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>Who has called for the strike?

The call for a nationwide general strike has come from a decentralized movement across multiple large cities, from Minneapolis to Cleveland to New York City. Organizers are asking people to abstain from work, school, and commerce to protest immigration enforcement and the recent shootings.

The National Shutdown website lists local and national partners including the Defend Immigrant Families Campaign, the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR), the North Carolina Poor People's Campaign, the LA Tenants Union, and multiple student organizations at the University of Minnesota, while large activist groups like CodePink have also pledged to join.

Several actors and other celebrities have joined in and called for the public to participate in the strike, including The Last of Us actor Pedro Pascal, Hacks’s Hannah Einbinder, Edward Norton, and Oscar-winner Jamie Lee Curtis.

Many of these actors posted on Instagram and social media to spread news of the strike, including Pascal.

“Truth is a line of demarcation between a democratic government and authoritarian regime,” Pascal wrote in the caption of a post about the strike, one of several he has recently made denouncing ICE and federal immigration agents’ actions.

“What they’re doing in Minnesota with the strike needs to expand,” Norton told the Los Angeles Times while at the Sundance Film Festival. “We should be talking about a national general economic strike until this is over.”