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Tonight (June 1, 2021) at 6pm, a team of Women’s March MN members will be meeting to make calls to ask our policymakers to represent us! (It’s not too late to sign up to Time to Act now!)
We will address the following topics:
Establish and Fund the Missing & Murdered Indigenous Relative Permanent Office
Stop Line 3 - write to Biden, call Sen. Klobuchar and Sen. Smith
The Treaty People Gathering is a weekend-long initiative leading up to a non-violent direct action on June 7 in Northern Minnesota to stop construction of Enbridge’s Line 3 project in Northern Minnesota.
WMM members have been involved with Line 3 actions in the past by volunteering to document construction of the line and attending protests in Northern Minnesota as well as in the Twin Cities. A group of us plan to join the Treaty People Gathering on June 5-6 (Saturday and Sunday) to support the preparation of the non-violent direction action planned for Monday. The preparation will take place near Detroit Lakes; we will be leaving Saturday morning and returning Sunday night. Please let us know if you want to lend your time and energy for this important cause. (Contact us at admin@womensmarchmn.org.)
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Couldn’t be with us last Tuesday but want to take action on important issues? Here are the instruction sheets for the three issues we took action on last night - MN Environment and Natural Resources omnibus; expansion of Medicare; THRIVE Act. Please use them to contact MN state and federal policymakers to affect change:
Read MoreTime to Act is happening at 6pm tonight (May 18). There’s still time to join us or use the information below to act in your own time.
We are delighted to have Representative Kristin Bahner join us tonight to briefly update us on the 2021 session, the bills we have featured in previous weeks and issues that relate to women. We also have a few actions to take:
Contact MN Senators about Environment & Natural Resources Omnibus Bill
Thank Senator Smith for signing letter asking Biden to expand Medicare benefits
SF970 Public Safety Omnibus bill (Omnibus judiciary and public safety policy and finance bill) is still being heard in the conference committee. Big discrepancies remain on the issue of police accountability measures. The DFL-controlled House wants them included, and the GOP-controlled Senate doesn’t. We need to change that.
Read MoreThanks to everyone who attended the Time to Act session tonight. We sent emails this week to key legislators - we invite others to do the same before May 6 for greatest impact.
Each link below includes everything you need to take action: info on the bill, who to contact and a script you can use or modify to help legislators understand what you want. (You can also get more details on actions.)
We had much to celebrate at Time to Act tonight. Globally, we celebrated the guilty verdict of former Minneapolis Police Department for the murder of George Floyd. The verdict was swift and found him guilty of all charges including third degree murder. Locally, we celebrated the birthday of one of the Time to Act participants. And then we set out to make change.
We worked on the following actions:
Read MoreOnce again we are reeling. Another police killing. Another life lost. See our statement - Stop Killing Black Men, Women, and Children. We urge all marchers, resisters, and persisters to act, to stand up, and to help end police brutality, aggression, and terrorizing of our neighbors. The following are simple things you can do right to support neighbors and drive change in MN.
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