Join us as we let folks know about our Annual Meeting on March 18th – an opportunity to meet and connect, get trained, dig into political education, and plug into local work. We’ll call TakeAction members across the state to invite them to join us at the event.
Register here: https://secure.everyaction.com/Bclig0-u4kqSRemuEPsAAg2… Continue reading »
Join Justice 4 All and its members as we continue to plan our corporate campaign. Learn more about how we aim to enhance fair hiring practices for formerly incarcerated and convicted people, and help us shape up a path to victory!
Click this link to RSVP: https://secure.everyaction.com/T6YtEPAUkEGoL7MOm5ZDKg2
Do you know someone with a criminal record?
Join Justice 4 All and partners for a day long training involving Political Education, Legislative 101, issues campaigns, action steps, and more! Community members will learn about the fight to reinvent our criminal justice system and ways to combat mass incarceration.
*free childcare and lunch provided*
Click this link to RSVP: https://secure.everyaction.com/JPUDfN6ybkKb_brnYuSFEw2
Northside will no longer be left out the process
sign up here https://secure.everyaction.com/YuGnBDSTy0SBtI-G5aS5Bw2
Congresswoman Betty McCollum (DFL-Minn.) will hold a town hall meeting on Jan. 26 to discuss her work in Washington and to listen to Fourth District constituents and families about the issues that matter to them.… Continue reading »
We believe in a Minnesota where each and every person is able to live in joy — lives that are fulfilling, stable, creative, and happy. Where success is defined by how much people and whole communities are able to live in joy. Right now, our communities are facing multiple attacks that violate our values and this vision for our state. From millions at risk of losing their health care coverage to local interference to anti-immigrant proposals to the destruction of our planet, we are ready to resist these attacks and build our movement because we believe in this vision.
Join us every Tuesday from 6-9 pm at the TakeAction office to make calls to activists across the state, mobilizing our communities to take a stand against whatever attack we are facing that week. We’ll track what’s moving, what’s needed, and make sure our time is used effectively.
Register here: https://secure.everyaction.com/xR2h7LL16UuLt4ayH3misA2… Continue reading »
We believe in a Minnesota where each and every person is able to live in joy — lives that are fulfilling, stable, creative, and happy. Where success is defined by how much people and whole communities are able to live in joy. Right now, our communities are facing multiple attacks that violate our values and this vision for our state. From millions at risk of losing their health care coverage to local interference to anti-immigrant proposals to the destruction of our planet, we are ready to resist these attacks and build our movement because we believe in this vision.
Join us every Tuesday from 6-9 pm at the TakeAction office to make calls to activists across the state, mobilizing our communities to take a stand against whatever attack we are facing that week. We’ll track what’s moving, what’s needed, and make sure our time is used effectively.
Register here: https://secure.everyaction.com/T14fmAgJVkSHkmq3pdQ1-w2… Continue reading »
We believe in a Minnesota where each and every person is able to live in joy — lives that are fulfilling, stable, creative, and happy. Where success is defined by how much people and whole communities are able to live in joy. Right now, our communities are facing multiple attacks that violate our values and this vision for our state. From millions at risk of losing their health care coverage to local interference to anti-immigrant proposals to the destruction of our planet, we are ready to resist these attacks and build our movement because we believe in this vision.
Join us every Tuesday from 6-9 pm at the TakeAction office to make calls to activists across the state, mobilizing our communities to take a stand against whatever attack we are facing that week. We’ll track what’s moving, what’s needed, and make sure our time is used effectively.
Register here: https://secure.everyaction.com/QdLcgw5jw0OTXUskoiJD4Q2… Continue reading »
We believe in a Minnesota where each and every person is able to live in joy — lives that are fulfilling, stable, creative, and happy. Where success is defined by how much people and whole communities are able to live in joy. Right now, our communities are facing multiple attacks that violate our values and this vision for our state. From millions at risk of losing their health care coverage to local interference to anti-immigrant proposals to the destruction of our planet, we are ready to resist these attacks and build our movement because we believe in this vision.
Join us every Tuesday from 6-9 pm at the TakeAction office to make calls to activists across the state, mobilizing our communities to take a stand against whatever attack we are facing that week. We’ll track what’s moving, what’s needed, and make sure our time is used effectively.
Register here: https://secure.everyaction.com/iKyW_w6l1keYbUm8modQJQ2… Continue reading »
We believe in a Minnesota where each and every person is able to live in joy — lives that are fulfilling, stable, creative, and happy. Where success is defined by how much people and whole communities are able to live in joy. Right now, our communities are facing multiple attacks that violate our values and this vision for our state. From millions at risk of losing their health care coverage to local interference to anti-immigrant proposals to the destruction of our planet, we are ready to resist these attacks and build our movement because we believe in this vision.
Join us every Tuesday from 6-9 pm at the TakeAction office to make calls to activists across the state, mobilizing our communities to take a stand against whatever attack we are facing that week. We’ll track what’s moving, what’s needed, and make sure our time is used effectively.
Register here: https://secure.everyaction.com/xR2h7LL16UuLt4ayH3misA2… Continue reading »
We believe in a Minnesota where each and every person is able to live in joy — lives that are fulfilling, stable, creative, and happy. Where success is defined by how much people and whole communities are able to live in joy. Right now, our communities are facing multiple attacks that violate our values and this vision for our state. From millions at risk of losing their health care coverage to local interference to anti-immigrant proposals to the destruction of our planet, we are ready to resist these attacks and build our movement because we believe in this vision.
Join us every Tuesday from 6-9 pm at the TakeAction office to make calls to activists across the state, mobilizing our communities to take a stand against whatever attack we are facing that week. We’ll track what’s moving, what’s needed, and make sure our time is used effectively.
Register here: https://secure.everyaction.com/xR2h7LL16UuLt4ayH3misA2… Continue reading »
We believe in a Minnesota where each and every person is able to live in joy — lives that are fulfilling, stable, creative, and happy. Where success is defined by how much people and whole communities are able to live in joy. Right now, our communities are facing multiple attacks that violate our values and this vision for our state. From millions at risk of losing their health care coverage to local interference to anti-immigrant proposals to the destruction of our planet, we are ready to resist these attacks and build our movement because we believe in this vision.
Join us every Tuesday from 6-9 pm at the TakeAction office to make calls to activists across the state, mobilizing our communities to take a stand against whatever attack we are facing that week. We’ll track what’s moving, what’s needed, and make sure our time is used effectively.
Register here: https://secure.everyaction.com/xR2h7LL16UuLt4ayH3misA2… Continue reading »
We believe in a Minnesota where each and every person is able to live in joy — lives that are fulfilling, stable, creative, and happy. Where success is defined by how much people and whole communities are able to live in joy. Right now, our communities are facing multiple attacks that violate our values and this vision for our state. From millions at risk of losing their health care coverage to local interference to anti-immigrant proposals to the destruction of our planet, we are ready to resist these attacks and build our movement because we believe in this vision.
Join us on Valentine’s Day at the TakeAction office from 6-9pm to phonebank with Justice 4 All and partners to oppose the bill, House File 0316, that seeks criminalize and disenfranchise substance dependent pregnant women. We’ll reach out to local Representatives to speak about better alternatives and solutions that won’t harm the physical and mental health of mothers and their babies.
Register here: https://secure.everyaction.com/xR2h7LL16UuLt4ayH3misA2… Continue reading »
We believe in a Minnesota where each and every person is able to live in joy — lives that are fulfilling, stable, creative, and happy. Where success is defined by how much people and whole communities are able to live in joy. Right now, our communities are facing multiple attacks that violate our values and this vision for our state. From millions at risk of losing their health care coverage to local interference to anti-immigrant proposals to the destruction of our planet, we are ready to resist these attacks and build our movement because we believe in this vision.
Join us every Tuesday from 6-9 pm at the TakeAction office to make calls to activists across the state, mobilizing our communities to take a stand against whatever attack we are facing that week. We’ll track what’s moving, what’s needed, and make sure our time is used effectively.
Register here: https://secure.everyaction.com/xR2h7LL16UuLt4ayH3misA2… Continue reading »
We believe in a Minnesota where each and every person is able to live in joy — lives that are fulfilling, stable, creative, and happy. Where success is defined by how much people and whole communities are able to live in joy. Right now, our communities are facing multiple attacks that violate our values and this vision for our state. From millions at risk of losing their health care coverage to local interference to anti-immigrant proposals to the destruction of our planet, we are ready to resist these attacks and build our movement because we believe in this vision.
Join us every Tuesday from 6-9 pm at the TakeAction office to make calls to activists across the state, mobilizing our communities to take a stand against whatever attack we are facing that week. We’ll track what’s moving, what’s needed, and make sure our time is used effectively.
Register here: https://secure.everyaction.com/xR2h7LL16UuLt4ayH3misA2… Continue reading »
We can no longer afford to ignore the problem of mass incarceration, because it is coming for us all. The voiceless must be heard in 2017, and we have a unique opportunity to resist, get our stories (the truth) out there, and build together.
JOIN THE FIGHT at our next Justice 4 All Community Member Meeting!
2016 marks the 20th anniversary of Hamline’s Commitment to Community (C2C), a university-wide diversity initiatives committee of students, faculty, and staff, whose mission is to foster diversity awareness, knowledge, and understanding through discussion, dialogue, and community building. C2C was founded by two Hamline undergraduate students, Dan McGrath ‘99 and Grant Anderson ‘97, who have continued their inclusive and community-focused work in their lives and careers after Hamline.
While at Hamline, McGrath majored in English and political science, was vice-president of the Hamline Undergraduate Student Congress (HUSC), and played soccer, captaining the team his senior year. Two life-changing relationships that McGrath made at Hamline were with Teresa Olson, a fellow Hamline student-athlete who is now his wife, and Grant Anderson, who he helped in creating a new movement on campus known as “Campaign of Acceptance,” which evolved into Commitment to Community.
Anderson majored in sociology, was a Resident Advisor (RA), and was heavily involved in HUSC. He started reaching out to the people in his circle about trying to do something big to respond to bias incidents in the community and more importantly, bring communities of justice together. With support from sociology professor Dr. M Sheridan Embser-Herbert and former Dean of Students Marilyn Deppe, Anderson teamed up with McGrath, he says because of their “friendship and shared values,” and created the program in October of 1997.… Continue reading »
We’re all wondering what will happen. To ourselves, friends, families. To our jobs, healthcare, finances. To our society, state, country. It’s more than okay to say, “I don’t know.” In fact, that’s been the answer to most of the questions I’m asked since election night. All I could really say is this is what the world has turned out to be. All I can really do is reach out to you and ask how are you feeling? Tell me the good, tell me the bad. J4A is a community that makes it easier to wake up every morning and be reminded that we still have something powerful, here.
One of the easiest reminders of how powerful you all have been this year is Erin Maye Quade being elected to the MN House of Representatives. We all had a clear stake in the history made in Apple Valley as a result of being a part of well over 2,000 Take Action election shifts this year. Be proud of that, and know that your efforts made this state more beautiful in an ugly aftermath. The Republicans are trying to kill that beauty, and so we need to double down on not only what we want to achieve, but also double down on our passions and efforts on this journey to end mass incarceration, systematic racism and gender oppression, not to mention the corporate power that generated over that last 15 years and allowed for such a bizarre election cycle and result.… Continue reading »
The impact women will have this election season will matter. That’s why it’s key that we VOTE, and VOTE BIG, on November 8th.
Here’s the reason I’m voting for progressive champions: It is POWERFUL to see someone in elected office who looks like me and who faces some of the same struggles I face as a woman and as a Latina.
My whole life I haven’t seen people like me in leadership roles, I haven’t had people like me as mentors, and I haven’t seen elected officials work with my community to create solutions. I can’t wait to work with our endorsed candidates once they’re elected – progressive champions like Alberder Gillespie, Lindsey Port, and Erin Maye Quade – because I trust them to work with our communities. This year, I’m voting and talking to as many voters as I can because I truly believe that we have an opportunity to build a more inclusive and equitable Minnesota, and this election is the first step.
There’s a lot at stake for all of us this Election Day. Join me in voting, for the powerful 
women candidates I named above, and for Zach Dorholt and Dan Wolgamott in St.… Continue reading »
My name is Sarah Nemetz, an intern with TakeAction’s Justice 4 All Program. When I was being trained for the first door knock I would be participating in for Erin Maye Quade running for state representative in Apple Valley, I heard stories from Justice 4 All leaders, Tommy and Will, who are both men of color. Stories of rude people who would see them coming up the way and pretend not to be home, just generally be hostile, or would even spout racial slurs. They were essentially trying to mentally prepare me to be disrespected or ignored, which I readily accepted, and I set out ready to get some doors slammed in my face. When I got out there, however, I was surprised by how nice people were to me. Everyone who saw me in the doorway opened it, usually with a smile on their face. They listened to me as I talked about the candidate and thanked me for coming to talk to them.
As I walked the street, wondering why I hadn’t been pushed away yet, it made me think about representation, and the way I was perceived by these suburban households. I’m aware of what I look like: a small white girl with a young-looking face.… Continue reading »
Come help us flip the House in November by dooorknocking with J4A!
Come help us flip the House in November by phonebanking with J4A!
JOIN US as we come together to DEMAND JUSTICE as a powerful community to get TakeAction endorsed candidate Lindsey Port elected in Burnsville (District 56B). This Saturday we’re throwing down in a big way, and WE NEED YOU!
Join us on the phones for TAMN-endorsed candidate Mary Sawatzky. We’ll talk to voters in Willmar about our stories and our vision for MN.
Sign up here: https://act.myngp.com/Forms/-1452427803124234240… Continue reading »
Vamos a llamar a votantes de la comunidad Latinx para compartir nuestras historias y hablar sobres nuestros candidatas. / Join us to call Latinx voters to share our stories and talk about our endorsed candidates.
Registrarse: https://act.myngp.com/Forms/4600410096061712384… Continue reading »
Join us for a phone bank for Take Action-endorsed candidate’s Dan Wolgamott, Zachary Dorholt, and Abdi Daisane! On October 16th we are encouraging PCA’s, home health workers, and their allies to join us for a door knock as we support the candidates who support care providers!
Join us for a phone bank for Take Action-endorsed candidate’s Dan Wolgamott, Zachary Dorholt, and Abdi Daisane! On October 16th we are encouraging PCA’s, home health workers, and their allies to join us for a door knock as we support the candidates who support care providers!
Join us for a door knock for Take Action-endorsed candidate’s Dan Wolgamott, Zachary Dorholt, and Abdi Daisane! On October 15th we are encouraging PCA’s, home health workers, and their allies to join us for a door knock as we support the candidates who support care providers!
This is Justin Lewandowski, Take Action Minnesota’s election organizer in the Saint Cloud area. It’s October, and our community is being hit with massive amounts of outside money as we get closer to Election Day.
In fact, the local race in House District 14B (former State Representative and current candidate Zachary Dorholt’s district) is once again set to be one of the most expensive races in Minnesota.
With all of the negative mailers, radio spots, and television ads, our anger and frustration with big money in local politics can easily distract us from the vision and story we want to create for our community, and why our local elections are so important in this work.
I’m angry, too. Dark money and candidates like Jim Knoblach who refuse to participate in campaign spending caps are distracting us from having meaningful conversations about our stories, experiences, and values.
I got into organizing because of the constant attacks on the LGBTQ community by candidates like Jim Knoblach and the devastating effects those political narratives have had on myself my friends and my family. I am angry that those attacks still persist, from repealing protections for LGBTQ youth in our schools to supporting the harmful practice of conversion therapy.… Continue reading »
The Women of Color Table is knocking doors in the Burnsville Area to accomplish three things simultaneously: (1) get endorsed candidate Lindsey Port running in District 56B (2) with support from local people of color and personal care assistants and (3) build a relationship between Lindsey Port and our community.
This matters because these are communities that are typically left out of electoral process – at TakeAction Minnesota we believe that a person’s full identity and personhood should be fully seen and respected. One way we the way we personify this value is by knocking on doors that don’t exist in our voter’s data base; it’s called a targeted-semi blind knock. We understand that people of color and immigrants are too often overlooked and systemically discouraged from fully participating in the election process, so that means we have to double our efforts to identify and build relationships. Our goal is to do just that. Through this series of doorknocks we plan to register people to vote, encourage them to get out to vote early and from there and after that, coordinate a community meeting.
We’re also doing it with a language justice framework. What does this look like? We’re working hard to have Spanish, Somali, and English informational literature, posters, and music and a fully translated training session. … Continue reading »
