‘Cover Stories’ Archives
REMEMBERING
Covid-19 Pandemic experiences make lasting memories. Here are some memories sent by a few neighbors. What will you be remembering? ”¢ Remembering the ways of being present. There are ways of being present that do not require us to be physically present in times like these. ”¢ Remembering there was a time when people wrote letters to one another to be present in mind, heart, and spirit. ”¢ Remembering teachers who needed to quickly increase technical skills for online teaching. ”¢ Remembering Grocery stores are ransacked and Charmin Ultra Soft essentially replaces the dollar as the official U.S. currency. ”¢ Remembering the clean skies as we stopped driving our cars. ”¢ Remembering the birds singing and the flowers blooming in this glorious spring. ”¢ Remembering we sang when we washed our hands. ”¢ Remembering how challenging it was to learn the idiosyncrsies and benefits of “Zoom” conversations, meetings, and learning. [...]
Mobile Outreach and Outdoor Drop-In (MOODI)
MOODI is grounded in the cultural wellness approaches to moving from race to culture and community healings. The Cultural Wellness Center is located one block away from Peavey Park on the Hope community campus. The MOODI model is created by partners who have joined forces over the years to reverse the practice of individualism, loss of community, and loss of culture. Our response to the Corona-virus is to show up in community, practice social distancing but share our resources including cultural and spiritual resource because we know that in this we must unite. Our effort is a collaboration between the people from the Cultural Wellness Center and Anam Cara (an incubated initiative of the CWC) along with community volunteers, health, social, and outreach workers.
City Denies Neighborhood Initiative, Disregards Laws and Guidelines, and Threatens Housing
By FORMER STATE REPRESENTATIVE KAREN CLARK and STATE SENATOR PATRICIA TORRES RAY Neighbors demonstrate their work and support of the EPNI Initiative recently at the corner of 28th Street and Longfellow Ave.PHOTO ELIZABETH CAMPBELL East Phillips Neighborhood, the lowest-income neighborhood in Minneapolis, where the majority of residents are indigenous and people of color, ironically designated by the city of Minneapolis as a “Green Opportunity Zone” ”” was declared a federal “residential arsenic superfund site” in 2000. Industrial arsenic pesticide contamination was found in more than 500 homes in the area. To compound the situation, the city threatened to use “eminent domain” to take control of a large, prime development site, known as the “Roof Depot,” with the intention of turning it into a storage yard ”” a place to relocate the entire Department of Public Works Water Yards. The site will be used to store [...]
