NLP on ICE: Live Minneapolis Town Hall
Native Land Pod
NAACP Mobilization and Legislative Pressure
Derrick Johnson urges membership engagement to pressure senators against ICE funding and to elect accountable leaders.
On this special LIVE episode of Native Land Pod, hosts Angela Rye, Andrew Gillum, and Bakari Sellers host a town hall in Minneapolis with local and national leaders to discuss the crisis brought by ICE and CBP agents flooding their streets.
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Guests Include:
Derrick Johnson, President, NAACP
Juan Proaño, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), LULAC
Georgia Fort, Independent Journalist
Elizabeth Booker Houston, Attorney and Viral Influencer
Peggy Flanagan, Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota
Cedrick Frazier, Minnesota State Representative
Zaynab Mohamed, Minnesota State Senate
Melvin Carter, SERVED as 46th Mayor of Saint Paul, MN
Gutu Chinksso, President University of Minnesota Black Student Union
Elizer (Eli) Darris, ED, MN Freedom Fund
Leslie E Redmond, Esq, Past President of the Minneapolis NAACP; Executive Director of Win Back Nonprofit
Rev. Dr. Karen McKinney, Professor & Community Liaison at Bethel University
Minister JaNaé Imari Bates, Co-Executive Director of Faith in Minnesota and ISAIAH
Wintana Melekin, Executive Director, Groundwork Action
Resmaa Menakem, NYT Best Selling Author My Grandmother’s Hands
Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General
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Thank you to the Native Land Pod team:
Angela Rye as host, executive producer, and cofounder of Reasoned Choice Media; Andrew Gillum as host and producer, Bakari Sellers as host and producer, and Lauren Hansen as executive producer; LoLo Mychael is our research producer, and Nikolas Harter is our editor and producer. Special thanks to Chris Morrow and Lenard McKelvey, co-founders of Reasoned Choice Media.
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