‘Commentary’ Archives
Compassionate Duo Artfully Planting and Giving for Tomorrow: Pastors Luisa and Patrick Retire
By CHRISTINE LEEHEY, BART BUCH, SANDY SPIELER, SUE HUNTER WEIR Pastors Luisa and Patrick Cabello Hansel. Photo: Lowell Hanson, 2014 Poetic Art & Artful PoetryBy CHRISTINE LEEHEY“Pastors Patrick and Luisa Cabello Hansel have served St Paul”™s Lutheran Faith Community for 15 years. Their art and poetry talents were gifts, to us and the community.” Pastors Patrick and Luisa Cabello Hansel have been serving the Faith Community at St Paul”™s Lutheran Church (2742 15th Ave.) in Phillips for 15 years. Their talents in art and poetry have been tremendous gifts, not only to us but to the community as well. Pastor Patrick”™s skilled verse has meant that our members have benefited from a personal, relevant and meaningful sermon every Sunday for 15 years. Pastora Luisa”™s mosaic artistry adorns the Sanctuary and the 28th Ave Peace Garden. In addition, they have helped St Paul”™s transform into a diverse [...]
Raise Your Voice: Commentary Honor The Community”™s Vision Of A Better World. Please!
Our Righteous Community By PETER MOLENAAR Note: In the realm of politics and leadership, the designation of “opportunist” intends a pejorative, i.e., it describes a person whose self-interest supersedes the longterm benefit of the whole. By now, every reader of “the alley” newspaper, is aware that governance of Minneapolis intends to demolish the Roof Depot building which rests directly across the from Smith Foundry, and kitty-corner from the Bituminous Roadways Company asphalt plant on East 28th Street. Actually, the demolition has secretly commenced, out of sight, within the walls. The intent is to create a staging ground for the city”™s fleet of industrial trucks, many diesel, and their water and sewer pipes. In reality, this plan is a mean spirited slap to our face. Hey, community activists have invested no small sum of time and money to draw up an alternative plan. Their plan, our plan, envisions green jobs, organic food, low [...]
“Being alive and Native is an act of resistance, resilience and activism,” says Marcie Rendon
By DWIGHT HOBBES Marcie Rendon, writer and grassroots firebrand, has made her way into the mainstream with the hit novels, “Murder on the Red River” and “Girl Gone Missing” (Cinco Puntos Press), racking up love-letter reviews from Publisher”™s Weekly, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Kirkus Review and more like it”™s lunch. Marcie Rendon, writer, grassroots firebrand. Photo: Sigwan Rendon “What”™s an Indian Woman to Do When White Girls Act More Indian Than Indian Women Do?” circa mid-90s to the best of her recollection, was the highlight of an afternoon with the likes of Janice Command and Ardie Mendoza reading prose-poetry from a Native perspective. It”™s a scathing send-up of sexually slumming, paleface predators hunting Native men while Native women stew in seething consternation. This gathering eventually evolved into the theatre company/performance troupe and Raving Natives Productions with Rendon [...]
