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The Third Thursdays MNLeg Coalition is lining up some great programming this year, beginning with our "2022 MN Legislative Preview," next week!!
Our special guest will be the new Senate DFL Leader Melisa López Franzen!
Where: On Zoom
When: Thursday, January 20th, 7-8pm
Early voting started Sept. 18 and we know voter turnout will be critical in this election.
So the Third Thursday Coalition is hosting another digital GOTV phone bank evening!!
Join us to help generate enthusiasm for voting and encourage voters in six critical Senate districts to help people get registered and request their absentee ballot applications asap!
When: Thursday, October 1, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Where: your place
You’re invited to participate in a digital Third Thursdays phone bank! Join us on September 17th at 6:00 pm as we call high propensity progressive Minnesota voters and encourage them to vote, either by mail-in-ballot or early at the polls. If they don’t know how easy it is to vote from home, well, we’ll let them know that. And how to do it!
Read MoreThe focus of April’s event was the disparate impact of Covid-19 on different Minnesotan communities, and what we can do to help make sure all Minnesotans are taken care of now and going forward. Many thanks to our excellent speakers: JaNaé Bates (ISAIAH and Minnesota Covid 19 Response); and Francisco Segovia (COPAL MN); Erin Murphy, Our Stories. Our Health. It was an inspiring and informative evening.
Read MoreThursday, December 19, 2019, 6:00 - 10:00 pm
Location: Black Dog Cafe, 308 Prince St, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55101
It’s time for our annual Holiday Third Thursdays event, when we gather to Do Good Together. Join us for a night of community, action, and politics, celebrate the end of 2019 and kick off 2020 with power and purpose. Register today! Organized by WMM, ERA MN and MSP NOW
We did it! We survived another year! That means it's time to come together as a community and end this year on a high note, so join us for a Third Thursdays fun night of community and action.
Grab a drink and toast your friends in this fight, and then make some new ones.
Celebrate your wins from 2019, talk about your plans for 2020, and learn what topics we’re going to be tackling next year at our monthly Third Thursdays.
Pitch in on one of our many community service activities available on the night – making scarves for new refugees, assembling care kits for those who need them, writing thank-you cards to legislators at our gratitude table.
Read MoreThe Legislative session is over, and the party Conventions have kicked off the election season. This is what we’ve all been waiting for -- to vote the right people into power!!
Read MoreIt was a full room at the Black Dog on May’s Third Thursdays to hear about “Mobilizing for the Midterms”. And with midterm elections just six months away, it’s a good time to start to rally.
Read MoreWe are very excited to announce that Jeff Aguy of NAACP Mpls will be joining our panel at next week's Third Thursdays - "Mobilizing for the Mid-terms".
Read MoreNotes from Third Thursdays event in March - “The Fight for Equal Pay” - hosted by MSP NOW.
Facts:
Roe Unrealized: The war on women is worse than we realize. Roe vs Wade is in place, but far too many women cannot get the reproductive healthcare they need and the GOP is making it more difficult. Karen Law, director of Our Justice, discussed how birth control, abortion, race, poverty and access to resources are being talked about at both national and local levels and how they tilt the playing field even more against some women. She talked about upcoming legislation aimed at further restricting access, and what we can do to make a change for equal access to the healthcare women need. “From unnecessary restrictions at reproductive health clinics, teen mom shaming, and legal challenges blocking insurance coverage for birth control, the need to challenge reproductive injustice remains central to gender equity” – Karen Law, Our Justice.
Read MoreHealthcare is complicated — there’s no question about it. Indivisible MN tackled the topic at the November Third Thursday. It wasn’t the most upbeat conversation, but panelists gave a good overview of the current situation in Minnesota.
Read MoreThursday, Sept. 28, marked a great turnout for our Third Thursday Social Resistance Gathering with the Minnesota Resistance Coalition. Immigration is at the forefront of many Minnesotans' minds, as seen from the turnout, and it's difficult to stay up-to-date with the administration's latest attack on our refugee and immigrant residents.
Read MoreMany thanks to everyone who made it to the Third Thursdays event Standing with Immigrants and Refugees. What a great turn out! Ready to get to work? Here’s what you can do right now.
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