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.

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

Elizabeth Tannen

Poet Finds Community in Justice Work.

Bruce Nestor

People's Lawyer, Urban Gardener

Susana De Leon

Attorney & Dancer without Borders.

Tina Burnside

Harvesting the Stories Community Needs

Kendrick Wronski

Woman Behind the Painted Signs

Raymond Dehn

Critical Resistance, Architecture, and State Electoral Politics.

Mel Reeves (1957-2022)

Fights the Power

Kenneth Holt 

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

Bruce Drewlow

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

April Knutson

Builds United Fronts for Paix et Égalité

Angela Conley

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

Roya Damsaz

From Iranian Revolution to Grassroots Movements in North Minneapolis