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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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Publisher’s Commentary on World News Day: Why Our Feminist Media Platform Exists

Today is World News Day, which coincides with the United Nations International Day for Universal Access to Information. More than a thousand newsrooms from more than 100 countries are today pointing out the value of a free press, including Minnesota Women's Press. Here is our essay on the subject.
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Publisher’s Commentary: “A Work in Progress” Documentary by Robert Reich

The conversations we can have with each other are not about telling people what to think, but by creating more places to think together. More opportunities to explore the essential ingredients of collective health and personal fulfillment, and to ask what we owe one another as neighbors and citizens. This feels more consequential to me than the horse races, outrage, and gossip that so often define the media landscape.
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What Dolly Parton Taught Me About Mutual Aid 

When I read of Dolly Parton’s recent death, the first thing I thought about was when I celebrated her birthday with hundreds of fellow Minnesotans in the heart of Operation Metro Surge.
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Commentary: What to know about the sulfide mine proposed in Minnesota’s headwaters watershed

With Talon’s proposal, Minnesota now has sulfide-mining proposals in all three of its major watersheds: the Mississippi River, Lake Superior, and the Boundary Waters. A public comment period for one of them ends September 14.
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COMMENTARY: What a Fentanyl-Free America Means to Me

"What should be prioritized in the fight against fentanyl is youth involvement prevention and education. The involvement of young people is the key to maintaining consistent awareness."
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What I Wish Were Different for Survivors Like Me

The question I wish people would ask is not, "Why did you go back?" It is: "What was missing that would have made it possible for you and your children to stay safely gone?" ... The system fails survivors when it only recognizes danger at the moment of crisis. Safety has to last longer than the emergency.
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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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