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Monday December 22nd 2025

Raise Your Voice – When patriots speak up

BY PETER MOLENAAR

September 8, 2018, was a nationwide day of action around the theme: RISE FOR CLIMATE, JOBS, AND JUSTICE. The Minnesota summit was venued at the East Phillips Park Cultural and Community Center. The prevailing millennial voices were heard, still fresh from the financial crisis of 2008, and they were not hesitant to link the climate crisis to capitalism. To which I will add: The drive for infinite growth upon a finite planet suggests that this system is unsustainable and hostile to Earth”'s ecology.

Meanwhile”¦

In our country, the top 10% own 80% of the wealth. These are the lazy stockholders who live high on the dividends of our collective labor. Actually, the planet”'s richest eight people own wealth equal to the poorest half of the world”'s population. Capitalism, which exists to maximize profits, is incapable of reversing this accelerating process.

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Community Learning Sessions about Park Safety and Park Policing

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MPCA Reports to East Phillips

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency will give an update on the permits for Bituminous Roadways and Smith Foundry at the EPIC October 11th Meeting at East Park Center 2307 17th Av 6:30.

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