Northern Progressive Updates
Member newsletter 2025.04.24
Next Meeting!
- When:
- Wednesday, May 7, 6:30PM
- Where:
- Cook Community Center
510 Gopher Dr.
Cook, MN
(note location change due to Tower not being available)
What is to be done?
Burning questions in international and global affairs
Professor Schumacher, the son of Leah Rogne and Fred Schumacher of Gheen, is a scholar of Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East. In his current course at Harvard, students learn about the central principles of international affairs and foreign policy analysis. Topics include key concepts of international relations and global affairs, tools of statecraft, and the implications of such features for contemporary policy problems.
In addition to his work in the Kennedy School, he is also an Associate in Harvard’s History Department and a Faculty Affiliate in the university’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs—one of the world’s leading international relations and public policy research centers.
Schumacher graduated from Orr High School in 2001, got his BA in history and religious studies from Hamline University, and received his PhD in modern European and Middle Eastern history from the University of Minnesota. He has taught global leadership and European regional studies at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and served as an Einaudi research fellow at Cornell University. He continues to serve on Cornell’s Fulbright Committee for European Programs.
Outside of his teaching, Schumacher serves as a Senior Fellow in the National Security Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, and he was previously the Director of the Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence at Wells College. He held fellowships at Harvard University, the University of London, and Saint Joseph’s University.
Schumacher has long worked in political and community outreach, including serving as the Tompkins County (NY) Democratic Co-Chair for NY-23’s Congressional race in 2016. In 2017, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) in honor of his civic engagement on refugee affairs in Philadelphia. In 2024, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in honor of his book, The Eastern Question in 1870s Britain: Democracy and Diplomacy, Orientalism and Empire (2023).
Action items or events
A Thought For Resistance
The administration and Congress are waiting for us to get tired and stop calling! Don't Stop Calling Congress! (We do not want them to declare martial law)
Signing/Resisting Events
Each Friday at noon at the following locations:- Cook
- Hwy 53 and River Street
- Ely
- Whiteside Park (note location change)
- Tower
- Mainstreet by the locomotive
Signs should include issues common to everyone like good jobs, enough money for food and healthcare, and a good education.
Duluth Defends Lake Superior
- When
- April 25 5:00-7:00PM
- Where
- Zeitgeist Atrium
222 E Superior St
Duluth, MN
Hear from and show your appreciation for special guest and water protector State Senator Jen McEwen. Learn from community leaders how you can stay involved to prevent pollution and destruction in Lake Superior and other Minnesota watersheds.
Our work is cut out for us as politicians try to strip away clean water protection and multinational corporations threaten to bring copper-nickel mining—the country’s most polluting industry–to our water-rich region.
Together, we can organize, advocate, defend Minnesota waters, reduce waste, and ensure a sustainable climate.
Tell Stauber Save Medicaid
MN CD 8 Hermantown Drop-Off - Hermantown Office
Calling all Planned Parenthood supporters from Minnesota's 8th congressional district! We will be showing up at Rep. Pete Stauber's office in Hermantown with fellow CD 8 constituents to demand he protect access Medicaid and Planned Parenthood health care.
- When
- Friday, April 25, 2025 12:00- 1:30PM
- Where
- CD 8 Hermantown Office
5094 Miller Trunk Hwy
Hermantown, MN 55811
Workers Memorial Day- April 28
Please join us for Workers Memorial Day on Monday April 28. All are welcome.
- When
- April 28 7:00–10:00AM
- Where
- 2002 London Rd
Duluth, MN 55812
Workers Memorial Day will be marked on Monday, April 28, this year. There will be a pancake breakfast in the basement of the Duluth Labor Temple from 7-9 AM on April 28. There will be some remarks and then we will go outside (weather permitting) to plant a memorial tree. All are welcome at this solemn community event.
May Day in Virginia
- When
- May 1 3:00-5:00PM
- Where
- Hwy 53 and 12th Ave
A signing will take place in Virginia on May Day, Thursday, May 1st from 3 to 5 p.m. on Hwy 53 and 12th Ave (by the gas stations, KFC, and Super One) This is a traditional day for "labor" and the rally's theme is "Rally for our democracy" Ideas for Signing: "Honor Your Oath" or "Our Health Care is Fed Funded"
May Day in Grand Rapids
- When
- May 1 5:30-6:30PM
- Where
- Old Central School
From Itasca Indivisible
May Day 2025 we are standing united. We're organizing for a world where every family has housing, healthcare, fair wages, union protection, and safety—regardless of race, zip code, or immigration status.
STOP THE BILLIONAIRE TAKEOVER. WE ARE THE MANY. THEY ARE THE FEW. THIS IS MAY DAY. JOIN US.
Please note: a core principle behind our May Day actions is a commitment to nonviolence in all we do. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values. Follow all laws: Use crosswalks, do not block traffic, stay off streets, do not block sidewalks.
Morning Connections for Women -100 Rural Women
These Morning Connections sessions will consist of light conversation in an undirected space via zoom. Bring beverages, children, breakfast, pets, or work – the goal is to connect informally with other women and a host who will facilitate.
Plan for Minnesota Matters Tour
The Star Tribune is coming to hear from us at various tour stops.
Inspirations
You're Not Alone excerpt from the Borowitz Report Substak (Subscribe here)
Big noisy, happy crowd in Hyannis, MA with lots of support from thousands of passing motorists. There was one Trump truck that kept circling the rotary, greeted with smiles from the crowd. Vastly outnumbered in both people and spirit. —Margo
Profoundly moving experience to be chanting “No Kings” with thousands of fellow Philadelphians at Independence Hall on the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War’s first battle. —Stew
Training & Support: Indivisible
Banned Together: The Fight Against Censorship
- When
- May 2, 6:30PM
- Where
- Virginia
"Banned Together is a must-watch film. At once inspiring, illuminating, enraging, and terrifying, the film captures the true threats of book banning and the power of young people and authors in fighting for the freedom to read."- Jonathan Friedman, PEN America
Following the film will be a discussion with guests you will recognise from the film, at the forefront of the fight for free access to ideas and equal education in the United States. Join us then for pizza and banned book bingo and continue to learn about book banning in the United States. Free copies of Fahrenheit 451 will be given away at the event (1 per family, please).
Safety While Protesting
Protesting Tips: What to Bring, How to Act, How to Stay Safe | WIRED
Ongoing Northern Progressives Structure
- NP Group meetings:
- 1st Wednesday in Tower
3rd Wednesday in Cook - Breakfast Club:
- Pattenn’s Café in Orr at 10 am on 2nd and 4th Wednesdays.
Northern Progressives Communication Committee
- Betty Firth
- bfirth88@gmail.com
- Beth Peterson
- edithepeterson@gmail.com
- Judith Ulseth
- jgtulseth@gmail.com