Jacob Wheeler

Macalester College students Leewana Thomas and Rebecca Hornstein thought they were inventing a new social activism tool when they and 20 of their friends blocked the entrance in late April to the Weyerhauser administration building, which includes school president Brian Rosenberg’s office.

The Second Chance Coalition, co-founded by Sarah Walker, is blazing a trail for Minnesotans with criminal records who are reentering society and struggling to find jobs, housing and the right to vote.

Holy Week isn’t just a school holiday when kids color eggs and dress up like bunnies. For progressive faith leaders who represent the ISAIAH coalition of churches and social justice believers, remembering the passion, death and Resurrection of Christ is a sacred time, and an appropriate time to call out sin and to come to the aid of those in need.

It turns out that the menacing specter of Voter Fraud — a nightmare scenario carried into every corner of Minnesota by conservative activists pushing for passage last fall of a Constitutional amendment requiring voters to produce photo identification — is real!