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News & Perspective

News Bites: Minnesota Immigrants, ICE, and Politics

A noise demonstration is scheduled in Albert Lea Sunday on behalf of a 23-year-old man with serious health issues who has been in ICE-related detention for 14 months. And Keith Ellison updates campaign volunteers on cases against ICE agents.
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Commentary: The Pervasive Smallness of Using Labels to Cause Harm

Whether it is Jewish people, Somalis, Indigenous, and the many others who have been labeled as inferior by those who see people by skin color and birthplace, our children are noticing the propensity toward racism and violence. Why speakers at a rally in support of Rep. Ilhan Omar Monday see Minnesota as the birthplace for a new promised land of unity and solidarity.
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AP News: Trump’s $90 Medicare rebate rolls out, but millions aren’t eligible.

Less than one-third of all Medicare recipients are eligible for the payments, which are expected to be sent out this week. Not eligible are roughly 35 million Medicare Advantage enrollees, millions of other people with disabilities and low-income Medicare recipients.
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Sermons on the tractor

"Sometimes when I am weeding or driving the tractor, I am rolling a sermon around in my head."
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Sailing up stream

"Life on land can be very stressful in very minute ways, whereas life on a boat is simple. It's relaxed. Stress is reserved for actual stressful events like when you're running aground or a storm is coming."
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Voice leader

What did I want to do as an Anishinaabe female musician?"
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25 Year Timeline

Aretha, Xena, Janet Reno & more … 25 years of women’s work, 1985 to today
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Ripples

"I want to believe that the pebbles tossed are creating bigger and bigger circles," said Marlene Jezierski, one of the 2009 Minnesota Women's Press Changemakers
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Crop tenders

"They [immigrants] are key to our workforce. ...They work hard. They are well-liked workers and often they have family generations on the same farm."
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Dairy diva

"I just wasn't cut out to work with plants. Living, breathing animals are just more my thing."
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Feminists in the Kitchen

How fascinating that the third wave of feminists, the women of Generation X and the Riot Grrrl movements of the 1990s, never met a womanly art they didn't like.
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‘Our hip, cool nun’

It would be 57 years before Sister Justina found out her birth name and learned why her mother abandoned her in a basket outside an orphanage.
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2007 Changemaker: Nancy Scheibe

Gathering women's wisdom while paddling the Mississippi
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2007 Changemaker: TADA!

Teens Against Dating Abuse spread the message about dating abuse to ‘tween girls
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Hip on hemp: Kristin Davis

Kristin Davis is the "hemp queen" using hemp and recycled fabric in her clothing business
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