Northern Progressives
Updates

2025-11-16

Hello

**News: The "Breakfast Club" is now "Breakfast in the Afternoon" We will meet on the 2nd and 4th Fridays of the month at Tavern In The Bay in Greenwood Township (near Tower) at 2 p.m. (with the exception of Nov 21 instead of Nov 28 this month).

Please make a note on your calendar and plan to join us at the new time and place.

Next Membership Meeting!

When:
Wednesday, November 19, 6:30–8:00pm
Where:
Cook Community Center
510 Gopher Dr.
Cook, MN

Kristen Wesloh will join us with an update on the CANN program, Cook's own mutual aid initiative. The meeting is open to the public. Kristen welcomes ideas and thoughts about how CANN can grow and work for ALL. Please bring non-perishable items for the food shelf.

Breakfast in the Afternoon

When:
Friday, November 21, 2:00pm
Not on the 4th Friday this month
Where:
Tavern In The Bay
Greenwood Township
near Tower, MN

Here's your opportunity to set the agenda for our future actions and programming! Come join in the conversation as we plan upcoming events.

All are welcome to attend.

Signing & Resisting Events

Each Friday at noon at the following locations:

  • Cook: Hwy 53 and River Street
  • Tower: Mainstreet by the locomotive
  • Ely: Sheridan St. & Central Ave

Signs should include issues common to everyone like good jobs, enough money for food and healthcare, and a good education.

poster for event

Trainings

ACLU November People Power Action Call

When:
Tuesday, November 18, 8:00pm ET (7:00pm CT)
Where:
Online

One year into the Trump administration's return to power, we've seen the full weight of their attacks: on immigrants, trans people, students, journalists, and anyone who dares to dissent. They wanted to break our spirit. They wanted us to look away.

But we didn't back down. We fought back in courtrooms, classrooms, and in the streets across the country.

Now, as we close out 2025, we're coming together to reflect, recharge, and recommit to the fight ahead in 2026.

Learn more

Calls to Action

We Ain’t Buying It

This Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday — hit pause on shopping from major corporations.

With the holiday season approaching, let’s make our dollars count.

We have power as consumers and we can leverage that power to protect our democracy and send a powerful message to companies: When you support Trump, we don’t support you.

Join the We Ain’t Buying It campaign and take action over Thanksgiving to pressure companies to stop colluding with the Trump administration and enabling their authoritarian overreach.

poster for event

Learn more

Campaign website
from Indivisible

Mass Blackout

Another initiative

This is a coordinated economic shutdown—a collective refusal to participate in a system that profits off our pain, exploits our labor, and buys our politicians.

Learn more

Other boycotts

Boycott Central

List of current boycotts

Northern Progressives Schedule & Structure

NP Group meetings are held:

First & third Wednesdays in Tower or Cook

Breakfast in the Afternoon

Note: We will be meeting Nov 21 this month instead of the 28th

Everyone is welcome to come and discuss current happenings, help shape the direction of NP, and get to know each other.

Northern Progressives Communication Committee

General email (submit ideas here):
hello@northernprogressives.org

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Write to us at: hello@northernprogressives.org to speak your mind & send ideas. We value your input!