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St. Paul Mayor Carter declares intention to push $15 minimum wage

By Katie Jeddeloh | April 18, 2018

 

At a Midway Chamber of Commerce economic development summit, St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter said that the city will adopt a minimum wage of $15 – legislation he hopes to sign by the end of the year. Mayor Carter described the issue as “already decided.”

Mayor Carter also extended an invitation to those already working for a $15 minimum wage to join in the discussion. “I’m inviting everyone into the conversation,” Carter said.

Best of Neighborhood News 4/11: Hennepin County launches program to reduce evictions

 

In Hennepin County, Community Mediation and Restorative Services is working to reduce eviction filings in Minneapolis, especially in North Minneapolis where eviction rates are highest. Currently, women of color are the most frequently evicted. The new program will use mediators, legal help and cash assistance.

Best of Neighborhood News 4/4: New Minnesota House bill could limit SNAP food benefits

 

Rep. Kelly Fenton (R-Woodbury) has put forth a bill that would eliminate SNAP benefits (commonly called “food stamps”)  for regions that do not meet federal employment requirements. As of now, 29 counties and 12 American Indian reservations are exempt from the work requirement, and these numbers could go down with the new bill, impacting Native and rural populations most. “Jessica Webster, staff attorney with the Legal Services Advocacy Project, said the bill would be more stringent than federal law.

Best of Neighborhood News 3/28: Washburn Fellowship program gives resources to people of color becoming counselors

 

Washburn Center for Children has established a new fellowship for people of color in order to address the disparity between the number of POCs seeking mental health services and the number of POCs offering them. The Fellowship includes a stipend to help cover the cost of schooling and unpaid internships, professional mentorship with other POCs, and a supportive cohort of fellows. “This program comes from our commitment to advancing equity in the field and to helping expand the number of therapists of color,” Tom Steinmetz, [CEO of Washburn Center], said.

More Headlines

Best of Neighborhood News 3/21: House bill addresses wage gap for marginalized groups
Community Voices: More cops for who?
Poet Adina Burke on how the queer and disabled communities have more in common than not

Arts

  • Artist cooperative, Electric Machete, works to forward Latinx artwork in St. Paul’s gentrifying West Side

    “History books tell you that Aztecs and Mayans have disappeared, but we’re in front of you now.” Xilam Balam, artist, screen printer, audio engineer, lyricist, producer, teaching artist and one of the five founding members of the Electric Machete Studios said this as he sat at a table along with myself and Reynaldo Lara, another […]

  • The Twin Cities Daily Planet’s Best of 2017

    It seems like every think-piece or nonprofit email included the words “Now, more than ever” in 2017. While unprecedented challenges and tragedies rocked our national conscious in 2017, this year was the one when – more than ever – we as a community turned toward the hyper-local to affect change. For 11 years, the Twin […]

Food and restaurants

  • Project sweetie pie north minneapolis
    North Minneapolis takes back food systems, land through urban agriculture

    Transforming the community and its residents is the main goal of Northside food system organizers, who are using food as a tool to aid in that transformation.

  • Ha Tien Market
    Ha Tien Market still finds home along the Green Line, despite problems

    On a rainy, cool day Ha Tien is a warm and welcoming site.

Education

  • St. Paul’s school resource officer policies still leave district room for improvement

    On May 25, 2016, St. Paul School Resource Officer Bill Kraus forcibly arrested then 19-year-old Darion Bell outside of St. Paul Central High School. Bell, a Black youth who had recently transferred out of Central to the High School for Recording Arts, was on Central’s campus to visit one of his former teachers. Kraus used […]

  • Hiawatha Collegiate High School goes beyond ‘beating the odds’ for students of color

    Equity is one part of a broader vision for the Hiawatha network of schools.

Community Voices

  • Community Voices: Who does the executive director of MPHA really work for?

    Who does Gregory Russ really work for?

  • Community Voices: A call for ‘regeneration’ over reparations where Black potential has been stifled

    If you seek to learn about reparations specifically for Black people living in what we call the United States of America, you will see a contentious debate. One argument tracks the history, showing the ways that those enslaved in this country, their descendants and folks that looked like them were disadvantaged throughout the occupation of this land.

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Minneapolis Urban League 2100 Plymouth Ave N, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55411

8apr - 8mayapr 86:00 pmmay 8Yoga for Women of Color

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Join us for a pay-what-you-can beginner's yoga class led by Rebeka Ndosi of People's Movement Center. This class is intended to be a welcoming space to those who may not

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Join us for a pay-what-you-can beginner’s yoga class led by Rebeka Ndosi of People’s Movement Center. This class is intended to be a welcoming space to those who may not feel comfortable in traditional yoga spaces. Admission is pay-what-you-can with a suggested donation of $5.

Registration: 6pm-6:30pm
Class: 6:30pm-7:30pm

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April 8 (Sunday) 6:00 pm - May 8 (Tuesday) 7:30 pm

Location

Minneapolis Urban League

2100 Plymouth Ave N, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55411

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Minneapolis Urban League

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St. Anthony Main Theatre 115 SE Main St. Minneapolis, MN 55414

12apr - 28apr 121:00 amapr 282018 Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival

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The 2018 Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival (MSPIFF) brings bold, exciting and moving works by emerging and veteran filmmakers to the Twin Cities, April 12-28, presenting more

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The 2018 Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival (MSPIFF) brings bold, exciting and moving works by emerging and veteran filmmakers to the Twin Cities, April 12-28, presenting more than 250 new films representing over 70 countries.

MSPIFF, one of the longest-running film festivals in the country and the largest film event in the Upper Midwest, draws an attendance of 40,000 annually. This year, MSPIFF expands to include select screenings at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, in addition to screenings at its hub at the St. Anthony Main Theatre, the Capri Theater, the Uptown Theatre, Metropolitan State University’s Film Space in St. Paul and the Marcus Wehrenberg 14 Theater in Rochester.

For 37 years, the staff of the Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul, the Festival’s parent organization, has scoured international film festivals to bring a unique slate of award-winning, critically acclaimed international films to regional audiences, films that otherwise would never be screened in this market.

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12 (Thursday) 1:00 am - 28 (Saturday) 1:00 am

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St. Anthony Main Theatre

115 SE Main St. Minneapolis, MN 55414

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Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paulconnieshaver@charter.net

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East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier St, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55106

22apr1:00 pm- 2:30 pmCommunity Journalism for Social Movements: Training & Discussion

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Join us for "Community Journalism for Social Movements: Training and Discussion" on Sunday, April 22n from 1pm - 2:30pm at the East Side Freedom Library. For this Journalism of Color training,

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Join us for “Community Journalism for Social Movements: Training and Discussion” on Sunday, April 22n from 1pm – 2:30pm at the East Side Freedom Library.

For this Journalism of Color training, learn how to use journalism as a tool for building community power and to report on social change work. Journalism of Color emphasizes:

-Disrupting traditional narratives about historically-marginalized communities and systems of oppression
-Elevating the voices and experiences of historically-marginalized communities
-Writing for and by historically-marginalized communities
-Creating journalism, journalism spaces, and journalism tools that are easily accessed by these communities and can be practiced by these communities
-Developing localized journalism structures and processes, and community-based journalism and journalistic literacy.

Light snacks will be provided. Childcare will be available. Free and open to all.

For more information, contact Cirien Saadeh at cirien.saadeh@prescott.edu and 952-426-2429
or
East Side Freedom Library at info@eastsidefreedomlibrary.org and 651-230-3294

The East Side Freedom Library is located at 1105 Greenbrier Street, Saint Paul, MN 55106.

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(Sunday) 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

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East Side Freedom Library

1105 Greenbrier St, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55106

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East Side Freedom Libraryemail info@eastsidefreedomlibrary.org or call 651-230-3294

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