CorePower Betrays Yoga Values To Welcome ICE Agents: Profits Over Principles

CorePower claims to 'create a community where everyone feels safe'.

Student protests, teacher strikes, and the community backlash against businesses cooperating with federal agents during Operation Metro Surge.

In Minneapolis, where federal immigration raids under Operation Metro Surge have already claimed two U.S. citizen lives (Renee Good and Alex Pretti), a wave of student-led protests has now targeted CorePower Yoga for what organizers call “complicit silence.”

University of Minnesota students, high schoolers from South High and other schools, and community members accuse the national yoga chain of allowing off-duty ICE agents—identifiable from viral raid footage—to attend classes at its Uptown location. CorePower’s refusal to ban federal agents from its premises has turned a wellness space into a flashpoint for broader outrage against businesses perceived as enabling ICE operations. - Eyes On Ice

"Niki has studied yoga history, philosophy, meditation, and Ayurveda in India." One of Yoga's first principles is Ahimsa: nonviolence towards oneself and all living creatures; an attitude of universal benevolence; the spontaneous expression of the highest form of love; the complete absence of violence from mind, body and spirit.

Ask Niki Leondakis to live up to CorePower's claimed values

Protests against CorePower

Attendance at Minneapolis CorePower locations reportedly dropped 40–50% in late January, per anonymous staff and review trends on Google/Yelp mentioning the controversy.

The issue ties into a larger movement: teachers, students, and unions demand school sanctuaries, with no ICE presence or data-sharing. MFT President Chelsie Glaubitz Gabiou stated: “Our students are terrified. Teachers are on strike because we refuse to let fear win.” As the city faces ongoing raids and investigations into federal conduct, support for striking educators is support for the entire community.- - Eyes On Ice

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Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works. - Saul Alinsky

"Make them live up to their own book of rules." You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity. - Saul Alinsky

TakeAway: Remind Niki Leondakis: What will it profit a woman if she gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Matthew 16:26

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