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November 17, 2023 at 10:06 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

        Dear John, I’d like to share a call to action from adrienne maree brown: “keep your hearts soft, your grief honored, your calls consistent, your actions escalating. the tide is turning but we need so many more voices to create so much more pressure to staunch the …

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November 3, 2023 at 10:32 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

        Dear John, I’ve been sitting with and appreciating these words and this practice from Cole Arthur Riley (Black Liturgies):  Inhale This is too much to hold. Exhale So we hold it together. None of us can do everything, but all of us can do something – and together,…

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October 20, 2023 at 10:23 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

We know the value of human life; we know people should have access to food, water and care; we know babies have a right to grow old; we know violence only brings more violence. We know enough to act for peace now. Join me in calling on elected officials to demand a ceasefire.       …

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October 6, 2023 at 9:56 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

        Dear John, When I think about the new worlds that we’re building, I sometimes get stuck at the question of “but how”? Sometimes, I ruminate on an offering from Octavia Butler: that “there’s no single answer that will solve all of our future problems. There’s no ma…

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September 22, 2023 at 10:21 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

        Dear John, I’m Jessie (she/her), and I’m so excited to be in touch with you as I author the News Digest for the next couple of months. It’s so important to our movements to share stories of success and solidarity, imagination and experimentation, and hard stuff th…

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  Katie Blanchard and Jessica Zimmerman via TakeAction Minnesota · [email protected]

September 15, 2023 at 9:49 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

        Dear John, As we’re writing this, it’s a crispy fall morning. This is the last News Digest we (Jessica + Katie) will be writing for you. But don’t worry – the Digest will continue with a new author. Keep reading to find out who! It has been such an honor and privi…

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September 13, 2023 at 6:25 PM

We are so close!

Member Drive extended through FridayTakeAction Minnesota Member DriveDear John,  I have something important to share: the Member Drive is EXTENDED through this Friday, and we are halfway to our goal of 100 members renewed going into elections season and beyond.    We are so close! And I know we can …

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  Laura Kiernan via TakeAction Minnesota · [email protected]

September 10, 2023 at 12:57 AM

The Power of Organizing 💥

Donate now to invest in year-round organizingTakeAction Minnesota Member DriveDear John,   As you saw from Bobbi’s email on Wednesday, this week is our MEMBER DRIVE! As the Fundraising Specialist at TakeAction, I have waited for this moment since I was a wee girl... Imagine the possibilities: collec…

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  Katie Blanchard and Jessica Zimmerman via TakeAction Minnesota · [email protected]

September 8, 2023 at 10:41 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

        Dear John, We write with that special magical energy of the first week of school (for many!) – and also with best wishes for rest and recovery this weekend after a hectic transition week in both the school year and the weather. It’s also another week of serious ne…

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  Bobbi Braaten via TakeAction Minnesota · [email protected]

September 6, 2023 at 5:16 PM

Our Member Drive begins TODAY 💖

Donate now to invest in year-round organizingTakeAction Minnesota Member DriveDear John,  I have big news: TakeAction Minnesota is kicking off our fall Member Drive TODAY.    Why is this big news, you ask? Over the past year, Minnesotans have celebrated historic wins – electing a governing trifecta,…

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  Laura Kiernan and Jessica Zimmerman via TakeAction Minnesota · [email protected]

September 1, 2023 at 10:51 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

        Dear John, #HotSummer turned up the heat this week with Hurricane Idalia wreaking havoc in Florida. We are heartbroken to see the devastation brought to the communities along the coast and are in solidarity with those in Florida who have lost loved ones, homes and…

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August 25, 2023 at 9:16 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

        Dear John, This week we’re noticing a theme about money: money for our schools, workers, athletes, health, planet and more. Are our resources allocated to ensure our communities thrive? As fundraisers, we (Jessica and Laura) operate from a philosophy of abundance.…

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  Katie Blanchard and Jessica Zimmerman via TakeAction Minnesota · [email protected]

August 18, 2023 at 9:19 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

        Dear John, This week there is lots to celebrate and lots to mourn. We mourn the loss of lives in the Minneapolis punk and DIY communities and in the wildfires in Maui. We celebrate lots of power in labor organizing – among rideshare drivers, home care workers, and…

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  Laura Kiernan and Jessica Zimmerman via TakeAction Minnesota · [email protected]

August 11, 2023 at 11:17 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

        Dear John, We are so excited to share another special edition of the News Digest! This week, Jessica and Laura have teamed up with TakeAction Minnesota member and avid reader, Charlie, to help unlock a list of AMAZING Minnesota-based authors and storytellers. So s…

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July 28, 2023 at 9:36 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

        Dear John, It’s time for another special ~summer~ edition of the News Digest! Now, we’re turning to music. Jess and Katie invited me (Laura, she/her, Fundraising Specialist at TakeAction) to guest-write this edition: hi everybody! I’ve had so much fun soliciting e…

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  Katie Blanchard and Jessica Zimmerman via TakeAction Minnesota · [email protected]

July 21, 2023 at 10:24 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

        Dear John, There’s a lot of attention to money, power, and wealth inequality in this week’s News Digest. Don’t miss the facts about race and income inequality in Minnesota from the Minnesota Reformer, or the WGA members calling attention to whether it is workers o…

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July 14, 2023 at 9:42 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

        Dear John, President Fran Drescher of SAG-AFTRA represents our feelings best this week: THE JIG IS UP. In our conditions of work, in our conditions of safety, in the midst of the climate catastrophes that are unrolling across the planet. This week’s News Digest ce…

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June 30, 2023 at 9:34 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

        Dear John, We hope you’re excited for a special summer edition of the Digest, thanks to all of your incredible book recommendations. We’re excited to dive into this slice of the literature world while staying cool this summer.  Now that we know what you’ve been re…

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June 16, 2023 at 10:23 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

        Dear John, June is Pride month, and as we know, Pride honors the LGBTQ+ liberation movement in the 1970s when queer and trans folks rose up against police harassment. Police raided the Stonewall Inn, an LGBTQ bar in Greenwich Village. Black and brown trans sibling…

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  Katie Blanchard and Jessica Zimmerman via TakeAction Minnesota · [email protected]

June 9, 2023 at 10:11 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

        Dear John, Now that an incredible legislative session is over, summer in Minnesota feels like it’s officially descending upon us. For me (Jessica), this means it’s finally time to catch up on a bunch of reading – next to one of Minnesota’s beautiful bodies of wate…

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  Sabrina Mauritz via TakeAction Minnesota · [email protected]

May 30, 2023 at 3:09 PM

#mnleg session, wrapped

The 2023 legislative session is over #mnleg session, wrapped Dear John, We believe in a Minnesota where we all have the care we need, clean air to breathe and clean water to drink. We believe in public goods that serve us, and that are universal, where no one is carved o…

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  Katie Blanchard and Jessica Zimmerman via TakeAction Minnesota · [email protected]

May 26, 2023 at 9:51 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

        Dear John, It’s been a huge week – legislative session wrapped up in Minnesota, and we are clear: there is so much to celebrate, and there is so much to keep fighting for. This week’s news grounds us in both: the substantive policy wins that we deserve to see and …

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  Katie Blanchard and Jessica Zimmerman via TakeAction Minnesota · [email protected]

May 19, 2023 at 9:41 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

        Dear John, It’s the final stretch of the 2023 Minnesota legislative session, and there is a lot to celebrate! Organizing – building people power over many years – has landed victories for environmental justice, workers, children, and families. It’s powerful to mov…

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  Sabrina Mauritz via TakeAction Minnesota · [email protected]

May 17, 2023 at 10:07 PM

Speak up for immigrant inclusion in MNCare

Plus: A BIG #mnleg update Healthcare is a human right: Speak up for immigrant inclusion Dear John, A BIG #mnleg session update for you, but first, a request:  Healthcare is a human right. And there’s a bill moving forward at the legislature right now that would make heal…

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  Katie Blanchard and Jessica Zimmerman via TakeAction Minnesota · [email protected]

May 12, 2023 at 10:28 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

        Dear John, If you follow #mnleg social media chatter or are tracking the news, you may have encountered discourse around Minnesota taking strides towards being the #BestState. As people who have tremendous Midwest pride, we are all for claims of Minnesota being “s…

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  Sabrina + Jesse via TakeAction Minnesota · [email protected]

May 10, 2023 at 8:23 PM

Urgent: Your voice needed NOW on environmental justice bill

Negotiations happening tonight! Negotiations happening NOW on environmental justice bill  Dear John, None of our lives are disposable.  And yet, it’s legal for big corporations and powerful institutions to choose, over and over, to build and operate polluting facilities …

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  Sabrina Mauritz via TakeAction Minnesota · [email protected]

May 8, 2023 at 10:38 PM

URGENT: Join us tomorrow to fight back against Corporate Power

It's time for lawmakers to choose Minnesotans, not corporations Enough is enough. #PeopleOverProfits   Dear John,  I'm writing with an update about an alarm that we've been raising for months: Corporations are pushing hard to protect their profits and their power at the …

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  Katie Blanchard and Jessica Zimmerman via TakeAction Minnesota · [email protected]

May 5, 2023 at 9:09 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

        Dear John, There are important voices in this week’s News Digest. It’s a week of bold truth-telling in the face of overt and horrifying acts of violence and oppression – and also in the face of the subtle, pernicious work of corporate greed and grinding bureaucra…

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  Jessica Zimmerman via TakeAction Minnesota · [email protected]

May 4, 2023 at 1:06 AM

Imagine this: a world where there is no burden of drug costs.

Donate now to make this dream a reality. Affordable medicine now Dear John,   When I was 22-years old, I received a $3,000 quote for a 30-day supply of my SSRI prescription that had historically cost $25. I was diagnosed with anxiety at fourteen, and the SSRI saved my l…

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  Katie Blanchard and Jessica Zimmerman via TakeAction Minnesota · [email protected]

April 28, 2023 at 9:11 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

        Dear John, Yesterday (Thursday) we learned Kevin Yang was killed by law enforcement. Kevin and so many others should still be alive today.  Ruth Wilson Gilmore reminds us that when we talk about a police-free future, “abolition is about presence, not absence. It’s…

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  Robert Haider via TakeAction Minnesota · [email protected]

April 27, 2023 at 8:17 PM

We’re taking on Big Pharma

Affordable medicine nowWe're so close to winning affordable medicineDear John,    Right now, pharmaceutical corporations are taking extreme measures to gut prescription drug affordability. You may have even seen some of their misleading ads in newspapers like the Star Tribune.  We need to stop Big P…

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  Sabrina Mauritz via TakeAction Minnesota · [email protected]

April 26, 2023 at 10:50 PM

Fight back against corporate shenanigans at #mnleg

Our lives matter more than their profits Fight back against corporate shenanigans at #mnleg   Dear John,  Two things are true at the MN Capitol right now:  Legislative champions have passed crucial bills this session, and we’re making progress.  Corporate lackeys a…

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  Katie Blanchard and Jessica Zimmerman via TakeAction Minnesota · [email protected]

April 14, 2023 at 9:50 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

        Dear John, We hope readers enjoyed safe and fun spring breaks and legislative breaks and 3rd-snowiest-winter-slush-shoveling breaks. (One of the authors of this week’s Digest must admit she kind of hopes we get enough snow to enter the top 2 snowiest winters next …

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April 6, 2023 at 3:11 PM

Because of you, we met the match!

Now, let’s get #PaidSickDays across the finish line Thank you 💗Dear John,   ICYMI: last week, an anonymous donor tripled all donations to TakeAction in honor of progressive majorities leading in Minnesota’s DFL trifecta.   And I’m so excited to share: grassroots donors, like you, showed up. TakeActi…

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March 29, 2023 at 9:46 PM

📢 Triple match EXTENDED 📢

Let’s show our legislators that we won’t stop.📢 Triple match extended!Dear John,    Our match is extended 📢 so all donations to TakeAction Minnesota will be TRIPLED by an anonymous donor until midnight tomorrow. 🔥   Donate $3, $30, or $300 now to meet the match and show our legislators that we won’t…

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  Bobbi Braaten via TakeAction Minnesota · [email protected]

March 28, 2023 at 9:52 PM

We need to be louder than corporations and their lobbyists

Join us for the final push.We need to be louder than corporations + their lobbyists 🔊Dear John,    We are so close to becoming the fourth state that provides workers with #PaidSickDays. Minnesota workers have been organizing for this right for over ten years, and with your support, we can make this …

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  Sabrina Mauritz via TakeAction Minnesota · [email protected]

March 27, 2023 at 10:05 PM

Turning up the heat on #mnleg with a triple match 🔥

Donate now to put the pressure on legislators.Turn up the heat on #mnleg 🔥Dear John,    While legislators are getting ready for session break, we’re turning up the heat. 🔥    In honor of the blue trifecta, an anonymous donor is TRIPLING all donations now through Wednesday. Help us raise $3,000 in 3 …

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  Katie Blanchard and Jessica Zimmerman via TakeAction Minnesota · [email protected]

March 24, 2023 at 9:46 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

        Dear John, Twenty years ago this week, I (Katie) participated in an act of protest for the first time. I wore a black armband at my high school to show opposition to the invasion of Iraq, in solidarity with historic antiwar protests around the globe. It was a tiny…

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March 17, 2023 at 9:47 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

        Dear John, This past Wednesday, March 15th was International Long Covid Awareness Day. A 2022 CDC study showed that 1 in 5 American adults who have had Covid-19 still have long Covid. This explainer and podcast from Vox gets into the current state of the research …

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March 10, 2023 at 10:34 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

        Dear John, In the News Digest this week, we’re talking about care. Care for trans and nonbinary people, for kids, for disabled folks. Care for our health and care for our climate.  When we talk with our members and with Minnesotans across the state, care is more t…

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March 3, 2023 at 10:59 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

        Dear John, $17.5 billion.  That’s Minnesota’s projected budget surplus for the next two years. In this week’s Digest, we feature news, organizing, and policy fights that invite us to really confront the idea that budgets are moral documents.  We want to see Minnes…

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  Katie Blanchard and Jessica Zimmerman via TakeAction Minnesota · [email protected]

February 24, 2023 at 10:28 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

        Dear John, This week, we saw the results of decades of organizing by dedicated Minnesotans – our neighbors, friends, loved ones, and elected champions. The Minnesota Senate passed historic bills including one that restores the right to vote to 50,000+ Minnesotans …

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February 17, 2023 at 10:45 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

        Dear John, We wrote most of this week’s Digest from the Capitol rotunda, listening to Minnesota House members debate the #PaidSickDays bill. We’re excited to report that the bill passed! 🎉 None of us should worry about losing our job if we need a sick day, and now…

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February 10, 2023 at 10:20 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

        Dear John, It’s Valentine’s Day weekend. Here’s what we love this week: 💝 Paid Sick Days and Safe Days 💝 Our health 💝 Treaty Rights  💝 Our planet Here’s what we’re reading, watching and listening to this week: 1. Sick and SAFE time In The American Prospect, labor …

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February 3, 2023 at 10:49 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

        Dear John, 968 and 868. That’s how many bills have been introduced in the Minnesota House and Senate already this year – hundreds more than every session since 2009. In this week’s news digest, you will see the results of DECADES of organizing by activists and org…

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  Katie Blanchard and Jessica Zimmerman via TakeAction Minnesota · [email protected]

January 27, 2023 at 11:23 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

        Dear John, Our hearts are heavy with the police murders of Tyre Nichols, Keenan Anderson, and Tortuguita, and the murders and violence in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay in Palestine and Iran. There is so much we want to transform so that these things can never ha…

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January 20, 2023 at 10:46 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

        Dear John, We’re reflecting on love and power this week, grounded in a quote from Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that we often dig into in our organizing trainings about building power. Here’s the full quote, from King’s book Where Do We Go From Here. Tell us wh…

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January 13, 2023 at 11:43 PM

This Week in Action: The TakeAction News Digest

        Dear John, Happy 2023! After a restful hiatus and lots of snow shoveling, we’re excited to be back. Hope you were able to enjoy the turn of the Gregorian new year as well. The year kicked off with an exciting start. On the federal level, House Republicans eventual…

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December 31, 2022 at 7:25 PM

We have a big agenda for 2023.

Invest now to be a part of big wins. Invest now to be a part of big wins. Hello John,  Today is the LAST DAY of the year, and I want to make sure you saw Elianne’s message from last week (below my signature), because we have a lot planned for 2023. And we need you with u…

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December 29, 2022 at 2:10 PM

We’re building a healthy, safe, and thriving future for all of us.

Power these conversations in the New Year. We’re building a healthy, safe, and thriving future for all of us. Hello John,  Can you believe we’re in the final days of 2022? It’s been another whirlwind of a year, and we have a lot to look back on. In case you missed it, ch…

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