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Global/Local

The Global/Local section focuses on connections between Minnesotans and the world.

Reflections of New Minnesotans: Narratives of undocumented immigrants

This week I interview Uriel Rosales Tlantechi on the struggles of undocumented immigrant students in Minnesota.

Uriel is the chair of the board of directors of Navigate an amazing resource for immigrant students pursuing higher education in Minnesota.MORE »

MayDay 2012, a monster Party

MayDay Parade, Ceremony, and Festival was postponed one week due to weather, but the celebration was as festive as possible on the Second Sunday in May. As delightful as MayDay is for someone like me to photograph, there is the whole dimension of sound I can not capture, specifically the musicians that participate with their audio talent. MayDay really should be experienced!MORE »

Why should Americans care what happens in Europe?

There's a good reason to care about what's happening in Europe. I mean a practical reason, beyond humanitarian concern for poor and middle class people having utterly pointless suffering inflicted on them by the austerians who control most European governments and seem unable to learn economics from either a textbook or from the effects of their policies.MORE »

THEATER PREVIEW | At Dreamland Arts, Katie Hae Leo and Sun Mee Chomet tell personal stories of being Korean adoptees

Two Korean-American writer-performers will share their personal stories about being adopted in a show co-produced by Dreamland Arts, in St. Paul. In The Origin(s) Project: Memoirs in Motion, directed by Zaraawar Mistry, Katie Hae Leo and Sun Mee Chomet describe their own experiences with Korean Adoption—from two different perspectives.MORE »

MayDay 2012 will try for the Second Sunday of May

The tradition is established that In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre MayDay celebration of spring happens on the First Sunday in May. You might be aware of the heavy rain fall of last Saturday night and the threatening skies of Sunday.MORE »

International attention to workers' rights

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Workers around the world gathered on May 1st to recognize International Workers' Day. The event was first launched in the late nineteenth century.MORE »

MayDay 2012, still time to lend a hand

It is getting near show time for the 2012 MayDay Parade and Ceremony. The activity level at In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre is charged with vibrancy. The deadline of the May 6th  MayDay has every parade section buzzing in many directions.MORE »

Nonie or Mahmoud Darwish? Minnesota's libraries need more, better Arabic literature

During a recent visit to Minnesota from my adopted home in Cairo, I went to my mother’s public library in search of a translation of superstar-poet Mahmoud Darwish.MORE »

MayDay — calling all MayDay people

During the announcement time (near the last 15 minutes of each Workshop), each section indicates their “wishes”. The desire for additional people — this may mean you, is at the top of everybody's list.MORE »

Sen. Jeff Hayden: Denial of Somali money transfers "causing people to die"

Four DFL legislators and a group of Somali community leaders spoke out at a State Capitol press conference April 16 in support of  HF 1902/SF 2159, a resolution urging a solution that would allow Somali-Minnesotans to send money to their families in Somalia and in refugee camps. Senator Jeff Hayden said that "there is no safety net" in Somalia.MORE »

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