May ’23 Events
Bring Her Home
Friday May 5
4:30 – 8:30 PM
East Phillips Park Cultural and Community Center
2307 17th Avenue S
Free
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 Medicine
Through June 10
All My Relations Arts
1414 E Franklin Avenue
Free
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 2015. With Anishnaabe tradition, a part of the grief ceremony is gifting. This beautiful exhibition acknowledges all of the good life that Jesse experienced when he was here on Earth. These gifts come from kindness, from a deep love that honors Piitwewetam.… Read the rest “May ’23 Events”
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Open in new tab 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 community that has borne the brunt of racist and violent policing for decades.
MDHR’s investigation highlights what we already know: that left to its own devices, the MPD will avoid accountability and reparative action at all costs. How can the communities who lost Jamar Clark, Terrance Franklin, Justine Damond, Travis Jordan, George Floyd, Amir Locke and many others trust the very institution that has inflicted decades of brutality to carry out reforms?… Read the rest “MDHR Settlement Response:”
