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Tag Archive for: solidarity

Excerpts from the Human Rights Watch Report on ICE-Related Violations

Excerpts from the Human Rights Watch report about accountability, needed reform, and community investment required to recover from the ICE occupation, including anecdotes from 150 interviews.

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.'"

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.”

AFL-CIO Convention Builds Strategy Around a United Movement

The U.S. government is using billions in taxpayer money to round up members of the workforce and put them in detention centers. CEOs who run the 100 companies with the lowest median wage are making 632 times more than their employees. It is not surprising that the recent national AFL-CIO convention held in Minneapolis focused on building solidarity at a pre-conference civil rights unity summit and global symposium.

Q&A With Bernie Burnham: Solidarity Goals of Minnesota’s AFL-CIO

"My mom was an Irish immigrant. This country was founded on immigrants, and we took this land from the people who were here. Nobody really belongs here, unless you are an Indigenous person. In my heart, it's important to show up and be there for everybody — working class people, children, immigrants, women, LGBTQ+, anyone who has been othered or put down because of who they are, their religion. Whatever it is, I'm going to stand up. That's the right thing to do."

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Community Values in Action

This compilation of stories reflects the community values Minnesotans care about: protecting children, caregivers, health care patients, and renters. It includes the values reflected in an essay from Cannon Falls, from someone who was arrested for protest, and of community members at an MPR town hall.

Resistance as Diverse as Minnesota

A few of the 20,000 photographs Sarah Whiting shot in January and February

Robin Wonsley — How to Be Badass Together

That is the common denominator that I see among all of us badass women, especially those in this room right now. We all share this deep, abiding passion for creating transformative change.

Mary Moore Easter: On the Page, In the World

In my fear, I was convinced that if I could amass a group of Black women, the sight of us would bring this dangerously behaving man to his senses.

Magdalena Kaluza: Direct Action

"By sharing vulnerability, we build deeper relationships. We need deep relationships to face what’s coming — floods, heat waves, climate refugees.”

Visual Q&A: Collective Action conversation

Talking with three Collective Action storytellers