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Collective Power Is Key

There are insights in these pages about how collective solidarity builds far more for our health, prosperity, and happiness than any single government agency or corporate structure can provide.

BOOK & ARTS: My “Sea of Grass” Tour at Mia

As the book, "Sea of Grass," leaves readers with a new consciousness of today’s environmental struggles, the tour inspired by the book at the Mia is a reminder that anxiety about our earth’s future is nothing new.

Commentary: Understanding Xenophobia’s Durability 

While the question of 'who gets to stay?' is centered in immigration discussions today, it’s not a new one. Rather, it’s a consideration that has always been part of this country’s history — a fundamental hurdle in deciding how the United States as a nation would be built. 

Bulletin Board: A Running Tally of Posts From Other Sources

The Lineage of a Minnesota 15 Activist

In the late 1930s, after hearing Dorothy Day speak in…

Bridging the Political Divides: Rural Women Running

Rural women running for political office this year gathered in a park near the Mississippi River in central Minnesota. Here is some of what they said. "It is going to be fast, and it is going to be hard, but we can get this done. I am done hearing that women cannot win, because look at us here.”

Bipartisan Legislators Announce New Laws to Address Domestic Violence That Take Effect August 1

Minnesota lawmakers hosted a news conference Thursday to highlight new domestic violence laws to strengthen protections for survivors, close longstanding legal loopholes, and improve accountability across the criminal justice system.

Learning the History of “The Art Spy” Rose Valland

Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) offers several “Inspired by Books” tours. I attended two tours in July related to Michelle Young’s non-fiction book “The Art Spy,” which tells the story of the remarkable work of little-known heroine Rose Valland, a Paris museum employee who quietly kept track of the significant pilfering of valuable art by German for four years, noted where it was going with her photographic memory, and spent decades after the war helping to recover it. 

Editor’s Letter and TOC: “The Right of the People”

The package of stories, from a feminist perspective, about "250 Years" of the United States. "As most of the voices in this issue point out, the way for a subjugated majority to win against an oppressive minority is through unity."

Part 2: Clare Oumou Verbeten and Stacey Abrams Share Insights About Women Winning

Clare Oumou Verbeten and Stacey Abrams headlined a Women Winning event that focused on reproductive justice, DEI, protecting freedom, and the importance of electing women.
Mary Moriarty

Part 2: Building Prosecution and Prevention Into Addressing Domestic Violence

“To be honest, people put the resources where their values are, right? Credit to Katie Blackwell, who was adding resources when she had the opportunity. But what does it say when you have only four or five investigators doing all of the domestic violence cases in the city of Minneapolis?”

Commentary: The Values of Anger and Unity in the Face of Misogyny and Xenophobia

From a 2022 "Ms." magazine article: “The connection between sexism and authoritarianism is not coincidental, or a mere character flaw of individual misogynists-in-chief.”