June 6, 2026, Editor’s Note: Today is the Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) 19th annual Walk Against Weapons. Two years ago I was honored to speak at the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Congress about WATER in conjunction with Kelly Lundeen of Nukewatch/Save the Mississippi Coalition with a focus on nuclear power plants and water and Lee Vue of the Boundary Waters (BWCA), which is currently in a struggle to save the area from copper mining.
This information is somewhat dated of course, and a lot has happened in the two years since: The struggle for the Boundary Waters has heightened as federal legislation has revoked a long-standing law re a copper mine with its deadly tailings that needs to be reversed.
The Military still has PFAS in its water (some known to cause birth defects) and the Monticello nuclear reactor still has forms of PFAS in the water although Xcel Energy claims they have removed it. Meanwhile a new pollutant called tritium has poisoned water at the Monticello plant and is not removable. This source of water for the Twin Cities is for millions of people. A coalition of groups has been formed around this pollution called Nuclear Free Mississippi that calls for the shut down of the Monticello plant as well as the Prairie Island plant in Redwing, MN.
AI and the data centers pose a new threat with the overuse of water for cooling and are being opposed across the country.
U.S. wars continue with the latest being the war against Iran that has caused gas prices to rise and global chaos.
Last but certainly not least Minnesota, especially Minneapolis and the Twin Cites area including St. Paul, has resisted a Surge of up to 3000 ICE agents arresting immigrants with a coming together and incredible community collaboration and continued organizing while in deep mourning but carrying on solid resistance after the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
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