It takes more than a law to eliminate structural racism. According to Minneapolis City Council Member Cam Gordon it also takes people speaking up and telling their stories. Listen to some of them. Continue Reading →
Council member Cam Gordon said that repealing the laws won’t change structural racism, but telling stories like was done at today’s hearing will. Watch the video to hear those stories.
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Do Minneapolis police use “lurking” laws to harass blacks? Yes, said many people who attended a community meeting about repealing the laws; several had personally experienced the harassment.
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Thursday night, Minneapolis City Council members and groups concerned about laws that police may be abusing to harass the public held a discussion about repealing some of those laws -called the “New Jim Crow” laws because police use them disproportionately against minorities.
The discussion at Mathews Park in Minneapolis was live streamed on The UpTake. Continue Reading →
Neighborhoods Organizing For Change Field (NOC) Organizer Mike Griffin led a “people’s state of the union” presentation at Minneapolis City Hall that outlined systemic labor issues for low-wage workers and how certain city laws are being abused by police to harass minorities. Continue Reading →
A new report shows that from 2009 to2012, people in predominantly non-white Minneapolis neighborhoods such as Near North and Camden were three times more likely to be denied loans – - regardless of what race the person was who applied for the loan. “The lack of access to credit continues to plague communities of color in the Twin Cities Metropolitan area,” says Myron Orfield from the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity. (More…) Continue Reading →
A new era in Minneapolis and Minnesota politics began Monday (Jan. 6) as seven new City Council members — including the first Latina, the first Somali and the first Hmong-American to be elected to the 13-member body — were sworn in and new Mayor Betsy Hodges called for an end to the “gaps” between white people and people of color in the city. Continue Reading →
Minneapolis City Council President Barbara Johnson is the target of anger over how a new Vikings stadium has been financed at the expense of other needs in Minneapolis. Continue Reading →
The Minneapolis City Council voted down a resolution by Council President Barbara Johnson that would have banned Occupy protesters from gathering in public spaces without permits and given police more power to crack down on them. Continue Reading →
