‘Miscellany’ Archives
For 50 years of immense work and vision ”“ thanks for American Indian Movement
COURTESY OF AIMMuhammed Ali (back left) and AIM founder Clyde Bellecourt, July 1978. By Sandy Spieler I arrived in Minneapolis in 1973 and moved into the collective household right across the street from Little Earth of United Tribes just as it was being built. Out of that house, the MayDay Parade was born, and so the parade begins each year from the field alongside Little Earth of United Tribes. In my first month in Minneapolis, I ventured to the Little Earth gym to hear you of the American Indian Movement speak of your work. Your voices shook me to my core. Your call for spiritual grounding as social justice and truth reached inside me and woke within me a need to reckon with colonial histories. You brought me to this neighborhood with a cry to deal with the layers of institutionalized trauma and live in reciprocal relationship with the life”“giving majesty of this world. I owe much gratitude to you of the American Indian Movement (AIM) for teaching [...]
SUDAN democracy supporters
PETER MOLENAAR Local people from Sudan Africa rallied with their supporters at the state capital on June 18, 2019. Among the demands: Send the former dictator to the International Criminal Court.
In Brief June 2019
First East-African Chair of the MPHA Sharmarke Issa is the first immigrant and first East African to serve as Chair of the MPHA Board of Commissioners in the city”™s history. He is also the first Somali immigrant in the country to lead a public housing agency”™s governing board. Mayor Jacob Frey said, “Sharmarke”™s life experience and background in urban planning are especially important to MPHA”™s mission. At a time when the federal government continues to shortchange housing funding, he will be a skilled steward of our public housing infrastructure who understands and centers the needs of residents.” “I believe that everyone has a fundamental human right to housing, which ensures access to a safe, secure, habitable, and affordable home,” said Issa. “I”™m truly humbled by the Mayor”™s appointment and look forward to working with my colleagues on the MPHA board to [...]
