Archive for August, 2014
Midtown Phillips Neighborhood Association offers Support for Outreach & Engagement on National Night Out – Tues Aug. 5th
The 31st Annual Mpls. National Night Out is Tuesday, August 5th, 2014. The Midtown Phillips Neighborhood Association, Inc. has reimbursements up $250.per event for neighborhood block gatherings from its City funded community engagement strategy. Requirements: Inclusive outreach for participants within the block. Minimum of 20 neighbors in attendance. Reimbursement: Submit a description & 2 photos of your event to midtownphillips@gmail.com Submit what you did for outreach & include a copy of a flyer, email, etc. If you have access, please post your event on midtownphillips facebook page! Support Midtown Phillips in distributing information and recruiting participation in: October 2014 Clean Sweep, July 2015 Midtown Festival, & monthly community meetings. (more…)
Through Different Eyes
By Peter Molenaar In this part of the world, we are fortunate to have The Circle, a paper which elevates Native Americans while stifling racism and chauvinism in general. It was not so long ago that I communicated with Ricey Wild to commend her column “It Ain”'t Easy Being Indian.” Her words, so often packed with meaning, are a reflection of personal experience. Do see the June issue for the context of the following quotation. “I understand now how we the oppressed were with evil intent told to oppress other non-whites so we kept fighting against each other rather than organizing to make null and void our common adversary ”“ White people. I sincerely apologize to people whom I have never met whose culture I degraded. I truly did not know but when I did learn I stopped that behavior and became interested and respectful of others”' human experiences and history”¦ When I say or write White people I mean the culture of greed and hate they [...]
