News & Views of Phillips Since 1976
Tuesday December 16th 2025
“CLASS of 2020: You Carry the Legacy of Resilience. We Know You Will Deliver!”
To the South High Class of 2020:
Even before the circumstances of the present day, you carry the legacy of resilience. You were all born shortly before or shortly after the events of 9-11-2001. You have experienced two recessions, three presidential elections of astounding historical significance, the emergence of social media, and as South High scholars, you have always been at the fore of social awareness. Your class has further raised the social consciousness of climate change and social justice issues, as well as the de-stigmatization of mental health issues. It has been said that because you are Minneapolis South High graduates, much will be expected from you. We know you will deliver!
With pride and highest regards,
Your South High Educators
Congratulations 2020 Students and Educators!
… Read the rest ““CLASS of 2020: You Carry the Legacy of Resilience. We Know You Will Deliver!””“Being alive and Native is an act of resistance, resilience and activism,” says Marcie Rendon
By DWIGHT HOBBES
Marcie Rendon, writer and grassroots firebrand, has made her way into the mainstream with the hit novels, “Murder on the Red River” and “Girl Gone Missing” (Cinco Puntos Press), racking up love-letter reviews from Publisher”™s Weekly, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Kirkus Review and more like it”™s lunch.
“What”™s an Indian Woman to Do When White Girls Act More Indian Than Indian Women Do?” circa mid-90s to the best of her recollection, was the highlight of an afternoon with the likes of Janice Command and Ardie Mendoza reading prose-poetry from a Native perspective. It”™s a scathing send-up of sexually slumming, paleface predators hunting Native men while Native women stew in seething consternation. This gathering eventually evolved into the theatre company/performance troupe and Raving Natives Productions with Rendon at the hub. Debuting at the Minnesota Fringe Festival, noted for the satirical social statement “Free Frybread Telethon”, a tour de force of sardonic wit that roasted white liberal hypocrisy on a spit, lampooning the American prison system in its treatment of Native Americans.
Rendon continued as a community arts activist, WLA Children”™s Book Award winning author and, notably, playwright (“SongCatcher””“Great American History Theater, Sacajawea”“Fargo-Moorhead Community Theater).… Read the rest ““Being alive and Native is an act of resistance, resilience and activism,” says Marcie Rendon”
Keep citizen journalism alive!
Raise Your Voice: Commentary Honor The Community”™s Vision Of A Better World. Please!
Our Righteous Community
By PETER MOLENAAR
Note: In the realm of politics and leadership, the designation of “opportunist” intends a pejorative, i.e., it describes a person whose self-interest supersedes the longterm benefit of the whole.
By now, every reader of “the alley” newspaper, is aware that governance of Minneapolis intends to demolish the Roof Depot building which rests directly across the from Smith Foundry, and kitty-corner from the Bituminous Roadways Company asphalt plant on East 28th Street. Actually, the demolition has secretly commenced, out of sight, within the walls. The intent is to create a staging ground for the city”™s fleet of industrial trucks, many diesel, and their water and sewer pipes. In reality, this plan is a mean spirited slap to our face.
Hey, community activists have invested no small sum of time and money to draw up an alternative plan. Their plan, our plan, envisions green jobs, organic food, low rent housing, and more. But, no more pollution in this already over burdened neighborhood! Park the diesel truck fleet where foundry and asphalt fumes are not in the mix! UPHOLD THE FUTURE OF THE CHILDREN OF LITTLE EARTH!
It gets deeper”¦
Presently, despite the pandemic and the heat of summer, Smith Foundry workers continue to make molds from sand, pour molten iron, process and ship castings.… Read the rest “Raise Your Voice: Commentary Honor The Community”™s Vision Of A Better World. Please!”