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

More on Bush failure to "support the troops"

By James Clay Fuller, James Clay Fuller
The corporate news outfits apparently have decided that you've heard all you need to hear about Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

They figure you're not interested in the other ways and places that

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Founder of Muslim Peacemaker Teams Says Iraqis 'Capable of Running Their Country'

By Abdi Aynte, Minnesota Monitor

Sami Rasouli

The U.S.MORE »

Eritreans in Minnesota focus on human rights

By Jeremy O'Kasick, Mshale

U.S. State Department map of Eritrea

Like many Eritreans living in Minnesota, Almaz Ghilagaber has lost relatives to war—perhaps too many to name.MORE »

Citing Humiliation, Imams Sue US Airways, Airport Commission

By Abdi Aynte, Minnesota Monitor

Imam Ahmed Shqeirp

The six Muslim imams who were taken off a US Airways flight at Minneapolis-St.MORE »

Student activists getting more organized

By Phil willkie, Pulse of the Twin Cities
At a St. Paul school board meeting a few months ago, student activists from St.MORE »

Tibet Uprising Day in Minnesota

By Colette Davidson, Special to the TC Daily Planet

Demonstrators on State Capitol steps demand that China free the Panchen Lama.

“This is one of the most important Tibetan events of the year. We are remembering and honoring all the Tibetans who put their lives on the line to resist the Chinese oppression and occupation.MORE »

Make Some Noise: Activists, Lawmakers Urge Change in Darfur

By Paul Schmelzer, Minnesota Monitor
For his master's thesis in genocide studies, U.S. Rep. Tim Walz, D-Minn., grappled with how education about genocide had failed.MORE »

Student veterans adjust to new life

By Kathryn Nelson, Minnesota Daily
Getting shot feels like being hit with a baseball bat, said journalism first-year student Chris Holbrook.

A ground soldier in Iraq in 2003, Holbrook was driving through the Sunni Triangle, an espec

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Facing truth: Lives lost in Iraq are wasted lives

By James Clay Fuller, James Clay Fuller
Every one of the more than 3,100 Americans who have died in Iraq represents a life wasted.

Every one of the tens of thousands of Iraqis who have died as a result of the U.S.

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Immigrant Rights Advocates March from Governor's Home to Coleman's

By Abdi Aynte, Minnesota Monitor
For the 200 people who marched Sunday from the governor’s mansion in St. Paul to U.S. Sen.MORE »
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