Minnesotans Keep Going

I struggled with what to write in this space this week. Since my last post, Alex Pretti was murdered, Greg Bovino left Minnesota, protests have gotten larger and louder and more insistent. The tear gas keeps flying, people keep getting detained, and neighbors keep helping neighbors. Journalists are now getting arrested. Clergy are getting arrested. And Minnesota keeps showing up. Minnesota keeps documenting it all.

People who live here are doing what they can.

All I can say today is keep going. Keep fighting. Keep caring.

And please, please, please – stand with Minnesota.

https://www.standwithminnesota.com

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Published by Kathleen Cassen Mickelson

Kathleen Cassen Mickelson is a Minnesota-based writer who has published work in journals in the US, UK, and Canada. She is the author of the poetry chapbook How We Learned to Shut Our Own Mouths (Gyroscope Press, 2021) and co-author of the poetry collection Prayer Gardening (Kelsay Books, 2023). View more posts

5 thoughts on “Minnesotans Keep Going”

We are Minnesota Strong, Kathleen. Thanks to all the other commenters here who have Minnesota’s back. I am grateful.

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Our Canadian hearts beat and break with yours. 💔

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Watching, supporting, aching for all of you — and therefore all of us– being inspired by you. Doing what we can in Bakersfield, CA. Sending love and blessings. xoAnnis ❤

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