Know your rights information in English, Spanish & Somali languages is available here: monarcamn.org/resources

Keith Ellison, Minnesota's Attorney General, speaks out.

Our latest newsletter is available online. Thanks for reading! writersfordemocraticactionmn.org/newsletter20...

Writers must choose words carefully. This is important feedback from FrameLab. www.theframelab.org/democrats-ne...

Congratulations to all of our 2026 grant winners! Recognizing oral history, young adult literature, migration narratives, and translation, these works-in-progress illuminate important stories and are sure to carry a lasting literary impact. Learn more here: pen.org/announcing-t...

City leaders from Minneapolis and St. Paul rallied behind the Twin Cities Somali community Tuesday following reports that the Trump administration is planning an operation targeting the region’s Somali immigrants. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

An essay for World AIDS Day and the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks's valiant act of resistance, an essay on quilts and solidarity, on stitching the fragments together.

‘If I was American, I’d be worried about my country’: Margaret Atwood answers questions from Ai Weiwei, Rebecca Solnit and more

"Borders are not fixed lines demarcating territory. They are elastic; bordering regimes can be enforced anywhere." Border control is often outsourced to other countries in exchange for trade or aid agreements. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

The White House “media offenders” list isn’t just a stunt but a dangerous attempt to silence credible reporting. Using presidential power to shame reporters is an attack on press freedom. A healthy democracy doesn’t target journalists for doing their jobs. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"I am who I am, doing what I came to do" — Audre Lorde

Climate change and environmental degradation need to be addressed...

The companies that made contracts with ICE www.thebulwark.com/p/backlash-b...

Their relationship with the president is not personal; their job is to report on who he really is, and provoking him to reveal himself lets them do their job even better. An insult is a confession in this context, and they might as well be field biologists documenting baboons doing baboon things.

An analysis by Nataliya Gumenyuk using archetypes is a very interesting analysis. snyder.substack.com/p/what-if-tr...

Citizens ultimately decide... www.meditationsinanemergency.com/revolutionar...

by Leslie Hughes

This Black Friday weekend we are going to send a message to corporations that enable Trump and the MAGA agenda: #WeAintBuyingIt

Rally on Weds, Nov 26 10:30am-12:30pm to stop deportation flights at MSP: Meet at the Light Rail Station at MSP Terminal 2 to rally with workers, community, and faith leaders! www.facebook.com/events/s/end...

Songs of Joe Hill Commemorating the IWW songwriter's legacy joehill100.com/songs-of-joe...

Artists in more than 40 states are spending Friday and Saturday participating in the "Fall of Freedom" – which they say represents a creative resistance to authoritarianism.

"Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders…you must refuse illegal orders. No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our Constitution.” roberthubbell.substack.com/p/weakened-a...

Come if you can! November 23 Sunday at 3 pm moonpalacebooks.com/events/37723...

Timothy Snyder's pieces are always worthwhile. snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...

So we went from feigned outrage about allegedly biased public media to the president making deals with centibillionaire friends to make corporate media more biased. Got it.

"Who will we be, when this long, cruel war comes to an end?" An insightful analysis: writersforda.substack.com/p/secret-sha...

Rain Taxi Book Festival 2025 Community Poem November 8, 2025 — St Paul Folks wrote lines on index cards that were typed onto pages to create a beautiful material artifact for the day. writersfordemocraticactionmn.org/raintaxipoem...

Resistance & Giving Voice Reading November 23 3:00–4:30pm Where: Moon Palace Books 3032 Minnehaha Ave Mpls, MN Masks required moonpalacebooks.com/events/37723...

Apps are open for our spring session of the Cross-Reference Coalition! We're exploring Search & Discovery! "Our journey will encompass the history of exploration + cartography, legacies of inquiry, tools of discovery, theories of curiosity, and counter-algorithmic means of 'finding things out.'"

Here’s what we did in the fall! I’ll organize something similar for the spring! crossreference.wordsinspace.net/fall2025/

Teaching information literacy these days is especially challenging because we need to foster "foster healthy skepticism and avoid exacerbating harmful news media cynicism" in our students, says The News Literacy Project newslit.org/news-and-res... #TLSky #EduSky

US journalists face threats for exposing corruption.

Things can change fast, either for the worst or for the best. writersforda.substack.com/p/you-never-...

Sarabande's ⚡ZINE LUNCH!⚡ presents "The Page as a Visual Field," a free workshop. us02web.zoom.us/.../reg.../F.... In this workshop, we will consider ways that poets can reclaim and reinvigorate academic forms of writing, including footnotes, endnotes, glossaries, indexes, and other marginalia.

Nov 23 @ 3:00 pm: Resistance and Giving Voice, a reading at Moon Palace Books.There will be a gift card raffle and maybe snacks. Curated by the wonderful Kathryn Kysar. (We will have masks in case you forget yours.) Co-sponsored by Writers for Democratic Action--MN.

"Resistance is everywhere, both geographically and in terms of the constituencies participating..." www.meditationsinanemergency.com/in-2025-we-s...

Cancel Spotify! indivisible.org/cancel-spotify

Minnesota takes care of its children.

Solidarity overcomes fear...

Writers for Democratic Action Minnesota has a table at the Book Festival on Saturday, Nov 8 at Union Depot in St. Paul. Choose a postcard designed by Kathy McTavish. Write to your favorite bookstore, publisher, writer, friend, or legislator. Add your poetry to the Exquisite Corpse.

PEN America: New White House press restriction "severs one more line of accountability between the government and the American people, part of a pattern that is straining the nation’s foundational principle of a free press.” pen.org/press-releas...

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Minnesota Build Your Ballot 2025: What will you be voting on? www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...