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Some of the questions media and communities can develop impactful stories about, before and after crisis, include:

• What is being done in community to help children, and people who know them, recover from the trauma of witnessing violence in the home?
• How have past survivors of domestic abuse been helped in community with others? In what ways did they not have to carry the burden alone? What do we need more of to deal with the ongoing crisis of domestic violence?
• Where do people, like the man in Burnsville, who are prevented from legally getting guns and ammunition, get them?
• What kind of "anger management" classes did the Burnsville man take, and how effective is that as rehabilitation, which he offered in his attempt to regain legal possession of firearms in 2020 (an appeal that was denied by judge Dannia Edwards)?
• What are the steps community can take to help avert this kind of crisis?

If you would like to become part of the exploration of what can lead to more effective community responses, and how to take headlines into action that can authentically improve community safety, please join the April 13 discussion (available online and in person) as a Badass member.

Thanks to Seward Co-op for making our Ecolution series possible

Factory Farms Growing at Taxpayer and Climate Expense — But Minnesota Bucking Some National Trends

The Guardian indicated that Food and Water Watch analysis found that 24,000 factory farms are producing 940 billion pounds of manure each year — double the amount of sewage produced by the entire U.S. population. This is 52 billion pounds more in greenhouse gas-emitting concentrated manure than in 2017, the equivalent to creating a new city of 39 million habitants in the past five years.

There is some good news about Minnesota small farmers, however.

Thanks to Women Winning for supporting this series

Minnesota Women Central in Discussions About Ukraine

"One of the key shifts in a successful peace process is the inclusion of women in all parts of the process from the very earliest point. These deals [do not] hold if you don’t have everyone at the table. And they don’t hold for sure if you don’t have women in the process."

— Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, law professor at the University of Minnesota

End-of-Life-Options Act testimony

Chokehold restraint in schools debate



coverage thanks to Minnesota Association for Children's Mental Health

Connecting engaged feminists who care

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"39 Years of Voice & Vision"

April 13, 2024

Bringing Badass members statewide together to talk about

solutions to gender-based violence,

re-imagining public safety,

diversity in politics, and collective health.

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Badass Minnesotans of the Year

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Junauda Petrus, newly named Minnesota Book Awards finalist for her storybook, "Can We

Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers?," will

do a reading.

Spoken word artist Muna Abdulahi will perform.

"The truth is, to be a woman in a space that was not built for you is to know how to build space with your bare hands, to demand the attention of any room you step into."

Deneal Trueblood-Lynch and some of her cast will read from her play, "Secrets," about the trauma that impacts a majority of women at the Shakopee Women's Prison.

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Assistant Attorney General Katherine Kelly on how the state protects renters

Solving Issues With the Unhoused: A Conversation With Rinal Ray

The State of Minnesota Housing

Land Trusts and Co-ops

• Do you want to see at a glance what Minneapolis councils and boards are talking about? Check out the Documenters newsletter (one of our media partners).

• Community Journalism Trainings, hosted by a media partner. February 17, March 8, and March 16. Find details here.

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