Resistance is NOT futile

Information to aid resistance.

With the 2024 election we’re back into resistance mode. I hope to renovate this page and collect together useful resources that might aid protecting the community I live in and the people I love. Onward! Starter pack article.

Minnesota  

All things Minnesotan Everything you would want to know about how things work in Minnesota.

Elected officials: MN House  MN Senate MN Governor MN Federally Recognised Tribal Governments (2023)

All things Morris, MN, The Morris Model, University of Minnesota, Morris

West Central Research & Outreach Center | Morris, MN

Indivisible  Morris Last post was June 2020 but I hope they will begin posting again.

West Central Minnesota Climate Network Based in Morris, MN, we usually meet the first Saturday of the month. Meetings are mainly on line though during the summer we try to have out door in-person gatherings. Promoting community connections and well being while organising to protect the environment in which we live.

Mask Up Morris A group of Morris, MN community members educating about, distributing, and wearing masks as an act of community care! #MaskUpMorris

Resources related to Climate Change

West Central Minnesota Climate Network Based in Morris, MN, we usually meet the first Saturday of the month. Meetings are mainly on line though during the summer we try to have out door in-person gatherings.

The Morris Model

West Central Initiative Neighbourliness Generosity Empowerment Trend-testing

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency   committed to ensuring that every Minnesotan has healthy air, sustainable lands, clean water, and a better climate.

also with useful tips like Living Green: Citizens

Resources related LGBTQ+ 

PDF introduction to gender by Dr. Jennifer McCreight

Why Human Sex is not Binary Ova don’t make a woman, and sperm don’t make a man. May 2023

Stop Using Phony Science to Justify Transphobia Actual research shows that sex is anything but binary, June 2019

SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19

CIDRAP Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy

Mask Up Morris A group of Morris, MN community members educating about, distributing, and wearing masks as an act of community care! #MaskUpMorris

Project N95 list of mask suppliers

There may be 6 types of COVID19 July 2020

Minnesota WasteWater Survey This dashboard is designed to provide a quick snapshot of pathogens, or viruses, found in wastewater from treatment plants throughout Minnesota.

Miscellaneous Resources

Our State

Use of the term Anglo-Saxon

Alternatives to Ableist Language

#BlackLivesMatter Resources

PDF of Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis

MPD 150 A People’s Project Evaluating Policing

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.

106 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice

Minnesota Freedom Fund Minnesota Freedom Fund pays cash bails and immigration bonds for those who can’t afford it, because wealth should never decide who is kept in detention and who goes free.

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