Kingfield Neighborhood Association

‘Caste’, by Isabel Wilkerson

A virtual Book Club hosted by Butter Bakery Café

You may use this link to join our Zoom Meeting

To connect with Kingfield’s 100 Days of Community, Butter is offering a set of conversations using Isabel Wilkerson’s book Caste. Join neighbors to consider ways systems of caste are found and active in Kingfield. For April we’ll be having a conversation about Wilkerson’s 8 Pillars of Caste and how we were taught these. We’ll continue the conversation on the third Tuesday of May.

You don’t need to have read the book to benefit from the conversation! And you can join in for any or all events and still find something to activate you to work for equity.

For more information you can contact Dan at the cafe or by email.

You may use this link to join our Zoom Meeting

A Bridgil, because Black Lives Matter

Tuesdays. 38th Street Bridge

In the words of the KFNA Board Director that started this vigil almost one year ago:

Justice for George Floyd
Justice for Daunte Wright
Please join us on the bridge over 35W at 38th St. Bring a sign or simply your presence.

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KFNA Board of Directors Meeting

Zoom link to attend.

The KFNA Board meets monthly to oversee the programs, and projects of the Kingfield Neighborhood Association; the neighborhood’s nonprofit focuses on community engagement, awareness and education of City issues, and developing local leadership. Neighbors are also ways welcome to join the monthly meeting, held on Zoom since April 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Meetings are also recorded and shared on YouTube for those that cannot attend in person.

MPD150: A People’s Project Evaluating Policing, Part 2

Part 2: Creating the Future of Community Safety. Connect with neighbors to discuss harms we face in our neighborhood and City, measures we can take to prevent these harms, and alternatives we can create to address harms when they do occur.

More info and registration: bit.ly/3mFteEa

Join your Kingfield neighbors to learn about MPD150, a community-based initiative challenging the narrative that police exist to protect and serve. This effort seeks to shift the discussion around police and policing in Minneapolis from one of procedural reforms to one of meaningful structural change.

Facilitators: MPD150 work group members, SooJin Pate and Sheila Nezhad

MPD150: A People’s Project Evaluating Policing, Part 1

Join your Kingfield neighbors to learn about MPD150, a community-based initiative challenging the narrative that police exist to protect and serve. This effort seeks to shift the discussion around police and policing in Minneapolis from one of procedural reforms to one of meaningful structural change.

Part 1: RESCHEDULED for Tuesday April 27, 7pm-8pm due to the Reading of the Chauvin Verdict!

A History of Policing: Learn about the origins and logics of policing, history of the Minneapolis Police Department, and reform efforts. 

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