What you can do the week of May 20
🗓️ Mark your calendar …
Saturday, May 31, 11:00 AM – Medicaid Matters: Town Hall with Congresswoman Betty McCollum and special guests. Registration required! Location will be emailed to registrants.
Thursday, May 22, 4:00 PM – Rally to Defend Veterans at the Veterans Service Building in St. Paul (20 W. 12th St.). This event is to oppose “the cutting of 83,000 VA jobs, the gutting of veterans’ health care and research, and severe reductions in staffing for the Veterans Crisis Line, a suicide hotline.” Part of the Indivisible Twin Cities Defend America’s Essentials rally series.
Saturday, June 14, 12:30–4:30 PM – ⭐️ Attend the Twin Cities NO KINGS Nationwide Day of Defiance rally. NO KINGS is a national day of mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allies. March from The Commons (425 Portland Ave. S.) down Nicollet Avenue to Loring Park.
🎙️ Support independent journalists …
Legacy media is now almost entirely owned by billionaire oligarchs and is largely failing to uphold its job as the “fourth pillar of democracy”.
Here are just a few non-corporate-owned publications and independent journalists who are doing great work!
National publications – ProPublica, The Atlantic, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Local news – Minnesota Reformer (subscribe for free)
Substack email newsletters – It’s easy to subscribe! Some authors require a paid subscription, but many offer free versions.
• Aaron Rupar: Public Notice (great national scene indy reporter, but also happens to be a Minnesotan with a SAP connection!)
• Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American
• Simon Rosenberg: Hopium Chronicles
• Joyce Vance: Civil Discourse
• Jen Rubin & Norm Eisen: The Contrarian
• ProtectDemocracy: If You Can Keep It
• Robert Reich
• Amy Siskind: The Weekly List Returns
➡️ For more ideas, resources, opportunities, and explainers, visit our website.
Until next week!
– SAP for Democracy
“Some believe that it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay”. – J.R.R. Tolkien