A Call for Liberation
From a very young age, I knew the gender I was assigned at birth didn’t make a lot of sense to what...
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Reflections as a Youth Worker
In this blog, Ramiro does something different. Marc Woods, a youth organizer in Minneapolis, Minnes...
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Building up community resilience, highlighting systemic failures, and climate change impacts
Where we listen if the ground would rattle as you walked by, where the sky’s clear-blue fields lead...
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Don’t Let You Say You’re Not
Me, a climate activist? That feels hard to claim. And yet, if someone were to read the book of my l...
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All In!
Anticipation had replaced the air. My team and I watched as the hour hand slowly made its way to 9 ...
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A Need for Control in a Climate Out of Control
Rattle, clang, bash.
Branches, leaves, and rain slam into my bedroom window.
I kn...
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A Thought on Environment
I was raised by a mother who believes in and pursues Collective Liberation, and a grandma that lear...
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A Paradigm Shift in Our Environmental Perspective
“It's so frustrating, I’m done,” one of my closest friends told me, walking out of her classroom.
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Ancestors’ Pride
I grew up on the south side of Minneapolis with the honor of having Ojibwe and Mexican ancestry. Go...
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Čaŋtewasake – Fortitude
The landscape that my ancestors thrived on was once a sprawling prairie that provided plenty and al...
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Lessons not taught
“Okay class, let’s discuss the geological formation at Minnehaha Falls.” This is how I would begin ...
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Out of Iowa
There’s a joke you’ll hear while driving through Iowa in the late spring. When someone sniffs somet...
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