Community Gatherings January 2017

Our Community has scores of gatherings every year of many kinds.  January 2017 began with even more than usual here, nationally, and around the world in response to a turbulent time when there is a sense that a RESET is necessary.

Some of those gatherings are pictured here beginning on the Front Page and continuing on pages 6 and 7.

Gatherings varied; spontaneous, local, world-wide, regularly scheduled, coalesced, and all inviting  engagement, unity, and resolution to care for our Community and each other.

Front Page

1 #NoDak March support of Native Protection of water and land and protest of gov”'t violence at the North Dakota Pipeline Site as it closed the East Lake Street Bridge Jan. 27, 2017; pictured within the letters RESET.

2 A Community Festival, “Love, Resistance, Revolution: A Community Festival” held on Inauguration Day to bring together hundreds of neighbors to share a meal, make art, enjoy music, and make their own commitments for social justice for the next four years hosted by Waite House, MN Neighborhoods Organizing for Change (NOC), Our Revolution MN, Isuroon, KRSM The Southside Media Project, Navigate MN, NAACP MPLS, Mesa Latina, TakeAction Minnesota, Native Lives Matter, ISAIAH, MN350: Building a Climate Movement in Minnesota, GoodSpace Murals, Living Proof Print Collective, and In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater.… Read the rest “Community Gatherings January 2017”

Chairman Archambault on MSNBC: ”˜President Is Circumventing Federal Law”'

Tamron Hall interviews Standing Rock Sioux Chairman David Archambault II on MSNBC on January 25, 2017, about the Dakota Access Pipeline and President Donald Trump”'s memorandum about the project.

Standing Rock Sioux Chairman David Archambault II was surprised that Trump acted so quickly, but not by his actions

ICMN Staff ”¢ January 25, 2017

Standing Rock Sioux Chairman David Archambault II was more surprised at the rapidity with which Donald Trump signed presidential memoranda purporting to speed up the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and reinstate the Keystone XL pipeline than he was by the act itself.

“We were prepared for President Trump take a run at everything we have accomplished in the last two years,” Archambault told Tamron Hall on MSNBC on Wednesday January 25, the day after Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum attempting to move DAPL along. “This nation better start bracing itself for what”'s to come if in the first four days we”'re witnessing him using an executive order to circumvent federal laws. It”'s not right, and it”'s something we better get ready for. I was disappointed that it came this soon, because we had worked so hard for the last two years.”

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Minneapolis City Council returns borrowed Neighborhood Funding

BY JANA METGE

Minneapolis City Council President Barb Johnson, Councilmember Cam Gordon, and Councilmember Kevin Reich are superstars to Minneapolis neighborhoods. Working diligently and quietly, they found a way to return once approved Neighborhood Revitalization dollars to the Minneapolis Neighborhoods that had been borrowed from individual neighborhoods in 2010 during the transition between the NRP (Neighborhood Revitalization Program) and NCR (Neighborhood Community Relations Dept.) Transition.

For Midtown Phillips this means an additional $73,000 for neighborhood Revitalization projects! Cedar Riverside neighborhood will see $211,000. The Downtown Neighborhoods will see $273,000. For the Loring Park Neighborhood, at a time when gunfire is at an all-time high on Nicollet Ave., it brings in an additional $150,000 to help with Revitalization and Neighborhood Safety. Lowry Hill will see their $134,000 of revitalization dollars. For the East Phillips Neighborhood it is $146,000. These funds could continue revitalization work which has turned around parts of Bloomington Ave and the Neighborhood. Standish-Ericcson will see $196,000. Monday, January 30th this City Council Committee action was passed, and then followed by City Council approval.

Neighborhoods who had just begun their Neighborhood Revitalization Phase II Implementation and had funds approved by the City Council, had these funds borrowed to support neighborhoods who had spent down their NRP funds in December 2010.… Read the rest “Minneapolis City Council returns borrowed Neighborhood Funding”