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Challenges of MayDay
HOBT needs your ideas and your support
By Sandy Spieler
Dear Neighbors,
I’m writing about the MayDay Parade and Festival, specifically the situation for MayDay this year and into the future.
I’m the artistic director of In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, one of the founders of MayDay, and one of the midwives of this event’s artistic and community development for 39 years. It has been my great joy to work with so many wonderful people for so many years! Thank you!
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Rest in Peace Muriel Simmons
Harvey Winje wrote in The Alley on Jan. 25 about the memorial tribute, celebration and funeral of Muriel Barnes Simmons, held Monday, Jan. 21: “In Minneapolis, scores of mourners of Muriel’s death and celebrants of Muriel’s life, having endured the subzero weather to honor Muriel and support one another, heard Messiah Lutheran Church Pastor Lee Cunningham repeat Muriel‘s oft-repeated words, ‘It’s time to move up to the next level.’ Muriel knew when the time was right and had the courage to not only move to the next level but to often take others with her and even more often inspire others to move up on their own.”
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Occupy Homes meeting
A neighborhood assembly emergency meeting, organized by Occupy Homes MN, will be held Saturday, Feb. 9, from 2 until 3:30 p.m. at Green Central Park Community Gym, 3416 4th Ave. S.
Five South Minneapolis homeowners facing foreclosure are refusing to move out, and they are organizing their community into a “Foreclosure and Eviction Free Zone.” Gayle Lindsey, a member of the Central community for the past 30 years, faces eviction. Stopping her eviction is the first step toward achieving a victory for dozens of families in a similar situation.
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Denise Bunkert’s Art of Healing
BY JANET CONTURSI
Thirteen years ago Denise Bunkert made a life-changing decision. What happened to her happens occasionally to all of us, but we rarely take the time to notice: Driving to work one especially beautiful morning, Denise saw the sun coming across a field, and was moved to tears. It was a simple, yet profound moment in which she knew she had to be outside painting. So, after 15 years working in graphic design, publishing and education, she decided to make painting her life’s work.
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Cancel all debts and redistribute the land
By Debra Ramage
According to David Graeber, “Cancel all debts and redistribute the land” was the program of every revolution from ancient times up to the birth of mercantile capitalism. In the introduction to Graeber’s book “Debt: The First 5000 Years,”
he describes a scene at a fundraising party in Westminster. He is discussing his international anti-poverty work with a woman who works for a domestic anti-poverty charity. He explains about the predatory lending to corrupt leaders of impoverished nations and what devastation it has wrought, and she asks him what he believes should be done. The IMF must be abolished and the debts cancelled he tells her, and to his consternation this good lady says, “But they borrowed the money. Surely, everyone has to pay back their debts?” Snap! I had almost this exact thing happen to me—twice—in acknowledged leftist circles here in the Twin Cities when I suggested that perhaps not all student borrowers DO have a moral obligation to pay back their debts.
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One Billion Rising to End Violence Against Women
This Valentine’s Day will be different. The world will change.
We are inviting women and those who love them to WALK OUT, DANCE, RISE UP, and DEMAND an end to this violence. ONE BILLION RISING will move the earth, activating women and men across every country. V-Day wants the world to see our collective strength, our numbers, our solidarity across borders.
Please join us in Powderhorn Park from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Feb. 14, for a march, live music, activist speakers, hot drinks and food, and dance in memory of Jyoti Singh Pandey, a student in Delhi, India, who was brutally raped and later died on Dec. 16, 2012. We will also be assembling to express our stand against all forms of violence against women in all communities.
Live Music: Oya’s Radio. Powderhorn Park Community Center is located at 3400 15th Ave. S.
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Wounded Knee
FROM AN UPCOMING BIOGRAPHY OF KEN AND RACHEL TILSEN (UNTITLED) BY DAVID TILSEN
February 27, 1973
The Pine Ridge Reservation in southwestern South Dakota has never been an easy place to live. Although larger than several states, it is a small remnant of the territory negotiated in the Ft. Laramie Treaty of 1873, as almost any resident could tell you. In 1973, its unemployment rate was between 75% and 90% depending on who measured it. Alcoholism, murder, suicide, domestic abuse, poverty and hopelessness were rampant. This was the poorest county in the United States, where very few homes had telephones, televisions, newspapers or regular news of any kind.
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January
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Announcements
Loss in the Twin Cities Peace and Justice Community
Maggie Drew, a longstanding peace and justice activist in the Twin Cities, died the day after Christmas at the age of 93. She served in the WACs in WWII, and worked tirelessly for nuclear disarmament, civil rights, social justice and against war and violence of all kinds. Maggie and her husband, Bruce, were long supporters of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.
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Baha’i Leader will be missed
Linda Hobart Ingham, a longtime Minneapolis resident and local Baha’i leader, died on Jan. 2 from side effects of the cancer she had fought for 12 years. She was 62. Linda served for 25 years on the Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Minneapolis, the local administrative body for the Faith, in various capacities, including vice-chair and treasurer, until her diagnosis. Her organizational skills and positive attitude were instrumental in helping the Assembly manage the growth of the Baha’i faith in Minneapolis. Steve Milston, currently on the Regional Baha’i Council of the Great Lakes States, said of his memories of Linda, “Linda loved the Faith and loved the community she served. Knowing her since the early 1970s, I saw a human being who always gave of herself to others.”
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February 2013 
