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Tens of thousands of Minnesotans marched in Minneapolis and otherwise participated in an economic blackout on Friday to protest against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)<\/a> surge in the state.<\/p>\n About 100 clergy members were arrested by police during the action, video footage<\/a> showed.<\/p>\n Beside faith leaders, the \u201cno work, no school, no shopping\u201d blackout day of protest was kicked off by community leaders and labor unions \u2013 and included actions around the state, plus business closures in solidarity.<\/p>\n The \u201cDay of Truth & Freedom\u201d protest comes in the wake of the killing of Renee Good<\/a>, the unarmed woman shot by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis earlier this month.<\/p>\n Their demands<\/a> include that ICE leave Minnesota<\/a>, that the ICE officer who killed Good be legally held accountable, an end to additional federal funding for ICE, and for the agency to be investigated for human rights and constitutional violations.<\/p>\n Hundreds of local businesses in Minnesota have announced <\/a>closures in solidarity. Thousands of people took the day off from their jobs to join the action, while others will participate by not shopping on Friday. The Minneapolis city council endorsed<\/a> the day of action and the general strike.<\/p>\n The state\u2019s cultural institutions \u2013 including the Walker Art Center, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Science Museum of Minnesota and the Minnesota Children\u2019s Museum \u2013 will be closed<\/a> on Friday as well.<\/p>\n During a protest at the Minneapolis-St Paul airport on Friday morning, hundreds of clergy members called for an end to the ICE surge and urged airline companies to join them in opposing ICE in the state. Video of the action shows hundreds of people walking outside the airport in subzero temperatures, singing songs and praying together. Deportation flights go in and out of the airport daily.<\/p>\n On Friday afternoon, thousands clad in winter gear and carrying signs filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis to march in subzero temperatures, ending in a rally inside the Target Center, an arena downtown.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are going to be having dangerously cold weather on Friday \u2013 -10F with wind chills. Like the high is going to be -10F with wind chills of up to -20F,\u201d Chelsie Glaubitz Gabiou, president of the Minnesota<\/a> Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, had told the Guardian earlier.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are a northern state, and we are built for the cold, and we are going to show up, but folks are going to need to pay attention to not just the march, but what people are doing, the individual stories of solidarity that people are going to be doing.\u201d<\/p>\n The Minnesota AFL-CIO, the state\u2019s federation of more than 1,000 affiliated local unions, has endorsed<\/a> the day of action, along with dozens of local labor unions.<\/p>\n \u201cI think what generated the idea for this action comes out of the need to figure out what we can meaningfully do to stop it,\u201d Kieran Knutson, the president of Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 7250 in Minneapolis<\/a>, told the Guardian last week<\/a>. \u201cThe government in the state of Minnesota<\/a> has not offered any path towards stopping these attacks, this violence.\u201d<\/p>\n