News Bites

Child Labor in Minnesota The Washington Post reports that federal labor investigators indicate a company illegally employed dozens of children

Changemakers Alliance (CALL) was launched by Minnesota Women’s Press in 2022 to move our statewide community of engaged readers off

As we expand into Greater Minnesota with our Changemakers Alliance listen-solve-do media campaigns, Minnesota Women’s Press needs a development director

We listened to some of the voices, and saw some of the villages, at three locations on election night in Saint Paul. Here are a few highlights.

The values and vision of 20 Minnesotans who care about serving everyone in a culture of abundance, not scarcity and fear. “If it is about us, include us.”

At the state capitol, there is a historic slate of LGBTQ+ candidates and Native candidates. Here are parts of our conversations with some of them.

We talked with candidates and other Minnesota engaged in politics about how reproductive rights, public safety, and education are impacting voters.

The hardest part of the work Women’s Foundation is doing, Perez adds, is “changing the hearts and minds of people who do not see the barriers up close. Unless we change hearts and minds, actions won’t follow.”

Minnesota Women’s Press does not endorse candidates, since we do not have the team to vet all candidates fairly in

Minnesota Women’s Press was uniquely invited to participate in a D.C.-based global summit

Particularly in policing, but in every facet of civic life, what we need is to recenter the forming of partnerships as the heart of the activity, as both the means and the end.

“Women naturally function more as a collective. There is power in numbers. When it is transactional, people who want to succeed think that dividing and conquering is how you do it. That is actually a colonized way of leading.”