‘Cover Stories’ Archives
Alberder Gillespie Leads Mpls. Census
By City Neighborhood and Community Relations Alberder Gillespie, Mpls. 2020 Census Project Coordinator is leading Mpls.”™ efforts to ensure that all residents are accurately counted. An accurate population count is vital in determining political representation for Minnesota and federal funding. Alberder Gillespie Projected 2020 Census Under-COUNT in Alley Radius! Artwork by Ricardo Levins Morales. Curated by Creative City Making Artists Roxanne Anderson and Anna Meyer for the WeCount Minneapolis Census 2020. Creative CityMaking is a program of The Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy at the City of Minneapolis. Funding is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and The Kresge Foundation. For more information on WeCount Minneapolis Census 2020, please visit http://bit.ly//ccmcensus2020.
Publisher”™s Jacket Preview “The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable” By AMITAV GHOSH; The University of Chicago Press, 2016
“Ghosh”™s book serves as a great writer”™s summons to confront the most urgent task of our time.” “Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations will think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of non-fiction since “In an Antique Land”, Ghosh examines our inability”“-at the level of literature, history and politics””to grasp the scale and violence of climate change. “The extreme nature of today”™s climate events, Ghosh asserts, makes them peculiarly resisitant to contemporary modes of thinking and imagining. This is particularly true of serious literary fiction: hundred-year storms and freakish tornadoes simply feel too improbable for the novel; they are automatically consigned to other genres. In the writing of history, too, the climate crisis has sometimes led to gross [...]
Dorothy Benson: Daughter”™s Tribute “I guess because they were hungry.”
By MICHELLE BENSON Dorothy Benson, my mother, was a resident of the Phillips Neighborhood since the early 1950”™s. She and my father fought very hard against “Model Cities”** in the sixties which were trying to isolate and divide Phillips Neighborhood by building freeways like what happened to Rondo neighborhood in St. Paul. They were both very immersed in the DFL (Democratic Farmer Labor party), politics, PNIA (Phillips Neighborhood Improvement Association), and Neighborhood activism. Dorothy Benson Philips Neighborhood is where she raised us; a family of six children. While the youngest was in diapers, the oldest was in college. My father worked a day job while my mom had a day care business along with the full time job of raising us, too. However, we were not the only children mom inspired along the way. My sister reminded me of the Christmases when mom took neighborhood kids in, five or six at a time, and they made homemade Christmas cookies from [...]
