Category: Community
🦄 Community
Access is Love and ‘Disability Justice is Liberation’
Minneapolis, MN — On July 26, 1990, the world’s first civil rights law for people with disabilities, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law in the U.S. July is now dubbed Disability Pride Month to commemorate the ADA. Thirty five years after…
🦄 Arts & Culture, Community
Award-Winning Artist Javaka Steptoe Centers Community on Visit to Minneapolis
Minneapolis, MN — Centering Black youth and community, award-winning author and illustrator Javaka Steptoe recently visited Minneapolis to share his joy in art and children’s literature. Recruited by educator Titilayo Bediako, the founder of youth-serving non-profit WE WIN Institute, Steptoe presented at a community event…
Protest ‘Peacekeepers’ Shot Two People at a March in Salt Lake City. One Died, the Other Went to Jail.
Salt Lake City, UT — When friends of Arturo Gamboa heard that he had been shot at a protest last Saturday, they were shocked.
A fixture in the punk and activist scenes of Salt Lake, Gamboa is a known leftist and musician who regularly carries…
Pressure Builds to Protect Manoomin (Wild Rice)
St. Paul, MN — With only 24 hours notice, advocates mostly associated with Rise and Repair Alliance packed the hearing room for the fourth time at the Minnesota Senate Building on May 1, 2025. Activists have been showing up to meetings since the start of…
Christians in Gaza Remember Pope Francis
Gaza City, Palestine — For the few hundred Christians left in Gaza sheltering in churches, the news of Pope Francis’ passing on April 21 has been a hard blow. Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, had consistently stayed in touch with the Holy…
Target of Injustice: Free Mahdi Ali Campaign Kicks Off
Minneapolis, MN — Despite his pleas of innocence, Mahdi Ali was 15 when he was arrested and subsequently convicted and sentenced to life in prison for a 2010 triple murder in Minneapolis. Fifteen years later, a new grassroots campaign called The Coalition to Free Mahdi…
Native Community Protests MPLS Security Company Who Beat, Maced, and Cuffed Indigenous Man
Minneapolis, MN — On Tuesday, March 25, 2025, an Indigenous man was visiting the Franklin Library when he was reported to have been slammed headfirst into the ground multiple times, as well as maced and handcuffed by the security company Black Knight Protection Agency until…
Half-Century Campaign Secured Leonard Peltier’s Clemency, Will Serve Remaining Sentence in Home Confinement
Turtle Mountain Reservation — Leonard Peltier, 80, was released from federal custody on Feb. 18, 2025 after spending 49 years in prison for the murder of two federal agents in 1975. Peltier was found guilty by a jury for two counts of first-degree murder for…
After Biden’s Historic Grants of Clemency, Calls to Commute Leonard Peltier Reignite
Washington, D.C. — Last week, after President Biden made the historic act of commuting the sentences of 1,499 Americans in a single day, efforts to free Leonard Peltier have reignited. On Thursday, Dec. 12 — the day after Biden announced clemency — dozens of U.S.…
🦄 Arts & Culture, Community
Groundbreaking for a Minneapolis Youth-Serving Community Staple
Minneapolis, MN — For nearly three decades, the educational nonprofit WE WIN Institute has been nomadic, serving youth in Minneapolis out of rented spaces. But that era is coming to a close — on November 19, 2024, WE WIN held a groundbreaking event for their…
🦄 Community, Racism & Far-Right
Historic Investigation of U.S. Boarding Schools for Native Children Ends With Scathing Report
For the first time in its 248-year existence, the United States government investigated its own Federal Indian Boarding Schools, a genocidal element of the racist settler colonial project by which the country was formed. From the passage of the Civilization Fund Act in 1819 up…
🦄 Community
Minnesota Healthcare Workers, Youth, and Families Honor Palestinians
Minneapolis, MN — A year after Palestinian children held a press conference at Al-Shifa Hospital to denounce Israeli bombings, youth in Minnesota, healthcare workers, and families honored the Gazan youth and healthcare workers with their own press conference demanding an end to the genocidal war…
Palestinian Girls’ Boxing Club Continues Amid Genocide
Gaza, Palestine — Among tents of displaced Palestinians, while Israeli bombs demolish large portions of Gaza, Osama Ayoub continues his passion of coaching boxing. After his boxing club was demolished by Israel’s unrelenting bombardments of civilian areas in Gaza City, Ayoub said he’ll never give…
8th Annual Prisoners’ Families Brunch in West Philly
West Philadelphia, PA – Over 100 people came out early Sunday afternoon for a banquet celebrating political prisoners and their loved ones and other supporters.
The 8th annual ‘Prisoners’ Families Brunch’ was held at the OneArt Community Center on 52nd Street, with this year’s event…
The 90th Anniversary of the 1934 Truckers’ Strike Honors Minneapolis’ Militant Labor History Â
Minneapolis, MN — On July 27, workers, descendants of the strikers, and the local labor community came together at Wabun Park in Minneapolis to honor the 90th anniversary of the 1934 Truckers’ Strike that brought Minneapolis to a standstill and served as a spark for…
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