Global/Local
The Global/Local section focuses on connections between Minnesotans and the world.
Beauty and solidarity: Exhibit and presentation celebrate strength and culture of Oromo women
A new photography exhibit and cultural presentation at Augsburg College’s Foss Center on February 24 and 25 aims to show the strength, beauty and endurance of Ethiopian women who have joined in solidarity and peace despite many obstacles. Through photographs and talks by the artist and two Oromo women from Ethiopia, the presentation will shine light on both the deep challenges and strength of women in East Africa.MORE »
Presidents' Day and indigenous peoples
Yesterday, after I took my mile-and-a-half daily walk, I was talking to my older brother. He said there was going to be no Elders Lunch delivered today. Then, he explained to me that our community staff had taken the day off in honor of Presidents’ Day. I thought to myself, “Why are our Dakota People celebrating Presidents’ Day? There is nothing to celebrate!”MORE »
Katherine Boo, in Minneapolis, tells harrowing stories of a Mumbai undercity
Reporting results to funders is a challenge every nonprofit faces. "We gave you $50,000 last year. How can you prove the world is a better place this year?" It's particularly a challenge, though, for nonprofit journalism enterprises like the Twin Cities Daily Planet. An organization like Feed My Starving Children can tell you exactly how many starving children they fed with your money. What can we report? We can report the number of stories we told.MORE »
FREE SPEECH ZONE | A criminal for witnessing: A US activist's deportation from the Kingdom of Bahrain
I have just arrived stateside after being arrested and deported from the Kingdom of Bahrain, for witnessing their repressive response to a people’s movement. Well, that is my take on it at least.MORE »
Un día en la vida San Miguel de Allende
SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE, MEXICO—The municipality of San Miguel has a population of almost 140,000 people. It feels like a small town to me, with winding cobblestone streets, cars that stop to let pedestrians cross, corner stores, and tiny taco stands.MORE »
Shining a light on Somalia
During his first trip back to Somalia in summer 2010, Mohamed Samatar, 19, of Minneapolis, expected there to be no electricity and to be in a desert.
“Everything I had in America was there. The only difference is that the weather in Somalia is nicer,” Samatar said.MORE »
ST. PAUL NOTES | Central High School students, teachers read banned books, protesting Arizona censorship
St. Paul Central students and English teachers organized a day-long protest in support of free speech and in opposition to censorship on February 16.MORE »
Flo Razowsky arrested in Bahrain
South Minneapolis activist, international journalist, playwright and member of the Café SouthSide collective, Flo Razowsky, was arrested on Tuesday, Feb. 14 as part of a group of six international observers who responded to the call of Bahraini human rights activists to witness their revolution.MORE »
"SEVEN" tells the story of seven strong women, as told by seven renowned playwrights
A new local theatre company, Chain Reaction Theatre Project (CRTP), is tackling a play by seven playwrights featuring seven women from around the world that have fought for justice and empowerment of women in their home countries. Partnering with local nonprofits that focus on helping women here in Minnesota, SEVEN will be produced throughout the Twin Cities community as a way to engage and inspire people to get involved in the issues.MORE »
Minnesota-Somalis face armies on the march
At the Bright Moon Cafe at the corner of Cedar Ave. and Lake Street in Minneapolis last weekend, Abdikarim Hashi sipped on steaming cinnamon-ginger Somali tea, peering into his cell phone for news of home.
Hashi’s home is the sun-drenched Somali port city of Kismayo, where year-round blue skies, lush vegetation and sugar-white beaches would normally qualify it as among the most stunningly beautiful cities in the Horn of Africa.
Except that today, Kismayo is located on the most active front line of Somalia’s torturously complicated civil war, which has been raging for 20 years and is now escalating to new heights -- or more accurately, depths.MORE »
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