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For my Grandma Hickman
February 7, 2014
One of my biggest heroines is a woman I do not remember meeting. My great grandmother Hickman, born less than 70 years after slavery was “officially abolished,” grew up as
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Help Getting Health Care
Earlier this year, I couldn’t wait for October 1st when finally we could stop talking about what the ACA might mean for people, and people could start seeing for themselves.
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Pause for a moment to celebrate.
As we close out 2013, take a look at all that people-power made possible this year, and start dreaming big about what big change we can win together in 2014
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Joy Among Our Righteous Anger
On Black Friday I was arrested with 25 others in an act of civil disobedience to demand an end to poverty wages in Minnesota. It was the busiest shopping day
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Being welcomed into homes
I approached the minimum wage door knock I had signed up for yesterday tired and stressed. I wasn’t fully committed to being there but wanted to follow-through on what I
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The top three Election Day lessons
Now that the dust has settled, and all the ranked choice votes have been counted, we know that two longtime TakeAction Minnesota members have climbed another rung on the political
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Celebrating HOW we won
Last Friday, at our Annual Leadership Awards Celebration, we celebrated the concrete change we have all won that makes our lives and the lives of our loved ones – and
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What’s working in Minnesota?
Consider what life is like in our neighboring states in the upper Midwest. To the south, in Iowa, farm and rural activists are fighting off factory farms at every turn.
