Upcoming Events ^
Rural Resistance Skills from the Rez to the Range
Sponsored by the Aitkin Good Trouble Club
- When:
- April 25, 9:00am–6:00pm
- Where:
- TBA Grand Rapids, MN
This workshop will bring together organizers and active community members from across Northern Minnesota to strengthen regional connections and to build a shared foundation for long-term social change.
Participants will explore organizing frameworks, strategies for movement building, and practical grassroots resistance skills - with particular attention to rural and Native communities in our region.
Workshop facilitators will create space to strengthen collaboration, to develop our strategic thinking, and to deepen relationships among people already engaged in community work. Attendees will leave with practical skills, stronger connections, and greater awareness of ongoing campaigns and movements across the region.
This workshop is led by a group of grassroots organizers with experience living and working in rural northern Minnesota. More details, including workshop location, agenda, and participating groups will be sent to those who register in the weeks ahead.
This workshop is free to attend and lunch will be provided. Donations will be accepted to support workshop facilitation, meals and other workshop supplies.
Email GoodTroubleAitkinCounty@gmail.com with any questions
Stand with Immigrant Workers Detained by ICE
at the Douglas County Jail
- When:
- May 1, 8:15–8:45am & 5:00–5:30pm
- Where:
- corner of Hammond Ave. & Belkanp St. in Superior
Commemorate International Workers' Day by standing in solidarity with detained immigrant workers! We’ll be holding two sign holding protests during rush hour.
Everyone is welcome. Feel free to make and bring your own sign, though we'll also have some extras on hand. These protests are being organized by the Northwoods Socialist Collective.
May Day Duluth!
hosted by Twin Ports Democratic Socialists of America and Duluth 50501
- When:
- May 1, 4:30–6:00pm
- Where:
- City Hall
Duluth, MN
"Join us this May Day as we organize against the billionaire control of our economy and government. From Trump on down, billionaires have too much power, and it's time for workers to take it from them. They pit us against each other as we fight for the few good jobs they allow us, and they pit us against each other as they send us to bomb people in other countries, using money that could be spent on schools, healthcare, homes and infrastructure."
May Day Virginia!
People Power
The One Thing Billionaires Can't Buy
- When:
- May 1, 5:00pm
- Where:
- Meet at the Kline Cuppoletti Building
Virginia, MN
Rally & March
May Day National!
International Workers Day & National Day of Action
- When:
- May 1, 2026
- Where:
- Nationwide
"We are building a day of power. Because when the billionaires break every rule, it’s going to take more than a rally to stop them...
"On May 1, 2026, workers, students, and families rally, march, and take action across the country to demand a nation that puts workers over billionaires, with many refusing business as usual through No School. No Work. No Shopping."
— May Day Strong
Start planning!
Trainings & Calls to Action ^
Learn about Voting Rights
Get Prepared to the Elections
Who Gets Voting Rights?
Civics Made Easy from PBS
In this episode of Civics Made Easy, Ben Sheehan uncovers the surprising – and often overlooked – true history of voting rights in America. From the founding era to Reconstruction to Civil Rights to today, this is the story that may not have been fully taught in school.
Watch Bad Faith
Christian Nationalism In Power
This film has been showing in several local communities.
The 2024 version is available to view online.
BAD FAITH 2026 updates the original and includes the first year of Trump's return to office. This film will only be available through our HOST A SCREENING program.
"BAD FAITH is a feature-length documentary that explores the dangerous rise of Christian Nationalism in the United States. Part archival chronicle, part exposé, the film reveals the secretive political machinery that has relentlessly sought to weaken and destroy American democracy in order to promote its authoritarian vision."
Oppose the SAVE Act
& all similar attacks on our voting rights
..."if anything like this ever did become law, the cleanest single document would likely be a valid U.S. passport in your current legal name, because it proves citizenship directly. A REAL ID driver’s license would not, by itself, count as proof of citizenship under this proposal. People with name changes could be forced to assemble a full paper trail connecting birth certificates, marriage licenses, divorce decrees, or court orders to their current legal identity."
Data Center Information Webinars
from CURE MN
Learn more about Data Centers & how they impact our communities.
Arrange your own Constitutional Observer+ training
Northern Civil Defense Network
- When:
- You decide
- Where:
- You set up location & logistics
We offer informal, low-tech trainings for small groups —
please contact us at operator@ncdn.work
with a proposal for your organization, venue, neighborhood group, or small business.
Contact us to set up a training for your organization. Send an email to:
operator@ncdn.work
Community Defense and ICE Watch
States at the Core
A running list of upcoming trainings from STAC & Protect.
5calls
Pick an action & make a call
Boycott!
Take a stand
Some of the US’s biggest companies are coming under increasing pressure to speak out about the Trump administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s operations in Minnesota.
Other Learning Resources
Each One Teach One
We have a number of resources including hotline numbers, links to legal
help, know your rights information, constitutional observer guides,
and more on our website. Please feel to share with your networks. We welcome your suggestions.
Help us share & build these resources.
Mutual Aid ^
Critical Need for Legal Support!
Northland Legal Mutual Aid Fund
We are a collective of friends & community, union organizers, and electeds from northern MN/WI working directly with individuals and families in need of legal and financial support, including people unjustly detained in the Douglas County Jail under an intergovernmental I.C.E. contract.
There is an urgent need for funds as a result of the ongoing administration's attack on our immigrant community and neighbors. Right now, community members are confronting unexpected legal and immigration costs, lost income, and urgent basic needs — and they need support now.
The Northland Legal Mutual Aid funds raised will go towards:
- Immigration attorney and legal fees
- Bail bond and filing costs
- Travel and communication expenses
- Basic family and financial needs while their loved ones are detained
Stand with Minnesota
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation.
Neighborhood Mutual Aid groups
Grassroots organizing
There are many neighborhood mutual aid groups forming across
our region. Find one near you!
We would love to hear more about mutual aid efforts in
your community. Drop us a line at:
operator@ncdn.work. We will put together
a collection on our website.
Inspiration ^
Weaving a Network of Resistance
Grassroots Organizing Takes Time
"Social networks mimic the bio-diverse mycelium networks of forests and wooded areas. These naturally occurring networks provided us an exquisite model for a social network that nourishes a social movement."
Book Release & Interviews Full of Hope
Rebecca Solnit
"It’s easy to focus on authoritarians and their petty victories. But zoom out and the picture is more encouraging, says the woman who popularised the term ‘mansplaining’, whether it’s in feminism, or the environment, or civil rights.
"When I speak to Rebecca Solnit, she is beaming, and I can’t immediately figure out why. Her new book, The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change, blasts in with a pragmatic positivity"
The Tide is Turning
from Robert Hubbell
"Can you feel it? Like an undertow in the shallows, the currents beneath the surface are reversing direction. The upstart waves divert our attention with spray and noise. But the undertow exerts a silent force, restoring equilibrium, settling nature’s accounts by subsuming the momentary turbulence of breakers into the stillness of deep oceans."
Memory, Resilience, and Hope
In moments of political crisis, writers and artists are vital participants in shaping public memory, resilience, and hope.
"In the face of the extraordinary pressures over the last few months and the profound public response that they have elicited, Minnesotan writers and artists and the creative community have shouldered the work of witness, documentation, reflection, and solidarity through their craft," said Liesl Gerntholtz, managing director of the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Center. "Their voices have helped a community grieve and mobilize, and they have reminded us, and maybe especially the lawyers amongst us, that storytelling is not incidental to justice. It is central to it." —
Beyond the Gatekeepers
Fascism, the Fight for Democracy, and the Frontline Reality of Black Queer & Trans Life in the South
This conversation with guest Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson hosted and moderated by Bishop Vanessa M. Brown with Bishop Yvette A. Flunder
is an inspiring example of the potency of the language of faith and radical belief in community possibility.
Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson is a deep thinker & powerful organizer who meets
the urgency of the moment with clarity, impactful strategy and loving commitment. She is a frequent collaborator
with Indivisible and many other social change organizations.
The New Antifascist Consensus
How organizers and everyday residents are stopping ICE around the country
"The broad coalition of labor, community, faith and hundreds of other groups — along with more than 700 businesses — that drove the “Day of Truth and Freedom,” along with the networks of grassroots resistance, like the volunteer patrols, are examples of what is now a new antifascist consensus spreading like wildfire across the country."
How to Fight Fascism
from Assembly Required
Stacey Abrams & Rachel Maddow are a pleasure to hear in conversation.
We are in this struggle together & we have some brilliant thinkers on our side.
