@mnejtable.bsky.social
A community and grassroots-led coalition fighting for environmental justice, fair development, and self-determination in overburdened communities.
📰UPDATE: Evidence of the County misleading the public on HERC published in Sahan Journal...
sahanjournal.com/climate-envi...
A flier with abstract images of painted lungs and flames and smoke stacks from the HERC trash burner, with smoke pluming out and the words blended into the art saying “Shut it down, Let North Minneapolis Breathe”. Text over the art says “Mobilize: Join friends and neighbors to demand Hennepin County starts the closure of HERC immediately. 12:30 - July 22. Hennepin County Government Center. 300 S 6th St, MPLS. (UPDATE: Meet on the NORTH side of the building by the steps closest to 4th Ave!).’ A Zero Burn Coalition logo is included.
🔊 TUESDAY! LOCATION UPDATE: Meet on the NORTH side of the building by the steps closest to 4th Ave
Join friends + neighbors next Tuesday at the Hennepin County board meeting to demand the County starts a HERC closure immediately!
7/22
12:30pm
Flier with an image of the HERC trash burner in the background and text, “YOU’RE INVITED: HERC EDUCATION SESSION! Have you ever wondered… * Why is Hennepin County continuing to operate a waste incinerator that is aging and causing harm to the environment and community? * What is the cost to the environment and the community that surrounds the HERC? * What false or misleading claims is the County using to justify continued support for the HERC and the special interests that benefit from it? JOIN WEDNESDAY 7/16 AT 6PM ON ZOOM LEARN ALL ABOUT IT WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS! Sign up at: bit.ly/hercsessions” Minnesota Environmental Justice and Zero Burn Coalition logos are included
THIS WED! Learn about HERC from a panel of community leaders and technical experts, and discuss what comes next with your neighbors.
HERC Education Session:
🗓 Wed July 16: 6-7:30
📍Location: Zoom (Sign up at bit.ly/hercsessions)
Flier with an image of a large group holding signs like “HERC Trashes Our Community”, “Let Mpls Breathe”, “We All Want Clean Air”, “Shut It Down”. Layered text says “ZERO BURN ART BUILD: Thursday July 10, 6-9pm, Spill Paint Not Oil studio, 2482 University Ave W, St Paul. Ring the white doorbell for Studio #F5. Make some art with friends for upcoming actions! No experience necessary. Supplies and food provided. Wear clothes you can get paint on. Masks required.” A Zero Burn Coalition logo is included.
THIS THURS: Make some art with friends as we gear up for a big push this summer!
We’re back with another Zero Burn Art Build
🗓 Thurs July 10: 6-9pm
📍2482 University Ave W, St. Paul
Ring the white doorbell for Studio #F5
Flier with an image of a large group holding signs like “HERC Trashes Our Community”, “Let Mpls Breathe”, “We All Want Clean Air”, “Shut It Down”. Layered text says “ZERO BURN ART BUILD: Thursday June 26, 6-9pm, Spill Paint Not Oil studio, 2482 University Ave W, St Paul. Ring the white doorbell for Studio #F5. Make some art with friends for upcoming actions! No experience experience necessary. Supplies and food provided. Wear clothes you can get paint on. Masks required.” A Zero Burn Coalition logo is included.
⚡🎨THURS: Make some art with friends as we gear up for a big push this summer!
🗓 Thurs June 26: 6-9pm
📍Spill Paint Not Oil, 2482 University Ave W, St. Paul
Ring the white doorbell for Studio #F5
No experience necessary. Supplies and food provided. Wear clothes you can get paint on. Masks required.
Flier with text, “You’re Invited: Panel and conversation on HERC and Zero Waste! Wed June 25 6:00-7:30pm (UPDATE: 5:45-6:00 for food). First Universalist Church 3400 Dupont Ave S, Minneapolis. We’ll discuss how residents can help shape plans to close HERC and be part of the transition back to zero waste!” There is an image of the HERC trash burner blurred out in the background. In the foreground there is an image of people holding signs that say, “Close the HERC, Stop Choking N. Mpls”; “Shut Down HERC, No More Burn” (this sign has an image of smoke from factory stacks going directly into lungs); “Let North Mpls Breath. My Lungs Are Not Your Dumping Ground” (this sign is shaped like a flame and painted red, yellow, and orange); “Clean Air 4 All”; “HERC Trashes Our Community” (also a flame sign). Minnesota Environmental Justice Table, First Universalist Church of Minneapolis and Zero Burn Coalition logos are included.
THIS WED! Learn about HERC from a panel of community leaders, technical experts, and elected officials, and discuss what comes next with your neighbors.
🗓 June 25: 6-7:30 - Panel + Convo on HERC + Zero Waste
(UPDATE: 5:45-6:00 for food)
📍Location: First Universalist Church, 3400 Dupont Ave S, MPLS
Graphic with text: “Some good news: no state funding for giant waste facility in Brooklyn Park until there’s real community engagement and a commitment to close HERC!” There is a map of Brooklyn Park with trucks surrounded by fumes driving towards a site that says “Proposed Waste Processing Facility”. A large X is placed over the map.
Amidst the deeply frustrating decisions at the legislature to cut healthcare for undocumented people and not follow through on the funding for Roof Depot, there was some good news. 🧵
13.06.2025 20:24 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0See alt text for more.
“Yesterday (06-09-25)- A local activist and artist, Isavela Lopez, was kidnapped in broad daylight after a press conference discussing an incident where she was brutalized by an FBI agent last week.
www.instagram.com/p/DKvENp-xK4C/
See you there??
10.06.2025 20:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is no longer a need! The pressure worked and funding has been pulled. More details on this soon!
10.06.2025 20:09 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Please read and contact your representatives today!
08.06.2025 21:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This Wednesday! See you there?
Sign up at: bit.ly/hercsessions
Graphic with text: “Action Alert: Protect Our Community From Another Polluting Waste Facility. Contact Your Representatives Now.” An image of a map including Minneapolis and Brooklyn Park has smoke plumes around it and trucks driving between the HERC waste incinerator in Minneapolis and a “Proposed Waste Processing Facility” near Brooklyn Park. A disclaimer line underneath the map says “Routes shown are for illustration only.”
ALERT: Hennepin County @hennepin.bsky.social is once again trying to impose a large waste facility on working class communities of color through a bill in the MN Leg, with a lack of community input.
Visit win.newmode.net/zeroburncoal... to learn more + tell your reps to amend the bill or pull it!
Come learn about HERC with us and meet some neighbors!
Sign up at bit.ly/hercsessions
#ShutDownHERC
Flier with text: You’re invited: HERC EDUCATION SESSIONS! Have you ever wondered… 1) Why is Hennepin County continuing to operate a waste to energy (WtE) incinerator that is aging and causing harm to the environment and community? 2) What is the cost to the environment and the community that surrounds the HERC? 3) What false or misleading claims is the County using to justify continued support for the HERC and the special interests that benefit from it? Join this Wednesday at 6pm on Zoom! Swipe for more dates and info. Sign up at bit.ly/hercsessions.” Zero Burn Coalition and MN Environmental Justice Table logos are included, and a semi transparent picture of the HERC trash burner is in the background
Flier with text: “You’re invited: HERC EDUCATION SESSIONS! Wednesdays at 6pm CT: April 30, May 7, May 14, May 21. Join these sessions to hear directly from community members, policy experts, scientists, union members, and researchers to gain a well-rounded understanding of the issue. Sign up at: bit.ly/hercsessions.” MN Environmental Justice Table and Zero Burn Coalition logos are included.
TONIGHT: We’re back for the second HERC Education Session in our spring series!
Join us Wednesday’s from 6-7:30 on Zoom to learn more about the HERC trash burner + plug into the movement towards zero waste!
Sign up at bit.ly/hercsessions
Hosted by @mnejtable.bsky.social + friends
Flier with text: You’re invited: HERC EDUCATION SESSIONS! Have you ever wondered… 1) Why is Hennepin County continuing to operate a waste to energy (WtE) incinerator that is aging and causing harm to the environment and community? 2) What is the cost to the environment and the community that surrounds the HERC? 3) What false or misleading claims is the County using to justify continued support for the HERC and the special interests that benefit from it? Join this Wednesday 4/30 at 6pm! Swipe for more dates and info. Sign up at bit.ly/hercsessions.” Zero Burn Coalition and MN Environmental Justice Table logos are included, and a semi transparent picture of the HERC trash burner is in the background
Flier with text: “You’re invited: HERC EDUCATION SESSIONS! Wednesdays at 6pm CT: April 30, May 7, May 14, May 21. Join these sessions to hear directly from community members, policy experts, scientists, union members, and researchers to gain a well-rounded understanding of the issue. Sign up at: bit.ly/hercsessions.” MN Environmental Justice Table and Zero Burn Coalition logos are included.
Come learn more about the HERC trash burner with your neighbors in a virtual setting!
Upcoming four Wednesdays, including 4/30…
Sign up at bit.ly/hercsessions
#ShutDownHERC
A flier with text: “You’re Invited: Northeast Community Conversation on HERC + Zero Waste! Thursday April 10, 6:30pm, Edison High School 700 22nd Ave NE MPLS. We’ll discuss how Northeast residents can help shape plans to close HERC and be part of the transition back to zero waste!” A picture of the trash burner and part of the Minneapolis city skyline and a baseball field is included in the background. The Zero Burn Coalition logo and “zeroburncoalition.org” are at the bottom.
The movement to shut down HERC + build connections between neighborhoods continues to expand.
Northeast Mpls neighborhood orgs + members of the Zero Burn Coalition will be gathering to discuss how residents can help shape plans to close HERC and be part of the transition back to zero waste.
Collaborating with scientists has played a large role in understanding the harms of the HERC incinerator and fueling our resolve to shut it down.
Hear from local organizers and meet some neighbors.
More info at standupforscience2025.org
Flier with an image of the Statue of Liberty. Text: St Paul Stand Up for Science 2025. March 7, 2025. Minnesota State Capitol. 3-5pm. Science is for Everyone. Find your local rally site and other ways to get involved: standupforscience2025.org
Come out to the capitol this Friday, March 7 from 3-5pm for the Stand Up for Science rally!
Location: 75 Rev Dr Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard. Saint Paul, MN 55155
Flier with text: “Join Hands for Environmental Justice: A fundraising event for the movement”. MN Environmental Justice Table logo, Women’s Environmental Institute logo, and a picture of farmer Will Allen, a dark skinned man with a sleeveless hoody and cap, holding a pile of soil in his hands. “Friday, Feb 28th, 5pm. Sliding-scale admission. Pre-registration requested. Gather for a shared meal, project updates and screening of “Fresh: New Thinking About What We’re Eating.” Presented by Minnesota Environmental Justice Table, which leads the campaign to shut down the HERC trash burner and build a zero waste movement; the Women’s Environmental Institute, centered on organizing for environmental justice through food, racial & gender justice strategies; and renowned urban farmer Will Allen, a revolutionary in food access & community-based urban farming. It’s time to support frontline communities in leading the way! Register at https://bit.ly/EJTogether. Hosted by Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church - 2315 Chicago Ave. Minneapolis.
🗓️Friday February 28!🗓️
Join us and Women’s Environmental Institute + Will Allen to help raise funds for the environmental justice movement?
Register at bit.ly/EJTogether
(And if you can’t make it, there’s an option to donate without attending!)
Hello Bluesky world. We are the Minnesota Environmental Justice Table, a community and grassroots-led coalition fighting for environmental justice, fair development, and self-determination in overburdened communities. Let’s connect!
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