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Muslims for Just Futures condemns the killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis. This is the second public killing of a legal observer in recent days.

Alex was killed the morning after more than 75,000 Minnesotans marched demanding that ICE leave the state. He was a registered ICU nurse who cared for veterans at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System and a union member of AFGE Local 3669 within the AFL-CIO. He was acting as a legal observer and protecting another observer when he was pepper sprayed, tackled, surrounded, and killed by federal agents.

We join the AFL-CIO in mourning Alex’s death and hold his loved ones, union siblings, and the people of Minneapolis in our hearts.

Muslims for Just Futures (MJF) condemns the extrajudicial killing of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agents. She is a victim of escalating ICE and state terror, as families are kidnapped and Somali communities are disproportionately targeted in Minnesota. In recent months across the country from Chicago to DC and beyond, community rapid responders fighting ICE’s terror have been surveilled, targeted, and arrested, including a woman who survived being shot multiple times by ICE in Chicago.

Muslims for Just Futures condemns the ongoing acts of violence, harassment, and intimidation carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and federal agents throughout Chicago. Today, ICE operations once again brought fear and disruption to our communities—this time in the Lakeview neighborhood and the broader North Side—where at least nine individuals were detained, and federal agents deployed tear gas in a residential area.

Muslims for Just Futures’ Statement on Designations and its Implication on Movement Infrastructure

We condemn in the strongest terms the U.S. government’s expansion of sanctions against Palestinian human rights organizations. These politically motivated designations are a direct attack on movement infrastructure and the vital work of organizations committed to justice and human rights. By cutting off access to the global financial system, these sanctions choke nonprofits’ ability to operate, dragging countless groups into a punitive dragnet and threatening the survival of Palestinian-led organizing.

Where the Levees Broke and the Bombs Fell by Senior Organizing Fellow, Assata Dela Cruz

I was twelve years old when the War on Terror began, sitting in my seventh grade classroom having a snack as planes crashing continued to play on our little TV screen until an announcement came over the school intercom to turn it off and continue with our lessons.  I didn’t fully understand what was happening… how could I really?  But I could feel the shift in the air.  On September 12th, I watched my sisters and aunties remove their hijabs with trembling hands and tearful eyes.  At the time, I had been preparing to wear hijab myself with so much pride in stepping into a deeper expression of my faith and identity.  But that excitement was replaced by fear and the sound of glass shattering as the storefront my chosen family poured their labor and love into was vandalized with Islamophobic slurs that same week.  It was then that I realized not only was our family business a target, so were we.  To be visibly Muslims was to be marked and not even being a child could protect me from being perceived as a threat.

We remain in solidarity with K20 and frontline communities. Militarism, fossil fuel extraction, racism, colonialism, and ecocide converge to destroy ecosystems and frontline communities, turning disasters into opportunities for profiteering and control. From Katrina in the Gulf South to the Global South, we see how war, militarism, racism, and ecocide are destroying frontline communities, and why our solidarity, faith, and movements must build another future.