community, and cultural survival. Like many organizers, I wear all sorts […]
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Communities • January 26, 2026 • By 18MR Staff
The Twin Cities have long been a safe haven for immigrants and refugees, resettling almost 300,000 new immigrants since 2010. It was one of the few cities to resettle the large waves of Southeast Asian immigrants following the end of the Vietnam War, welcoming Hmong, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laos, and later Karen, Somali, Nigerian, and Ethiopian […]
