The Alliance invites you to join us for this year’s Actualizing Equity series of conversations on how we can resist systems of oppression and build resilience through solidarity across communities. Our next session will focus on how local organizations and communities are navigating questions of safety.
Friday, August 1st, 2025, 11:00am-1:00pm
UROC: University of Minnesota Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center, 2001 Plymouth Ave N, Minneapolis
Free, open to the public.
Homemade lunch with vegan and vegetarian options prepared by Alliance staff will be included.
John Williams, Native American Community Development Institute
Bishara Mohamed, Civic Engagement Manager at Reviving Sisterhood, part of the Combatting Hate Coalition
Beth Gendler, Executive Director of Jewish Community Action, part of the Combatting Hate Coalition
We will also have facilitators from Relationships Evolving Possibilities (REP) to guide participants in a hands-on podmapping exercise.
Guiding questions:
How do we feel safe in this moment? Physically, mentally, spiritually? Government policies and programs intended to protect us, our communities, culture, environment, economy — are quickly getting stripped away.
While showing up in protest and lobbying our electeds is important to continue to affirm that we live in a democracy – it will not immediately change the circumstances for ourselves or our neighbors of detainment & deportation, loss of critical medical care, climate change, and rise in an overt culture of white supremacy.
One thing we do control is how we take care of and protect each other. How are our communities taking care of ourselves? How do we tend the soil for a safer future? And what can we learn from each other to be safer?
This event is open to all, and we are especially encouraging Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities and organizers to attend.
Learn more about the Actualizing Equity series here.
