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

Speaker:

Leslie Rogne Schumacher, PhD., Lecturer at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government

Topic:

“What Is to Be Done?: Burning Questions in International and Global Affairs”

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.

Please see our website for more information on the speaker: https://northernprogressives.org

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.

May Day in Virginia (May 1)

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 Ely (May 3)

When

May 3, 11:00AM–1:00PM

Where

Whiteside Park

May Day rally celebrating labor, the working class, and families. Working people built Ely and our nation, not billionaires. Support public services for the people including medicare, medicaid, social security, and public education. Support groups and individuals that are under attack.

Please see our webpage for more event information: https://northernprogressives.org

Running as an Independent with Nebraska's Dan Osborn Zoom Training

When

May 7, 3:00PM CT

Where

Zoom (online)

In a state Trump won by 20-points, Independent Dan Osborn came within six points of unseating a two-term Republican incumbent Senator. Dan will talk about his campaign, what he ran on, and how, when and where Independents can run to win rural races.

Dan Osborn served in the United States Navy, Nebraska Army National Guard, and has punched a clock for 20 years as an industrial mechanic. As president of his union, he led the successful 2021 Kellogg’s strike in Omaha, preserving hundreds of middle-class jobs. In 2024, Dan ran for United States Senate as an independent, over-performing the presidential ballot by more than nearly any other Senate candidate in the country. Dan did it all without taking a dime from the corporations and party bosses that control Washington.

Zoom links and reminders will be emailed within 24 hours before the event. A recording will be sent to everyone who registers for this event.

Safety While Protesting

NRDC Protestors’ Guide

Room for mild optimism

Three judges including two Trump appointees, ruled against Trumpian Department of Education policy that threatened to withhold federal funding for schools engaging in DEI. life.

Senior District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly blocked parts of Trump's executive order requiring additional Voter ID documents. “Our Constitution entrusts Congress and the States — not the President — with the authority to regulate federal elections. And no statutory delegation of authority to the Executive Branch permits the President to short-circuit Congress’s deliberative process by executive order.”

The University of Minnesota Senate, comprised of 200 faculty, staff, and students, approved a resolution to band together with the other 18 Big Ten schools to fight Trump administration's funding cuts and threats to academic freedom.

Go, Minnesota! The University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) announced the Vaccine Integrity Project on Thursday. CIDRAP director Michael Osterholm said it’s intended to safeguard vaccine information, research or access in case the federal government doesn’t.

Just for fun, no politics

J. Patrick Coolican from the Minnesota Daily Reformer is compiling the greatest 50 songs of the past 50 years. (Of note: 50 years ago was 1975!)

Here is a video of Jane Goodal getting a hug: