Open Streets Volunteers Needed: Sunday, Sept 23, or Sunday, Sept 30 10:00-1:30 or 1:30-5:00.
Register voters, Peer to peer text vote reminders, post card mailing, and video recording!
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Sign up HERE to win a FREE Registration to Run Like a Girl on behalf of WMM! Join us and MSP NOW for Run Like a Girl 5K and Kid's Race Saturday, Sept. 22! This unique and fun event is for all ages, so get your entire family together to run, walk or jog for an amazing cause. The one and only Cecile Richards will be speaking to kick off the race! SIGN UP HERE:
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WOMEN'S MARCH MINNESOTA ANNOUNCES POWER TO THE POLLS
9/14/18: St. Paul, MN ---- Power to the Polls: Over the past two years we’ve resisted, persisted and created change, and now it’s time to bring our collective Power to The Polls.
On Sep 21st, early voting opens in Minnesota. At that point, it is 45 days until the general election on November 6th.
Join Women's March Minnesota and Women's March for Power to the Polls!
Minnesota is going to retain its title as the TOP STATE to GET OUT THE VOTE again in 2018, and we are
going to protect our progressive values, increase voter registration, build community, and ACTIVATE
VOTERS!
Now is the time to take action to ensure that we protect our rights and once again live in a country we are proud of. If not now - when? This is why we marched. In addition to the requests to participate, we will be sending out motivational videos and educational pieces about the election process called “Election Central”.
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Can you help? Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center is looking for volunteers to help sort donations NOW for the Franklin Hiawatha Encampment in Minneapolis.
See details of how to sign up below.
For more information on the camp and how to donate to support the critical work being done there by so many great organizations, check here.
Also, see our previous post for more information
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From Honor the Earth: Via Women's Foundation of Minnesota “Day 2 of the #ChangeCulture tour in Northern MN starts now! Visiting HonorTheEarth, a #YWIMN grantee-partner that uses music, the arts, the media, and #Indigenous wisdom to create awareness and support for #Native environmental issues ...”
The Honor is ours ... great visithttps://twitter.com/womensfndnmn/status/1040248391081582592
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12,800 migrant children were detained this month in federal custody – yes, 12,800! That’s up from 2,400 in May last year! And the WH just announced that they plan to triple the size of the "Tent City" in Tornillo to house even more - a total of around 3,800 children! This is all so shameful and wrong!
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Minneapolis Franklin Hiawatha camp - find out about the issues and how to help.
The Wall of Forgotten Natives first appeared a month ago. This temporary encampment now holds about 300 homeless people and 150 tents. Many organizations and agencies are working to support the people at camp and to find stable accommodation for them. Listen to Patina Park of Metropolitan Urban Indian Directors (MUID) and Minnesota Indian Women’s Resources Center to understand the issues behind the Mpls Franklin Hiawatha camp and to find out what you can do to help.
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Just 55 days to the elections! Want to find out what the candidates running in your district stand for? Even better - want to ask the candidates a question so they will have to go public on issues that are important to you?
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Kavanaugh hearings start - follow them and the protests around them. And take action to #SaveSCOTUS.
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Are your looking for an opportunity to support women's health and give back to the community? Consider donating your time as a volunteer or intern for Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota. There are opportunities in the Twin Cities Metro and in Greater Minnesota. If you are interested please follow this link to view current openings.
Please assist the International Institute of Minnesota reach their goal of helping 1500 people become US citizens this fiscal year. In addition to weekend opportunities the IIMN recently added weekday group processing events to reduce the waitlist of over 80 people.
Join Ady Barkan and MfAL to tell Sen. Collins to vote NO! Ady Barkan and Mainers for Accountable Leadership have joined forces to tell Sen. Collins - Either you VOTE NO on Kavanaugh OR we fund your future opponent!
The NLRA in 1935 and the FLSA in 1938 ushered in a new era of workers’ rights. They outline rights of a minimum wage, overtime pay, freedom from “oppressive child labor,” and the rights to “protected concerted activities,” collectively bargain for terms and conditions of employment, and to be a part of a union.
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The Kavanaugh confirmation hearings are ongoing. To follow them in real time, see here or find Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3 hearings on the same page. There’s been robust, probing and riveting questioning by some senators.
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With all that is going on in Washington DC at the moment, let’s make sure we get the right people in office this November. Here’s a great opportunity this week to help Get Out The Vote: COPAL MN is working to get 10,000 new Latinx voters to the polls in November!
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Are you 16 and older and care passionately about ending gun violence? Here’s a great opportunity for you - and it starts now!
Protect Minnesota is seeking high school students age 16 and older in the Twin Cities who care passionately about preventing gun violence to serve as student organizers and media spokespersons for the Westside Rally Against Gun Violence on Saturday, October 6, in Excelsior MN.
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar on Kavanaugh hearings - this is “not normal”. We agree! Take Action NOW.
There are 100,000 documents on Kavanaugh's past record that the WH will not allow the US Senate to see AND 148,000 more documents that the Senate is allowed to see but is NOT allowed to discuss with the public. Why? What’s in those documents that the administration doesn;t want people to see or know about?
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