Storytelling is an act of resistance and a practice in collective healing. We all have stories to tell. However, when our stories are woven together, they begin to reveal the broader connections and narratives that shape our world.
At this event, we will practice storytelling through the art of weaving. We will create a literal interpretation of our personal stories, weaving to tell the larger story of our collective liberation. Supplies will be provided. All ages welcome.
“Our future generations rely on today’s leadership today to make clean, progressive decisions about the environment.” – Nelsie Yang
Nelsie Yang is running for city council because she has a bold vision for St. Paul that brings our stories and our needs to City Hall. As a community organizer, she brings people together every day to fight for a bright future for our community.
We’ll be knocking doors and talking to voters about the issues that matter to them. Join us for a shift at 10:00 a.m. or 1:00 p.m. this Sunday.
All Minnesotans should have clean water and air and be able to live their lives free from threats of extreme weather. But if we don’t take action now, we are facing a future defined by climate change. Join us for this political education workshop to learn more about the Green New Deal. Come build power with us to stop climate change and reimagine our economy.
Dinner will be provided. If you need childcare, email Eric. Register here. … Continue reading »
We are in a moment where the City Council is wrestling with what to do with Councilmember who make xenophobic comments and supports racist organizations. At the same time, we have presidential candidates broadening their platforms to be more representative of America.
Because of these things we are planning to host a political education meeting that includes training and resources on economic justice, environmental justice and care justice with a racial just lens.
As you can see the theme is focused around justice, how we make our communities more just and how do we fight for that in a way that brings people in rather than push people out. As we are pulled into the 2020 cycle its important that we focus on what is best for the St Cloud community. This is part of that conversation!
Join the 100% Campaign and TakeAction Minnesota for a free night of climate-change inspired comedy. Because if we can’t laugh together, what can we do?
We are excited to have these awesome comedians from the Twin Cities: Rana May, Caroline Skoog, Comrade Tripp, Tommy Bayer, Devohn Bland, Fool’s Errand, Justin Johnson, and Madi Tentinger
Over the course of the legislative session, Minnesotans have been courageously sharing their stories and making clear demands about what we need to live lives of joy:
-100% Clean Energy
-A health care system that centers people, not profits
-Paid time to care
-Dignity and safety at work
-The right to vote
While the MN House has acted in support of these priorities, the Senate GOP majority has acted to actively ignore or harm our families. We are an abundant state and there is enough for all of us, when everyone pays their fair share.
We have a choice. We can go down the old path, or we can write a new story that’s about our lives and the hope we have for this state, whether we’re white, Black, brown, or Indigenous. We can listen to powerful corporate interest groups or we can listen to people and communities.
Register to meet with your legislators at these drop-in legislative meetings with TakeAction Minnesota.
We believe in a democracy where everyone is in, and no one is out. No exceptions. This is our opportunity to find legislators on a schedule that works for us, take up space in the Capitol, and have our legislators to listen our hopes and dreams for the future.
You must register to attend these drop-in legislative meetings. Meet TakeAction staff and leaders at the staircase outside the front entrance of the Capitol. And bring a friend. … Continue reading »
Register to meet with your legislators at these drop-in legislative meetings with TakeAction Minnesota.
We believe in a democracy where everyone is in, and no one is out. No exceptions. This is our opportunity to find legislators on a schedule that works for us, take up space in the Capitol, and have our legislators to listen our hopes and dreams for the future.
You must register to attend these drop-in legislative meetings. Meet TakeAction staff and leaders at the staircase outside the front entrance of the Capitol. And bring a friend. … Continue reading »
Register to meet with your legislators at these drop-in legislative meetings with TakeAction Minnesota.
We believe in a democracy where everyone is in, and no one is out. No exceptions. This is our opportunity to find legislators on a schedule that works for us, take up space in the Capitol, and have our legislators to listen our hopes and dreams for the future.
You must register to attend these drop-in legislative meetings. Meet TakeAction staff and leaders at the staircase outside the front entrance of the Capitol. And bring a friend. … Continue reading »
Register to meet with your legislators at these drop-in legislative meetings with TakeAction Minnesota.
We believe in a democracy where everyone is in, and no one is out. No exceptions. This is our opportunity to find legislators on a schedule that works for us, take up space in the Capitol, and have our legislators to listen our hopes and dreams for the future.
You must register to attend these drop-in legislative meetings. Meet TakeAction staff and leaders at the staircase outside the front entrance of the Capitol. And bring a friend. … Continue reading »
We believe we can live in a Minnesota that is for us, by us. Join us for a phone bank to connect constituents with their legislators. We will be calling Minnesotans, connecting constituents with their legislators to support bills protecting and expanding our health care and moving Minnesota toward 100% clean energy.
It’s an issue that intersects with racial justice, gender justice, class, LGBTQ+ and disability rights. No matter your age, religion, or political affiliation— this issue affects all of us, one way or another.
That’s why we need to
act now. A lot of times people ask me how I remain so positive while
advocating for climate justice, knowing how big and scary this issue can be. We
have 11 years to do something, so remaining positive and continuing to
fight is the only hope we have as young people.
This is about my
future, your future, and everyone that will come after us.
Helen speaking at the Duluth Youth Climate Strike, which she co-organized, on March 15.
I got involved with the climate movement because of my
passion for protecting the planet, but it has morphed into so much more than
that. It’s about our Indigenous communities that have and continue to fight to
preserve our natural resources. It’s about my Black and brown neighbors who are
disproportionately affected by climate change. And it’s about all the children
that don’t even know what climate change is yet. I’ve always had a passion for
the natural world and have found peace within it.… Continue reading »
We believe in a Minnesota where each and every person has clean water to drink and clean air to breathe.
As part of the 100% Campaign, we have been fighting for an equitable clean energy future this legislative session. Join us for this rally to send a message to our elected officials: Minnesotans need 100% clean energy.
All Minnesotans should have clean water and air and be able to live their lives free from threats of extreme weather. But if we don’t take action now, we are facing a future defined by climate change.
Join us for this political education workshop to learn more about the Green New Deal. Come learn how we’re building people power to stop climate change and create good jobs in our communities.
All Minnesotans should be able to live in a state with clean air and water.
Want to do something about threats to our climate? Join us for a teach-in to learn about the fossil fuel divestment movement and our campaign to end public investment in fossil fuel companies right here in Minnesota.
Save the date for TakeAction Minnesota’s Lobby Day!
We believe in a politics grounded in joy, collective liberation, and co-governance. And that’s a future worth celebrating. Join us on February 28 and put into practice the politics we want to build. Our Party at the People’s House isn’t your typical lobby day. Sure, we’ll be training on legislative visits, building relationships with elected officials, and meeting with legislators to talk about the policies that affect our daily lives. But we’ll be doing more than that. We’ll be taking up space, sharing our stories, and demonstrating what joyful, courageous, and powerful action looks like. Share your collective vision for health care for all, paid time to care, and criminal justice reform—and the real stories that ground you in these fights. Take action with us. Party at the People’s House and let’s win the policies our communities deserve.
We will follow-up with participants in the coming weeks with details, including schedule and location. Lunch will be provided. Contact Sabrina Mauritz at sabrina@takeactionminnesota.org for more information about accessibility and other concerns.
Our political arena at this moment is controlled by corporate power and political elites. Because of this, many people and their values are left out of the conversation. We believe to change this reality, we need to build authentic power with our leaders. Whether it’s a city council member or a U.S. Senator, building power to advance progressive policies is important and at the core of the work TakeAction Minnesota does during the legislative session.
Join TakeAction members and leaders at our St. Cloud member meeting to learn how to build power with legislators. Attend breakout sessions on our three legislative opportunities we’ve identified.
The first part of this meeting will be a training on how to build power with legislators. The second half will be breakout sessions on the three legislative priorities. Join us to learn, ask questions, and grow your own community leadership skills.
Building Power with Your Legislators Training:
Voting is important, but even more so are the many ways people get involved after Election Day to hold our representatives accountable. This training prepares you to go deeper with your legislator and to help you get in a relationship with the very issues they are elected to tackle.… Continue reading »
At TakeAction Minnesota, we believe people are the center of politics. If you are new to activism and politics, join us to talk about opportunities that the new year will bring. We will discuss the work done by our Womxn of Color table, Justice4All, the African Voting Bloc, our healthcare team, and the rest of TakeAction Minnesota. This is an exciting opportunity to meet other folks ready to lead during the legislative session and build a political home.
Lunch will be provided.
Childcare and transportation available upon request.
THE ORGANIZATION: TakeAction Minnesota is a statewide people’s network that brings democracy alive in communities across our state. We connect individuals and organizations to each other, creating a powerful force that makes change happen where it wasn’t possible before. Since its founding twelve years ago, TakeAction Minnesota has grown its breadth and depth. Our membership has grown 10-fold and touches every legislative district in the state. Our social media presence is robust. Our grassroots leadership is well-trained and shapes and implements the strategy of our various campaigns. As a result, TakeAction Minnesota has a track record of increasingly bold victories that change people’s lives for the better: the defeat of a photo ID constitutional amendment, massive public health care expansions, ban the box legislation, winning back $100 million from HMOs, more than $400 million in corporate tax loopholes now closed, grassroots leaders running for – and winning – elected office.
POSITION SUMMARY: This organizer will work with our organizing team to powerfully connect grassroots organizing, issue campaigns, and electoral politics in order to win real change in our state by building power with people around the issue of climate change and connecting them to the rest of TakeAction’s work. They will develop an active team of members who will be growing as leaders and taking action on electoral and issue campaigns by reaching out to Minnesotans through electoral and issue campaigns, activating them and engaging them in our work, and deeply investing in their leadership development through base-building, political education, and narrative development.… Continue reading »
Mighty Earth’s McWholeFoods Campaign has been working this fall to get Whole Foods to clean up water pollution in their supply chain, since they currently have no sustainability standards for their meat! Because industrial meat production is the leading cause of water pollution in the U.S., we’re calling on Whole Foods to step up. Here in Minnesota, we have the privilege and responsibility of being home to the headwaters of the Mississippi River, along with countless other bodies of water. These rivers and lakes are central to our state identity, our health, and our future, so we need to hold large corporations accountable for their poor stewardship of our natural resources
On September 8, we say: enough. Enough with the corporations making profits from harming our climate and our communities. Enough with the politicians who line their pockets by selling off our future, and who keep us divided with hateful rhetoric.
On September 8, we as Minnesotans will join others around the nation to come together across differences of race, class, gender, ability, and more, and take action. We’ll talk with each other and learn from our differences, so that we can fight for what we want in common: a healthy climate, good jobs, and just communities.
On September 8, we will *not* be marching on the State Capitol. Instead, organizations representing our state’s best in racial, economic, and climate justice are coming together to host a summit:
• We’ll learn about the ways climate change affects front line communities differently, how the health of the climate affects our health, what opportunities there are to get involved in our local communities, and more.
• We’ll get to be creative by building art together with local artists, collectively creating a huge banner that represents all of the interconnected parts of our movement.
• We’ll get inspired by keynote speakers and a youth panel, have fun with kid-friendly activities, and top it all off with collective actions we can take right away.… Continue reading »
Join TakeAction and our climate allies as we Pack the Hearing for the #XcelMoneyGrab bill. The legislation is essentially a blank check. It would allow Xcel to get “pre-approval” of all expected costs to keep its nuclear facilities running through the end of their lifetime. Xcel could recover and make money on all of its costs, including overruns.
This Ideas Worth Fighting For workshop is the completion of our winter & spring series on Climate Justice, Caring Economy, and Justice 4 All (i.e. ending Mass Incarceration). We will summarize & reflect on what we’ve learned, how we’ve deepened our analyses on race, gender, & corporate power, and we will plan what’s next, including end-of-legislative session activities. The format is interactive & relational. It’s designed to be exploratory, engaging, & creative, while still being knowledge-based, political, and pragmatic. Inspiring & grounded: that’s the goal. The agenda is designed to level-set between new & returning attendees. 6:00-6:30 will be an organizational orientation. 6:30-7:30 will be issue deeper dives. 7:30-8:30 will be planning time. 8:30-9:00 will be unstructured social time. Pre-readings will be emailed to registered attendees.
This Ideas Worth Fighting For workshop is designed to introduce and relate our program areas in Climate Justice, Caring Economy, and Justice 4 All (i.e. ending Mass Incarceration). The format is interactive & relational. It’s designed to be exploratory, engaging, & creative, while still being knowledge-based, political, and pragmatic. Inspiring & grounded: that’s the goal. This workshop will feature orientations on the organization & how we campaign, policy basics on each issue area (and their intersections), our analysis on race, gender, & corporate power, and concrete next steps, if you want to go deeper on any of them. The agenda is designed to level-set between new & returning attendees. 6:00-6:30 will be an organizational orientation. 6:30-7:15 will be issue orientations. 7:15-8:30 will be work shopping time. 8:30-9:00 will be unstructured social time. Pre-readings will be emailed to registered attendees.… Continue reading »
This Ideas Worth Fighting For workshop is designed to introduce and relate our program areas in Climate Justice, Caring Economy, and Justice 4 All (i.e. ending Mass Incarceration). The format is interactive & relational. It’s designed to be exploratory, engaging, & creative, while still being knowledge-based, political, and pragmatic. Inspiring & grounded: that’s the goal. This workshop will feature orientations on the organization & how we campaign, policy basics on each issue area (and their intersections), our analysis on race, gender, & corporate power, and concrete next steps, if you want to go deeper on any of them. The agenda is designed to level-set between new & returning attendees. 5:00-5:30 will be an organizational orientation. 5:30-6:15 will be issue orientations. 6:15-7:30 will be workshopping time. 7:30-8:00 will be unstructured social time. Pre-readings will be emailed to registered attendees.… Continue reading »
This Ideas Worth Fighting For workshop is designed to be a deeper-dive on issues related to climate justice and the intersections between renewable energy, good jobs, and racial & gender equity. Its aim is to be a first step in developing solutions that match the scale of the challenges we face, that take on racism, gender oppression, & corporate power. The format is interactive & relational. It’s designed to be exploratory, engaging, & creative, while still being knowledge-based, political, and pragmatic. Inspiring & grounded: that’s the goal. The agenda is designed to level-set between new & returning attendees. 6:00-6:30 will be an orientation for first time attendees. 6:30-7:00 will be an issue orientation. 7:00-8:30 will be work shopping time. 8:30-9:00 will be unstructured social time. Pre-readings will be emailed to registered attendees.… Continue reading »
This Ideas Worth Fighting For workshop is designed to introduce and relate our program areas in Climate Justice, Caring Economy, and Justice 4 All (i.e. ending Mass Incarceration). The format is interactive & relational. It’s designed to be exploratory, engaging, & creative, while still being knowledge-based, political, and pragmatic. Inspiring & grounded: that’s the goal. This workshop will feature orientations on the organization & how we campaign, policy basics on each issue area (and their intersections), our analysis on race, gender, & corporate power, and concrete next steps, if you want to go deeper on any of them. The agenda is designed to level-set between new & returning attendees. 6:00-6:30 will be an organizational orientation. 6:30-7:15 will be issue orientations. 7:15-8:30 will be workshopping time. 8:30-9:00 will be unstructured social time. Pre-readings will be emailed to registered attendees.
Too many of us have experienced politics as hostile, inaccessible, dirty, or confusing. As we work together to dismantle corporate power, gender oppression, and structural racism, we will work close to home.
Caucuses are local meetings in every district in Minnesota that kicks off and holds up our party political system. Join with other TakeAction activists and leaders from across the state to fight for the state our families and communities need to live lives of joy. We’ll cover the details of what happens at a caucus and how to show up powerfully, as well as ways to create new opportunities to take power for our communities.
Join us September 28 to send a clear message to the Governor, the Public Utilities Commission, and our elected representatives:
Minnesotans stand together to HOLD THE LINE to protect what we love and say NO to Line 3 and other pipelines that threaten our water, climate, and communities.
Opportunity: On September 28th, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) will hold the only Twin Cities area public hearing on whether or not to build the new Line 3 tar sands pipeline. Line 3 is proposed by Canadian company Enbridge to carry tar sands crude from Canada across northern MN and the headwaters of the Mississippi River. An existing, aging Line 3 pipeline would be abandoned. The PUC is considering whether to issue a Certificate of Need and a Routing Permit, which are the major approvals Enbridge must get before beginning construction.
Event description: Our event will start with a rally at the Capitol on Thursday, September 28 at 4:00 PM. The rally and activities will include inspiring speakers, an interfaith component, music, and of course, local food. At 5:00 PM we will march to the Public Utilities Commission hearing at the Intercontinental Hotel (about 1.3 miles). Upon arrival, everyone who wishes to speak against the project will be encouraged to sign up to testify and all will be encouraged to stay in support, and the public hearing will run from 6-9:00 PM.… Continue reading »
Helen speaking at the Duluth Youth Climate Strike, which she co-organized, on March 15.
