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Commentary

In Chile, a Group of Women Embroider to Keep Memory Alive 

The Bordadoras have influenced my thoughts on the politics of memory, the power of textile art, and the significance of the space that a group of people gathered together creates.
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Commentary: What is the Save Our Bacon Act in the Farm Bill?

The cutesy-named "Save Our Bacon Act" was introduced in Congress in July to support large corporations to strip states of the power to set their own standards for the food sold within their borders, and to nullify laws voters have already passed to protect people and animals.
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Commentary: Indivisible Opposes ICE Detention Center Opening in Minnesota August 11

Indivisible Twin Cities is outraged and horrified that ICE and CoreCivic have signed a contract allowing CoreCivic to operate a detention camp in Appleton, Minnesota. CoreCivic just announced its new contract with ICE in Appleton will begin Aug. 11
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COMMENTARY: 8 Claims You’re Hearing About Hyperscale Data Center Proposals, and What We Know Right Now

As a science and law organization, it's our job to question the…
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Commentary: Shelley Joseph-Kordell Deserves More Than Silence

      My aunt, Shelley Joseph-Kordell,…
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Grief for the Country We Are — and Hope in Our Potential

"The propaganda many people seem to have bought into is that it is the lower classes — not the upper classes — who are leaving us hungry. The frenzied microscope points to misuse of tax dollars at the lowest of levels. Too many of our neighbors seem to be ignoring the fraud perpetrated at the highest levels. How did we get here?"
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Commentary: Why More Students Are Skipping School

My Minnesota Youth Council committee created a survey that was completed by 227 high schoolers in Minneapolis, mostly from Washburn and Edison High Schools. The results are telling: students are missing school because the education system is not meeting their needs.
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Commentary: The Values of Anger and Unity in the Face of Misogyny and Xenophobia

From a 2022 "Ms." magazine article: “The connection between sexism and authoritarianism is not coincidental, or a mere character flaw of individual misogynists-in-chief.”
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Commentary: Emilia Gonzalez Avalos Speaks About Human Rights Violations Report

"This year, they will dress themselves in white, red, and blue, and ask us to celebrate 250 years of America. So let us read our own founding document: 250 years ago, people declared independence from [the British] government. These are their words, not mine. 'Send hither swarms of officers to harass our people, a government that kept standing armies without the consent of our legislatures, a government that made the military superior to civil power.'"
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Part 1: Stacey Abrams Keynotes Annual Women Winning Event (with photos)

Georgia's Stacey Abrams said at the annual Women Winning event June 8 that she has learned that “if you want to hold power, you share power. So we’re going to commit, share, organize, mobilize, litigate, disrupt, deny, engage, elect. ... We get to be visionaries who see the future and hold people accountable. It is how we demand health care, child care, justice.”
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BOOKS: Erika Lee’s Introduction to U.S. Xenophobia

"Xenophobia has helped siphon working-class resentment away from corporate greed and economic inequality and direct it toward immigrants. Scapegoating foreigners has also helped undermine interracial labor movements that challenge the worst corporate abuses.”
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YOUTH: How Do We Apply Community to Housing Solutions?

"By 16, I was sleeping in my own truck. When I turned 18, I bounced between my car, my grandfather’s house, and unstable rentals."
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ACTION: Elizabeth Glidden Talks About Housing Next Steps

Currently there are multiple campaigns Minnesotans can get involved with related to housing: Yes to Homes, and Our Future Starts at Home. There also are popular state housing tax credits, students building affordable houses, community land trusts, and attempts to reduce red tape.
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ACTION: What You Can Do About Homelessness

Sindy Mau has been work with people experiencing homelessness for years. Here are her suggestions of how everyone — individuals, employers, landlords, and social service agents — can help resolve the housing crisis in small but big ways.
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FUTURE FORWARD: What does it mean to be in it for the long haul?

Many tenants cried during interviews as they recounted their experiences. What moved them to tears was not interactions with landlords or even the threat of eviction itself — it was the dehumanizing language of shame and blame from the very systems meant to help.
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