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.) 

MN VIDEOS | We're screwed

In the wake of the largest recession since the Great Depression, recent college grads are finding it difficult to find jobs, gain independence and move into "adult hood". SPNN Doc U participant Erica Blanchard talks with recent grads to get their perspective.

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MN VIDEOS | Jury of peers

Jury of Peers is a short documentary exploring the inequities of jury selection particularly in cases concerning African American defendants. Directed by Mary Mabry.

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MN VIDEOS | And with Death he chews the fat

SPNN Doc U participant Alauna Yust's documentary on magician Michael Savage.

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MN VIDEOS | Right to Know Minnesota

With no movement on the national level regarding labeling gentically modified organisms, states have taken to doing the work themselves. SPNN Doc U participant Christine Huff produced this short documentary on the Minnesota movement of Right to Know.

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COMMUNITY VOICES | An outdoors sportsman on gun control

Doug Lind delivers another strong commentary on the lack of progress of gun regulation legislation in Minnesota when it has been accomplished in Connecticut and elsewhere.

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MN VIDEOS | Voices of Minnesota's homeless youth

"Minnesota is My Home. I was born, raised and became homeless in Minnesota. My first experience of homelessness was as a child with my mom and siblings. By the time I was in high school I was alone and on my own."

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MN VIDEOS | HipHop Doc

SPNN Doc U participant tells the story of two local hip hop artists in the Twin Cities music scene in this short documentary.

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COMMUNITY VOICES | Occupy Homes Helps Create a Better Neighborhood

Rico Morales

On Friday, April 12th an abandoned house in south Minneapolis  was turned into an art gallery, open mic stage, and 'community center' for a neighborhood struggling with distressed housing issu

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COMMUNITY VOICES | Sneak Preview of frac sand mining documentary

Democratic Visions previews a new documentary about the social, economic and environmental impact of the open pit mining of industrial silica sand in Minnesota and Wisconsin.  The hou

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NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | New location for Mosaic on a Stick

The Hamline Midway store and studio Mosiac on a Stick has moved from Snelling Avenue to a new location at 1564 Lafond Avenue.  This neighborhood establishment now occupies the old Hamline Park

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