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To celebrate International Women’s Day, volunteers from Women’s March Minnesota (WMM) hosted Sunday dinner at the Elim Church & Strong Tower Parish Homeless Shelters, two shelters housed in neighboring churches in Northeast Minneapolis. Elim Church hosts women and nonbinary guests, while Strong Power Parish hosts men and couples. Everyone enjoys a meal in the dining room at Elim before separating to settle in for the night.
Read MoreThursday, February 20, 2020, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Location: Black Dog Cafe, 308 Prince St, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55101
Hosted by: MSP NOW, ERAMN, WMM, Third Thursdays - MNLeg Coalition and Indivisible Minnesota Legislative Action
What exactly IS a caucus? And why should you, person who gives a shit, attend yours? Join us for this educational event to find out!
Read MoreMake your voice heard on election day
Minnesotans head to the polls in 2020 to vote at the local, state and federal levels. If you’re thinking of sitting this one out, Women’s March Minnesota hopes you’ll reconsider.
Read MoreGet involved in elections
Here’s a list of ways you can get involved. Find one or two that appeal and commit to doing them regularly between now and November 3rd. Once a week…twice a week…convince a friend or two to join you!
Read MoreCaucus and delegate training
Get ready for the 2020 election year with caucus training!
1,153 days ago, on November 8, 2016, our nation faced one of our darkest days.
On January 21, 2017, we emerged united. Over 5 million of our sisters, brothers, and gender non-identifying siblings marched across the world ~ 100,000+ right here in Minnesota. We marched in numbers too great for the new administration to ignore on their first day in office. We marched to declare that we would not be silent and declared that we would hold them accountable. We marched against racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, xenophobia, ableism, anti-Semitism, classism, ageism, and oppression in all forms. We marched for the planet, for justice, for equity, for the future.
In 2018 we donated, volunteered on campaigns, had conversations with our neighbors and family, we door-knocked and phone-banked, and we showed up to the polls. In 2018 we corrected.
This is where we make our final push! This is the year we take back our government, from the bottom of the ticket to the Oval Office. The time is now to organize in your city, in your community, in your senate district, and your congressional district.
We will not be marching on January 18, 2020 because we are more than a march ~ we are a movement.
Organizing a march requires time, money, and energy. We need 100% of those things focused on November 3, 2020; otherwise, what were we marching for?
Read MoreThursday, January 16, 2020, 6:00 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Location: Black Dog Cafe, 308 Prince St, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55101
Hosted by: Third Thursdays - MNLeg Coalition and Indivisible Minnesota Legislative Action
The 2020 Mn Legislative session is about to kick off. Join us to learn what's coming up this session, what has the possibility of passing and what hasn't, and how you can help push progressive policies over the line in Minnesota!
We'll discuss ERA, Gun Sense bills, Renewable Energy, Voting Rights, Election Security and much more. We are excited to announce that our speakers will be House Reps Shelley Christensen (39B) and Amy Wazlawik (38B) and Sen Jeff Hayden (62).
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 MoreThursday, November 21, 2019, 6:00 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Location: Black Dog Cafe, 308 Prince St, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55101
Who hasn't heard dismissive comments in activist spaces like, “Youth don’t vote.” “If this was the 1960s….” “The older generation has left us this mess!” Or, simply, “Okay, Boomer, whatever.”
Tensions and misunderstandings between generations are as real as political polarization. And they are holding back political progress on vital issues like climate change, housing, or healthcare.
Join us at the fabulous Black Dog Cafe, grab some food and a drink and explore the following: Are you comfortable working across generations? What expectations or traumas do we carry into those relationships, based on our own family histories? What are some gifts and challenges that different generations bring to this political moment? How can we improve our inter-generational organizing?
Read MoreWOMEN’S MARCH MINNESOTA ENDS OFFICIAL CONNECTION WITH WOMEN’S MARCH NATIONAL
On Sunday, July 14, Women’s March Minnesota’s Board of Directors voted unanimously against signing an affiliation agreement presented by Women’s March, Inc.
Women’s March Minnesota is an independent IRS-designated 501(c)(3) organization (granted by the IRS in February of 2018). Women’s March Inc released its proposed affiliation document, opening the “official” affiliation process in March of this year.
Women’s March Minnesota provided feedback regarding the initial agreement draft, as well as a multitude of on-going concerns that have been voiced by the Board, volunteers, and supporters of WMM.
Read MoreFifty years ago the LGBTQIA movement pushed forward with the Stonewall Riots. On June 28, 1969, the riots began when patrons of a gay bar revolted against a police raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York. The police persecuted patrons for non-gender conforming attire and homosexual behavior. It is considered the start of liberation. This year, we celebrate the heroes of Stonewall and recognize that the liberation is not complete and we need to keep fighting to ensure progress, especially in today’s political climate.
Read MoreDo you know how many abortion clinics there are in Minnesota? Four – three in the Twin Cities and one in Duluth. Minnesotans, on average, think there are 41. That’s part of what’s driving the rage in Minnesota; there are so many misunderstandings, so many fallacies and, dare we say it, fake news about abortions.
Read MoreAs a person of color, it was difficult to watch. I kept seeing my loved ones in the faces of those young boys. It is a heartbreaking, yet moving, series that serves as a stark reminder of the physical and psychological violence that is inflicted on Black and Brown people at the hands of our criminal justice system.
Read MoreThursday, June 20, 2019, 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Location: The Coven, 30 N 1st Ave, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401.
All across the country, states are passing laws to restrict and ban abortion, and Minnesota is not immune.
As our friends at UnRestrict.org remind us, in the last 14 years, Minnesota lawmakers have proposed nearly 400 new laws restricting abortion access, intimidating providers, misleading patients, and increasing costs. This year's legislative session was no exception, as anti-choice legislators proposed and signed onto laws that would ban abortions as early as six weeks.
Join us for a conversation about reproductive rights in Minnesota.
Read MoreWMM entered into the 2019 legislative session with nine priorities. Sadly, with the split legislature, only one of those bills - Taskforce on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women - was passed. 2020 is coming! We need to vote out the lawmakers who obstruct legislation that is good for Minnesotans.
Here is how our priorities fared:
Read MoreGreat news on the Equal Rights Amendment. HF71 will go to the MN House floor for a vote this Friday . HF71 would memorialize Congress to remove the deadline of 1982 to get 38 states to agree to ratify the ERA. Thirty-five states did sign on by that original date. The removal of the deadline will allow the ratifications of the final three states needed to secure the ERA into the U.S. Constitution.
Read MoreIn less than two weeks the 2019 legislative session will end. The Conference Committees are underway, but the Senate, House and Governor cannot agree on high level budget targets. It’s getting stressful.
Big roadblocks
Sunset of the provider tax | This will put a $700M hole in the Health and Human Services budget. Governor Walz wants to keep this tax, the GOP want to let it expire without a plan to replace it.
Education | The GOP budget doesn't keep up with inflation and barely funds schools. Despite bipartisan support of education across the state, their budget gives schools no new dollars.
Some mothers will be celebrating Mother's Day without their families this year. The cash bail system unjustly separated them. These women are in custody because they can't afford to pay the bond that would release them to carry on with their life, family, and work while their case advances.
Minnesota Freedom Fund is working to change that with the Momma's Day Bail Out.
Read MoreThe Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Taskforce bill (HF70), will be voted on as a standalone bill in the House today (May 9).
Attend this hearing and floor vote to show your support. For real-time updates, visit the FB event page. Afterwards, go to the Senate and urge them to do the same: send the bill (SF515) to the Senate floor and vote yes.
Read MoreThere are some Senators who support the ban but are unwilling to break with their party, so continue to call or write them and remind them that this proposed ban is overwhelmingly supported by the voters, the medical field, and that the founder of conversion therapy, Dr. Robert Spitzer, apologized to the LGBTQ community for all the harm he caused.
Banning what many consider to be the torture of kids shouldn’t be controversial in 2019, but this battle is yet to be won here in Minnesota.
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