
CALL: What We Are Talking About This Week
Notes from our weekly Changemakers Alliance newsletter

On Morality, Transformation, and Vulnerability: A Talk by the Publisher
Historical perspectives about transformative justice, philosophy about human evolution, and stories from the Changemakers Alliance visits to statewide communities for the "Hometown Values & Vision" series.

Next Step Program: How Healing and Transformation Can Emerge From Violence
An elementary school child looked out the window and saw…

Commentary: My Abortion Experience in 1962
I was in a panic. I was sure there were doctors — and others — who would perform abortions for a price, but how to find one?

My Second Life on the Water
Guiding fundamentally changed how I view, interact with, and share our rivers and natural spaces with others.

VIEW: Tale of Two Cities — Selecting a Police Chief
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.

A Gaping Hole
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If the guiding light is “What did America look like in the mid-19th century?,” we are screwed.

CALL: Being Authentic Even When You Are Afraid
We are all survivors of the human condition. All of us are attempting to make our way through the world. If we could go across the room and ask everybody to tell us "what makes you happy, what makes you sad, what challenge you have had in life, what success you have had, what makes you tick" — three things would happen.

VIEW: The Hopeful Messengers About Climate Change
While there is plenty of bad news out there about climate…

CALL: Ellie Krug on Breaking Barriers
How you can help me is get me in front of people who think that I am odd, and I will show them that I am not.

VIEW: Compassion for Someone Not Like Ourselves
No one can do a recovery process alone. Whether it be a chosen family, or people with similar backgrounds, or a neighbor's care and concern, or a neighborhood watch, human connection accompanies recovery.

VIEW: What We Need for the Disabled Community
The more people with disabilities like myself can tell our stories and be involved publicly, the better off we will be at the end of this legislative session.

VIEW: Perfectionism — The Fight I Will Never Win
Black women are not perfectionists because this is an innate personality trait, but because of the larger system of race-based discrimination we operate within.

VIEW: A 2003 Police Reform Effort Regroups
After the murder of George Floyd, community members who had been involved in earlier work for police reform returned to the agreement that had been negotiated with police and city representatives in 2003 to understand what more can be done today.

VIEW: Acts of Goodness
Minnesota Women's Press columnist Ellie Krug collects stories…

VIEW: Protecting a Garden Oasis From Development
“It created community. People began looking at each other in the eye.”