Minneapolis Interview Project

Life stories through a social justice lens

Policing & Criminal Justice

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.

Roya Damsaz

From Iranian Revolution to Grassroots Movements in North Minneapolis

Minneapolis Uprising

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

Bruce Nestor

People's Lawyer, Urban Gardener

Kendrick Wronski

Woman Behind the Painted Signs

Bruce Drewlow

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

Alice A. Anderson (1932-2017)

Beautiful Activist of South Minneapolis

Jess Sundin

The People are my Mountains.

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

August Nimtz

History and Contingency in the Making of a Black Communist.

Brittany Lewis

Action Researcher Leads with Love

Drew Edwards

6th Grade Teacher Struggled in School

Veronica Mendez Moore

CTUL Organizer Builds Labor Power with Marginalized Workers

Jason Sole at Hamline University, January 23, 2020

Jason Sole

Makes Sacred Trouble

April Knutson

Builds United Fronts for Paix et Égalité

Sandy Hernandez

Undocumented Immigrants Are My People.

Katrina Knutson

Urban Queer Artist Fights Police Brutality & Advances Intersectional Liberation

David Tilsen

Minneapolis Activist Continues Generations of Progressive Leadership

Nelsie Yang

Heal Together in Public

Kenneth Holt 

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

Phillipe Cunningham

Reimagining Public Safety in Minneapolis

Jane Burnett

St. Louis Park Girl Radicalized in 1970s Chicago

Roxxanne O’Brien

Northside Environmental Justice Activist Speaks Truth to Power.

John Samuel Wright

The Struggle for Freedom is Transgenerational

Raymond Dehn

Critical Resistance, Architecture, and State Electoral Politics.

Elizabeth Tannen

Poet Finds Community in Justice Work.

Angela Conley

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

Angela Hooks

Founder of Black On Black Development

Susana De Leon

Attorney & Dancer without Borders.

Rose Brewer

From Tulsa to Minneapolis: Activist Scholar is Rooted in Community

Tina Burnside

Harvesting the Stories Community Needs

Minneapolis Interview Project
Life Stories that reveal inequities and struggles for social justice in Minneapolis

Anne Winkler-Morey

Anne Winkler-Morey is a writer, historian, educator, activist and bicyclist based in Minneapolis. She is a scholar of social movements, nationalism and inequality in the US and Latin America. She began writing the Minneapolis Interview Project in May, 2016, completing it in November 2023. Her book, Allegiance to Winds and Waters: Bicycling the Political Divides of the United States , was published April, 2022. In November 2023 she began a two-year world tour. Read her blog at: annewinklermorey.com

Eric Mueller

Eric Mueller is a Minneapolis-based artist, photographer, and teacher. He began photographing portraits for the Minneapolis Interview Project in early 2019. His photo book, Family Resemblance, was published by Daylight Books in 2020. His year-long, photo-a-day project "Reset 2021" was exhibited at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum in Winona in 2022.

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