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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…
SPIRIT AND CONSCIENCE: White supremacy: Once again preaching to the choir
My concern with racism and white supremacy in America began long before the recent election. It has been present in American society and government since the beginning. It is something that the U.S. government, on the face of it anyway, during my lifetime, has mostly always been against. Now, that…
When ‘frosty wind makes moan’
Which side are we on?
Voter’s guide to the precinct caucuses
Confessions of an unrepentant Maoist
I. How it all began (2015 August Riv, September PP, Nok) I remember when it happened. It was 1961. I had just started graduate school at the University of Minnesota. I was doing research for a history of theater seminar. I was assigned a report on the Abbey Theater and…
Mitch and John
Mitch and John BY ED FELIEN It recently came out that the new Republican House Majority Whip Steve Scalise gave a speech to a David Duke group of white supremacists and neo-Nazis in 2002. Scalise claimed he had no idea what the European-American Unity and Rights Organization (EURO) group stood…
