Community Voices

Community Voices is a space for reader contributions—including news articles, opinion essays, and personal stories—moderated, but not edited, by Daily Planet staff. This new section includes stories from the Our StoriesOur SceneNeighborhood Notes and MN Videos series, as well as republished posts from E-Democracy forums and unedited articles such as those formerly published in the Free Speech Zone (which this section replaces). This section is a forum for community members to share their voices directly with our readers. We invite you to post stories, send us stories, or suggest stories for inclusion in Community Voices.

The opinions expressed in Community Voices are their own and not necessarily the opinion of the TC Daily Planet.

Want to add an article to Community Voices? Here's how:

Step 1: Register as a TC Daily Planet user, which is easy to do. After registering, you need to respond to the registration email. Then just log in by clicking in the blue box in column 1, and click on "Write an article" in the blue box in column 1.

Step 2: Either I'll see the article waiting to be published, or you can email me (editor [at] tcdailyplanet [dot] net) to tell me it's there. I'll then add the "Community Voices" designation and publish it. 

Step 3: I'll add it to the newsletter for at least one night, and it will remain in the Community Voices feature box on all pages until several more people have published Community Voices articles. (Hard to tell how long this will be, but usually at least a couple of days.) 

FREE SPEECH ZONE | MoveOn Group Thanks Ellison; Urges Pursuit of Goldman Sachs Crimes

Twin Cities MoveOn Council organized a demonstration at 5th CD Congressman Keith Ellison's office to thank him for his continued support on critical issues and to ask him to vigorously pursue the

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Central Corridor Parking: Fast and Loose with the Truth

Ramsey County consultants delivery a picture far from the reality of a 85% loss of on-street customer parking.

DMJM Harris?

Several years ago, at a meeting at the Hubbs alternative learning center on University Avenue Ave. in St.

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Landmark Center

Let's give credit where credit is due.  Yes, the volunteers did a wonderful job of helping to save Landmark Center, but it was the Federal government that made it happen.  Two things:

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Powderhorn Community Garden/Jardin Comunitaria update

Saturday May 8 was a cold, damp day, yet a smaller number of hearty people still came out to the garden!

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Gulf oil drilling has too great a risk, with too little reward

In a recent editorial, the Dallas Morning News urged us to ignore the disaster in the current Gulf oil spill, and continue to drill as before.  What else would you expect from a major newspape

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Bears at MayDay parade

A few photos from the MayDay In the Heart of the Beast parade - photos by Lloyd Wittstock.

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | 2010 Gubernatorial Candidates Discuss Minnesota's Environmental Future

The 2010 Minnesota Gubernatorial Candidates at the environmental forum.

Tenzin Pelkyi

This Sunday marked the first Governor's Candidate Forum on Clean Energy, Clean Water and Minnesota's Future at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in St.

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | The Wrong People Were On Trial

When Hennepin County District Court Judge Peter Cahill found four peace activists guilty (4/23/10) but assigned $1 fines, he was hailed as a nice guy who went as far as he could within the system.

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Alliant Techsystems Peace Protesters Face The Music

Four protestors charged with trespass on Oct 2, 2009. Geri Eikaas, Sister Kate McDonald, Roger Cuthbertson and Steve Clemens.

Every Wednesday at 7:00 AM, no matter what the weather, for the past 14 years a dedicated group of peace protesters, Alliant Action, has visited notorious AlliantTechsystems (ATK) in Eden Pra

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