Activism

If I did not want to lose my passion for change — a casualty of my drive and intensity — I had to find another path.

It seems that anything helpful to lower-income residents does not get much air time, if any, because of obstructions on the senate floor.

Over the years, Minnesota Women’s Press has talked to many environmental advocates. A lot has changed since our first conversations with them — and a lot remains the same. From the perspective of a climate activist, how are we doing?

Will we support bills that value these workers with adequate training, fair wages, and benefits to show them how essential they really are?

We put three of our favorite environmental activists and policy advocates in the same virtual room together for a conversation. Here is what former Rep. Karen Clark, Women’s Environmental Institute co-founder Jacqueline Zita, and sustainable agriculture student and activist Priscilla Trinh talked about in June 2021.

My parents’ love for each other and their children was a bubble that protected us from the rest of the

“Don’t put the report on a shelf and let it gather dust!” We heard that from the Canadian team that created its

If it were profitable, internet providers would be serving more communities.

Advocacy updates related to equity and justice

In March 2021, we hosted a forum related to our “Transforming Justice” magazine issue. One of the women we talked to was Robin Wonsley Worlobah, who is an advocate for building new systems of community safety beyond policing. Here is some of what she told us.

There is an exciting and impactful bill moving in the Minnesota House of Representatives to shift Minnesota to 100 percent carbon-free energy.

LSP’s “Incentivizing 100% Soil Healthy Farming Bill,” which was developed by a team of farmer, rural, and urban members, will be introduced in the Minnesota legislature this month.