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