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Update on Postponed Journalism Trainings from Alley Communications
Friends of the alley: Many of you may have seen an announcement in the latest issues of the alley, promoting a series of trainings alongside Phillips West Neighborhood Organization and the Journalism of Color Training Center. Unfortunately, we needed to cancel these three workshops, Oct. 7th, 12th, and 16th. The workshop dates were announced after we received notice from the City of Minneapolis to proceed with the community journalism trainings funded by a grant through their Partnership Engagement Fund. However, in the last few weeks, we’ve learned that the City Attorney’s office is holding up the grant funding our project because they question whether or not community journalism, like the alley, serves a community good. Our three organizations believe in playing fair and fair pay. While we deal with the logistics and First Amendment issues inherent to this challenge from the City Attorney’s office, we also know we cannot continue to do the work of this grant without [...]
Breaking News: Nokba, 1948
Raise Your Voice: November 2023 By PETER MOLENAAR Peter Molenaar Al Nokba (the disaster) was the beginning of the settler invasion which drove Palestinians from the long established gardens which sustained their spirit. Hey, it was not so long ago that I conversed with a young Palestinian at the Cedar Food & Grill (the corner grocery which serves Little Earth). Bulldozers had flattened his family’s lemon groves… all in the name of Hitler’s ghost. Hence, the Gaza Concentration Camp has confined over two million people. Breaking News: October 7, 2023…It was closing time when I descended the stairs to the space called Mayday Books. (Note: this West Bank address has always been within the territory of the alley news.) Craig and Patrick immediately brought me up to speed. What was Hamas thinking? Yet another disaster was sure to unfold.Indeed, the biblical dilemma between “do unto others…” and an “eye for an eye” was manifesting, even as Israeli bombs [...]
