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What are you going to do in the next four years? Answered by Minnesota singer-songwriter and storyteller, Molly Brandt. The goal of The People’s March (hosted by Women’s March MN) is to fire up and follow up! We invite folks to share videos of how they will follow up. Or tell us “what are you going to do” before, during or after the March on January 18, 2025.
Read MoreWhat are you going to do in the next four years? Answered by Minneapolis-based fiddler, vocalist, and music educator, Rachel Calvert. The goal of The People’s March (hosted by Women’s March MN) is to fire up and follow up! We invite folks to share videos of how they will follow up. Or tell us “what are you going to do” before, during or after the March on January 18, 2025.
Read MoreWhat are you going to do in the next four years? Answered by Minneapolis jazz singer, Leslie Vincent.The goal of The People’s March (hosted by Women’s March MN) is to fire up and follow up! We invite folks to share videos of how they will follow up. Or tell us “what are you going to do” before, during or after the March on January 18, 2025.
Read MoreWhat are you going to do in the next four years? Answered by singer – songwriter and mom Sarah Morris The goal of The People’s March (hosted by Women’s March MN) is to fire up and follow up! We invite folks to share videos of how they will follow up. Or tell us “what are you going to do” before, during or after the March on January 18, 2025.
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What are you going to do in the next four years? Answered by singer, songwriter, and named one of 2018’s Best New Bands by First Avenue, Faith Boblett. The goal of The People’s March (hosted by Women’s March MN) is to fire up and follow up!
Read MoreWhat will you do to follow up The People’s March? Today we Claire Luger, lead singer of Silent Treatment (and teacher!) and she has some inspiration and specific examples of what she’s going to do.
Read MoreWe are more than a march, we’re a movement! We are asking marched to use the march on January 18, 2025, to Fire Up. But then Follow Up with action. We will be asking folks over the next weeks to send us ideas and inspiration for follow up. Today we invite singer, songwriter, bad ass feminist, Chanelmarie Brooks to tell us what she plans to do to follow up the march.
Read MoreWomen’s March MN is taking The People’s March to the streets January 18, 2025
The People’s March begins at 11:30 AM on January 18, 2025, with a pre-march rally at Saint Paul College and proceeds to the Minnesota State Capitol at noon for a 90-minute program.
Read MoreWe are more than a march, we’re a movement! We are asking marched to use the march on January 18, 2025, to Fire Up. But then Follow Up with action. We will be asking folks over the next weeks to send us ideas and inspiration for follow up. Today we invite musician Katy Vernon, founder of Favourite Girl, what she plans to do to follow up the march.
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Volunteer!
We need you. There are a wide variety of positions: leadership areas, individual tasks, and day-of-event support. This is an all-hands-on-deck organizing opportunity. Join us for our first Zoom Meeting Nov 25 (7-8pm). (Register here!)
Read MoreTo all who believe in standing up for truth and compassion, NOW is the time to get together to celebrate our collective STRENGTH, HOPE & RESILIENCE! Let’s do that on December 5th!
Special 20% discount off show tickets for all Women's March MN followers with code: IODW20
Doors open in the Main Stage at Crooners at 6:30pm for dinner & cocktails!
Show is 7:30 – 9:00pm
LIVE Real-Time CAPTIONING is available at all of our shows!
Crooners Supper Club
6161 Highway 65 NE, Minneapolis, MN 55432
FOR TICKETS: https://www.islandofdiscardedwomen.com/
So much has changed in the past 8 years. One thing that hasn't changed is our need for community, voice and a continued push for justice.
We need you; we need community.
We are working on a way to honor the marches of the past, to be heard, to renew dedication to the cause and celebrate community. If you are interested in learning more or volunteering please sign up and save the date: January 18, 2025.
Read MoreJOIN Women's March MN for Sue Scott's Island of Discarded Women Live Show & Podcast on Thursday, October 3rd at Crooners Supper Club!
An exciting evening FULL of powerful music and stories that will Fire Us Up, motivate us and get us to the polls! Let's Put a Woman in Charge!
Women's March MN will be at the show with an action info table for steps you can take to help to "Get Out the Vote" this November!
BUY Tickets online. Get Women’s March MN 20% discount by using the code IODW20.
Read MoreThis week, ERA Minnesota invited me to testify with them to support their bills in the Minnesota House and Senate. (One bill asks legislators to put the Equal Rights Amendment on the ballot to let voters decide if the ERA should be part of the Minnesota constitution. The other bill would send a resolution to Congress urging them to ratify the federal ERA.) I testified with my mom and my youngest daughter – three generations of one family experiencing life without equal rights.
Read MoreLast night the Little Too Short to be Stormtroopers hosted a benefit for Women’s March Minnesota and ERA Minnesota at the Turf Club. We sold merchandise talked to lots of folks about what’s happening at the Legislature and the need to codify equal right for everyone. We also enjoyed some amazing music with Faith Boblett, Molly Brandt, Clare Doyle, Madison Hallman, Jaedyn James, Leslie Vincent, Savannah Smith, Siri Undlin and Cole Diamond starting the night with songs of Alan Jackson.
Read MoreThank you to the planners, the volunteers, the people who honked at us on the bridges and the passersby who joined us for our MN Weekend of Action. On Friday, we made posters and signs for Sunday’s Pro-Choice Bridge Brigade. Saturday, 20 people came out to write postcards to help Flip the MN Senate; more than 700 postcards were created! We enjoyed perfect Fall weather as we door knocked for a phenomenal Pro-Choice candidate, Judy Seeberger (SD41) on Saturday afternoon in Cottage Grove. Sunday morning, 30 plus volunteers held up Vote Pro-Choice signs on three prominent bridges in the Twin Cities before the Vikings game. (Let’s hope their win rubs off on us!)
Some of us attended the live taping of the Island of Discarded Women (IODW) Sunday night. We helped attendees register to vote and sent postcards to select addresses encouraging folks to vote for pro-choice candidates.
At the event, Oogie_Push from the Meskwaki Nation near Tama, Iowa told a story about making calls to encourage voters in her community. They made hundreds of calls - often reaching people they knew. Many decided after the call to vote. In the end, their candidate won by 48 votes. (You can hear more stories once the podcast IOWD broadcasts!)
We make a difference! Know that and please continue to make a difference. It’s going to take all of us!
If you have an event you want us to promote, please send it to us admin@womensmarchmn.com. We have postcards and scripts if you want to send them, again email us and we’ll find a way to get you the supplies. (Like the woman who needs 400+ for her apartment neighbors to fill out!) We will continue to keep our calendar updated.
We can do it together!!
Read MoreJoin us on Wednesday, May 18th at 6:30 p.m. CT
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We are excited to hear from Bernadine Joselyn who just spent three weeks at the Polish-Ukrainian border welcoming and processing evacuees fleeing Russia’s war with Ukraine. Bernadine, who is director of Public Policy and Engagement at Blandin Foundation, lived and worked in Russia 20 years ago with the U.S. Foreign Service and other international development organizations, and now lives in Grand Rapids, MN with her Ukrainian husband.
Bernadine heard about the opportunity to help and quickly found herself in the evacuee center at Korcwoza, about 20 kilometers from the actual border
Read MoreLast week was Black Maternal Health Week. In its honor, the MN State House Black Maternal Health Caucus hosted the “Expecting Better” roundtable. MN legislators and health advocates addressed Black maternal mortality and morbidity disparities in MN. The U.S. has one of the highest maternal mortality rates among wealthy nations. In the U.S., the rates are higher for people of color, due to structural racism and lack of access to healthcare. In MN, Black people are more than twice as likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than white people. The participants in the roundtable gave powerful accounts of how racism in healthcare had impacted them personally, as well as other people in their lives.
Read MoreA contingency from Women’s March Minnesota (WMM) had a night out with the Island of Discarded Women. The Island is a podcast that is recorded live at the Women’s Club in Minneapolis. The show is hosted by Sue Scott, whose work with the Prairie Home Companion is well known. It features storytelling, music and a conversation with accomplished women who working to make the world better, often by lifting up other women or others in need of lift.
On April 10, Sue was joined by Dr. Artika Tyner, is the director of the Center on Race, Leadership and Social Justice at the University of St. Thomas and the founder of Planting People Growing Justice and musical guest, powerhouse singer/songwriter Rachel Kurtz.
Read MoreA group of Women’s March MN members are planning to go see Sue Scott's Island of Discarded Women LIVE Show and Podcast at the Woman's Club of Minneapolis on April 10. It’s an evening of empowering stories, music, and conversation with or without dinner and drinks. The plan is to each get our own tickets from the Island of Discarded Women website – but reply to this email by April 7 if you plan to come and we’ll try to sit all together. (It’s tabled seating.)
Just the facts:
Show Tickets are $20 (Buy online)
DATE: Sunday April 10
TIME: Doors open at 5:30pm for purchasing dinner + drinks at your table (Service continues throughout the show. Menu includes Vegan and GF options.)
Show from 7:00 to 8:30pm
PLACE: The Lounge at the Woman's Club of Minneapolis, 410 Oak Grove St., Minneapolis, 55403
COVID PROTOCOLS: Island of Discarded Women will continue to require proof of vaccination, or a negative Covid test. Audience members are encouraged to wear masks except when dining.
Let us know you’re coming, if you want to sit with other WMM members. (Reply to this message or email mailto:admin@womensmarchmn.com)
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