Anna Pratt, Writer

In the incredible ongoing saga of the Jordan Area Community Council (JACC), the neighborhood group’s former ED, Jerry Moore, who was fired after pulling punches against neighbors, is now suing blogger John Hoff (a.k.a. Johnny Northside), Donald Allen, principal of V-Media and five John Does for defamation and biased reporting. MORE »

During a May 21 community meeting at the Urban League in North Minneapolis, a local theater troupe acted out a scenario showing one woman’s struggle to get help with a civil rights complaint. The actors portrayed a system that is too bogged down to adequately address anyone’s needs. Even though the group, called Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed, wasn’t the focus of the meeting, it brought up the issue that was on the minds of attendees. MORE »

After blocking off entrances to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Bloomington, about 30 activists who participated in acts of civil disobedience were arrested as part of a peaceful protest Wednesday morning. MORE »

As we reported last week, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak has recently floated the idea of transferring the work of the City’s Civil Rights Complaints Investigations Unit to the State Human Rights Department, where he says there’s “some overlap,” as one way to deal with State cuts in Local Government Aid. MORE »

Last week, the Minneapolis City Council directed staff to organize a taskforce made up of City officials and community stakeholders to study Mayor R.T. Rybak’s recent proposal to shift the work of the City’s civil rights complaints investigations arm to the State Human Rights Department. MORE »