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RADICAL TWIN CITIES YOUTH ARTISTS: Jae Shin Cross

November 16, 2015 November 16, 2015

BY COOPER My name is Jae Shin Cross and I’m mostly a videographer and painter. I eventually want to be a narrative filmmaker and I primarily try my hardest to only work with queer people or people of color, and to support them, and that’s my role as an activist.…

50 ways to tame holiday consumption, save the earth, and experience peace

November 16, 2015 November 16, 2015

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE If you’re like the majority of our readership, you try to limit your footprint on the earth. Maybe you drive a hybrid car, maybe you bike instead when you can. You try to shop locally, grow some of your own food, buy organic, not use plastic,…

A challenge to the legend of Lee Harvey Oswald

November 16, 2015 October 30, 2017

Along with the usual SSP informational and inspirational coverage, including your political rants, I was surprised by a Bay of Pigs story— not by its placement in a community paper but by your repeating the famous but fatuous Lee Harvey Oswald legend. It matters because the deep state that carried…

Bernie Sanders and the democratic socialist revolution

November 16, 2015 November 16, 2015

BY ED FELIEN It’s amazing! The excitement that has been generated, the wildly enthusiastic crowds, the steady increase in Bernie’s popularity in the polls, all are testament to a massive popular support for democratic socialism. Who would have thought it? Just a few months ago, early last spring, Bernie was…

Queen of Cuisine: Alma Mater

November 16, 2015 November 16, 2015

BY CARLA WALDEMAR Alma 528 University Avenue SE 612-379-4909 www.restaurantalma.com Let’s!” exclaimed a friend when I suggested dining at Restaurant Alma: “It’s been way too long!” When concentrating on the ongoing surge of new eateries in Lyn-Uptown and the Warehouse District, we’d forgotten about one of the all-time best in…

Hey Kids! A coloring contest

November 9, 2015 November 9, 2015

Color our drawing and the best drawing will win a $50 gift certificate to Pepitos to take your family to dinner. Send submissions by Dec. 1 to Southside Pride at 3200 Chicago Ave. S., 55407. The Nokomis East Neighborhood Association is organizing its annual Tree Lighting Ceremony in the Oxendale’s…

The March on Washington, August 1963

November 9, 2015 November 9, 2015

BY ED FELIEN By the time of the March on Washington I was already too radical to believe I was needed or wanted. It was to be a mostly black affair, and communists and Marxists weren’t invited. Organizers of the March had been fending off criticisms that the March was…

MPS yields to community pressure

November 9, 2015 November 9, 2015

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE In a stunning reversal, after initially defending the choice of a $1.25 million contract with publisher Reading Horizons, the Minneapolis School Board reversed its decision and cancelled the contract at its meeting on Oct. 13. The meeting was packed with angry parents and community members who…

Geography lessons and gentrification

November 9, 2015 November 9, 2015

BY ED FELIEN Last month Council Member Alondra Cano organized a meeting in her ward (9th Ward) to discuss gentrification. More than a hundred people showed up to listen to experts talk about how gentrification of neighborhoods prices poor and working people out of their homes. Most people when they think…