Become a Clean Water Delegate

Print out the GOP Resolution form, and bring it to your caucus with you on the evening of Feb 3rd. When the caucus organizers begin to talk about resolutions, you will read the Prove It First resolution aloud and the group will vote on it.

Reminders: 

• Please try to get as far in this process as you are able. Please select on your form that you would like to be a delegate for your organizing unit, county, and senate district. If you are attending in person, please let the organizer know that you would like to do this. The goal is to ultimately have as many Prove It First delegates as possible attend the state convention in May 2026.

Print out the DFL Resolution forms, and bring it to your caucus with you on the evening of Feb 3rd. When the caucus organizers begin to talk about resolutions, you will read the Stand Up for Clean Water resolution, and the Stop Trump’s Attacks on Minnesota resolution aloud and the group will vote on it.

Reminders: 

• Please try to get as far in this process as you are able. Please select on your form that you would like to be a delegate for your organizing unit, county, and senate district. If you are attending in person, please let the organizer know that you would like to do this. The goal is to ultimately have as many Prove It First delegates as possible attend the state convention in May 2022.

Title: Stand up for Minnesota’s Water

Be It Resolved That: The DFL Party supports clean water and supports a policy that would protect Minnesota’s many waters from the dangers of copper-sulfide mining and protect Minnesota from the foreign mining companies seeking to exploit and profit from our resources.

Supportive Points:

–According to the Environmental Protection Agency, copper-nickel sulfide mining is the most polluting industry in the U.S

–Sulfide mining has a perfect track record of polluting surrounding water systems

-There has never been a nickel or copper mine in Minnesota, let alone at the headwaters of iconic waterstems such as the Boundary Waters, Lake Superior, and the Mississippi and St. Croix Rivers

-International mining conglomerates behind the proposed sulfide mines in Minnesota — Glencore, Teck, Antofagasta, and Rio Tinto — have long histories of violating environmental laws and mistreating both union and non-union workers that in 2024 the International Trade Union Confederation named Glencore (a parent company of proposed NewRange-PolyMet sulfide mines) as one of seven entities that undermine democracy and violate human and workers’ rights

Title: Stand up for Minnesota’s Water

Be It Resolved That: The DFL Party supports clean water, the BWCA and will fight back against the Trump Administration’s corrupt efforts to enrich foreign mining companies who want to exploit our public lands and clean water at the expense of our beloved Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

Supportive Points:

-since 2023, when the federal government revoked Twin Metals leases and placed a 20-year moratorium on sulfide mining on the public land surrounding the Boundary Water Canoe Area Wilderness, the area has been protected from sulfide mining, the most polluting industry in the United States

-Twin Metals, owned by Chilean mining giant Antofagasta, is seeking to open a risky, polluting sulfide mine at the doorstep of the Boundary waters 

–The Trump-backed “Big, Beautiful, Bill” included provisions that would have reversed current protections for the Boundary Waters, reinstated Twin Metals mineral leases, and prohibit citizens from suing in court to stop this unpopular and risky plan

–69% of Minnesotans, Democrats, Independents, and Republicans alike do not want copper sulfide mining in the Boundary Waters Watershed, and prefer to permanently protect the area

Supports clean water and supports a policy that would protect Minnesota’s many waters from the dangers of copper-sulfide mining and protect Minnesota from the foreign mining companies seeking to exploit and profit from our resources.