June 2016 – Page 2 – Southside Pride

FROM WHERE I STAND: NYT article describes hope for the Earth

June 14, 2016 June 14, 2016

BY POLLY MANN If you believe as I do that climate change is a real threat to continued life on this planet, a recent New York Times half-page article about the issue is encouraging. For example, in April 2016, 21 teen-agers and children, members of the environmental organization Our Children’s…

Nicollet Avenue, better without the K-mart parking lot?

June 14, 2016 June 14, 2016

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Nicollet Avenue has a big gap in it. You knew that, right? Maybe you even fought the battle to keep the gap from forming, back when it was a whole and continuous avenue. Well, in case you haven’t heard, it may be continuous again in the…

New Left Convention in Chicago, 1967

June 13, 2016 June 13, 2016

BY ED FELIEN Before driving out to Smith College in Northampton, Mass., I stopped at Chicago for the New Left Convention. I went to Old Town, met some lovely people and we decided to bring a little bit of the Summer of Love to Chicago. We talked a liberal church…

A few weeks ago about three dozen environmental activists marched from Loring Park through downtown to protest the selling of Monsanto’s Round-Up, an herbicide that contains glyphosate, a poison that causes cancer.

June 6, 2016 June 6, 2016

Namings

June 6, 2016 June 6, 2016

BY TONY BOUZA Humans have extolled the virtues and memories of their heroes by naming things and places after them. This serves as a gentle prod to memory as to the qualities we cherish and celebrate. As with every other human activity this can be a fraught and complicated process.…

Powderhorn Birdwatch: A walk in the park reveals state of fish and fowl

June 6, 2016 June 6, 2016

BY JOHN KARRIGAN I will start this month with the item from last month about the very big goldfish school about which some people are wondering. I have seen several more goldfish schools in May but none as big as the one I saw in April. Yes, the goldfish come…

It’s not Franklin, it’s ‘The Avenue’

June 6, 2016 June 6, 2016

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE White men may have physically built Franklin Avenue, but it was, to a large degree, Native Americans, since the 1960s, who made it what it is today. The unique paradox of the Avenue is that it attracts immigrants, whatever the newest, most vulnerable wave is, and…

Polly Pockets Celebration at Every Tribe and Tongue Church

June 6, 2016 June 6, 2016

BY ELAINE KLAASSEN Polly Pockets was born Paulina Griffiths. She lived in the neighborhood at Portland and Franklin all of her 60 years. She was a humble woman who made it her mission in life to “love on people.” Papa Bear (Pastor Todd Finney) of Every Tribe and Tongue Church,…