Updates
Updates on our activities and progress.
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Near North Camp Post-Destruction Cash Aid proposal
Published on October 18, 2022 by Benjamin Melançon
This proposal is to our fiscal sponsor, Open Collective Foundation, to be able to take the emergency step of distributing cash after ...
Updates and an urgent ask for action (not dollars!) TODAY and TOMORROW
Published on January 10, 2022 by Benjamin Melançon
Thank you so much for your generous support from November 2020 through today! At the end of this letter please see some notes on all the good done last month alone. But first, the encampment that you all have helped and that has helped many...
Near North Camp Post-Eviction Support Cash Assistance Program proposal
Published on January 6, 2022 by Benjamin Melançon
This proposal is to our fiscal sponsor, Open Collective Foundation, to be able to take the emergency step of distributing cash ahead of the city of Minneapolis' planned violent displacement of the community you all have ...
City threatening violent eviction of the Near North camp TOMORROW
Published on March 17, 2021 by Benjamin Melançon
This is a last-ditch effort to insist the city not use force—violence—to remove people from their homes, the homes you have supported residents building for themselves. Please call city officials to insist that they acknowledge the simple...
Update on Polar Vortex funds/efforts from a resident of the encampment
Published on February 10, 2021 by Jene
Over the past five days, the Northside Mutual Aid Open Collective has received more monetary support than ever before. Our initial goal for fundraising this week was to house Near North encampment so everyone would be safe and warm against...
Update on Polar Vortex funds/efforts from a resident of the encampment
Published on February 10, 2021 by Jene
(This was accidentally posted twice, to reduce confusion this duplicate is ed...
Eviction threat rescinded!
Published on November 19, 2020 by Benjamin Melançon
The Near North encampment spent a couple worrying couple weeks due to visits from Lieutenant Grant Snyder of the Minneapolis Police Department and Don Ryan of Hennepin County who threatened an eviction to come this week, including mention o...