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Re-Imagining a Safer, Better World
June 16, 2020
The movement to divest from police and invest in communities is not new. For years, Black and brown organizers in the Twin Cities have been pushing us to re-imagine what
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Rep. Aisha Gomez: “This is why we talk about police abolition.”
This is why we talk about police abolition.
There is no reform that can fix this system. No training or body camera or coaching or diversification effort or outside investigation or toothless oversight body that can fix this.
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Black Lives Matter
Updated at 1:20 p.m. on January 5, 2021 We are heartbroken. On May 25, 2020, Minneapolis police officers killed George Floyd, setting off a nation-wide uprising and meaningful efforts to
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2020 Session Wrap Up
At TakeAction Minnesota, we believe in good government that’s by and for the people. We know that we have enough for all and that we can build a state that
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Political Education 101
What is Political Education? Here in Minnesota, we look out for our neighbors. From penny auctions to save small farms during the Great Depression to the #VoteNo campaign in 2012
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Laugh-In with TakeAction Minnesota and Uproar Preforming Arts
There’s a lot of pressure on elected officials to “reopen” the state right now, but we know that the folks hit hardest by this pandemic — people of color, Indigenous
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This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest
Dear friend, It was a heavy week for us, learning about the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, digesting the state budget deficit, and seeing the unemployment numbers from April. It feels
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Quarantina with jeremy messersmith and the 100% Campaign
TakeAction Minnesota and the 100% Campaign are joining forces for an online concert with jeremy messersmith on Friday, May 1. On International Workers’ Day we are celebrating workers giving us
