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Monday December 29th 2025
Armenian and Balkan Dance: Tapestry Folkdance Center
Fri. evenings dancers celebrate cultures past and present dancing to global music.
In April, Tapestry folkdance instructors Jan Morse (April 1) Gina Bonsignore (April 8), Nairy Digris (April 15 & 22) and Terry McGibbon (April 29) will bring dances of Armenia and the Balkan countries.
Lessons 7:30 to 9 pm and a dance follows; cost is $8 , $6 Tapestry members, $5 students.
On April 8, Gina Bonsignore, will teach Armenian, Eastern European and Middle Eastern folkdance at the Tula Yoga & Wellness Center at 99 Snelling Ave. N. in St. Paul. (Go to www.tulayogawellness.com for time and cost of this special dance program.)
Dance Beginners Welcome
You do not need to be of Armenian or Balkan ancestry to learn and enjoy these dances. Teachers start the instruction with basic dances. Even if you don”'t master them all, you”'ll have fun.
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Saving Capitalism
By Peter Molenaar
Author Robert Reich”'s most recent book bears the title: Saving Capitalism – For the Many, Not the Few. Those of us born to black and white TV, might remember Robert as the Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton. Of interest currently, is the former secretary”'s endorsement of Bernie Sanders.
Certainly, the Sanders Campaign reflects a new mass consciousness, formed in the wake of the “Great Recession.” However, is this campaign merely an effort to save capitalism, or is it an aspect of a process towards a fundamental transformation (i.e., towards public ownership of financial institutions and the dominant means of production)?
Meanwhile”¦
In its March 2016 issue, Southside Pride published the article: “Socializing Capitalism ”“
Creating a Market Economy with a Social Conscience.” The author, Kari Andrade, claims to be a capitalist! Oh, my”¦ Perhaps she has read the book of Reich.
However, Ms. Andrade begins by disparaging Sanders”' emphasis on closing the income gap: “The gap is not the problem.” But then curiously, she states: “In capitalism there is no regard for doing what is right and ethical [and so] I agree with many of Sanders”' solutions”¦” Is she one of us?
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