News & Views of Phillips Since 1976
Saturday April 4th 2026
No Fooling!
- The world’s longest skyway crosses 28th Street and ends at Abbott-Northwestern–823 feet!
- Allina Health’s new building is 10 stories — 174 feet. Two times taller than the building at 27th & Chicago Ave which was to be the maximum for new buildings in the original Covenant with the Neighborhoods. Institutional Memory and Compliance is so short!
- The City of Mpls spends 250K clearing encampments annually.
- Meanwhile Children’s Hospital MN has four large buildings vacant on the entire block west of Block 5 that could have been used temporarily for housing while preparation is made for demolition and future site planning.
- The Ebenezer building at 26th & Portland was used temporarily by Our Saviour’s Housing while their building was being expanded; using creative partnership & financing.
Meanwhile:
- Allina Health has been purchased by Sutter Health from CA pending federal regulatory approval.
- Hennepin County Health Center, many small metro clinics, and out-state clinics and hospitals are struggling to stay open due to federal funds being withheld!
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Part VI: Gallery of Loss and Light
By HARVEY WINJE
“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; Power is ever stealing from the many to the few!”
-WENDELL PHILLIPS
In one word: Imperialism. In two words: Manifest Destiny. Nations conquered, Dakota Land stolen, settler colonialism in Mpls before and after WWII, WWII, Messiah Congregation vs the American Indian Movement, betrayal of a Covenant in Phillips Community, institutional expansion, trust of leadership and neighbors, production of disguised military bombs locally, and institutional ruse-philanthropy; are all instances of power to the few and imperialism at different levels.
“You are Lucky to be in the Belly of the Beast!”
U.S. attacks Iran! Our losses in Phillips pale in comparison to the devastation, depravity, and negative impacts of innumerable assaults on humanity locally and internationally this last year! Imperialism happens in many ways.
“Ah, the wars they will be fought again
The holy dove, she will be caught again
Bought and sold, and bought again…
While the killers in high places
Say their prayers again”*
Wars in Iran, Ukraine/Russia, and by ICE Surge fulfill Leonard Cohen’s words above from “Anthem.”
Life on Phillips Block 5
Life on the block later named 5 began one year after I was born at Northwestern Hospital 2627 Chicago Ave.… Read the rest “Part VI: Gallery of Loss and Light”
Keep citizen journalism alive!
Dear MAGA
from the series Raise Your Voice…
By PETER MOLENAAR
Dear MAGA, why do the oceans now rise against our shores… and whence, the destruction of hurricanes? Do you not honor the one crucified in retribution for his rebuke of the capitalists who occupied the temple? (Note: Matthew 21:12-13)
Dear MAGA, do we not all descend from communal peoples who, after foraging, returned to their villages to receive the honored sharing with those in need? (Note: The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, a book written by Friedrich Engels, can be purchased from May Day Books in the not-faraway land known as the Cedar-Riverside Neighborhood.)
Yet, you call us “garbage” and “losers” when, cast in time, our collective labor is the source of value in your commodities! Moreover, feel free to cast light upon the spirit of the original beholders of the land we share, and note: our national parks are not for sale!
Oh, dear MAGA, we now cry out: did you protest when your bombs killed over 160 schoolgirls in Minab, Iran? Must we make another revolution to make America good again?
PETER MOLENAAR advocates a broad united-front, even as he describes socialism as the future solution.… Read the rest “Dear MAGA”