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EVENT DETAILS:

• Date: Thursday. July 17th, 2025
  Time: 6 pm – 8:30 pm CST
  Location: Hennepin County Government Center Plaza' 300 South 6th St, Mpls

• 6pm Gather for program
  7pm March begins. Participants may choose to march or stay at Government Center Plaza where the program will continue.
  8:15pm Marchers return to Government Center Plaza for candlelight vigil.

Event Website: https://indivisibletwincities.org/good-trouble-lives-on-twin-cities

Later today (June 30, 2025), the U.S. Senate will vote on the Big Bad Budget Bill aka Trump's Tax Scam aka Big Awful Betrayal aka Budget Reconciliation bill. After that, the bill will return to the House to be voted on by Congress.

This bill must be stopped. So much is at stake.  Take action NOW before it's too late! And if you've done it already, please take action again!

1. f you have family or friends living in other states with GOP Senators, contact them TODAY and encourage them to call their Senators to tell them all the reasons they should vote NO on this bill. 

2. If you live in a district with a GOP U.S. Representative, contact them TODAY and tell them why you want them to vote NO on this bill. If you have friends and family who live in a district with a GOP U.S. Representative, contact them TODAY and encourage them to do the same.

You can find your U.S. Representative's contact details online.

Again, we thank everyone who made No Kings Day of Defiance successful starting with a planning partners: Indivisible Twin Cities, MN 50501, and AFL-CIO of Minnesota.

Amid a time of horrific political violence, we are grateful that 80,000 Minnesotans chose to come to our State Capitol, gathering together in peace. As we grieved the assassinations of House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband and the wounding of State Senator John Hoffman and his wife, we chose to continue to stand up for democracy.

A team of folks including Women’s March MN, Indivisible Twin Cities, MN 50501, and AFL-CIO of Minnesota had been planning the march and rally for about six weeks. Saturday morning, the  decision was made to march out of respect for Hortman and Hoffman and their lives dedicated to public service and meeting the needs of all Minnesotans. We wanted to stand together in solidarity in the fight for our rights and our freedom. We wanted to let the would-be-kings know, whether they sit in the White House or wear disguises and shoot our Elected Officials, that we will not stand down for one man – we will rise for our community.

Women’s March MN is one of the planners of the No Kings Day of Defiance - Twin Cities. If you’re in the Twin Cities, we hope you’ll join us from 11am to 3pm near the MN State Capitol. If you aren’t able to join us in St Paul, we hope you’ll find another event. We will stand together wherever we are in solidarity and power.

No Kings National has an interactive map for an event near you or check out our list.

1. We need 2 experienced ASL interpreters from 11-2:30. Please help spread the word and let us know if you are or know someone who is interested ASAP.

2. We need marshals to join the security team. There will be training in de-escalation and security techniques. Sign up by June 10.

3. We can always use more volunteers for a range of tasks. All volunteers are required to attend a virtual training session prior to the event. Sign up by June 10.

We are looking for performers for the No Kings Day of Defiance on June 14 at the MN State Capitol. The event will include a march from Saint Paul College to the MN State Capitol followed by a rally at a center and side stage from 11-2:30 on June 14. We are looking for musicians/bands to perform on one of two stages in front of the Capitol. (Or other locations if opportunities emerge.)

Thanks to all who came out on May 13, 2025 to the State Capitol Mall, to say "'Hands Off!' our critical services from Medicaid to our environment to public schools. We are standing up to stop attacks on workers and to protect ALL our communities, including our immigrant neighbors.” And big thanks to Minnesota AFL-CIO for organizing.

There were speakers, music and the longest picket line in Minnesota history

Thousands showed up for Immigrant Rights and Workers Rights in St Paul today!

Initiated by MIRAC, MN Workers United, MN Immigrant Movement, Asamblea de Derechos Civiles, Kalpulli Ketzal Coaltlique, MN8, CAIR-MN, MFT, Indigenous Protector Movement, EPNI.

Speakers were inspiring. Dancers energetic. People were powerful.  

There are a number of events happening on or around May Day (May 1, 2025):

• International Workers Day march for immigrant & workers' rights in Minnesota: starting at 4:30pm at the State Capitol in Saint Paul.

• MSP May Day Rally: from noon to 1pm at MSP Airport Terminal 1

The crowd came close to the amazing turnout at the Hands OFF! event, two weeks earlier. That means we’re getting stronger together!!

The march was awesome - the signs and outfits amazing – the speakers were moving and inspiring.

Big thanks to the planners Climate Justice Committee, Families Against Military Madness, Indivisible TCs, WAMM, MIRAC, Anti-War Committee, TC Coalition for Justice, Minnesota 50501, Three Waters and Wrongfully Incarcerated & Over-sentenced Families Council-MN.

The Hands-Off Coalition of Indivisible Twin Cities, Minnesota 50501 and Women's March MN, will be standing on the sidewalk outside the El Salvadoran Consulate in St. Paul to support those who have been arrested without due process, sent to the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador. We are standing up for all who have been targeted because of speaking out and protesting. We are protesting the Trump regime’s illegal actions and cruel defiance of court orders and the rule of law.

This event will happen in St. Paul on Wednesday, 4/16, from 3-6pm. The El Savadoran Consulate is at 60 Plato Blvd, St. Paul, 55107. We hope to see you all there.

Our work isn't done! This rally was a battle, but the war is long! We want you to understand that you are now one of the 3.5% that it takes to stop a dictatorship. Democracy is an active duty — one which involves, as Cory Booker said during his marathon record-breaking speech, ‘good trouble’. And this is what he was talking about! Showing up, being here, and coming back!

1. Contact your legislators.

2. Download the 5 Calls app. 

3. Spread the word. T

4. Stay engaged!

It happened! We organized an event for people to protest the Trump administration and its cruel, chaotic attacks on our freedoms and our communities, and you showed up! Wow, did you show up! Attendance numbers vary, but our best estimate is 40-45,000 people! 

And we weren’t alone here in St Paul. There were 50 or more events throughout the State. Reports have come in for as many as 5 million people across the country showing up to tell Trump to take his hands off our Medicaid, Social Security, our bodies, our jobs, our economy, our DEI initiatives, immigrants, our schools, our courts, our environment, our data – the list goes on.

We came together united in purpose. See how strong we are together! The people have the power, and now that we have seen that, we will channel it into action and into standing up for and with each other. There is a long way to go to win this one! We can do it, but it’s going to take all of us! Stay tuned for more opportunities! 

Women’s March MN, Indivisible Twin Cities and MN50501 are hosting Hands OFF Mass Mobilization at the MN State Capitol on April 5, noon to 2pm.

To help get the word out, we are asking folks if they can help print and hang posters around the Twin Cities. (If you can only do one, contact us (admin@womensmarchmn.com) and we’ll try to pair you up with someone who can do the other task.)

The mission is to print either the color or black & white 8x11 PDF poster and hang them up around town. We do have some requests and cautions:

Calling all creative Minnesotans! MN 50501 is putting on a button-making contest. Before Friday, the 28th, artistic minds from MN are encouraged to create art that will be turned into buttons at the April 5th HANDS OFF rally at the MN state capitol!

To submit your creation, send it in .svg format to contactMN50501@gmail.com with subject line “Hands Off Button Design” and, if you wish to be credited for the image, please include a name we should credit you with!

Indivisible Twin Cities is looking for volunteers to marshal at three upcoming events:

1.  PROTECT OUR SOCIAL SECURITY
     Thursday April 3, 4 pm - 6 pm
      Social Security Administration office

2.   PROTECT OUR POST OFFICES
      Thursday April 10, 4 pm - 6 pm
      Minneapolis U.S. Post Office

3.   PROTECT OUR NATIONAL PARKS
      Thursday April 17, 4 pm - 6 pm
      Mississippi National River & Recreation Area Visitor Center
      (Located in the Science Museum of MN lobby)

 If you are interested, please contact Kate Havelin katehavelin2017@gmail.com

Join Indivisible Twin Cities, 50501MN and Women's March MN at the MN State Capitol on April 5, when national and local organizations are coming together across the country to organize for Hands Off!, a national mass activation in defiance of the Trump-Musk billionaire takeover and the Republican assault on our freedoms and our communities. Register today.

April 5 noon to 2pm
MN State Capitol in St Paul MN

Trump and project 2025 are coming for the rights of all marginalized groups including women, Trans & LGBQ. Gender Justice works to create a world where everyone can thrive no matter their gender, gender identity or expression, or sexual orientation. Central to this work is dismantling the legal, political, and structural barriers to gender equity. This includes Economic Justice, Reproductive Freedom & Justice, Freedom from Gender-Based Violence and Trans & LGBQ Liberation. We must stand in solidarity and make sure we do not let centuries of fighting be lost to those who wish to be intolerant.