Let’s make sure our community’s voices are heard! The lives of people of color getting better depends on US casting ballots to make sure our concerns are priorities for the people we elect. We can’t wait to EXPAND THE VOTE and build community power with you.
Questions or comments? Contact Kandace Montgomery, Justice 4 All Organizer (Northside Based). kandace@takeactionminnesota.org, 207-459-6320… Continue reading »
We are calling fellow believers who want to make sure our communities voices are being heard this election. Our communities’ futures getting better depends on a strong volunteer program that can reach and turn out thousands of underrepresented voters to cast their ballots. We need your help to EXPAND THE VOTE! Sign up to help us recruit volunteers!… Continue reading »
Every year, people of color and low income folks are left out of Minnesota politics disproportionately. With your help, we can move our politics permanently towards real equity and real democracy by making sure every voice is heard this election. Join TakeAction Members to talk to North Minneapolis voters to Expand the Vote! … Continue reading »
We are calling fellow believers who want to make sure our communities voices are being heard this election. Our communities’ futures getting better depends on a strong volunteer program that can reach and turn out thousands of underrepresented voters to cast their ballots. We need your help to EXPAND THE VOTE! Sign up to help us recruit volunteers!… Continue reading »
Every year, people of color and low income folks are left out of Minnesota politics disproportionately. With your help, we can move our politics permanently towards real equity and real democracy by making sure every voice is heard this election. Join TakeAction Members to talk to North Minneapolis voters to Expand the Vote! … Continue reading »
Every year, people of color and low income folks are left out of Minnesota politics disproportionately. With your help, we can move our politics permanently towards real equity and real democracy by making sure every voice is heard this election. Join TakeAction Members to talk to North Minneapolis voters to Expand the Vote!… Continue reading »
We are calling fellow believers who want to make sure our communities voices are being heard this election. Our communities’ futures getting better depends on a strong volunteer program that can reach and turn out thousands of underrepresented voters to cast their ballots. We need your help to EXPAND THE VOTE! Sign up to help us recruit volunteers! … Continue reading »
Every year, people of color and low income folks are left out of Minnesota politics disproportionately. With your help, we can move our politics permanently towards real equity and real democracy by making sure every voice is heard this election. Join TakeAction Members to talk to North Minneapolis voters and Expand the Vote!… Continue reading »
Every year, people of color and low income folks are left out of Minnesota politics disproportionately. With your help, we can move our politics permanently towards real equity and real democracy by making sure every voice is heard this election. Join TakeAction Members to talk to North Minneapolis voters and Expand the Vote!… Continue reading »
Let’s make sure our community’s voices are heard! Our lives getting better depends on US casting ballots to make sure our concerns are priorities for the people we elect. We need your help to EXPAND THE VOTE! Sign up today by clicking here. … Continue reading »
We are calling fellow believers who want to make sure our communities voices are being heard this election. Our communities’ futures getting better depends on a strong volunteer program that can reach and turn out thousands of underrepresented voters to cast their ballots. We need your help to EXPAND THE VOTE! Click here to sign up and help us recruit volunteers!… Continue reading »
We are calling fellow believers who want to make sure our communities voices are being heard this election. Our communities’ futures getting better depends on a strong volunteer program that can reach and turn out thousands of underrepresented voters to cast their ballots. We need your help to EXPAND THE VOTE! Sign up to help us recruit volunteers!… Continue reading »
We are calling fellow believers who want to make sure our communities voices are being heard this election. Our communities’ futures getting better depends on a strong volunteer program that can reach and turn out thousands of underrepresented voters to cast their ballots. We need your help to EXPAND THE VOTE! Sign up to help us recruit volunteers!… Continue reading »
Let’s make sure our community’s voices are heard! Our lives getting better depends on US casting ballots to make sure our concerns are priorities for the people we elect. We need your help to EXPAND THE VOTE! Sign up today by clicking here.… Continue reading »
We are calling fellow believers who want to make sure our communities voices are being heard this election. Our communities’ futures getting better depends on a strong volunteer program that can reach and turn out thousands of underrepresented voters to cast their ballots. We need your help to EXPAND THE VOTE! Sign up to help us recruit volunteers!… Continue reading »
Let’s make sure our community’s voices are heard! Our lives getting better depends on US casting ballots to make sure our concerns are priorities for the people we elect. We need your help to EXPAND THE VOTE! Sign up today by clicking here.… Continue reading »
We are calling fellow believers who want to make sure our communities voices are being heard this election. Our communities’ futures getting better depends on a strong volunteer program that can reach and turn out thousands of underrepresented voters to cast their ballots. We need your help to EXPAND THE VOTE! Sign up to help us recruit volunteers!… Continue reading »
Let’s make sure our community’s voices are heard! Our lives getting better depends on US casting ballots to make sure our concerns are priorities for the people we elect. We need your help to EXPAND THE VOTE! Sign up today by clicking here.… Continue reading »
Let’s make sure our community’s voices are heard! The lives of people of and underrepresented communities getting better depends on US casting ballots to make sure economic justice and racial equity are priorities for the people we elect. Join us to doorknock over North.… Continue reading »
Every year, people of color and low income folks are left out of Minnesota politics disproportionately. With your help, we can move our politics permanently towards real equity and real democracy by making sure every voice is heard this election. Join TakeAction Members to talk to North Minneapolis voters to Expand the Vote!… Continue reading »
We are calling fellow believers who want to make sure our communities voices are being heard this election. Our communities’ futures getting better depends on a strong volunteer program that can reach and turn out thousands of underrepresented voters to cast their ballots. We need your help to EXPAND THE VOTE! Sign up to help us recruit volunteers!… Continue reading »
Let’s make sure our community’s voices are heard! Our lives getting better depends on US casting ballots to make sure our concerns are priorities for the people we elect. We need your help to EXPAND THE VOTE! Sign up today by clicking here.… Continue reading »
We are calling fellow believers who want to make sure our communities voices are being heard this election. Our communities’ futures getting better depends on a strong volunteer program that can reach and turn out thousands of underrepresented voters to cast their ballots. We need your help to EXPAND THE VOTE! Sign up to help us recruit volunteers!… Continue reading »
We are calling fellow believers who want to make sure our communities voices are being heard this election. Our communities’ futures getting better depends on a strong volunteer program that can reach and turn out thousands of underrepresented voters to cast their ballots. We need your help to EXPAND THE VOTE! Sign up to help us recruit volunteers!… Continue reading »
Let’s make sure our community’s voices are heard! Our lives getting better depends on US casting ballots to make sure our concerns are priorities for the people we elect. We need your help to EXPAND THE VOTE! Sign up today by clicking here.… Continue reading »
We are calling fellow believers who want to make sure our communities voices are being heard this election. Our communities’ futures getting better depends on a strong volunteer program that can reach and turn out thousands of underrepresented voters to cast their ballots. We need your help to EXPAND THE VOTE! Join us to recruit volunteers by clicking here.… Continue reading »
It’s Labor Day weekend and according to Angela Glover Blackwell Executive Director of PolicyLink, unemployment in the African American community has been a problem for six decades. We are talking about sixty years of wealth being drained from our families and communities. We can ask why, but we know the answer. In a country where unarmed black men are gunned down and choked to death in broad daylight by officers who are supposed to protect our communities. We know that we still have a problem with race.
Unemployment in the African American community is not about individual choices. It’s about Corporations who have had discriminatory hiring practices for more than sixty years. It’s about a Justice System that has used the War on Drugs and over policing to dismantle our families by putting more African Americans behind bars that we had in Slavery. It’s about people not having any reason to believe they will get a fair shot if they apply to jobs.
What’s the answer? We need to be in full control over the resources and policies that govern our community. The first step is building a voter block so that decision makers understand they are accountable to us.… Continue reading »
The other day I had a scary experience that I and many black women experience over the course of our lifetimes. My partner, a dark-skinned, young, African American man, was walking the 6 blocks over to my house from his house late after work when he was followed by the police and a K-9 dog, profiling him to see if he was up to no good. As he walked, he could feel their presence, the dog’s nostrils sniffing for something wrong, and his sense of safety quickly disappearing.
Thankfully, he got to me safely and without incident but we know that this is a common reality in our community. How many black women like me, wait scared until their sons, uncles, brothers, and partners, come home from an errand, shopping, or work? Recent events in Ferguson, New York and even here in the Twin Cities, remind us, people of color, that we still have a reason to worry about our loved ones’ safety.
We have a justice system that is designed in a way to rob our communities of a fair first chance. My partner’s story is one that shows how young black men in this country are assumed to be “up to no good” and therefore need to be over-patrolled, profiled, and controlled in order to ensure everyone’s “safety”.… Continue reading »
TakeAction Minnesota hosted a community conversation on July 12 with the Minneapolis Urban League called Locked Up, Locked Out to give a personal voice to the everyday challenges faced by individuals with a past criminal record.
One in four Americans have either an arrest or criminal conviction on their record – a majority are drug-related or other nonviolent offenses. In addition, according to the Minnesota Department of Human Rights, the disparity between African-Americans and Caucasians with criminal records in Minnesota is four times higher than the national average. Yet the stigma not only continues to shadow over those who have served time, but over their families as well. Having a history with the criminal justice system affects everything from job applications, to obtaining adequate education and housing. Even if a criminal record has been expunged, it can still appear on a background check.
This past Saturday at Locked up Locked out, community members came together to talk about the impact of the criminal justice system on our community. Shvonne Johnson Associate Dean of Students at St. Catherine’s offered a powerful spoken word piece that ask the question, what is our response to the system that criminalizes us? I think it is safe to say that 122+ signatures (and that is just the begining) for Governor Dayton to stop by North MPLS and talk about this issue is a solid response.
See you on the doors, but until then, here is Professor Johnsons spoken word piece.
Thank you to everyone who made #LockedUpLockedOut a success!
Locked up, Locked Out…
“To discuss the inhumanity of a system that is failing is not what this is about…
Although the system is failing…
To discuss a system that is broken is not what this poem is about.
Although it is broken…
This is about the pain of not having a place for mistakes and it being socially acceptable, and expected to be on the outskirts of humanity which might make you feel locked out.
We can talk about the socialization of our penal system which deems it lawful to subject a human being entirely to the domination of some influence or person.… Continue reading »
