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Tuesday December 30th 2025
Tales, Traditions and Toast OSL English Second Language Gathering on World Refugee Day OSL English Second Language
Tales, Traditions, and Toast sums up English Learning Center event on World Refugee Day where highlights of the evening were tales told, traditions honored and the toast of fresh wood-fired oven baked bread and other good food was shared.
BY KATHLEEN ROCHE
June 18th, in commemoration of World Refugee Day, the English Learning Center hosted a community event: Tales, Traditions and Toast. Community members, volunteer teachers and students, family members and friends came together to build relationships and share with one another. The event began with outdoor games, interactive activities to learn about refugees, and opportunities to visually share attendees”' own immigrant journeys.
The highlight of the evening was storytelling: students shared recently published stories about best friends, first winter experiences in Minnesota, the tragedy of war, and first flights to the United States. These stories were touching and educational, and they humanized the experience of coming to this country as a refugee. The event ended with attendees sharing freshly-baked bread, made in an outdoor wood-fired oven.… Read the rest “Tales, Traditions and Toast OSL English Second Language Gathering on World Refugee Day OSL English Second Language”
Frank Reflections: White Supremacy spans generations
BY FRANK ERICKSON
Some Whites in Minnesota are now doing the exact same thing they did after the “Dakota War” when they hanged 38 Dakota men in Mankato, Minnesota conveniently disregarding their role in causing the “War.”
154 years later, some Whites in Minnesota are conveniently disregarding the crimes committed by the U.S. in attacking Iraq in 2003 and starting the “Iraq War,” and holding local Somali-Americans accountable for trying to go to Iraq and Syria to fight for ISIL.
These are examples of White Supremacy.
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My Talk With June Bug Regarding Non-Violence
By Peter Molenaar
Hah! June Bug, you have come to rest your long forelegs across a rumple of my jeans”¦evidently not to bite me. Alright then, it seems we shall enter a state of mutual contemplation. Are you aware of the violence in this world?
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“The LGBT community has stood side by side with the American-Muslim community during challenging and difficult times. We stand together against hatred, violence and demonization of entire communities.” ”“ Jalani Hussein, Executive Director of the Minnesota Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (as found in Alondra Cano”'s NOTICIAS).
Do you wonder if I, a proponent of socialism, am also an advocate for violent revolution? No, marvelous creation of the evolution of matter, God”'s gift to me, I am not. But neither am I a pacifist, nor do I consider the philosophical concept of “a just war” to be entirely passé. Yet in the context of our mutual homeland, I must be committed to non-violence.
Why?
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