Literary Pairing #2: We are Meant to Rise & The Sentenceby Anne Winkler-Morey | Feb 13, 2022 |Feb 14, 2022Feb 14, 2022
Literary Pairing. Read Insurgent Supremacists with The Sinking Middle Classby Anne Winkler-Morey | Feb 11, 2022 | Blog, Sustainable EconomiesFeb 11, 2022Feb 11, 2022
I have been thinking about super-spreader events.Not the kind that makes hundreds of people sick, but the kinds that transform lives in a good way.Mar 8, 2021Mar 8, 2021
The death of RGB before January 2021, which was her goal, is sad. But we are not screwed.Taking a historical look at the role of the Supreme Court, we see two related things, one patently obvious and one, perhaps not so well…Sep 19, 2020Sep 19, 2020
Why Minneapolis? Roots of an UprisingThe murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police on May 25, 2020, and the uprising that has followed, did not happen in a vacuum.Jun 2, 2020Jun 2, 2020
Democrats: time for a 2020 view of the Clinton Legacy.It takes time to get some historical perspective, enough to understand the full weight of an era. Historical analysis of the Obama era may…Jan 21, 2020Jan 21, 2020
Lisa Albrecht: Learning, to Repair the WorldAn article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that all Jews supported Israel. I called up and said, “That’s not right.” The next day…Nov 28, 2019Nov 28, 2019
Irna Landrum: Black, Queer, Lefty Reclaims Nature, God and Politics.In New Orleans, I lived about a mile and a half from the Mississippi River. I’d hear the train at night. Across the tracks was an itty…Nov 28, 2019Nov 28, 2019
Mustafa Jumale: Accessing Power for Black ImmigrantsThere are 20,000 Black migrants on the southern border. There is a Little Haiti in Mexico someplace; 7,000 Eritreans in Tijuana. We find…Nov 28, 2019Nov 28, 2019
“I was dating someone who died that day — thought not at the Twin Towers.That morning I picked up my sister at school and we went to the hotel where my mom worked. Micheal Jackson’s limo was in front of the…Sep 12, 2019Sep 12, 2019
This year for Holocaust Remembrance: Never Again, for anyone, in any form.I spent the first week of April 2018, with my grown child and spouse, visiting my Dad’s homeland. His family was forced to leave Germany…May 9, 2019May 9, 2019
Dr. Barbara Ransby: Scholarship for Social TransformationWhen Professor Ransby was in graduate school, she was told to choose between activism and scholarship. Luckily she didn’t listen.Apr 25, 2019Apr 25, 2019
David Lawrence Grant. Writing Things That Matter.If Minneapolis was a character in a play, it would be that best friend your other friends wonder why you hang with. You stay with him…Apr 24, 2019Apr 24, 2019
Calexico. We Are Empty, All Empty, Mr. Trump.I bicycled the border in 2012 and spent two nights in Calexico, whose Twin City is Mexicali — city names that illustrate how the two…Apr 9, 2019Apr 9, 2019
Refugee, DadMy dad ( shown here as little boy with his older sisters, circa 1936) was a child refugee. He and his two sisters and mother fled Hitler…Apr 6, 2019Apr 6, 2019
Save Our Tax $ and Our Souls: Cut 20 Billion for Border PatrolDon’t be fooled. The 500 million aid cut off to 3 Central American Countries is a financial attention diversion. Some of that money goes…Apr 6, 2019Apr 6, 2019
100 Million White People without Wealth in the US. How Should they Organize?According to this May, 2015 Washington Post article, White people have seven times as much wealth as Black people. That includes things…Apr 6, 2019Apr 6, 2019