This pages includes posts on policing, (Mel Reeves, Jess Sundin, Jason Sole)  prisons, (Jason Sole, Filiberto Nolasco Gomez, Nelsie Yang) police in schools, the prison industrial complex, MPD150, defunding the police, abolition, mass incarceration, the formerly incarcerated, re-entry programs, ( Marcie Rendon, David Lawrence Grant, Jason Sole) restorative justice, George Floyd, Philando Castile, Jamar Clark, the 4th Precinct occupation, the 3rd precinct burning, the Minneapolis Uprising, Minneapolis riots and alternatives to policing and prisons.

Chris Juhn


Social Movement Photographer and ABLE Press Founder

Elizabeth Tannen


Poet Finds Community in Justice Work.

Ronald Judy


Rich Complexity of the Historic, South Minneapolis Black Community

Artika Tyner


Planting People and Growing Justice

Alice A. Anderson (1932-2017)


Beautiful Activist of South Minneapolis

Marcie Rendon


Writes the Indigenous Mystery.

Jess Sundin


The People are my Mountains.

Adriana Cerrillo


Elevates Immigrant Voices to Change Racist Policies

Susana De Leon


Attorney & Dancer without Borders.

Mel Reeves (1957-2022)


Fights the Power

Bruce Nestor


People's Lawyer, Urban Gardener

Angela Hooks


Founder of Black On Black Development

Jane Burnett


St. Louis Park Girl Radicalized in 1970s Chicago

Veronica Mendez Moore


CTUL Organizer Builds Labor Power with Marginalized Workers

Bruce Drewlow


Northern Minnesota to North Minneapolis: the Education of an Educator.

Roxxanne O’Brien


Northside Environmental Justice Activist Speaks Truth to Power.

Guy Terrill Gambill


Veteran, Once Homeless, Fought for Housing Rights.

Minneapolis Uprising


Testimony and Timeline, May 25th -July 9, 2020

August Nimtz


History and Contingency in the Making of a Black Communist.

Jason Sole at Hamline University, January 23, 2020

Jason Sole


Makes Sacred Trouble

Drew Edwards


6th Grade Teacher Struggled in School

Tina Burnside


Harvesting the Stories Community Needs

Angela Conley


Hennepin County Commissioner Learned to Solve "Unsolvable Problems" by Listening to Survivors

Sandy Hernandez


Undocumented Immigrants Are My People.

Kenneth Holt 


For This Educator Black Lives Matter Is Not a Movement; It’s His Life

Rose Brewer


From Tulsa to Minneapolis: Activist Scholar is Rooted in Community

David Lawrence Grant


Writing Things That Matter

Katrina Knutson


Urban Queer Artist Fights Police Brutality & Advances Intersectional Liberation

Ricardo Levins Morales


Radical Community Artist