Global/Local

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

Making food aid work for those who need it (rather than those who profit from it)

By Andrew Ranallo, Think Forward

IATP joins many NGOs, academics and policy experts today in celebrating a move that could make U.S. food aid more efficient and responsive to the world’s hungry. Obama’s budget for fiscal year 2014 proposes to shift close to half the food aid budget to procuring food aid from local and regional markets rather than the shipping U.S. grains on U.S. ships halfway around the world. With local and regional purchasing, food aid can get to those who need it faster and cheaper while also building local capacity to deal with an increasingly unstable international food supply. It’s a big move, especially when you consider U.S. food aid makes up more than half of all food aid worldwide.

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Think Forward

MayDay 2013 magic germinates with each workshop

By Alan Wilfahrt, The Public Recluse

A week of six free Public Workshops has passed. The chaos has spurred on development. Mirth continued building and theater was everywhere.

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The Public Recluse

Supermercado Latino: Foods of the Andes in Northeast Minneapolis

By Stephanie Fox, Global Groceries

A sign on the window of Supermercado Latino at 2312 Central Avenue announces "Produtos de Mexico," but don’t be fooled. This isn’t just another neighborhood Mexican grocery store. This small and somewhat dark little grocery caters to those who grew up with the foods of the Andes and for those just discovering them.

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Good Deal Oriental Food: Hmong delicacies and more in North Minneapolis

By Stephanie Fox, Global Groceries

Paul Yang

Sunday is the busy day at Good Deal Oriental Food, an Asian store with a little extra. Located in North Minneapolis’s tornado alley (they were slightly damaged in the big one two years ago) the grocery store, carries ingredients from all over Asia. But, unlike most Twin Cities Asian grocery stores, Hmong foods are the star here. Opened in 2000, Good Deal carries a number of items that are sometimes hard to find, and people come from all over to buy the special ingredients.

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MayDay 2013 workshops begin

By Alan Wilfahrt, The Public Recluse

April 2013; and of the 30 Days of Biking, I have 11 dates already assigned with a biking destination. For me HOBT is a good draw, the most wonderful sights, a collection of the&n

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The Public Recluse

MN VIDEOS | Sen. Foung Hawj talks about Hmong-Lao Veterans Memorial

By Foung Hawj, MN Videos

Minnesota State Senator Foung Hawj talks about the significant of having the Hmong-Lao Veterans Memorial at the State Capitol in Saint Paul.

Missing voices

By Bryan Thao Worra, Bryan Thao Worra on TCDP

When we have three Minnesotans missing overseas for three months, you would think that would be the sort of thing that makes the news here.

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Bryan Thao Worra on TCDP

Visiting Little Laos on the Prairie: An Interview with Chanida Phaengdara Potter

By Ketmani Kouanchao, Kouanchao Corner
When you're looking for the online voice of the Lao American community, you don't often see many of us regularly writing, considering there are over 200,000 Lao in
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Kouanchao Corner

OUR STORIES | Beaudelaine Pierre takes lead on building the Haitian diaspora community in Minnesota

By Lolla Mohammed Nur, TC Daily Planet

Meet Beaudelaine Pierre, a Haitian diasporan living in Minnesota who is working toward bringing the Haitian community in Minnesota together. She wants to create a more organized and unified Haitian diaspora in the Twin Cities, which is separated by both geography and internal struggles.

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