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Saturday May 18th 2024
Anishinabe III: Addressing Homelessness and The Opioid Epidemic
By Tina Monje
Photo credit: Tina Monje
In December of 2021, The American Indian Community Development Corporation (AICDC) opened the doors of Anishinabe III, another permanent supportive housing building added to their roster. Built over the summer of 2021, this four story building on Franklin Avenue sits between the American Indian Center and the Hiawatha overpass, right across the street from the long fenced-off Wall of Forgotten Natives, on what used to be the Anishinabe Campus lawn. Nearly 30 years after the first inception of AICDC as an Indigenous-led task force, this building stands as a testament to the Corporation’s commitment to ever-evolving needs of their neighborhood and their relatives.
Travis Earth-Werner, AICDC’s Program Project Manager, says this project is a reflection of AICDC’s longtime, core mission to address homeless in the Indigenous community in South Minneapolis. Anishinabe III is their continued response to the growing crisis of inaccessible housing. And like their other buildings, this new project does more than address housing. Their programs address the unique issues that arise for Indigenous people from the legacies of colonization at the intersection of healthcare and housing.… Read the rest “Anishinabe III: Addressing Homelessness and The Opioid Epidemic”
Last Free Edible Boulevards Cooking Class of the Winter
By Michelle Shaw
Join Minneapolis Edible Boulevards on February 19 from 11:30AM-1:00PM (note the change in time) for our last free cooking class of the winter on Zoom! You buy the groceries and cook from your own kitchen; we’ll provide the instruction from Kelly Shay of Harmonious World. In January, we made Hoppin’ John, a Southern dish that’s traditionally served on New Year’s Day to bring prosperity and good fortune for the year ahead.
You can go to our Facebook page to find the registration link for our event. If you’re not on Facebook, please reach out at minneapolisedibleboulevards@gmail.com for the registration link. We can’t wait to cook with you!
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Why I Voted to Strike
3,500 Hennepin County workers will walk out in February unless a last minute deal is made, and I will be one of them.
By LINDSEY FENNER
Editorial note: AFSCME Locals 34 and 2822 reached mediated tentative agreements with Hennepin County and withdrew their “intent to strike” after the February print edition of the alley went to press. Hennepin County AFSCME members will be voting on this proposed offer in the first week of February.
As you may have read in last month’s alley, Hennepin County AFSCME workers in Locals 34 and 2822 voted to reject Hennepin County’s last contract offer and authorized a strike. In mid-January, our negotiation team went back to the table with the County and received the exact same offer our memberships already voted to reject. After this latest insult and show of bad faith, our locals filed an intent to strike on January 19. If a last-minute deal can’t be made, we –3,500 County social services workers and clerical workers– will be walking out at the beginning of February.
I’m a member of Local 2822, which represents about 1,200 clerical workers at Hennepin County.… Read the rest “Why I Voted to Strike”