Chants cut through Foley Square Friday night as hundreds marched in freezing temperatures, part of what organizers called a general strike.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want America back and I want America to be better. I think it could be a lot better, and I just don\u2019t like the direction it\u2019s heading in,\u201d Long Island resident Geordie Grassie said.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Hundreds marched in freezing temperatures Friday night, part of what organizers called a general strike
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The strike follows similar protests last week in Minneapolis, sparked by anger over immigration enforcement and the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by federal immigration agents
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Protesters took to the streets saying they have real concerns that what\u2019s happening in Minneapolis could happen in New York City<\/p>\n
The strike follows similar protests last week in Minneapolis sparked by anger over immigration enforcement and the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by federal immigration agents.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou see everything on your phones, you hear on podcasts and in the news, and a great way to deal with the sadness and frustration is to show up,\u201d Brooklyn resident Lindsey Neeld said.<\/p>\n
The future \u2014 many say \u2014 is being shaped by young people showing up in force.<\/p>\n
\u201cSeeing them care is just like, OK, there is a future,\u201d Brooklyn resident Jen Jinx said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe youth are really involved in it, and they really want to see a change,\u201d Manhattan resident Matan Leader said.<\/p>\n
Protesters took to the streets saying they have real concerns that what\u2019s happening in Minneapolis could happen in New York City.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re demanding not only accountability from the Trump administration, but also elected leaders in Congress.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think they\u2019re not doing enough. I think they should be doing more. I think this never should have happened to begin with,\u201d Brooklyn resident Adina Valerio said.<\/p>\n
Organizers say what began in Minneapolis is now a national blueprint, and they plan to keep showing up until they see change.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are our neighbors, these are our friends. We have to stop, we have to let ICE know this isn\u2019t what we want, and this isn\u2019t what the country wants, and we have to let the president know that as well,\u201d Leader said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chants cut through Foley Square Friday night as hundreds marched in freezing temperatures, part of what organizers called…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[109,25,2301,388,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,87,27,200],"class_list":["post-117966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-top-stories","tag-immigration","tag-louis-finley","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}