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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone see the video of the yoga students surrounding two employees at the desk of a Core Power yoga studio in Minneapolis and berating them for taking down an anti-ICE sign because management hadn't approved it? They filmed it and put it online. Core Power says it has banned everyone involved from taking classes there. Crazy.[/quote]

What is the issue?  If the sign wasn’t approved by the management of a private business, why is this a problem?  The bigger problem is the students confronting the employees, which may be a violation of their membership contracts. [/quote]

I'm the OP. ICE is acting awful, but I have a problem with this bunch ganging up on a private employer like this and then filming it for the world's consumption. Private yoga companies are under no obligation to take a stand, and the demands to do so are nauseating. Ann Bauer wrote about this in The Free Press.[/quote]

And not even ganging up on the company, they were ganging up on a couple of front desk employees who probably make minimum wage. Absolutely ridiculous.  And the snapping!  It’s like an SNL skit.

Apparently one of the women bragged online about leaving all the weights on the floor instead of re-racking them, as some form of protest.  The whole thing was absurd. [/quote]

This.

Go after the company. Don’t abuse front desk employees.
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And how are they to do that? 
The Minnesota people have developed a wide range of strategies--it's truly amazing. There is also a huge amount of work being done to help people with basic needs, helping fund lawyers, and holding protest events (several involving hundreds of people forming messages on frozen lakes, sometimes with luminaria at night) as fundraisers as well as simply protests. And yes, they are pressuring companies and businesses as much as they can. Remember Americans and "freedom fries" around the time of the Iraq invasion?  
I know people who, just in recent weeks, have experienced minor vandalism from people who didn't like their upside down american flag on their car (yanked it down, broke the pole, wrecked the holder) or sign on their apartment door (broke it into splinters). I have a friend who got punched in the face while marching for Gaza some months back--guy came out of a Pizza Hut where he worked and just punched her (he did get fired).

That kind of thing is not my style, and at Indivisible meetings I have argued against things like the f word (which in my view, if there were ICE agents around--which I have yet to personally experience--could result in them taking it out on their captives) while others say But free speech!. (My style is to follow and tell people about legal proceedings and wonky stuff, and at events I am on the safety team because I don't feel comfortable chanting).

This is such a minor event in everything that's going on, so screw the pearl clutching. [/quote]

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