Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets across Minnesota on Friday, closing down businesses and calling out of work in a mass protest against the Trump Administration’s immigration crackdown in the state. The “Ice Out of Minnesota: Day of Truth and Freedom” demonstration, organized by community leaders, members of the clergy, and labor unions, called for a “no work, no school, no shopping” economic blackout. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “Minnesotans are coming together in moral reflection and action to stand together against the actions of the federal government against the state of Minnesota,” a website for the movement reads. “There will be a unified, statewide pause in daily economic activity. Instead, Minnesotans will spend time with family, neighbors, and their community to show Minnesota’s moral heart and collective economic power.” A large march began Friday afternoon from the Downtown Commons in Minneapolis toward the Target Center arena, where a rally was scheduled to be held. Bishop Dwayne Royster, the executive director of Faith in Action, which co-organized Friday’s movement, says that organizers were expecting more than 20,000 people to be on the ground standing in solidarity at the rally. “We are not sitting on the sidelines, and we’re not going to be idly standing within the four walls of our congregations, but we’re speaking truth to power by our very actions today,” Royster tells TIME while driving to the Target Center with other clergy members. “Let me be clear that not only has Minneapolis and Minnesota come together, but they’re calling the…
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