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How My Sister and I Are Building Houses in Grand Marais

"We don’t build for new people moving into the community, but for the ones already here who are struggling to stay due to costs growing out of their reach. Many people we know have already left due to lack of affordable housing."
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Readers Recommend: Which ICE-Impacted Businesses Do You Support?

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We are sharing recommendations by readers in this space of immigrant-owned businesses you recommend and why.
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Sue Watlov Phillips. Photo by Sarah Whiting

DEEP DIVE: Why Housing Gaps Are a Central Issue in Society

When I began this work nearly 59 years ago, the landscape was very different. We demolished large amounts of low-cost housing and built office buildings, many of which now sit underused or vacant. At the same time, we began to shift our mental health system, but we failed to build the housing and supports necessary to make that transition successful.
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Highlights from the March 28 No Kings Rally

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Resistance as Diverse as Minnesota

A few of the 20,000 photographs Sarah Whiting shot in January and February
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The Health Effects of ICE Tactics

Minnesota Women’s Press is gathering experts for a future online discussion with members, and deeper stories, about physical and mental health issues impacting children and adults. What do we do as a community to heal from what ICE agents have done?
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Consumer Boycotts Reflect Who Actually Controls the Economy

GEO Group, CoreCivic, and CSI Aviation — some of the country’s largest private prison and deportation contractors — gave Trump close to $5 million and received over $5 billion in revenue. Consumer boycotts are designed to showcase other values. Said one, who was arrested for a sit-in protest at Target: "Everyday people are doing their part. We are asking why large corporations will not.”
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Emilia González Avalos: Collective Refusal to Surrender Humanity

What is being defended in Minnesota is larger than any policy. The question is whether a multiracial democracy can imagine itself as a shared project. The answer offered by dog whistle politics is no. The answer offered by organizing is that people are building an “us” anyway — patiently, visibly, and with increasing strength. 
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Minnesota Women’s Press Wins Eight Media Awards for 2025 Coverage

For 2025, the state media association recognized Minnesota…
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Sights and Sounds at the Clergy-Led Airport Protest

"“We pray for Bruce — a janitor who was taken while leaving work. We remember 1 Corinthians 12: 'That we are all one body, and that when one part of the body suffers we all suffer.' We demand that Delta stand with us as a body, care for their workers and protect them, and use their voice together, with us.
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More Images of Minnesota Protectors (from January 30 march)

For two Fridays in a row, thousands of Minnesotans gathered in cold weather to peacefully show their intention to protect the state from federal incursion. On January 30, they marched through downtown Minneapolis and applied their names to a Constitution preamble. Here are some of Sarah Whiting's images.
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The Peaceful Protectors of the Twin Cities: A Photo Gallery of the January 23 Protest

Some of the images taken by Minnesota Women's Press photographer Sarah Whiting at the January 23 protest in downtown Minneapolis that brought roughly 40,000 people together in sub-zero weather.
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Photo Gallery: The Day of Renee Good’s Killing, Minnesotans Gathered

Hours after Renee Nicole Good — a 37-year-old mother of three who had moved to Minneapolis last year from Missouri — was killed by an ICE agent, thousands of people gathered in the neighborhood where she died to honor her. She had just dropped off her six-year-old child at school with her partner when she encountered ICE trucks and SUVs and was surrounded by agents.
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2025 Impact Report: Minnesota Women’s Press Highlights

Highlights from 2025
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Give the Next Generation a Stronger Voice in Minnesota

Do you have a young person in your life who might want to be…
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