🦄 Community, Eco

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…

🦄 Prison

End Slavery in Minnesota Bill Advocates for Fair Wages in Prisons

Minneapolis, MN — On February 25, 2025, the Minnesota Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee hosted a panel discussion on Ending Slavery in Minnesota led by Marcia Howard, President of the Federation of Teachers Local 59 and ex-prison labor workers.

According to panelists, an incarcerated worker makes…