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Minneapolis Star Tribune
February 13, 2018
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board voted last week to rename a portion of Riverside Park after a beloved, long-serving commissioner who ... “She unflinchingly reminded her fellow commissioners and community activists that you have to learn that this isn't about you,” she said, holding back tears.
HuffPost
February 13, 2018
Anti-Muslim activists often depict Sharia, or Islamic law, as a brutal judicial system that Muslims want to institute in place of the U.S. Constitution. In reality, though, no national Muslim organization has ever called for Sharia to supercede American courts, nor have American Muslims demanded such aÃÂ ...
Amnesty International
February 13, 2018
The Israeli authorities must immediately release teenage activist Ahed Tamimi whose continued detention is a desperate attempt to intimidate Palestinian children who dare to stand up to repression by occupying forces, Amnesty International said. Ahed Tamimi's trial is due to start tomorrow in Ofer juvenileÃÂ ...
TeenVogue.com
February 5, 2018
On Super Bowl weekend, the streets of Minneapolis were flooded with people, but not all of them were headed to the big game. Among the fans wearing Eagles and Patriots jerseys — many of whom had spent thousands of dollars on tickets and travel — were local residents who were less than happy withÃÂ ...
Heavy.com
February 3, 2018
But activists are arguing that despite their policy, the bank is actually still financing the pipelines, although more indirectly. The best example, one activist group has shared, is that just eight months after the policy was published in 2017, U.S. Bank signed a $5 billion credit agreement with ETP, which is nowÃÂ ...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
January 31, 2018
In this Friday, Jan. 26, 2018, photo, Clyde Bellecourt, co-founder or the American Indian Movement, speaks on at Minneapolis City Hall about activists' plans for protests during the Super Bowl. Minnesota activists are using the Super Bowl spectacle to speak out against police brutality, racism, corporateÃÂ ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
January 27, 2018
They ended up curating Super Bowl Live, the 10-day series that starts Friday on Nicollet Mall and features mostly musicians connected to Minnesota. Earlier this week, Jam, 59, a longtime officer and activist in the Recording Academy, took a break from his work on Sunday's Grammy Awards to answer a fewÃÂ ...
In These Times
January 27, 2018
Residents are planning to protest Super Bowl LII when it comes to Minneapolis. (Gian Lorenzo Ferretti/Shutterstock). Mel Reeves is a long-time human rights activist based in Minneapolis who describes himself as a writer, organizer and a “human being who stands for everybody's rights.” When Super BowlÃÂ ...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
January 25, 2018
Hennepin County's top prosecutor has convened a grand jury as he weighs whether to charge a Minneapolis police officer in the July police shooting of an Australian woman, ... He also told activists in a recorded conversation that he didn't have enough evidence and investigators “haven't done their job.”.
UT Daily Beacon
January 18, 2018
Mckesson then transitioned to working in both Baltimore city public school Systems and later in Minneapolis public school systems. ... “I first learned about DeRay Mckesson sometime during 2015 through his constant presence, along with other significant activists, during the Black Lives Matter movementÃÂ ...
Splinter (blog)
January 17, 2018
Outside a squat, one-story building on Chicago Avenue on the south side of Minneapolis, Alexis Collins, a 20-year-old Taco Bell employee, stands holding her baby, both of them bundled up .... It is not a spigot of charity that can be turned off at a moment's notice; it is a factory for the production of activists.
Fight Back! Newspaper
January 12, 2018
12, the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) and the Twin Cities Coalition for Justice 4 Jamar (TCC4J) made their presence felt at the first meeting of the newly-elected Minneapolis city council. Before the start of the city council meeting, the groups held a press conference at the Father ofÃÂ ...
KMSP-TV
January 11, 2018
MINNEAPOLIS (KMSP) - Activists are announcing plans for a rally against racism and corporate greed at U.S. Bank Stadium Super Bowl Sunday. The Super Bowl Anti-Racist Anti-Corporation Coalition brought together more than a dozen local community organizations Thursday for their announcement.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
January 10, 2018
Galvanized by what they see as corporate dominance over the upcoming Super Bowl, a coalition of activist groups plans to protest the Feb. 4 game. Jess Sundin, an organizer for Twin Cities Coalition for Justice 4 Jamar Clark, said she expects “several hundred” people for the protest to call attention toÃÂ ...
CBS Minnesota / WCCO
January 7, 2018
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A well-known minister and civil rights activist was in the Twin Cities Sunday to deliver a message at a Minneapolis church. “Stop the violence. Save the children. If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can receive it. I am God's child,” Rev. Jesse JacksonÃÂ ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
December 31, 2017
Q. Do you feel like activists have treated you fairly? A. There are so many park activists in this city because people are passionate about our parks and because of the vital role parks play in everyone's lives. Recent examples of activist work have been the work to help make NPP20 a reality and to ensureÃÂ ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
December 30, 2017
Minneapolis residents unloaded their concerns and hopes for the city on Mayor-elect Jacob Frey on Friday, raising an array of topics from housing to police ... Police reform activist Dave Bicking decried the lack of public input in the city's agreement to host the Super Bowl, as well as participation in aÃÂ ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
December 30, 2017
The woman who built Buffalo Wild Wings into a restaurant juggernaut is leaving on her own terms after all. Sally Smith, who as chief executive of Buffalo Wild Wings since 1996, appeared in June to have been pushed into retirement by a hard-fought proxy battle with an activist investor who called her "out toÃÂ ...
The Keene Sentinel
December 29, 2017
... Identity Evropa in a tweet Friday that said that its activists were responsible for the memorial outside the department's fifth precinct — which Officer Mohamed Noor patrolled in July when he fatally shot Damond in the alley of her south Minneapolis neighborhood after she called 911 to report a possible sexÃÂ ...
Forward
December 28, 2017
The Minneapolis mayor-elect condemned a small shrine to a slain woman which was created by white nationalists, CBS reported. ... On Friday, Identity Evropa activists created a shrine for Justine Damond at the 5th Precinct in Minneapolis, MN, where her Somali-born killer – whom a judge recently decidedÃÂ ...
Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
December 14, 2017
Activist Tennant investor pushes a merger with rival Nilfisk. Email; Share ÷ Share ÷ Tweet ÷ Save ÷ Print ÷ Order Reprints. Email; Facebook ÷ LinkedIn ÷ Twitter ÷ Save. More. Email; Facebook ÷ LinkedIn ÷ Twitter ÷ Save. By Nick Williams – Staff reporter, Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal. Dec 14, 2017à...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
December 14, 2017
Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said Wednesday that he does not yet have enough evidence to file charges against a Minneapolis police officer in the shooting death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, blaming investigators who “haven't done their job.” Freeman made the comments during a unionÃÂ ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
December 31, 1999
The activist investor at Supervalu is recommending even more radical changes than it previously made, saying now that the company should be broken up. Blackwells Capital LLC in New York, which owns 4.35 percent of Supervalu's stock, sent a letter to the Supervalu board Tuesday recommending aÃÂ ...
Newsweek
December 31, 1999
Minneapolis police removed a memorial created by a white nationalist group for Justine Ruszczyk Damond, a white Australian woman fatally shot by a ... “On Friday, Identity Evropa activists created a shrine for Justine Ruszczyk Damond at the 5th Precinct in Minneapolis, MN where her Somali-born killerÃÂ ...
CBS Minnesota / WCCO
December 31, 1999
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Eighteen-year-old Marcus Fischer was scheduled to appear in court Tuesday afternoon, but when the judge said the ... “We need to quit this runaround with the courts,” one of the activists said. ... He's been on a respirator,” said Jess Sundin, of the activist group Justice 4 Jamar.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
December 31, 1999
White nationalists seized upon last summer's fatal shooting of an Australian national in Minneapolis by a Somali police officer and placed a modest shrine outside a police precinct headquarters. By the next day, however, the shrine was in tatters. “On Friday, Identity Evropa activists created a shrine forÃÂ ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
December 25, 2017
White nationalists seized upon last summer's fatal shooting of an Australian national in Minneapolis by a Somali police officer and placed a modest shrine outside a police precinct headquarters. By the next day, however, the shrine was in tatters. “On Friday, Identity Evropa activists created a shrine forÃÂ ...
CityLab
December 23, 2017
The clinic, which has been located since 1970 in south Minneapolis, an area historically populated by artists, activists, and immigrants, provides medical, dental, and mental health care regardless of whether patients can pay. Noor said that while the clinic already serves the uninsured and underinsured,ÃÂ ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
December 23, 2017
White nationalists say their activists put up shrine on Nicollet Avenue to Justine Damond. The modest memorial was placed outside a Minneapolis police precinct, but it was damaged by the next day. East Metro. 7:20am. Aileen BaesemannÃÂ ...
KMSP-TV
December 23, 2017
MINNEAPOLIS (KMSP) - The father of the man who was shot and injured in an interview room by police spoke at at the Minneapolis City Hall on ... Activists joined Fischer's father at city hall to question their version of events. “The story's already crazy folks, let's be honest,” Mel Reeves, an activist said.
Twin Cities Daily Planet
December 22, 2017
The collective, comprised of about five dozen organizers, activists, researchers, artists and social services professionals, came together in Spring 2016 as the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) observed their 150th year anniversary. For their first project, they conducted a performance review of theÃÂ ...
MinnPost (blog)
December 15, 2017
I've seen electeds come in as activists and quickly make the transition to public servant, and I've seen it take longer. As soon ... JF: I do think there is that mentality, but we have an involved activist community in Minneapolis, and they get involved when there are socioeconomic issues that need to be tackled.
Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
December 14, 2017
Activist Tennant investor pushes a merger with rival Nilfisk. Email; Share ÷ Share ÷ Tweet ÷ Save ÷ Print ÷ Order Reprints. Email; Facebook ÷ LinkedIn ÷ Twitter ÷ Save. More. Email; Facebook ÷ LinkedIn ÷ Twitter ÷ Save. By Nick Williams – Staff reporter, Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal. Dec 14, 2017à...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
December 14, 2017
Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said Wednesday that he does not yet have enough evidence to file charges against a Minneapolis police officer in the shooting death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, blaming investigators who “haven't done their job.” Freeman made the comments during a unionÃÂ ...
Chron.com
November 30, 2017
16, 2014, he made the nine-hour drive from Minneapolis to St. Louis, later becoming a leading voice in national conversations about social equity and racial justice. "That was the moment I went from being a witness to protester," he said of his late-night decision to trek to Missouri. Not that such labels matter ...
Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
November 29, 2017
Refranchising efforts was one of Buffalo Wild Wings' priorities this year, following pressure from Marcato Capital Management, the activist investor that ... any interest from franchisees in buying company-owned sites, said Jeremy Hamblin, a senior research analyst with Minneapolis-based Dougherty & Co.
Press of Atlantic City
November 26, 2017
MINNEAPOLIS — In Judith Meisel's last image of her mother, Mina, she is standing outside a gas chamber at the Stutthof concentration camp in ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
November 24, 2017
It held a national convention in Minneapolis last weekend. ... Jennifer DeJournett, a GOP activist, started a petition demanding his resignation ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
November 17, 2017
In what could be the first showdown with city officials leading up to the Super Bowl, a dozen community activists gathered outside Minneapolis ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
November 14, 2017
“Activists very often express themselves strongly,” said Reatha Clark King, ... Spike Moss, a longtime Minneapolis civil rights activist, said Nasby ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
November 8, 2017
The nine-member Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board will have six ... member Liz Wielinski and civil rights activist Nekima Levy-Pounds.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
November 7, 2017
Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board Member Steffanie Musich held on to her South Side seat. Community activist Kale Severson won a ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
November 1, 2017
Anthony Souffle, Star Tribune Immigrant rights activists chanted and held signs at the start of the Minneapolis City Council meeting in ...
City Pages
November 1, 2017
Activist Ginger Jentzen wants to become the first socialist elected to office in ... She's an openly socialist candidate for the Minneapolis City ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
October 31, 2017
Video (00:38) : Despite national media reports of a Russian connection to the July Castile protest, local activists said Tuesday they didn't ...
Minnesota Public Radio News
October 30, 2017
American Indian activist Dennis Banks, left, speaks to reporters before ... of other like-minded activists in Minneapolis formed the American ...
Jacobin magazine
October 28, 2017
NARMIC made its data bank available for any group or activist who ... Minneapolis: Activists formed a group called the “Honeywell Project” to ...
MinnPost (blog)
October 27, 2017
Samantha Pree-Stinson, a Green Party candidate for Minneapolis city ... and keynote speaker Ajamu Baraka, human rights activist who ran as ...
City Pages
October 27, 2017
... campaigns are not the sort of people who know north Minneapolis. ... Johnson's also being challenged by liberal activist Stephanie Gasca ...
The Intercept
October 27, 2017
Minneapolis City Council Candidate Is a Socialist Who Gets Things .... The campaign's activists trend younger, with 20- and 30-somethings ...
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