Paris and Raqqa

BY ED FELIEN Or, should we say San Bernardino, Paris and Raqqa and Beirut?  A day before the Paris attacks, two ISIS suicide bombers killed 43 people and injured 239 in Lebanon. Or, should we say San Bernardino, Paris and Raqqa and Beirut and Russia?  A Russian tourist flight from…

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Did Jesus celebrate Hanukkah?

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE The short answer is yes. The long answer, ah! That is a story rich in incident, with enticing side journeys into such areas as hermeneutics, historiography and linguistics, part of a wider question about the history of these celebrations, one Christian and one Jewish, and how…

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Release The Tapes!

BY ED FELIEN Early Sunday morning, Nov. 15, 911 Emergency was called to treat the victim of an assault at a party in North Minneapolis.  Paramedics called for police support once there, because, they said, Jamar Clark was interfering with their treatment of the young woman.  Police came and intervened. …

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We torture, and we don’t seem to care- CIA whistle blower and APA reformer talk about consequences of torture 

BY TOM DICKINSON On Nov. 12 the illegality of torture and the grotesque ways it has misshapen our country were highlighted in two presentations given by CIA whistle blower John Kiriakou and American Psychological Association (APA) reformer Bradley Olson at Hamline University and the University of Minnesota.  These talks gave a…

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Congratulations Margo!

Congratulations Margo (age 4), you’ve won a $50 gift certificate for Pepito’s Restaurant to take your family to dinner. We were excited to receive 38 outstanding entries, and only wish we could have had 38 winners. The judging was done by peers, children of some of our staff members. They…

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Graduate School, 1961 to 1966

BY ED FELIEN I graduated with my B.A. in June of 1960. That was it. I’d done everything I was supposed to do. I’d been a good Catholic boy, until I couldn’t handle the emotional, psychological and philosophical contradictions, and I just quit. I grew tired of the Jesuit reasoning that conjured…

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FROM WHERE I STAND

BY POLLY MANN Minnesota without poverty Nancy Maeker is an activist who really is active in proclaiming her message. She’s the former director of an organization called “Minnesota Without Poverty” and I became one of her followers after hearing her speak at a meeting of “Every Church A Peace Church.”…

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Do you stand with Bernie?

The following questionnaire will be sent to all candidates seeking election to the State Legislature in South Minneapolis (by the South Minneapolis Organizing Committee for Bernie Sanders: Ed Felien, Sid Pranke, Debra Keefer Ramage, Dave Tilsen, Jason Galles): If elected to the State Legislature, would you introduce and support legislation…

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Marijuana in Mexico

BY JOHNNY HAZARD An injunction upheld recently by the Mexican supreme court recognizes the right of the four litigants to cultivate, consume and possess marijuana and appears to pave the way toward further liberalization of drug laws. The decision is confusing and has been misinterpreted by some as a general…

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