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Register Now for Free Community Journalism Training Series This Fall!
Certificate and Honorarium for registered 5 to 8 participants By CIRIEN SAADEH Community journalism is an accessible tool each and every one of us can use to tell stories that matter to our communities. Community journalism is stories about us, for us, with us - reported stories that help us make deeper meaning of the issues impacting our communities and give us the chance to celebrate and/or contextualize events. This fall, folks will have the opportunity to participate in a community journalism workshop series. The training series - brought to you by Alley Communications, publisher of the alley, Phillips West Neighborhood Organization, and the Journalism of Color Training Center, with funds provided by the City of Minneapolis - will culminate in a certificate in anti-racist community journalism, an honorarium, and a published article for each participant this November. Registration and attendance at all 6 workshops is required. WEEKLY SCHEDULEWeek 1: Introduction to [...]
FREE LEONARD PELTIER
from the series Something I Said... By DWIGHT HOBBES Dwight Hobbes Leonard Peltier was railroaded for FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams’ 1975 murder at the historic Pine Ridge Indian Reservation gunfight in South Dakota. Don’t take my word, look it up. You’ll find some interesting information. Peltier’s attorney, former Tennessee U.S. District Judge Kevin Sharp, told Native News Online in June, “Leonard did not shoot the agents, and the FBI knew this but withheld evidence. The court of appeals acknowledged this but couldn’t overturn the conviction due to legal standards”. During his trial, Darlene Nichols said Peltier told her about committing the crime. She later acknowledged receiving $42,000 from the FBI in connection with her cooperation on the case. No investigation looked into whether the testimony was perjured. FYI. She’s now married to a former FBI Chief Agent. At the trial, FBI agents changed their statements that they’d searched for a [...]
Zero Burn Coalition Requests
Help to Close the Hennepin County Trash Incinerator
By THE ZERO BURN COALITION The Zero Burn Coalition, comprised of over 30 organizations and hundreds of individuals, is working on all fronts to shut down the Hennepin Energy Recovery Center (HERC) trash incinerator located in downtown Minneapolis by the end of 2025.One big next step is to get the city of Minneapolis to pass a resolution calling for Hennepin County to close HERC, which we’re hoping the City Council will be taking up this month.Why is shutting down HERC an urgent priority, and how can it be shut down by 2025?Contrary to what Hennepin County argues, HERC has been poisoning communities closeby ever since it began burning trash in 1989. Nurses, teachers, parents, bus drivers, and other neighbors have attested to the fact that asthma rates and other health issues are higher in neighborhoods near HERC as opposed to neighborhoods farther away. Scientists now back them up. And regulations cannot keep up with the industry; HERC is burning chemicals that we don’t know the [...]
