From housing to public health, community safety to democracy defense, 2020 was an intense and unrelenting year for organizing across every issue. Always leading with love and possibility, leaders of color across the Twin Cities secured critical wins that have dulled the harshest impacts of COVID and racism in our communities. But 2020 was much more than the sum of its parts. Together, we mobilized our communities across issues and identities to advance bold visions for the future, while embracing and visibilizing an ethic of self-care and healing to sustain ourselves and our movements into 2021 and beyond.

As this unprecedented and tumultuous year comes to a close, what strategies and practices are we carrying forward to ensure we never go back to a “normal” that isn’t liberatory for both ourselves and our communities?

• Gabriella Anaïs Deal-Márquez, Voices for Racial Justice
• Truth Maze / William Harris, Reclaim the Block
• Brian Rosas, MN Youth Collective
• LyLy Vang Yang, Take Action MN
• Abdulrahman Wako, Union Park District Council
• Moderated by Eleonore Wesserle, Narrative Justice League / Dreams To Power