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May ’23 Events
Bring Her HomeFriday May 54:30 – 8:30 PMEast Phillips Park Cultural and Community Center2307 17th Avenue SFree Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center is hosting a showing of Bring Her Home, a 2022 documentary following three Indigenous women as they fight to vindicate and honor their missing and murdered relatives who have fallen victims to a growing epidemic across Indian country. Despite the lasting effects of historical trauma, each woman must search for healing while navigating racist systems that brought about this very crisis. The event will include guest speakers, a feast, and a tobacco ceremony. Free and open to the community. Piitwewetam: Making is MedicineThrough June 10All My Relations Arts1414 E Franklin AvenueFree Piitwewetam: Making Is Medicine is a commemorative exhibition that presents work by the Gustafson family honoring their son and brother, Piitwewetam (Rolling Thunder), also known as the late Jesse Gustafson, who traveled to the spirit world in [...]
MDHR Settlement Response:
Consent decree falls short and keeps power out of community hands; we need an all-elected Civilian Police Accountability Commission to permanently reign in the abuses of MPD By Twin Cities Coalition for Justice for Jamar and Minneapolis for Community Control of Police On March 31st, the City of Minneapolis and the Minnesota Department of Human Rights (MDHR) signed a consent decree to address human rights violations by the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD). While the agreement lays out some much-needed policy changes, ultimately the power dynamics of the city are left unchanged. This plan hinges on the Police Chief having the will to carry out meaningful changes; however, at the end of the day, the Chief reports directly to the Community Safety Commissioner, an unelected bureaucrat, and the Mayor, who misleadingly campaigned on a no-knock warrant ban just months before Amir Locke was murdered during a no-knock warrant raid. Now they are asking for blind trust from a [...]
