Minnesota COACT

(Citizens Organized ACting Together):

Minnesota COACT is a statewide, direct action, citizens organization of 10,000 members which educates and organizes people to empower themselves to take action in the democratic process on social justice issues, which are single-payer universal health care and family farm survival.      

Incorporated in 1979 as a 501c4, membership-run non-profit, COACT is the state’s oldest direct action, citizens’ organization.  It is led by a board of directors elected by members at the annual membership meeting in October.  Board directors represent members in Metro, Central, and Northern Minnesota.  The sustainable membership level is $20.  Our year-round phone canvass informs people on our issues work and encourages them to become members or to renew their member contributions.   

To accomplish systemic change, COACT works in community organizing and the legislative process, which includes lobbying.  However, our COACT Education Foundation (CEF) is a non-lobbying, 501c3 organization that educates the public on social justice issues to which citizens and foundations can make tax deductible donations and grants.     

 Our universal health care and family farm work includes the following projects:  

 (1) enactment of the Minnesota Health Plan for single-payer universal health care in our state; 

 (2) protecting state statutes and policies that maintain the right of local government to permit livestock feedlots based on what the citizens decide is best for their local economy and environment;    

 (3) protecting property owners’ rights when power companies use the power of eminent domain to force property owners to sign utility easements. 

COACT’s all-seasons organizing for social justice.

 COACT and MUHCC members rally for the Minnesota Health Plan with chief author  Senator John Marty in January at the Martin Luther King Day Parade in St. Paul.

  COACT and MUHCC members rally in June at a St. Paul movie theater for the   Minnesota Health Plan at the premier of SiCKO, the acclaimed documentary on the  nation’s failed health insurance system.

 Latest COACT newsletter headlines:

 Single-payer Minnesota Health Plan passes Senate Judiciary Committee as constitutional;

 Federal insurance-based program falls short of Minnesota single-payer plan 

Rescuing our lives from corporate control, topic at Freeport forum; Balance shifting from citizens’ rights to corporate power under changing rules

 Newsletters can be viewed by clicking the links in the left column of the home page.

 Here’s how you can help with a donation. 
To donate, write your check to Minnesota COACT and send to

Minnesota COACT
2469 University Avenue West
Suite W150
St. Paul, MN 55114 

For a tax deduction, write your check to the COACT Education Foundation and send to the same address.