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Marie Braun was one of about 50 demonstrators protesting continued escalation of conflicts in Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq.
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War with Syria
and Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan and Iran
BY ED FELIEN
About 50 demonstrators gathered in front of the Federal Building in downtown Minneapolis on Tuesday, June 26, to protest the continued escalation of military activity in the Middle East.
They chanted:
WE’VE SEEN THIS ALL BEFORE,
SAME STORY, DIFFERENT WAR!
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The Wisconsin recall and the long march
BY ED FELIEN
On Wednesday, June 5, Eliot Seide, director of AFSCME Minnesota Council 5, issued the following positive spin on Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker surviving a recall vote in a battle over collective bargaining and budget cutting:
“Today’s recall election was another step in a long march to restore worker freedom in Wisconsin. We’re disappointed in the results of the governor’s race, but it doesn’t erase the incredible journey so many citizens made from standing in the snow and sleeping under the dome to forcing their governor to answer for dividing their state.
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Report from the petition drive
BY ED FELIEN
Last month I announced in these pages a petition drive to change the terms of office for mayor and City Council from the present four-year terms to two-year terms. I thought, with the apparent anger of the Minneapolis voters at the mayor and the majority of the City Council for sticking us with a sales tax to support a Vikings Stadium that could cost us $890 million over 30 years, there would be considerable support and energy to change the city charter to make city government more democratic and more responsive.
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The Powderhorn Art Fair turns 21 this year
BY JANET CONTURSI
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“Autumn Landscape” by Kevin Kluever |
Summer is art fair season in Minnesota and the Powderhorn Art Fair, now in its 21st year, should be on the top of your “to do” list. The Fair will run Aug. 4-5, with booths spread throughout the 66-acre Powderhorn Park, in the heart of the city. Thanks to the work of dedicated staff and volunteers, the Fair will bring the arts and crafts of 184 contributors—local and national—to South Minneapolis.
Neighborhood fairs are a great opportunity to support local artists and bring home a piece of original art—a one-of-a-kind treasure that will never be mass produced! Judging from the list of this year’s entrants, there will be plenty of jewelry, pottery, fiber and glass works, but don’t overlook the award-winning artists who will be showing affordable watercolor, acrylic, oil and pastel paintings.
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One fireflly, two turtles and a hawk family
BY JOHN KARRIGAN
 Luckily, I am not aware of any major neighborhood disasters such as last month’s Walker Church fire so I will probably only write about birds, animals, insects and nature this month.
Last month again was a no-bald-eagle-in-the-park month, but there were other interesting sightings, at least I thought so. One was quite a bit smaller than the Bald Eagle—a firefly! Only one firefly, or lightning bug, is what I saw on the very hot and humid evening of June 18. In July I will be spending some time at my large summer home in Eagan.
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The Old Woman’s revenge
BY ED FELIEN
When I was a small child growing up in South Minneapolis, my Uncle John used to take care of me and my brothers while my mom and dad had to go to work. He really wasn’t my uncle. He was more my grandmother’s boyfriend. When my grandmother died, when I was 5, Uncle John stayed around and cooked and took care of us when he didn’t have to go downtown and stoke the boilers under the Alvin Burlesque Theater.
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Making Minneapolis healthier from the inside out
BY RAINA GOLDSTEIN
Adults in Minneapolis are fat and so are their kids. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), a shocking 24% of Minneapolis adults are obese and 23.1% of public school students in the city are overweight or obese. Although those rates are below the national average, they still represent a major public health problem and a bleak future of cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
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The hungry insurgent
BY CHARLEY UNDERWOOD
We Americans waste a lot of food. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, we throw away about half the food we produce, much of it quite usable. It amounts to filling a large football stadium to the brim every single day, something between 160 and 295 billion pounds of food per year. One way to cut this back lies in our neighbor’s backyard: gleaning. Gleaning is the process of harvesting food you didn’t plant.
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My memory of Lois Swenson
BY POLLY MANN
 The last time I saw her was several weeks ago in my living room with two of her old friends who, years ago, had taught school with her at Robbinsdale. They were trying to convince her to buy a unit and move into the Kenwood Isles Condominium (minimum age 55) where she’d possibly be my hall neighbor. She smiled agreement. Lois Swenson smiled a lot. But to occupy my building, she’d have to sell her house and its contents, much of it derived from her frequent dumpster divings. Shaking her head she said, “I’ll think about it.”
A few weeks earlier when she had provided me a ride to the monthly meeting of People of Faith Peacemakers, she was driving a new car. As I remember, her brothers had either forced her to get rid of the ancient, beat-up one she’d had or they’d given her the car.
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July
Phillips Powderhorn Community Calendar
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Donate to groups that used to meet at Walker Church
Headwaters Found-ation for Justice has graciously set up an easy way that you can donate to help the Communities United Against Police Brutality, Minnesota Immi-grant Rights Action Committee and the Welfare Rights Committee to reestablish their committees after losing their offices and everything in them in the fire that destroyed Walker Church on Sunday, May 27. Donate at this link: www.givemn.razo-o.com/story/Walker-Nonprofit-Recov-ery-Fundraiser
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Recovery Efforts in Northeastern Minnesota: Donate to Camp Noah
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota will be assisting with long-term recovery efforts in response to the flood disaster in Duluth and other communities affected by torrential rains in northeastern Minnesota. LSS will make its Camp Noah program available to children. This specialized day-camp is specifically designed to help children recover emotionally from natural disasters. LSS of MN is appealing for donations to assist with flood recovery efforts. Donations can be made online at www.-lssmn.org/disaster or by mailing a contribution to Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota, SDS 12-2054, PO Box 86, St. Paul, MN 55486 (Memo: Duluth Disaster Response).
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