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Will Minnesota Measure Racism?

The value of comprehensive data collection

A Special Message From Sen. Mary Kunesh

Nigigoonsikwe (Little Otter Woman) on Leech Lake Reservation.…

Befriending Pollinators

We are lucky to still have these bees in Minnesota, since they have disappeared from 95 percent of the places they used to live.

Why I Am Reclaiming Community

For decades, money has been leaving our community. We are going to bring it back.

Finding Shelter in Encampment

“‘Here is a tent. Here is an air bed. Here is dinner.’ All things I desperately needed at the time.”

An Essential Ingredient for Rural Connection

If it were profitable, internet providers would be serving more communities.

Creating a Village

Taking breaths, pushing through mistakes — the process of creating beauty out of mistakes and never throwing anything away was so important. I am quite emotional writing this. I am realizing how therapeutic that process was for me.

Learning How to Be an Ally: Reforming Policing & Punishment

How do we reimagine the work of reducing poverty, supporting mental health services, and dealing with trauma to minimize substance abuse and violence, in order to diminish the need for police to step in as an end to those consequences?

Conversation: MMIR Crisis

Talking with four women on background to action steps about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives crisis in Minnesota

April 7: Advocacy Updates from WoMN Act

Advocacy updates related to equity and justice

Robin Wonsley Worlobah

In March 2021, we hosted a forum related to our "Transforming Justice" magazine issue. One of the women we talked to was Robin Wonsley Worlobah, who is an advocate for building new systems of community safety beyond policing. Here is some of what she told us.

NEWS: Intoxication and Rape

The opinion went on to note the Legislature’s “unique institutional capacity” to address the issue, specifically citing the CSC Working Group and Rep. Moller’s legislation as a remedy. The bipartisan bill has not received a committee hearing in the Senate.