Year 3, Issue 12— March 5, 2024 | |
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Media That Makes a Difference
Changemakers Alliance is a supporter-driven spinoff of Minnesota Women's Press, designed to connect engaged feminists who care about solutions and action, and to take stories off the page into conversations.
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As we get closer to the April 13 gathering of Badass members, our year-long work on the Re-Imagining Public Safety series is speeding up. In this week's Changemakers Alliance stories you will notice a few stories related to a long-running debate:
Is (expensive) incarceration the primary way to keep the community safe, or can we go upstream by investing more deeply in methods to reduce the motivations behind criminal and violent behavior?
This is an issue that women in particular seem uniquely able to lead: to engage in restorative justice and diversion programs to impact behaviors, and to go head-to-head with older patriarchal systems that have not improved public safety in measurable ways for decades.
I met Friday with a group of survivor advocates for a discussion about how to focus more attention on the most common crime: domestic violence. Earlier in the week I talked with a man who was incarcerated at age 17 for 24 years because of violent behavior. Between those conversations lies a lot of potential for Minnesotans to begin to adjust mindsets about what can reduce crime before it happens.
— Mikki Morrissette, publisher
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Testimony and Debate About Gun Death of Children
Nationally, in the past ten years, unintentional deaths by firearms among children increased by 83 percent.
Suicide deaths among youth increased by 70 percent. Death by gun violence increased by 85 percent.
This story captures the latest debate about gun safety at the Minnesota legislature, related to two bills led by Rep. Jamie Becker-Finn (D-40B) and Rep. Kaohly Vang Her (D-64A).
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How Youth Violence Happens: A Conversation With Shea Holt
"Looking back, the more I’d hold things in, the less I cared about anybody. It did really come down to that: 'Nobody cares about what I feel. I don’t even know what I’m feeling, other than I feel frustrated and angry and I don’t even know why.' ... To know that you’re not just by yourself is an incredibly huge thing."
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Who Decides Whether Restorative Justice Is Allowed to Become More Effective Than Incarceration?
"What we do in this country is incarcerate, and we haven’t really [done much of] anything other than incarcerate." — Hennepin County Commissioner Angela Conley
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ECOLUTION: Evolution of Stronger Economies & Ecosystems
series underwritten by Seward Co-op
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By 1912, President Teddy Roosevelt had come to believe that a strong federal government was the only way for citizens to maintain control over corporations, which he saw as the inevitable outcome of the industrial economy. In a speech from Kansas, after a lawsuit filed by Minnesota against a railroad monopoly was not heard by the Supreme Court, Roosevelt called for a new nationalism.
“The absence of effective state, and, especially, national, restraint upon unfair money-getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy and economically powerful men, whose chief object is to hold and increase their power. The object of government is the welfare of the people.”
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