Standing Strong With Minnesota

Immigrant justice is woven into the very fabric of the LGBTQ+ movement. This is our fight too.

All of us here at Stonewall have been following the increasingly dystopian news out of Minnesota with both alarm and resolve. We know that ICE’s attacks on immigrant communities and organizers in the Twin Cities are a roadmap for rolling out similar occupations throughout the rest of the country. And, we also know that the people of Minnesota have had stunning success in resisting ICE’s lawless violence, and we’re prepared to follow suit should similar campaigns reach our neighborhoods.  

To find out where we could be most of service in this moment, we reached out to trusted colleagues at two likeminded Minnesota-based foundations: Pfund and Headwaters Foundation. We asked these local experts to suggest some critical organizations that could use your support in this difficult moment. If you’d like to do something to support on-the-ground work in Minnesota right now, we recommend making a gift to one of the following organizations:  

 Mutual aid and rapid response efforts  

  • MN POC Pride runs mutual aid efforts and supports local community organizers across the Twin Cities metropolitan area

  • Transforming Generations has a rapid response fund to meet urgent community needs, and they’re distributing nutritious food and necessities to families in hiding  

  • Aliveness Project provides neighborhood food aid and offers expanded support groups for folks impacted by ICE activity, especially those also living with HIV  

  • Fe y Justicia is a faith-based Latinx organization that has been organizing safe food delivery and access to legal services to those impacted by ICE activity  

  • Indigenous Roots organizes a bountiful community pantry, provides a learning hub for students staying home/learning remotely, and outfits rapid responders with handwarmers, gloves, and masks   

Legal support organizations  

  • OutFront MN operates a legal defense fund, advocates for folks who’ve been detained, and helps those who’ve been forcefully displaced find their way back to their homes in Minnesota

  • Gender Justice has a legal defense fund and is suing ICE agents who’ve engaged in violent, discriminatory, or otherwise unconstitutional activity   

We can learn a lot from the deep, intentional organizing and unified community response taking place in Minneapolis and throughout broader Minnesota. We hope you consider supporting these grassroots organizations, and seek out ways you can strengthen groups on the ground in your own communities.  We’re all in this together.  

 
Stonewall Foundation