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I heard over 100k, but I think that might have added up actions across the state, not just the downtown rally. I've seen a lot saying 50-75k for the downtown rally.
That's a massive crowd to turn out downtown in that weather with public transit shut down in my opinion
Public transit wasn't shut down. They were still running busses and trains and had all hands on deck essentially. They were great at coordinating everyone getting there and leaving, since the trains were over their capacity a few times and had to make people get off, but went back for them so they didn't have to wait for the train to loop while standing in the cold. While it goes against the idea of a statewide strike, the numbers wouldn't have been possible without them.
I wasn't aware. I saw that the transit workers union endorsed the strike so I thought transit might not have been running but it does make sense to make sure to run trains and get people to downtown.
Still a big ask of people considering the weather, you minnesotan MFs are hardcore