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.

Susana De Leon

Attorney & Dancer without Borders.

Brittany Lewis

Action Researcher Leads with Love

Guy Terrill Gambill

Veteran, Once Homeless, Fought for Housing Rights.

Adriana Cerrillo

Elevates Immigrant Voices to Change Racist Policies

Raymond Dehn

Critical Resistance, Architecture, and State Electoral Politics.

Chris Juhn

Social Movement Photographer and ABLE Press Founder

Ricardo Levins Morales

Radical Community Artist

Rose Brewer

From Tulsa to Minneapolis: Activist Scholar is Rooted in Community

Marcie Rendon

Writes the Indigenous Mystery.

Kendrick Wronski

Woman Behind the Painted Signs

Elizabeth Tannen

Poet Finds Community in Justice Work.

Drew Edwards

6th Grade Teacher Struggled in School

Katrina Knutson

Urban Queer Artist Fights Police Brutality & Advances Intersectional Liberation

Nelsie Yang

Heal Together in Public

Alice A. Anderson (1932-2017)

Beautiful Activist of South Minneapolis

Kenneth Holt 

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

Jess Sundin

The People are my Mountains.

Alfreda Daniels

Organizes Across Communities & Continents.

April Knutson

Builds United Fronts for Paix et Égalité

Roxxanne O’Brien

Northside Environmental Justice Activist Speaks Truth to Power.

Phillipe Cunningham

Reimagining Public Safety in Minneapolis

Robin Wonsley

The Revolution is My Boyfriend

Angela Conley

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

Minneapolis Uprising

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

Bruce Nestor

People's Lawyer, Urban Gardener

David Tilsen

Minneapolis Activist Continues Generations of Progressive Leadership

Mel Reeves (1957-2022)

Fights the Power

Bruce Drewlow

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

David Lawrence Grant

Writing Things That Matter

Before George Floyd’s Murder: A Testimonial History of Police Brutality and Resistance in Minneapolis (Work in Progress)