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National Night Out block parties return to the Twin Cities
August 3, 2021
“Just having a one-off day in the middle of summer in the hope that will smooth over decades of harm between police entities and communities isn’t useful,” Bates said. “But
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With 9,000 signatures in hand, St. Paul housing advocates campaign for rent control
Bahieh Hartshorn, a 27-year-old resident of St. Paul’s West Side, said she moved within the city three times in three years after graduating college because she couldn’t afford annual rent
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Rent stabilization petition headed to Ramsey County elections, and St. Paul voters
Led by housing advocates such as the Alliance, TakeAction Minnesota and the West Side Community Organization, the Housing Equity Now St. Paul (HENS) coalition plans to submit upwards of 5,000
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Small Minneapolis event eyes Klobuchar to help stop Line 3
The half-hour program at Gold Medal Park included singing and speeches by activists insisting that Klobuchar pursue at least a delay on the final segment of the Enbridge Energy Line
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Nearly 250 People Arrested in Line 3 Pipeline Protest
Another protest against the pipeline is scheduled Thursday in Minneapolis outside the office of Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar. The group TakeAction Minnesota says Klobuchar should pressure President Joe Biden to
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Community on edge as jury deliberates in Derek Chauvin trial
Kenza Hadj-Moussa, the public affairs director for TakeAction Minnesota, a statewide progressive organization, said she believes the tension is made “1,000 times worse” by the heavy military and law enforcement presence on Twin Cities streets in preparation for any violence.
“It’s just compounding the trauma, especially with what Black Minnesotans are going through right now,” she said. “A guilty verdict won’t bring justice, won’t bring a life back,” she continued. “But it’s what do we do after this? We do have agency, we do have power.”
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Minneapolis Activists Could Put Police Reform Directly on the Ballot
“Derek Chauvin and the officers who stood by Derek Chauvin while he killed George Floyd are part of an infrastructure that perpetuates a culture of violence and is operating totally unaccountable to the public. It is our moral obligation as citizens, as neighbors to hold that system and infrastructure accountable and transform that system into one that doesn’t do harm and damage but actually keeps us safe.”
