Looking back on 2025

Dear Alliance Partners, Friends, and Allies,

It is with hope and inspiration that I write this end of year letter to you. 2025 has tested the spirit and strength of Minnesotans to resist growing authoritarian threats from the right. The fight for our interconnected, collective liberation continues: we have not given in and we have not given up.

This year, our coalitions brought together Black, Indigenous, Asian, African, Latine, immigrant and low-wealth communities to organize for our right to call Minnesota home. Collectively, we fought displacement in many forms: evictions, rising rents, disinvestment, and urban planning processes that don’t listen to the voices of the people. We proudly launched Stable Ground, a program that will offer training and funding to support BIPOC-led housing justice organizing across the Twin Cities.

We broadened our field-building work through local and national gatherings that strengthened our relationships as organizers and organizations. We dug deep into what resistance, solidarity, and resilience must look like, and we strategized together for a more just future at our Actualizing Equity series, the Antiracist Community Development summit, and the Healthy Regions Planning Exchange.

Check out highlights from our coalitions and our field-building work in 2025, here.

By coming together across race, culture, geography and issues, we’ve created powerful momentum to continue organizing for collective liberation in 2026 and beyond. We invite you to invest in this important work by making a donation in an amount that is meaningful to you.

Thank you,

joo hee pomplun

Executive Director, The Alliance

“If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” – Aboriginal activists group, Queensland, 1970s.