Social Justice Education Movement

The fight against budget cuts to special education in Minneapolis Public Schools is ramping up! More than 120 staff are being cut at a time when special ed enrollment is steady or even increasing. These cuts are the largest of their kind in a generation, coming at a time of increasing attacks on disabled people, public education, and unions.

Our largest action yet is a "Family Friendly Art Build and Takeover" of the Davis Center (1250 W Broadway, Minneapolis) during the April School Board meeting on Tuesday the 15th. Please help us spread this event info far and wide. All educators, families, and community members who want to stand in solidarity are welcome to attend!

Please read this message from the group of parents and staff who interrupted the Minneapolis School Board meeting last Tuesday (video of the action here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42RFN_t9cJQ ):

The Minneapolis Public School Board has missed a clear deadline for joining families and staff against the cuts to special education recently made at the directive of district staff. On Tuesday, March 25th, Board members Greta Callahan, Abdul Abdi, Joyner Emerick and Collin Beachy were presented with a pledge that called on them to refuse to pass a budget with cuts to student-facing special education staff and to demand the reinstatement of the 100+ special educator positions that were cut for the 2025-2026 school year. Board members were asked to sign the pledge by Friday, March 28th, and although all have failed to do so, families and staff will persist in the fight to protect our students’ care, education, and civil rights. We continue to invite the School Board to join us.

MPS community fights budget cuts

This is from an SJEM member. Full details, trailer, and registration at tinyurl.com/HoldtheLineScreening Come check it out!

SJEM Monthly Organizing Meeting
Saturday, May 20 11:00-1:00
Powderhorn Park

SJEM monthly organizing meeting. Saturday, April 15 11:00-1:00
Franklin Library

SJEM monthly organizing meeting. Saturday, March 4 11:00-1:00
Franklin Library

SJEM monthly organizing meeting. Saturday, January 7 11:00a-1:00p
Franklin Library

SJEM Monthly Organizing Meeting Saturday, Dec. 10
11am-1pm
Franklin Library

SJEM Monthly Organizing Meeting
Saturday, Nov. 5
11:00a-12:30p
Franklin Library

SJEM Organizing Meeting
Saturday, August 20 11:00-1:00
Powderhorn Park
Picnic Area, S of the lake

Today in 1980: After US supreme Court rules that the US illegally seized the Black Hills in 1887 and offers $106 million, the Lakota refuse the payment in order to demand the return of the land from the United States.

This image, "All Out to the Paha Sapa" was made to promote the 1980 Black Hills International Survival Gathering, and will be one of the featured images in our upcoming 2023 Liberation Calendar, going to print soon!