How can Filipinx across Minnesota help the Twin Cities?
FIRM has been receiving lots of questions on how the Filipinx community can help those across the Twin Cities affected by recent events. We have compiled a list of local activities, services, and organizations that help the most vulnerable communities across the Twin Cities. Check back often as we will continue to keep it updated.
Food and Supplies Distribution
Indigenous Roots Cultural Arts Center
788 E 7th St, Saint Paul MN 55106
Starting Sunday May 30th, and continuing daily throughout the week.
Donations, pick ups, and deliveries are available during the day.
Check FB link below for updated times.
http://www.facebook.com/IndigeRootsCulturalArts/
Indigenous Roots (founded by FIRM board member, Mary Anne Quiroz) is providing food, toiletries, and baby products to community members and organizations on the East Side of Saint Paul. You are welcome to donate items, as well as pick up items if you are in need. Delivery is available.
Donations
Black Visions Collective
https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/
“Through the development of powerful strategic campaigns, we seek to expand the power of Black people across the Twin Cities metro area and Minnesota. This can look like delivering mobilization and action goals as part of a national coalition in which Black lives are centered, but it most often looks like visioning and leading targeted collaborative local campaigns that advance a concrete impact for people’s lives here, while also advancing a shift in public narrative that connects to transformative long-term change.”
Minnesota Freedom Fund
https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/
The Minnesota Freedom Fund pays criminal bail and immigration bond for those who cannot afford and seek to end discriminatory, coercive, and oppressive jailing.
Reclaim The Block
https://www.reclaimtheblock.org/
“Reclaim the Block began in 2018 and organizes Minneapolis community and city council members to move money from the police department into other areas of the city’s budget that truly promote community health and safety. We believe health, safety and resiliency exist without police of any kind. We organize around policies that strengthen community-led safety initiatives and reduce reliance on police departments. We do not believe that increased regulation of or public engagement with the police will lead to safer communities, as community testimony and documented police conduct suggest otherwise.”