BY Tracy Molm | Minneapolis, MN | 3/15/23
Minneapolis’ Mayor Frey and seven Minneapolis city council members are talking about how they feel personally threatened after the Roof Depot struggle has become national news - after years of ignoring the East Phillips Neighborhood Institute, the group that has been spearheading the push to buy the building with the goal of creating a neighborhood space.
BY Katherine Gould | Minneapolis, MN | 3/07/23
On Sunday, March 5, residents of the south Minneapolis neighborhood of East Phillips and supporters marched to celebrate community and fight against an environmentally racist project.
BY Tracy Molm | Minneapolis, MN | 2/26/23
This week has been eventful in the East Phillips fight to stop the demolition of the arsenic-contaminated site of the Roof Depot building in south Minneapolis.
BY Charlie Berg | Minneapolis, MN | 2/22/23
At dawn on Tuesday, February 21, a coalition of East Phillips residents and allies, spearheaded by indigenous elders and American Indian Movement (AIM) members from the Little Earth community, began a new phase in their defense of the abandoned Roof Depot building site by directly occupying the area.
BY Charlie Berg | Minneapolis, MN | 2/22/23
At dawn on Tuesday, February 21, a coalition of East Phillips residents and allies, spearheaded by indigenous elders and American Indian Movement (AIM) members from the Little Earth community, began a new phase in their defense of the abandoned Roof Depot building site by directly occupying the area.
BY Logan Praneis | Minneapolis, MN | 2/19/23
On February 19, around 100 protesters and community members gathered at the Roof Depot site in the East Phillips neighborhood to protest the impending demolition of the building.
BY staff | Minneapolis, MN | 2/15/23
Statement by the Climate Justice Committee, Minnesota
BY Whitney Wildman | Minneapolis, MN | 1/31/23
On January 29, 70 activists, community members and supporters held a rally and healing circle in response to the Minneapolis city council’s recent vote in favor of continuing their legacy of environmental racism in the city of Minneapolis.
BY staff | Minneapolis, MN | 1/30/23
Over 100 protesters rallied at a Minneapolis City Council meeting on Thursday, January 26, where the city council members voted 7 to 6 to demolish the Roof Depot building.
BY staff | Minneapolis, MN | 12/16/22
Roughly 100 East Phillips residents and supporters rallied at the Hennepin County courthouse, December 15, protest the city’s East Phillips demolition plan and long legacy of systemic racism.
