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SERIES: Healing & Caregiving

EXPLAINER: When Medicaid Changes Come Home to Minnesota (with flyer)

With the levels of misunderstanding about the systems we rely on day-to-day when we get hospital and clinic care, this Explainer is the first in a series designed to help people understand how the government — and the people we elect to it — serve the common good with the decisions they make about policy and funding priorities. #1: What Minnesotans need to know about how federal Medicaid cuts will impact everyone. Includes a one-page flyer of details.
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Publisher’s Commentary on World News Day: Why Our Feminist Media Platform Exists

Today is World News Day, which coincides with the United Nations International Day for Universal Access to Information. More than a thousand newsrooms from more than 100 countries are today pointing out the value of a free press, including Minnesota Women's Press. Here is our essay on the subject.
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What Dolly Parton Taught Me About Mutual Aid 

When I read of Dolly Parton’s recent death, the first thing I thought about was when I celebrated her birthday with hundreds of fellow Minnesotans in the heart of Operation Metro Surge.
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Convicting Traffickers

Two women prosecutors in Ramsey County fight for women and girls
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A day in a life with no home

She's learned how to make it work since 2014, parking on Minneapolis…
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I said yes

Barbara Satin (Courtesy Photo) My role in life as a transgender…
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Giving sanctuary

Weighing the consequences and risks, many church communities in Minnesota choose to take a stand. "God is not a God who would endorse hate. God is not a God who would endorse separation of families. God says quite the opposite - welcoming the stranger, loving the foreigner, treating them as one of your own." - JaNae Bates
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Common, accepted, and under threat: Abortion in 2017

Loudly and repeatedly contact your representatives at both the state and federal level. I can't stress that enough. Even if they're pro-choice, they still need to hear from voters. It's important they be thanked and reinforced. - Sarah Stoesz
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Generational Trauma

Taja Will (courtesy photo) My work in the world was carved…
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Familial Alzheimer’s disease

One family's work to change the future of Alzheimer's. "You can say that Alzheimer's is prevalent in my family. Every time one of us puts eggs in the pantry instead of the refrigerator, we think, 'This is it.'
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Rebranding her faith

Hanadi Chehabeddine (photo by Terri Peterson Smith) Hanadi…
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Unwavering

Cheryl Robertson has spent three decades working as a public health nurse in countries ripped apart by war, trauma and displacement, and she's not about to stop
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Freedom is not the last word

Our freedoms as citizens have to be balanced by our responsibilities towards one another.
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2016 Changemakers: Gretchen Carlson & Abby Honold

Women speak up for themselves and for other women who have experienced sexual harassment or sexual assault
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