Category: Letters to the Editor
Robin Wonsley Worlobah for City Council
Important to see strengths of unsheltered people
Bernie for all of us
Lynne Alpert and Pam Sherman honored and remembered
Medical advances in socialist Cuba
Last August, 2019, I wrote “Contrast between real world and the movies” in Southside Pride criticizing cineaste aficionado Tony Bouza for his lack of appreciation for the medical achievements of Cuba since the revolution of 1959. That island nation implemented its Universal Medical Coverage for its own people, and also…
Celebrate Mayday
Reader emphasizes importance of cutting birth rate
In “Hope and futility neck and neck as first world (barely) takes on climate crisis” (all September editions of Southside Pride), it was suggested that people could mitigate the climate crisis by having no more than two children. Two children? 7.8 billion people as status quo? The most effective decrease…
Letter to the Editor:Contrast between real world and the movies
The May 2019 Southside Pride carried an article by Tony Bouza in which he considers the film “Leviathan, or The Death of Stalin” as an accurate assessment of Russia, and he extends this assessment to Cuba and Venezuela and compares these countries with Scandinavia. Chief Bouza praises Scandinavia for promoting…
Local church disagrees with larger church body
Reader hurt by Methodist Church decision
I was raised as a Methodist at a church in southwest Minneapolis and converted to Unitarianism about a decade and half ago. I know the mainline Protestant churches have struggled with GLBT issues recently (or GLOW, which I like more—the Gay/lesbian/or whatever label, which is even more open to others).…
Response to Tony Bouza’s “The Jews” Commentary Published Jan. 21, 2019
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Do not rehire Velma Korbel to head Mpls. Civil Rights Commission
On Monday, April 16, the Minneapolis City Council will be voting on the proposed rehire of Velma Korbel as head of the Minneapolis Civil Rights Commission (CRC). There are numerous reasons why Ms. Korbel is not capable of heading this important city department. As director of the CRC, Korbel oversees…