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Our Warming Climate Expected to Turn the Boundary Waters Canoe Area to a Savannah Habitat by 2100
Minnesota’s Public Utilities Commission PUC Bows to Big Oil
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission recently granted Enbridge Inc. permission to pursue building its pipeline (Line 3) through Northern Minnesota. In addition to the real concerns that the pipeline will leak, as they all do, and destroy our land and pollute our water, strong objections to Line 3 are also based on how it will only contribute to and accelerate the devastating effects of our warming climate.
Womxn of Color Agenda Info Session
We're ready to spread the womxn of color movement statewide. Join us in a sacred space where we share and collect input from you about how to collectively center the leadership of womxn of color and move forward as a state. When we invest in womxn of color, we invest in the type of world we should be living in today. A world where all can thrive and live in joy.
Woody Guthrie Tribute Show
In honor of his 75th birthday, what is your favorite Woody Guthrie song? Covers accepted! If you are near Minneapolis, there is a Woody Guthrie tribute show tonight featuring Charlie Maguire, Tony Glover, and Pop Wagner at Crooners - July 14th For Tickets
Women Disobey in D.C., A Collective Experience Protesting the Illegal Detention of Children at U.S. Borders
After the illegal detention of children and the immoral tearing apart of families, Women’s March National planned and executed the largest Civil Disobedient group of women ever recorded in our nation's history to rally and hold accountable those in office that are allowing these vicious, racist and outright terrifying things to happen.
Missed Deadlines in Getting Children Back to Their Families.
The government is currently in violation of a court order to reunite children separated from their families at the border. Only 38 of the 102 under-5s were back with their families by the 10pm Tuesday (7/10) deadline. More reunifications were expected to follow.
1,000 Who CAIR Event, July 21st - POSTPONED
1,000 Who CAIR Event, July 21st - POSTPONED
“Due to circumstances beyond our control, we have decided to postpone our 1,000 Who CAIR event to a later date. We apologize for any inconvenience, and the O'Shaughnessy Theater will quickly refund your tickets. We will notify everyone when a new date has been scheduled. Thanks everyone for your continued support.” - CAIR MN.
Meet Jovita Morales; Leader of Minnesota Immigrant Movement. Our First Resilient Resister!
We are proud to introduce our first Resilient ReSister, Jovita Morales. Jovita Morales remembers vividly the day she became an activist regarding Minnesota driver’s licenses. The day was when her two children were returning from a field trip organized by Waite House. Their school bus was on the 35W bridge when it collapsed August 1, 2007.
Resilient ReSisters are Minnesota women who are making a difference in their communities; large or small, loud or quiet. She is your neighbor, your child’s favorite teacher, your co-worker, your daughter. She is you! Each month we’ll feature a new Resilient ReSister. If you know of someone we should feature please email us admin@womensmarchmncom.
After the #FamiliesBelongTogether Marches, what now?
Last week, WMM joined a number of other organizations in a civil disobedience action at General Dynamics, Bloomington, to protest the company’s involvement in the business of immigrant detention and monitoring. This action was led by Navigate MN, Black Visions Collective, CTUL, and SEIU Local 26. Eight protestors were arrested, including Sen. Patricia Torres Ray.
P.U.C. Approves Line 3. What's Next?
Last week, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approved Line 3, but there is still a long way to go before Enbridge can start construction on the tar sands oil pipeline.
June: Mobilizing for the Midterms Part 2
The 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!! While voter turnout across Minnesota is definitely important (especially for the state-wide races), the purple suburban districts are arguably where this November will be won or lost.
The Rise of a Humanitarian Crisis in the United States
Saturday saw an outpouring of Minnesotans onto the streets of Minneapolis on an extraordinary June day. Extraordinary in that it was over 90 degrees, and extraordinary in that we had to take to the streets to protest the SEPARATION of children from their parents and the CAGING of them in ill-equipped shuttered Walmarts along our Southern border.
Justice Kennedy is retiring from the U.S. Supreme Court. What does this mean?
Last week, we saw The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) narrowly vote to strip away rights and trample on progressive values; specifically women’s rights, immigrant rights, and workers’ rights. In the midst of all this, Justice Anthony Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court announced his retirement, effective July 31st. Many of us felt shell-shocked knowing what this means for the future of our country.
Are We Ready to Be What Racists Fear?
My story as a transracial adoptee has left me with this indescribable void that will never be understood.
Throughout my life I have attached incredible meaning to who I was as Mexican and less to who I was as American, but like the Diaspora Blues says “so, here you are too foreign for home and too foreign for here. Never enough for both” - Ljeoma Umebinyuo.
Comment now to oppose the gutting of the National Environmental Policy Act
Known as the Magna Carta of environmental law, is a federal law that promotes the enhancement and protection of our environment. It also established the President's Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ).
NEPA was passed in the 70s following outcry over how the Interstate highway system in the 1950s and 60s was built- by bulldozing communities with no consideration of the harmful impacts.
National #FamiliesBelongTogether Day of Action - still looking for a march?
There are marches in over 600 cities across the country! Here are the ones in Minnesota: Albert Lea, Brainerd, Detroit Lakes, Duluth, Grand Marais, Grand Rapids, Lanesboro, Mankato, Minneapolis, Rochester, and Virginia.
Janus V AFSCME
This week, the Supreme Court ruled (JANUS v AFSCME) that government workers who choose not to join a union cannot be charged a fee for services that the union provides to it's workers. This is a serious blow for organized labor and has lasting harmful effects for ALL workers - at it's minimum, decreasing income equality, equal rights in the workplace, and economic disparities across the country.
The community calls for change following another killing by police. Support these calls by adding your voice!
Following the tragic killing of Thurman Blevins in Minneapolis’ 4th precinct last Saturday - another life lost at the hands of the police, another family devastated, another community traumatized - the community came together to honor Blevins’ life, to protest his death and to call for justice.
Call your Senator to delay #SCOTUS votes until after the election.
Terrible news from the Supreme Court this week dealing serious blows to women’s reproductive rights, marriage equality, immigrant’s rights and workers’ rights. And now conservative but not far-right Justice Anthony Kennedy will retire on July 31st.
How Close Is The United States to Genocide?
THE THREAT OF THE UNITED STATES COMMITTING ACTS OF GENOCIDE IS BECOMING MORE AND MORE OF A REALITY. According to the World Genocide Watch, there are eight stages to the build up to genocide: classification, symbolization, dehumanization, organization, polarization, preparation, extermination, and denial.
Park Square Theatre's Post-Show Conversation on Gender Roles in Plays
Join Park Square Theatre’s Community Advisory Board and the East Side Freedom Library for a post-show community conversation regarding how gender roles are expressed on stage in Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery and other productions.