Twin Cities Organizers Announce 'Breaking the ICE' Speaking Tour to Teach Minnesota's Rapid-Response Model Around the Country

What happened

On its tour page, CrimethInc. announced a speaking tour by Twin Cities anarchists who had taken part in the resistance to Operation Metro Surge. At each stop, it said, the speakers would “share what they have learned from building rapid response networks.” The schedule opened on March 31 in Atlanta and listed stops in cities including Chicago, Baltimore, Ann Arbor, Portland and Seattle. The page also links the Twin Cities how-to guides the tour drew on.

KUOW covered the Seattle stop. More than 100 people came. The presenters recommended “setting up neighborhood ICE watches, Signal chat groups, and mutual aid networks,” and KUOW concluded that “Seattleites are adopting — but also adapting — tactics from Minnesota.”

HSI Saint Paul asked other field offices to send undercover agents to the Chicago and Ann Arbor stops; see 2026-04-02–hsi-chicago-undercover-operation-breaking-the-ice-tour-co-prosperity-whipple-shield-collateral and 2026-04-08–hsi-undercover-operation-zion-lutheran-church-ann-arbor.

Why it matters

This is the clearest documented case of Minneapolis organizers carrying their methods to other cities in person after the Surge, recorded by the organizers, by a newsroom and by federal investigators.

Limits

The tour came from one political current and does not represent the Twin Cities networks as a whole. Attendance at the other stops is undocumented.