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Paul Kinzelman
Apr 25, 2026, 9:00:30 AMApr 25
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Important learning for organizations from the anti-ICE mobilizations
in MN.
https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/adopting-the-st-paul-principles
Born from the organizing chaos surrounding the 2008 Republican National Convention — when St. Paul, Minnesota became a temporary surveillance state and activists of wildly different flavors had to figure out how to coexist without eating each other alive — these four principles became one of the most quietly powerful frameworks in modern American movement history. They have no celebrity spokesperson. No Super PAC. No merch table. They just work.
in MN.
https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/adopting-the-st-paul-principles
Born from the organizing chaos surrounding the 2008 Republican National Convention — when St. Paul, Minnesota became a temporary surveillance state and activists of wildly different flavors had to figure out how to coexist without eating each other alive — these four principles became one of the most quietly powerful frameworks in modern American movement history. They have no celebrity spokesperson. No Super PAC. No merch table. They just work.
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