March Meal Details 2025 is a pivotal year, holding the tension of necessary reactivity and maintenance of baseline protections with the tangible reality that another world is possible. Embracing this tension, we are pairing monthly Political Pedagogy with bimonthly Strategy Hours and leaning into thematic aspects of healthcare transformation. From March to December, we invite everyone – from the curious to the invested – to join us as we collectively learn and push to transform the landscape of health and healing in Minnesota. Come be fed and share space with other folks working to transform the landscape of health and healing in Minnesota. March 31st 🕠5:30pm-🕢7:30pm Mudluk Pottery- 2951 Bloomington Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55407 ⭐Register Here⭐ QUARTERLY MEALS: (March, June, September, December) Let’s break bread.

March 2025 Political Pedagogy Flier Join us in our first full Political Pedagogy workshop of 2025!  March 19th 5:30-7:30pm Register Here! The session is hybrid! In Person Details Location: Merriam Park Library (Rooms A+B) masks required Food: Wally's Falafel and Hummus Healer: Ihotu Ali MPH, LMT Participation Stipend: $25 Facilitator(s): Hadija Steen Mills MPH* *Cooperative member A note from the mover: So excited to start this year's refreshed story arc! Read the entire story arc of 2025 Strategy Hour and Political Pedagogy offerings here.

2025 Story Arc 2025 is a pivotal year, holding the tension of necessary reactivity and maintenance of baseline protections with the tangible reality that another world is possible. Embracing this tension, we are pairing monthly Political Pedagogy with bimonthly Strategy Hours and leaning into thematic aspects of healthcare transformation. From March to December, we invite everyone – from the curious to the invested – to join us as we collectively learn and push to transform the landscape of health and healing in Minnesota. Who are these for?  Unless otherwise stated, anyone is welcome to attend any of the Cooperative’s programming. All events can be enjoyed as a one-off experience or ongoing engagement.     March | Positional Healing: Exploring Positionality and Accountability April | Land Healing: Environmental Justice and Healthcare May | Narrative Healing: Resistance Poetry Within and Around Health June | Queering Healing: Intersectional Approaches to Health July | From Public Health to Public Healing: Justice and Disability Futurity August | Future Healing: Actualizing Black Joy in Health September | Lineage Healing: Ancestral Care in Health October | Economic Healing: Capitalism and Health November | Reparative Healing: Healthcare Reparations December | Rest and Reconciliation STRATEGY HOUR: What’s the buzz? The top of the month starts with a virtual Strategy Hour as a drop-in time for folks from all backgrounds to collectively share and strategize about what is happening in their communities related to health and healing. Facilitation is minimal and organic. These are an action-oriented time to workshop ongoing issues and build relationships. Strategy Hours hold the necessary reactivity to counteract the reinvested violence of this moment.  POLITICAL PEDAGOGY: Another world is possible. Political Pedagogy is then a facilitated time to hold the truth – that another world is possible. These two-hour hybrid sessions use joyful arts-based activities to tackle complex visioning in playful ways. Contrasting a classroom, sessions are curated as a collaborative workshop in the practice of a pedagogy that values the method of collective wisdom and processed learning. Each session asks participants to cultivate an action to bring back to their community as a method of dissemination and power building. STRATEGY HOUR: There is more to care. The second Strategy Hour is again a virtual drop-in time for folks from all backgrounds to collectively share and strategize about what is happening in their communities related to health and healing. Additionally, this is time for folks who attended Political Pedagogy to extend joy and action to address present and arising issues in the health and healing landscape.  QUARTERLY MEAL (March, June, September, December) Let’s break bread. Check out our newsletter for more information Register for Strategy Hours Register for Political Pedagogy

Political Pedagogy is this Wednesday! We need your voices to shape this year's content. BIPOC folks to the front! February 26th 5:30pm-7:30pm Register Here The session is virtual! **Individuals receive $25 for participating!** The first Political Pedagogy of the year will extend the Political Pedagogy session from Intention Setting Week. Come decide the theme for the monthly sessions of 2025! Political Pedagogy is an offering of the Cooperative and is how we frame political education. The goal of Political Pedagogy is to provide a joyful space to create a shared language for this work, playfully learn from each other and those who have contributed to work before us, and collectively dream into healthcare that doesn't harm. The monthly session themes for Political Pedagogy are set by members and non-members at the top of the year during Intention Setting Week. Last year's monthly topics were: Cooperative Positionality and Accountability Land Healing: Environmental Justice and Healthcare Narrative Healing: Storytelling Within and Around the MIC Queering Healing: Intersectional Approaches to Health From Public Health to Public Healing: Disability Justice Future Healing: Dreaming of Black Joy in Health Lineage Healing: Ancestral Care in Health Economic Healing: Capitalism and the MIC Reparative Healing: Reparations Project Update

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Join us in our final Political Pedagogy session of 2024!  November 20th 4:30-6:30pm Register Here! The session is hybrid! In Person: Women's Foundation of Minnesota 105 5th Ave S., Suite 525, Minneapolis, MN 55401 (masks required) Facilitator(s): Ingie Osman MPH* and Hadija Steen Mills MPH* *Cooperative member A note from the movers: This is an action-oriented session. Please bring friends and loved ones to build together!

Join us in our final Political Pedagogy session of 2024!  November 20th 4:30-6:30pm Register Here! The session is hybrid! In Person: Women's Foundation of Minnesota 105 5th Ave S., Suite 525, Minneapolis, MN 55401 (masks required) Facilitator(s): Ingie Osman MPH* and Hadija Steen Mills MPH* *Cooperative member A note from the movers: This is an action-oriented session. Please bring friends and loved ones to build together!

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Join us in our eighth and second to last Political Pedagogy session of 2024!  October 30th 4:30-6:30pm Register Here! The session is hybrid! In Person: Women's Foundation of Minnesota 105 5th Ave S., Suite 525, Minneapolis, MN 55401 (masks required) Facilitator(s): Hadija Steen Mills MPH* and Dominique Earland* *Cooperative member A note from the movers: We will take inspiration from artist and organizer Lauren Williams to examine medical debt and use participatory budgeting to reimagine a world without it.  In-person attendance encouraged for full activity participation. :)

Join us in our seventh Political Pedagogy session of 2024!  September 25th 4:30-6:30pm Register Here The session is hybrid! In Person  Family Tree Clinic, 1919 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55403 (masks required) Virtual Link in registration Facilitator(s) Hadija Steen Mills* *Cooperative member

Join us in our sixth Political Pedagogy session of 2024!  August 28th 4-6pm Register Here The session is hybrid! In Person  Sterling Club, 300 St Albans St N, St Paul, MN 55104 (masks required) Virtual Link in registration Facilitator(s) Dominique Earland* *Cooperative member

Join us in our fifth Political Pedagogy session of 2024!  July 31st 4-6pm Register Here The session is hybrid! In Person  Family Tree Clinic, 1919 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55403 (masks required) Virtual Link in registration Facilitator(s) Hadija Steen Mills MPH* *Cooperative member A note from the mover: We will juxtapose the present and historical legacy of ableism in health spaces with the explicit commitment to centering disability justice in movements for liberation.  Hadija is a physically able-bodied person and will invite group engagement on the role of solidarity in this work.

Some youth and adult shares from the Political Pedagogy session May 29th 2024. Participants responded to the prompt: • Think of an existing health[care] story or narrative that you want to change or a new one that you want to tell. • Reflect on the components of a story and a plot. Using the medium of your choice, tell the story. After time to create a response in a chosen medium, participants told the story of how they would change the narrative of health[care]. How would you respond to this prompt? Share in the comments.

Join us in our fourth Political Pedagogy session of 2024!  June 24th 4-6pm Register Here The session is hybrid! In Person  Modus Locus 3500 Bloomington Ave S Minneapolis, MN 55407 (masks required) Virtual Link in registration Facilitators Maria Bertrand MPH* *Cooperative member

Join us in our third Political Pedagogy session of 2024!  May 29th 4-6pm This Political Pedagogy session is family-friendly! In-person activities will be geared toward children and youth, and dinner will be provided! Register Here The session is hybrid! In Person  Moon Palace Books 3032 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55406 (masks required) Virtual Link in registration Facilitators Kene Orakwue MPH* *Cooperative member MIC=Medical Industrial Complex.

Join us in our second Political Pedagogy session of 2024!  April 24th 2-4pm Register Here The session is hybrid! In-person MirrorLab 3400 Cedar Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55407 (masks required) Virtual Link in registration Facilitators Carmen Bustamante and Yordi Solomone From the movers... We want to hold a space to talk about land, environmental justice, and positionality. The main goal of the session is to provide a collective storytelling-like session that lets folks reflect on responsibilities around land, closeness with place, and the nuances around settling, migration, and the way we engage with land. This is meant to be a generative space for co-creating context around the history and the role we have in our respective communities.  Both facilitators are not interested in posing as “experts”, as we expect everyone to show up with their own expertise of their lived experiences, as well as complex histories and thoughtfulness around land, EJ and so much more.

Join us for the first shared seminar of the year! Cooperative Positionality and Accountability. Register Here In-person Family Tree Clinic 1919 Nicollet Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55403 (masks required) Virtual Link in registration Iftar is at 7:36pm CT. Agenda will be gentle to accommodate individuals fasting. Bring a friend!!

Join the Cooperative in Intention Setting 2024. We will virtually come together to discuss the dreams, goals, and work of the Cooperative this year. These are open to the public and you are encouraged to bring a friend! RSVP(https://forms.gle/sWsiw1DBxJUVpS2K8) Calendar of Events(https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=Y19mM2JhMjZlNDg2Y2JjY2VhZmY2YjUyYWVkOWI5NjAxNWE5M2VkNmVkM2M1YzQwYTFiNmIzYjc5MzFmNTdmZDMzQGdyb3VwLmNhbGVuZGFyLmdvb2dsZS5jb20) Retreat Schedule (all sessions are virtual and listed in Central Time) Session 1: Familiarizing the Cooperative This session will review the history of the Cooperative. A time for folks who are new to the space to learn some of the history and ask questions. Offered on: Monday, February 26th 9:30am - 10:30am Thursday, February 29 9:30am - 10:30pm Session 2: Positionality This session will be a facilitated session to think through one’s position as it relates to the work of healthcare abolition. The Cooperative requires that all members, volunteers, and staff must investigate positionality and create an accountability plan prior to engagement. Offered on:  Tuesday, February 27th 11:00am - 12:00pm Session 3: Defining Membership A time to talk about what the attributes of membership are presently and can grow into. Offered on: Tuesday, February 27th 2:30pm - 3:30pm Session 4: Building an Intentional Container for Healthcare Abolition This session will discuss the culture of space and place. What is the organizational cadence?  What does it mean to build in the growth of skills and community for after this container exists? Offered on: Thursday, February 29th, 11:00am - 12:00pm Session 5: 2024 Reparations Project This brainstorming session will hold space for folks to dream into what a campaign for healthcare reparations could look like in 2024. No final decisions will be made, it is meant to be generative and playful. Explore how this can align with other movements happening locally, regionally, and nationally.  Offered on: Friday, March 1st 9:30am - 11:00am Session 6: Political Education Planning Come together to outline and begin drafting up to 9 PE sessions.  Want to take leadership of one? Sweet!  Offered on: Friday, March 1st 11:30am - 12:00pm Session 7: Opportunities to Plug In This session will be a time for folks who want to engage more deeply to brainstorm ways to plug in.  Offered on:  Thursday, February 29 12:30pm - 1:00pm Friday, March 1st 1:00pm - 2:00pm