News & Views of Phillips Since 1976
Friday December 19th 2025
RETURNING CHAPTER 20
by Patrick Cabello Hansel
Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,your old shall dream dreams,and your young shall see visions. Joel 2:28
Yes, there is a difference between dreams and visions, but the miracles and the catastrophes they portend can be hard to distinguish.
Angel and Luz had a vision of creating a new family, one not chained to the trauma of their past, one based in the twin angels of love and justice. They still occasionally had dreams of the terror they had faced, but with the support of spiritual guides and each other, they were seeking to learn from their fears instead of being swallowed by them.
Brian Fleming had stopped listening to his dreams a long time ago, and thus his vision had become warped by the three angels of greed, violence and humiliation. All he could see and all he could want was power. Not power to create, but power to control, to coerce, to dominate. He wanted Luz to submit to him, as he had forced her to do when she was a young teenager. But Luz had discovered a strength beyond fear: the love she had for Angel, Angelito and Lupita.
The two men on horses were not a dream, as little Angel had wondered.… Read the rest “RETURNING CHAPTER 20”
MayDay Festival!
In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre
Photo Credit: Spencer Joles
Heart of the Beast is excited to invite the community to a redesigned MayDay Celebration. The event will look different from the parade of MayDays past. In the spirit of shared leadership, local organizations MIGIZI, Kalpulli KetzalCoatlicue, and Roosevelt High School have been selected by HOBT’s MayDay Council as community partners to lead this year’s MayDay celebrations. Instead of a parade, there will be an art-filled political and cultural festival. This celebration will take place on May 1 from 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. in the Four Directions Family parking lot. All are welcome to attend this free event.
HOBT’s MayDay Council is a community-nominated group of majority IBPOC artists and leaders. They have spent the past two years designing a new, equitable path for MayDay. The intention is to carry this much loved tradition forward, centering principles of justice and collaboration, prioritizing the experiences of people of color. MayDay Season 2022 is expanding the circle of people leading and reflected in this community celebration.… Read the rest “MayDay Festival!”
Phillips Neighborhood history book wins award
by BEN HEATH
As part of the 2022 Minnesota Book Awards, scholar David Hugill is the recipient of the Minnesota History award for his book Settler Colonial City. Hugill’s book, published last year by the University of Minnesota Press is a critical look at some of the social forces in Phillips after WWII. Our present city and our neighborhoods are not neutral places where history is suspended, instead they are founded in settler-colonial relations, where white supremacy and non-white oppression are by design. The author lived and worked in Phillips as he completed his research.
Hugill describes the neighborhood of Phillips in terms of “sites of articulation”, meaning places where the interactions between two or more social factors are especially visible. Minneapolis is the Settler Colonial City, and Phillips is where the record is rich in material. This a study of racism and inequity. It should come as no surprise that our community has seen much. Over the years and decades since white settlement, our city and state institutions have thrived because of the prevailing settler-minded attitudes of exploitation and domination codified by government policies of Indian termination, removal, and relocation.… Read the rest “Phillips Neighborhood history book wins award”
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