Tag Archives: Climate Justice
People’s House Series: A Family Friendly Minnesota
Posted February 7, 2019
Our Capitol, Our Voices Courage is contagious. This week, women, young people, POC & immigrant workers, and people from all walks of life were at the Capitol to call for action. Bad ass high school students, Grace, Maddy, and Lia, testified to lawmakers why we need urgent action to prevent further damage to our environment. Ami, a courageous survivor, shared her story about being sexually harassed and stalked for a year working at Perkins. Robin Pikala and Kevin Osborn were among the workers speaking out to #StopWageTheft. Next week, working people and families will be at the Capitol again supporting paid time to care with Earned Sick and Safe Time. But there’s an even bigger story to tell.St Cloud Member Meeting: Building Power with Legislators
Posted December 17, 2018
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 »
Rise for Climate, Jobs, & Justice Summit
Posted August 27, 2018
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 »
Treaty Rights, Climate Justice and Decolonization Forum
Posted August 1, 2018
What is our relationship to the land? What is our relationship with one another?
We are all treaty people. Join us in learning about the connections between treaty rights, climate justice and decolonization. What role do treaty rights play in resource extraction, resilience, and relationships between Native and non-Native people? How can understanding our identities as treaty people transform our relationships with one another and with the land?
Join AICHO, Minnesota Interfaith Power & Light, University of Minnesota-Duluth, and TakeAction in learning about how these cultural and environmental issues relate to all of us.
This event is free and open to the public.
Note: This forum is a precursor to an upcoming participatory workshop series on Treaty Rights, Climate Justice and Decolonization in September.
Ideas Worth Fighting For: End of Session & Series Wrap-Up
Posted March 4, 2018
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.
Ideas Worth Fighting For: Climate Justice, Caring Economy, and Justice 4 All
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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 »
Ideas Worth Fighting For: Climate Justice, Caring Economy, and Justice 4 All
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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 »
