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Rachel Dykoski, Writer

Rachel Dykoski (rachel.dykoski@mac.hush.com) is a burgeoning activist, wife, and mother of 2 oh-so-clever girls; she lives to volunteer throughout the region. “I am amazed that sixteen years after graduating with a degree in print media, this is the first time that I’ve been published in a daily news publication. Thanks, TC Daily Planet!” She has enjoyed freelance writing for community-based and disease-specific newsletters, has consulted on print production for health and wellness consultants and direct marketing companies, and was public affairs director for WRQC-FM. She serves on the Minneapolis Advisory Committee for Persons with Disabilities; the steering committee for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s myMSmyway.com; and the steering committee for Environmental Justice Advocates of Minnesota (regarding climate justice and green jobs initiatives). She is a DFL affirmative action officer for Senate District 61, a member of St. Stephen Catholic Church’s social justice and anti-racism groups, and a board member with the Alliance for Metropolitan Stability. Dykoski received certification in non-profit management from the University of Illinois at Chicago in June 2008 and plans someday to run her own non-profit. Her motto: “You gotta move it or lose it. MS hasn’t stopped me—if anything, it has given me my life back.”

Besides the articles below, Rachel Dykoski has a Daily Planet blog: Rachel Says.

Recently published: 

Flo Golod: Advise and Dissent

By Rachel Dykoski , TC Daily Planet

What advice would you have for president-elect Barack Obama? MORE »

Book note: Presidential idolatry is "Bad for Democracy"

By Rachel Dykoski , TC Daily Planet

Being alive, involved, and slightly clever in these double-ought times is brutal. So many issues swirl around my bourgeois mind. Tainted lunch food in our schools. OMG—the kids! Global climate crisis. OMG—the world! Financial markets tanking, under-employment rates and foreclosures soaring. WWJD? CYA. MORE »

ALANA Summit

By Rachel Dykoski , TC Daily Planet

More than 150 people particiapated in the first ALANA Green Summit on September 15 at Concordia University in St. Paul. Speakers, community leaders, educators, policy and labor leaders met to explore how ALANA communities (African, Latino, Asian and Native Americans) can help build and join a burgeoning green economy. MORE »

VOICES: Volunteerism skewed by fear

By Rachel Dykoski , TC Daily Planet

I’m chickenshit and it tears me up. I feel the need to show solidarity and to take action through marching in some of the protest rallies this week. But fear keeps me from it. Zealous police actions steer me from it. Paranoia could destroy ya’ – so I avoid it. MORE »

El día de los inmigrantes

By Rachel Dykoski , TC Daily Planet

Minnesota Immigrant Freedom Network plans “El Dia de los Immigrantes” festival on Sunday, August 24th at Holy Rosary Catholic Church, 2424 18th Avenue South, Minneapolis. MIFN’s festival follows the church’s 11:30 a.m. Spanish mass. MORE »

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REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK | North Minneapolis We’ll tell you what the judge decides on the flurry of lawsuits around last winter’s Jordan Area Community Council controversy as soon as the decision is made (probably the week of July 6). What do you think about what’s been going on at JACC, in Jordan, and around the Northside? Tell us what you know – and what you think we should be covering.

REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK | Background checks bar park volunteers
Minneapolis parks have recently tightened enforcement of rules about background checks for volunteers. But does the “systemic bias of the criminal justice system” mean that many African American males will be barred from serving as volunteers? We want to hear your ideas.

REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK | Hmong Freedom Celebration and Sports Tournament Coming up this weekend! We’re looking for community input about the sports tournament, your experiences at the tournament, how it has changed over the years, what the gathering of Hmong from around the country and around the world means, and any other thoughts you might have about the weekend.

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MUSIC | Black Blondie and Foxy Tann knock 'em dead at the Uptown Pride Block Party

By Dwight Hobbes , TC Daily Planet

The Uptown Pride Block Party on June 26 was an LGBT Pride Week affair, but you didn’t need to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender to get with it. For that matter, you didn’t have to have a dime in your pocket. All you had to bring was the willingness to enjoy a damned good time. MORE »

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