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Jan 8, 2025 | 
sahanjournal.com | Elza GOFFAUX
A local nonprofit serving the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community is holding a name-change clinic on Saturday, January 11, anticipating a crackdown on transgender and immigrant rights under the incoming Trump administration. Rae Rowe and Lynn Nguyen launched the Paper Lantern Project last May to expand AAPI voices and reduce the stigma in conversations around gender and reproductive health.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
sahanjournal.com | Elza GOFFAUX |Cynthia Tu
As protests broke out following the disputed Venezuelan election this summer, Miguel David Pacheco Gómez tracked the rallies and government crackdown on social media. From his adopted home in Hopkins, he looked for ways to show his support for opposition leader María Corina Machado. The former student organizer first fled Venezuela in 2016, a year when hundreds of thousands took to the streets to protest the economic policies and demand the recall election of President Nicolás Maduro.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
sahanjournal.com | Elza GOFFAUX |Katelyn Vue
Growing up in Syria, Nour Khayou remembers giving fake names when her teachers were asking for her parents’ identity. From a very young age, she learned she should give no information on her family’s identity or politics to anyone, fearing Bashar al-Assad’s secret police. When protests broke out in her hometown, Al Suwayda, last year, Khayou stayed away from the crowds, worried she would be arrested if she tried to leave and reenter the country.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
sahanjournal.com | Elza GOFFAUX
When she accepted the National Book Award for poetry last month, Palestinian American writer Lena Khalaf Tuffaha called on her peers to speak out against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Khalaf Tuffaha is one of six writers who will be in Minneapolis next week for “Palestine, Minneapolis and the Urgent Word,” a night of poetry and discussion exploring the role of writers in the U.S. as Israel’s war in Gaza continues and Donald Trump returns to the White House.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
sahanjournal.com | Elza GOFFAUX
Minneapolis City Council members backed a resolution on Tuesday demanding all criminal charges and academic discipline be dropped against the student protesters who occupied Morrill Hall in October. About 50 activists packed the room to show support for the resolution.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
sahanjournal.com | Elza GOFFAUX |Alfonzo Galvan
En la esquina de Lake Street donde Edwin, un ecuatoriano indocumentado, espera para trabajar, ha escuchado dos respuestas desde que el expresidente Donald Trump fue reelegido esta semana. Una es el miedo, de trabajadores indocumentados o solicitantes de asilo que temen ser deportados. La otra es el apoyo a Trump: de jornaleros con tarjeta verde que dicen que hay demasiada competencia para muy pocos puestos de trabajo.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
sahanjournal.com | Elza GOFFAUX |Alfonzo Galvan
On the Lake Street corner where Edwin, an undocumented Ecuadorian, waits for work, he’s heard two responses since former President Donald Trump was re-elected this week. One is fear, from undocumented workers or asylum-seekers who fear they will be deported. The other is support for Trump — from day laborers with green cards who say there is too much competition for too few jobs.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
sahanjournal.com | Elza GOFFAUX
Public safety, education and support for small businesses are key issues for DFLer Huldah Hiltsley and Republican Brad Olson as they vie for the Minnesota House seat representing Brooklyn Park and Osseo. If elected November 5, Hiltsley, 39, who works as a data security manager and launched the nonprofit SaniNaps, would be Minnesota’s first legislator of Kenyan heritage. District 38A, which was redistricted in 2020, is home to several immigrant communities.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
sahanjournal.com | Elza GOFFAUX |Alfonzo Galvan
Last election cycle Yolanda Roth was overprepared. The organization she was working with had prepared a crisis plan that they did not need to use. But this election, the situation is more grim. Roth, who now works for the Black liberation organization Black Visions, is worried about targeted violence on Election Day. “I would say now the danger, it just is,” Roth said.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
sahanjournal.com | Binta Kanteh |Elza GOFFAUX
Most young people who come to Daniel Solis-Corona tell him that they do not know who to vote for or think they can’t vote because they have been charged with felonies in the past. When he tables with Make Voting a Tradition, a program launched by the Native American Community Development Institute, his role is to help young voters register and to inform people with previous felonies that in Minnesota they have the right to vote.
