BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18887502 SEQUENCE:19065487 CREATED:20260717T233400Z DESCRIPTION:7/19/26 Labor Activists Mark 92nd Anniversary Of 1934 MPLS Truck Strike At Memorial Event and Procession On Sunday, July 19 At 2 P.M. CST\n\nSunday’s memorial will be live-streamed at www.facebook.com/remember1934\n\nCommemorating the Minneapolis Truckers’ Strike of 1934\n\nLABOR ACTIVISTS MARK 92nd ANNIVERSARY OF 1934 MPLS TRUCK STRIKE\nAT MEMORIAL EVENT AND PROCESSION ON SUNDAY, JULY 19 AT 2 P.M.\nCEREMONY TO BE HELD AT SITE WHERE TWO WORKERS WERE KILLED\nAND 60 WOUNDED WHEN MINNEAPOLIS POLICE OPENED FIRE IN 1934\nGATHERING TO UNDERSCORE THE CONNECTION BETWEEN 1934 SHOOTINGS\nAND MURDER OF INNOCENTS BY ICE AND BORDER PATROL IN MPLS IN 2026\n\nWhat: Memorial Meeting to remember 1934 strike\nWhen: Sunday, July 19, 2 to 3 p.m.\nWhere: Intersection of 7th Ave. & 3rd St. N, Minneapolis\nWho: Speakers and music, followed by short procession\n\nA memorial meeting, endorsed by local labor organizations, will be held in the old Minneapolis\nwarehouse district, Sun., July 19 at 2 p.m., marking the 92nd anniversary of the 1934 truck strike that made Minneapolis a union town. A short procession will follow.\n\nSunday’s gathering will take place on the site where Minneapolis police opened fire on July 20,\n1934, killing two strikers, Henry Ness and John Belor, and wounding about 60 strikers, many of whom were shot in the back. It became known as Bloody Friday.\n\nThe strike ended in a decisive victory for the Teamsters, resulting in a first contract for truckers and inside warehouse workers that included an increase in wages and new benefits and protections for union members.\n\nSunday’s gathering will draw connections between the horrific killing of Ness and Belor and the brutal slayings by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in 2026. The shootings in 1934 provoked a city-wide outcry and 100,000 marched in a funeral procession, not unlike the huge mobilizations in Minneapolis in 2026, following the deadly ICE invasion.On Sunday, there will be memorial wreaths for Ness and Belor; for Reneé Nicole Macklin Good, fatally shot by an ICE agent on Jan. 7 and Alex Jeffrey Pretti, slain by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers on Jan. 26, 2026; and for Victor Manuel Diaz, a Nicaraguan taken into custody by ICE agents in Minneapolis on Jan. 6, 2026. He died at Camp East Montana detention camp in El Paso, Texas on Jan. 14, 2026. Family members have raised doubts about ICE’s statement that he committed suicide.\n\nThe memorial this Sunday is sponsored by the Remember 1934 Collective and endorsed by major labor organizations including the Minnesota AFL-CIO, Teamsters Locals 120, 289, 638 and 792 and the Minneapolis Building and Construction Trades Council. [See attached flyer for complete list of endorsers.]\n\nSpeakers at the event will include Scott Wilkie, president of Teamsters local 638; John Hanson, son of John Hanson who was a member of the Committee of 100 that led the strike; Max Graves, organizer with End Slavery Minnesota; and Yaan Chen, organizer with Minnesota Immigrants Rights Action Committee (MIRAC).\n\nMusic will be provided by the Brass Solidarity Band and Emmett Doyle.\n\nSunday’s memorial will be live-streamed at www.facebook.com/remember1934\n\nRemember1934 Collective\nCommemorating the Minneapolis Truckers’ Strike of 1934\n& Advocating for Union Solidarity\nWebsite: www.rem34.ampmpls.com\nInstagram: www.instagram.com/remember_1934\n\nFor more information,\nCall Randy Furst at 612-201-5522\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/07/17/18887502.php SUMMARY:Labor Activists Mark 92nd Anniversary Of 1934 MPLS Truck Strike At Memorial Event LOCATION:Intersection of 7th Ave. & 3rd St. N, Minneapolis URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/07/17/18887502.php DTSTART:20260719T210000Z DTEND:20260719T210000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR