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Books make good gifts
“The Geography of Madness: Penis Thieves, Voodoo Death and the Search for the Meaning of the World’s Strangest Syndromes” by Frank Bures This book is perfect for that sensitive, inquisitive, scholarly cousin, friend or daughter—the one who is always wondering about human behavior and humans in groups, the one who…
Lock him up!
Stop the cops!
Water Protectors Shut Down Wells Fargo
Stand-off at Standing Rock
BY DAVID TILSEN The Native people of the Western Hemisphere have come together to support the Standing Rock Lakota in their decision to not allow the Dakota Access Pipeline to be built. They have clearly decided this pipeline threatens their existence. They will not be invisible any more. Native nations…
Letter to the Editor: Youth susceptible to tobacco marketing
Dear Editor: Corporate tobacco companies continue to aggressively market their products to young people. As a queer woman, this is a particularly important issue to me because LGBTQ-identified people in Minnesota are 2.5 times more likely to smoke than their cisgender heterosexual counterparts. I am encouraged by the growing number…
‘Trauma and Recovery’
Our Revolution MN’s Really Big Meeting
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE “Don’t mourn, organize!” –Joe Hill, before being shot by a Utah firing squad Approximately 700 activists and former Bernie Sanders for President supporters gathered at St. Peter’s AME Church in South Minneapolis on Sunday, Nov. 13. The three-hour-long meeting, starting at 1 p.m., was called “Trump,…
When ‘frosty wind makes moan’
Should the feds investigate the Minneapolis Police?
BY NICK LICATA Currently there are about 20 city police departments that U.S. Department of Justice has investigated and found to have exhibited a “pattern and practice” of using excessive force and/or violating people’s civil rights. The cities then faced either being sued by DOJ for violating the 1994 Violent…
The mentally ill and cops
Queen of Cuisine: Crafty Operation
CONFESSIONS OF AN UNREPENTANT MAOIST: The March on Washington, fall 1969
FROM WHERE I STAND: Solitary confinement is unconstitutional
BY POLLY MANN How can a class action lawsuit in California affect prisoners in Minnesota, while the suit affects California prisoners only? It could produce a change in the policies of Minnesota’s jails and prisons. It’s called Asker vs. Governor of California on behalf of prisoners held in the Security…
