Minnesota Immigration Rights Action Coalition co-founder Erika Zurawski tells how they’ve prepared for years for the Department of Homeland Security’s “Operation Metro Surge.”

The city-county Board of Health is slated to revisit a much-debated proposal to fund a new harm reduction center.

That’s just one item on this week’s busy calendar in local government. Hosts Brenda Konkel and Rebecca Kemble have the rundown, in this edition of “Forward Lookout.”

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Public schools in Minneapolis and the surrounding areas are working with their union leaders to navigate issues of safety for students, families, and staff during the surge of masked and armed federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol who are terrorizing the population there.

On the day of a national anti-ICE general strike, host Esty Dinur is in conversation with writer Sophie Lewis about her book, Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation.

Featured image of the cover of Enemy Feminisms, available from Haymarket Books.

Madison songwriter Nick Brown joins the Friday Eight O’Clock Buzz, talks new music, and performs live ahead of his solo show at Kiki’s House of Righteous Music.

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On the Friday 8 O'Clock Buzz, Ankur Malhotra shares his picks for the best music events happening around Madison the next week.

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