Progressive awards dinner to honor activists

Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005 is one of the members of the Transit Partners Coalition, which also includes transportation, environmental, faith and business groups.

The Transit Partners Coalition also has won awards this year from the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits and from the Minnesota Environmental Initiative.

TakeAction Minnesota also will present an award to the progressive movement of Rochester, Minnesota, recognizing the coalition-building and organizing in that community that has shifted the electoral map and won victories for workers and the environment.

TakeAction Minnesota’s annual Progressive Leadership Awards Dinner is one of the largest celebratory events of the year for the progressive community.

This year’s event will return to the Crowne Plaza Hotel — St. Paul Riverfront. The evening begins with a social hour at 5:30 p.m., followed by the dinner and program at 6:30 p.m.

Tickets are $60 for members of TakeAction Minnesota and $65 for nonmembers. Tables of eight are available for $450. For more information call 651-379-0746 or visit www.takeactionminnesota.org.  Tickets may be purchased on-line.

Reprinted from the Minneapolis Labor Review.

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