Resolution for UFT Demonstration for 
Renee Good and in Solidarity 
with Minneapolis Teachers

The following resolution was presented by Yari Milo Michel, a supporter of Class Struggle Education Workers, at the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) Delegate Assembly, on January 14, 2026, where it was approved by 90% of the delegates. The rally and march took place at New York City’s Union Square in Manhattan on January 23, with up to 1,000 UFT members, along with several thousand other trade-unionists and defenders of immigrant rights as a number of unions joined in. See “Labor Organizes Massive March to Protest ICE,” The Chief, January 31, 2026.

WHEREAS, education unionists and many other sectors of the labor movement have expressed indignation and alarm at the brutal targeting of our immigrant fellow workers, family members and communities in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, including students, teachers and staff at schools there, workers at a local Target store, families in their homes and cars and many others; and

WHEREAS, last Wednesday, January 7, the ICE invasion of Minneapolis led directly to Renee Nicole Good being shot and killed by an ICE agent there (approximately one mile from where George Floyd was murdered in 2020); and

WHEREAS, Renee Nicole Good was a substitute teacher in the Minneapolis schools (CBS News, January 10); and

WHEREAS, shortly after the killing of Renee Good, the Border Patrol attacked Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis, brutalizing and threatening students, teachers and staff there; and

WHEREAS, teachers unions in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area have condemned the murder of Good, the ICE/Border Patrol onslaught against immigrants and the population at large, and demanded that these federal forces leave town; and

WHEREAS, teachers, communications, transport, health and other workers unions have joined with community and religious groups to call a day of “No work, No school” on Friday, January 23 throughout Minnesota; and

WHEREAS, this latest death at the hands of ICE is being used to even further trample basic rights and terrorize people there and nationwide, while top officials of the federal government intensify the demonization of entire immigrant communities together with the victim of the January 7 killing by ICE; and

WHEREAS, the UFT has spoken out in defense of immigrant rights, and at last June’s Delegate Assembly meeting passed an important resolution for union-led defense of immigrant students, faculty and staff;[1] therefore be it

RESOLVED, that the UFT will call an emergency demonstration and day of action here in New York in solidarity with our fellow unionists and with students, faculty, staff and immigrant communities in Minnesota on Friday, January 23.

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[1] See “Resolution for Union-Led Defense of Immigrant Students, Families and Staff,” on the website of the United Federation of Teachers (UFT).

Class Struggle Education Workers is an organization, fraternally linked to the Internationalist Group, of union and non-unionized activists in all aspects of education fighting for a revitalization and transformation of the labor movement into an instrument for the emancipation of the working class and the oppressed.  See the CSEW program here. The struggle for students’ and educators’ rights, and mobilization against the genocidal war on the Palestinians continues. If you are interested in joining these efforts, contact the CSEW at cs_edworkers@hotmail.com.  ■