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Meet Abbey Payeur, School Board Candidate

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Abbey Payeur, Anoka-Hennepin S.D. School Board Candidate

Get to Know Dr. Abbey

Abbey Payeur, Mom of three, brings experience and expertise to the role of school board member. Running in District 4 of Anoka-Hennepin, Abbey is in it to win. She is busy meeting community members and speaking about the importance of making school boards use evidence-based decision-making. Board members must use their positions to make good decisions for the wellbeing of the kids and to strengthen our community. Abbey had a booth at the Ham Lake Freedom Festival on Saturday, June 28th and also attended the Andover Family Fun Fest on July 11th and 12th. A Town Hall (TBA) is coming soon.

Future events will be posted here and on Abbey’s website. 

Related: Jodi has contributed an excellent article on The Importance of School Board Elections at our sister website, DFL Neighborhood Network.

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One Million Rising Initiative by INDIVISIBLE

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One Million Rising Campaign Against Authoritarianism

Indivisible and Mobilize.Us/nokings write:

Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and full-scale attacks on our democracy. …

That’s why this summer, we’re launching One Million Rising—a national effort to train one million people in the strategic logic and practice of non-cooperation, as well as the basics of community organizing and campaign design.

This is important. Protests, no matter how big and frequent, are not enough. If this movement is something that interests you, please consider the trainings listed below. If you know anyone who may be interested, please pass this message on. If you are able to post this information anywhere else, please do so.

Sessions (sign up):
Session 1: The Moment & Your Mission – July 16 Get oriented to making meaning of this moment and the role you can play in coordinated strategic action.

Session 2: How to Make it Happen – July 30 This train-the-trainer session is how we get to one million. Learn not just our strategy, but how you can train others and get them on board. You’ll host your first community resistance gathering after this session.

Session 3: What Now? – August 13 You’ll be onboarded to basic campaign design and learn how to implement it locally as well as get plugged into our next national campaign work. Your second community resistance gathering will move this action forward.

Stay Strong!