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If you missed or would like to view again, here is the link to the Restorative Justice Panel: https://my.nicheacademy.com/rcladult/course/58906/lesson/168450
Join us on Tuesday, February 21, 7:00 - 8:30 PM for discussion on Can a Restorative Justice approach break the cycle of repeat offenders in the justice system?
After a painfully long time since the first incursion of Europeans onto North America we have entered an era of the Indigenous Land Acknowledgement. You have likely seen and heard them in many places, from the start of events for League, the Guthrie Theater, your place of worship, museums, restaurants…well, just about everywhere it seems, and this is a good thing.
LWVMN recently released the version shown on the right [https://www.lwvmn.org/land-acknowledgement]. When drafting this wording, LWVMN used many resources in the indigenous community, particularly the Native Governance Center. I encourage you to go to LWVMN’s Indigenous Land Acknowledgement page and read the interesting resources that accompany the statement.
In this latest issue of the Council of Metropolitan Area Leagues (CMAL) newsletter you will find a recap of the January quarterly meeting and information on Elect not Appoint the Met Council?
View the newsletter here
Missed the Conversations with Constituents? Here is a link to the recording.
LWVRA looks forward to welcoming the mayors from Falcon Heights, Lauderdale, Little Canada, Maplewood, and Roseville, along with Ramsey County Commissioners from District 1, 2, 3 and 7 to our annual Conversations with Constituents. Never lacking local "issues" like public safety, representative governance, housing, and
If you missed the event, here is the recording link and passcode: CMAL recording. Passcode: y$vA=Ar9.
Council of Metropolitan Area Leagues of Women Voters (CMAL) invites all League members and members of the public to attend the Metro County Commissioner panel on Saturday, January 14 at 10:00 AM.
Big injuries require big responses, right? Perhaps not always. The Holocaust engineered by Nazi Germany murdered millions, mostly Jewish, men, women, and children, but also the Romany, homosexuals, persons with disabilities, and political enemies of the regime. Such an immense crime must not be forgotten, but that very immensity makes it particularly difficult to grapple with. Some communities in Germany and across Europe have chosen a way of recognizing the lives lost which is more personal, both for the lives destroyed and the living. They place stolpersteine, or stumbling stones, into the sidewalk.
Earlier this fall the radio program This American Life rebroadcast an episode from 2015, “Three Miles” (listen at https://www.thisamericanlife.org/550/three-miles or read the transcript at https://www.thisamericanlife.org/550/transcript). It is the story of several students whose schools were a mere three miles apart in New York City, but whose lives felt thousands of miles apart. A pair of friends
Join with other LWVRA members on Zoom to listen, learn, discuss and vote on consensus questions on the LWVMN Firearms in Minnesota 2022 Study. Materials are now available in the Member Resources section of the LWVMN website: https://www.lwvmn.org/member-resources.
