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Poet to Poet: Britt Fleming

Ezra Pound once remarked "poetry is news that stays news." During this series, I wanted to see what happens when Minnesota poets are interviewed as poet to poet, through the forms we work in the most.MORE »

FREE SPEECH ZONE | Occupy Minnnesota Meet Minnesota Tea Party

April 11th there was an amazing event at the University Club in St  Paul, Minnesota. Occupy Minnesota sat down at a table and had a discussion with the Minnesota Tea Party.MORE »

Atina Diffley Reading & Book Signing

04/11/2012 - 4:00pm

Atina Diffley, local author and organic farmer, will discuss her book Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works on Wednesday, April 11 at 4:00 p.m. at the University of Minnesota Bookstore in Coffman Memorial Union, 300 Washington Ave. S.E. Minneapolis.

FREE SPEECH ZONE | GOP tax proposal has no basis of fact

Like a bad meal, brought up again, the Republican dominated Senate repeated the old myth that business tax breaks will create jobs ("Minnesota GOP proposals would phase out state property taxes for businesses"; Pioneer Press 3/21).  There are only three things wrong with this claim: it is unproven ... it damages our state's financial health ...MORE »

Dylan Hicks Reading & Book Signing

05/01/2012 - 4:00pm

Dylan Hicks, local author and songwriter, will discuss his book, Boarded Windows, on Tuesday, May 1 at 4:00 p.m. at the University of Minnesota Bookstore in Coffman Memorial Union, 300 Washington Ave. S.E. Minneapolis.

Discussion and Book Signing with John Capecci and Tami Spry

04/04/2012 - 4:00pm

John Capecci, local communications trainer and author of Living Proof: Telling Your Story to Make a Difference, and Tami Spry, Professor of Performance Studies at St. Cloud State University and author of Body, Paper Stage: Writing and Performing Autoenthnography, will discuss their books on Wednesday, April 4 at 4:00 p.m.

Winter solstice at Coldwater

Coldwater Spring between Minnehaha Falls and Fort Snelling in south Minneapolis was created some 10,000 years ago and is now the only natural spring left in Hennepin County. Friends of Coldwater Spring gathered again on Wednesday as they have for the past eight to ten years to honor the longest night of the year, and to offer prayers and blessings for the spring.
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FREE SPEECH ZONE | A voice for wildlife

By Layne Kennedy

How does one put into words a plea for wildlife, living in an era when “collateral damage” is used to sanitize the butchery of war?

There is great power in a photograph. It speaks what we are afraid to say, to see.MORE »

FREE SPEECH ZONE | Occupy Minnesota- Lessons From Wisconsin

Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it --- words to hold dear today.MORE »

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