In today’s news and commentary, multiple labor unions endorse a national general strike, and tech companies spend millions on ad campaigns for data centers.

Labor organizations in Minnesota and across the nation are organizing escalations following the murder of Alex Pretti—an intensive care unit nurse and AFGE Local 3669 member—who was shot in the back ten times in five seconds by ICE agents last week. In a press release, President of the National Nurses United (NNU) Mary Turner said that ICE “messed with the wrong profession” and to “never get between nurses and our patients… nurses are forever patient advocates, and that means we will fight to protect you at the bedside and we will fight to protect you in the streets—just as Alex was doing when he was executed in cold blood by [the] Border Patrol.” National outrage following Pretti’s death—in additon to other civilians such as Renee Good—at the hands of federal agents, has inspired a “national shutdown” today entailing “a nationwide day of no school, no work and no shopping.” Hundreds of organizations have endorsed this call to action, including the Harvard Graduate Students Union, Alphabet Workers Union, MIT Graduate Student Union, and the Graduate Labor Union at University of Minnesota.

Despite the evidence that tax breaks for data centers serve more as corporate subsidies than local job stimulators, tech giants are spending millions in advertising to make people believe otherwise. A report by the Ford School of Public Policy found that data centers do not create high-paying, long-term tech jobs in local communities. The initial building of the data centers can create many construction jobs, but they are short-lived—the majority of jobs that are actually created are typically low-wage, term-limited, contracted roles such as janitorial work, security, and maintenance. Americans are well aware that the construction of new data centers in their communities will likely result in higher energy bills, less water, and more air pollution, yet tech companies think these concerns can be solved, if only they hire the right “community affairs” publicist and spend enough on a media campaign.