Who killed Walter Dolley?
BY ED FELIEN
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Photo by mrsashathome and powderhorn365
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Nineteen-year-old Walter Lee Dolley of Minneapolis was shot on a sidewalk in the 3400 block of Chicago Avenue around 11 p.m. on Jan. 8. He died from multiple gun shot wounds, but why he was targeted is still under investigation.
This block has known tragedy before. It is the block where Tyesha Edwards was murdered in November of 2002. A stray bullet from a gunfight between Bloods and Crips on Chicago Avenue went through the wall of her home where she was sitting at the dining room table doing her homework with her little sister Lakia. The bullet hit Tyesha’s heart. She collapsed and died almost instantly.
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Obama’s third war—on the developing world
BY JANET CONTURSI
The lesson from the Copenhagen climate talks is clear: Obama is not only negotiating in bad faith, but is pursuing a destructive war of the worlds: the developed world against the developing world. Copenhagen, by any standard of fairness and decency, was a failure of industrial nations to own their pollution, and a nightmare for poorer countries who expected more accountability from the rich. Instead, they got a concerted effort, led by the United States, to undermine the Kyoto protocol’s legal distinction between developed and developing nations and their respective responsibilities for global warming.
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Precinct Caucuses
Precinct caucuses will be held on Feb. 2 at 6:30 p.m.
At the caucus, you’ll meet your neighbors, take an unofficial straw poll for governor choices, elect delegates to the legislative district endorsing convention, and discuss platform changes and resolutions.
For your caucus location for the DFL, Republican or Green Parties, check the secretary of state’s caucus location finder: http://caucusfinder.sos.state.mn.us/
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Burglaries in Standish neighborhood
BY RUEDIGER HELD
A rash of burglaries hit the area just north of Lake Hiawatha in the fourth quarter of 2009. According to a source at the Minneapolis Police Department, no one has been arrested for those burglaries yet. Even though the police have stepped up their presence in the area, residents continue to be reminded at block meetings to call 911 when observing suspicious activity, including people loitering that appear to be out of place, especially in the back alleys.
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Ten days in the Cairo Corral
BY DAVID TILSEN
 Who isn’t horrified by the situation in Gaza? It has been called the largest open-air prison in the world, a ghetto, or simply a violation of human rights by more organizations and journalists and bloggers than I can name. To summarize quickly, Gaza is a 25-mile-long narrow strip of land along the Mediterranean Sea that Israel captured from Egypt in June of 1967.
The people who lived there in 1967 did not consider themselves Egyptians (their land only became part of Egypt in 1948 when the United Nations partitioned Palestine and created the state of Israel) and the people who live there now do not consider themselves Israeli. They call themselves Palestinians.
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Sucker-punched by Avatar
BY ED FELIEN
 I took my daughter and grandson to see “Avatar.” I came out of the movie wild-eyed and exuberant. This was a movie that showed the folly of U. S. imperialism. It showed how indigenous people (and Cameron’s production company is called Indigenous) will always defeat an aggressor—even an aggressor who builds them roads and schools and hospitals. I was thrilled with the message. It took three years to make, and it seemed a direct response to Bush’s wars in the Middle East.
My daughter was strangely silent. She wanted to know how her son liked the movie. He’s 11 and, predictably, he loved the action scenes. He’s looking forward to seeing it again in 3-D. She didn’t want to talk about the movie around her son, because she didn’t want to spoil it for him.
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Letter to Powderhorn Birdwatch
John Karrigan couln’t write his column this month, but we expect him back with us in March.
Dear John,
I always enjoy reading your Birdwatch article. Thank you for the inspiration and knowledge!
In my previous life as a mover and shaker in the business world I would have never noticed the birds in my back yard. I thought bird watching was for old retired folks with free time on a “fixed income.”
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Reining in the gods of the Fed
BY Jim Hightower
Here’s a story that reads like the script of an old B-grade monster movie—and it would be comic, were it not so serious. The monster is named “The Fed,” a hydra-headed creature with enormous and destructive power, which it exercises from within the misty confines of a marble cavern that is unapproachable by commoners.
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