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New Campaign to Bring Equal Rights to Minnesota Women

We are recentering this story in honor the birthday of the Equal Rights movement. “Women are the majority, and it is time we exert our voting power to get the equality we deserve.”

Honoring Carla Kjellberg

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"I wished I could give a fundraising pitch as persuasively as she did; I wished I could name hypocrisy as clearly as she did; I wished I could wear colors as boldly as she did."

‘I’m so thankful’: Dept. of Corrections halts effort to reincarcerate 18 people on COVID-19 release

Throughout the pandemic, the DOC granted 158 inmates conditional medical release because of health issues that put them at risk of contracting COVID-19. Late last month, as first reported in the Reformer, the agency notified 18 of them that they would need to return to prison to serve out the rest of their sentence.

Revisiting the Healthy Start Act

Of 23 people eligible for the program so far, four have been approved.

Great North Innocence Project

“If you are imprisoned and you are innocent of a crime, you can imagine that it just compounds the trauma.”

August 2022 In the News: Transforming Justice

“It became clear to me that any program addressing the violence women had committed would also need to address the aggression and violence they had personally experienced.”

Reclaiming Rights From Government and Industry

Grant Township in Pennsylvania, a town of 600, was sued…

GoSeeDo: August 4­–14 — Minnesota Fringe Festival

  The 29th annual Fringe Fest is back for the first…

Summary of Hennepin County Attorney Candidate Forum

A summary of the viewpoints of the seven candidates running for Hennepin County attorney general.

Drug Overdose Rates Rising in Minnesota

Drug overdose deaths are rising more rapidly among Black and Indigenous Americans than they are among white people — and Minnesota’s disparities are the worst in the nation.

Another High Speed Chase Death: A 6-year-old

From Racial Justice Network On Friday, July 15, 2022, Brooklyn…

Numerous Minnesota Abortion Restrictions Ruled Unconstitutional

Advance-practice clinicians are already undergoing training to dispense the two-pill abortion medication regime. One of the state’s largest hospitals, HCMC (Hennepin Healthcare), is beginning to prepare to offer abortions as well.