Resistance is NOT futile

Information to aid resistance.

Minnesota  MN House  MN Senate

Representative for District 12A  Jeff Backer

Senator for District 12 Torrey Westrom

Indivisible  Morris

Resources related to #BlackLivesMatter

Ways to Help

including: petitions to sign, places to donate to, people to ring and text, etc.  Also many resources to learn more of what you need to know.

PDF of Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis

MPD 150 A People’s Project Evaluating Policing

Reclaim the Block

Reclaim the Block began in 2018 and organizes Minneapolis community and city council members to move money from the police department into other areas of the city’s budget that truly promote community health and safety.

Opportunities for White People in the Fight for Racial Justice

The ideas captured on this website, very much a work in progress, have been developed to support White people to act for racial justice. It draws from ideas and resources developed mostly by Black, Brown and People of Color, and has been edited by Black, Brown, and People of Color.

Justice in June 

This resource was compiled by Autumn Gupta with Bryanna Wallace’s oversight for the purpose of providing a starting place for individuals trying to become better allies. 

Choose how much time you have each day to become more informed as step one to becoming an active ally to the black community. On this document are links to the learning resources and a schedule of what to do each day.

Anti-racism resources for white people

This document is intended to serve as a resource to white people and parents to deepen our anti-racism work. If you haven’t engaged in anti-racism work in the past, start now. Feel free to circulate this document on social media and with your friends, family, and colleagues.

Shareable Anti-racism Resource Guide

This is just a resource, not a map leading to a destination,  but help along the way, a strong start. The tendency to try and get through this list in its entirety and feel accomplished or to get overwhelmed by the ever growing list are real reactions we should leave behind. Again, this IS LIFE-LONG WORK that we choose to enter into, a journey for an anti-racist traveler that will take a lifetime.

75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice

Minnesota Freedom Fund

The Minnesota Freedom Fund pays criminal bail and immigration bond for those who cannot afford to as we seek to end discriminatory, coercive, and oppressive jailing.

@notsamiira

A thread of GoFundMe’s and donation sites for the local minneapolis/st. paul black and brown owned businesses that need help right now (destroyed at the hands of white supremacists):

@ElleOsiliWood

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency   Air/Water/Waste

also with useful tips like Living Green: Citizens

Our State

Resources related LGBTQ+ 

PDF introduction to gender by Dr. Jennifer McCreight

Resources related to Corona-19

The Risks – Know Them – Avoid Them

HOW TO MAKE A FACE MASK in a variety of styles

There may be 6 types of COVID19

Miscellaneous Resources

Use of the term Anglo-Saxon

Alternatives to Ableist Language