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"Living Under Drones" Women Against Military Madness Annual Meeting

03/23/2013 - 10:00am - 1:00pm

Acts for Peace: Leah Bolger brings story of “Living Under Drones” to Minnesota.  A First-Person Report from the Peace Delegation to Pakistan at Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) An

Caucus resolution on war budget

By Chuck Turchick, A Parallel Universe

It's caucus time. Progressives and libertarians will likely once again propose resolutions about the U.S. war budget. They'll argue, "Let's spend that money on our true collective needs," or "Let's return that money to our pockets." And these resolutions will likely once again have no effect.

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A Parallel Universe

Landfill ghosts

By Emilio DeGrazia

It's too simple-minded to call it what it is: Military waste. What else are we to make of the belated revelation that the remains of "at least" 274 American soldiers and more than 2700 unidentified miscellaneous body parts have been dumped in the King County landfill just south of Washington, D.C. And it would be crass to call it a cover-up.

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The 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor

By Dick Bernard, Outside the Walls

It is not hard for me to remember Pearl Harbor Day. Seventy years ago my Dad’s brother, my Uncle Frank, near the end of his 6th year on the USS Arizona, lost his life aboard the ship. I’m old enough to have “met” him, in Long Beach CA, five months before he died.

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Outside the Walls

FREE SPEECH ZONE | Will It Matter Who Is Elected In 2012?

By Bill Sorem, Free Speech Zone

As one of a handful of energized people laboring to draft Obama back in 2006, I write this with profound sadness and pained anger. Do we have reason to reelect Barack Obama?

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | This war is nuts! What am I missing?

By Myles Spicer, Free Speech Zone

OK, it has now been 10 years that we have been fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Why? It makes no sense at all. It is, frankly, nuts.  What am I missing? What goal. What strategy.

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Navigating the Aftermath

By lwilcox101, Free Speech Zone

In a recent Oval Office address, President Obama marked the "end" of combat o

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From the North Woods to the West Bank: After Lengthy Deportation Battle, Ryan Olander Returns Home from Palestine

01/02/2010 - 3:00pm - 5:00pm

Sunday, January 2
Walker Church: 3104 16th Ave. S., Minneapolis MN 55407
Palestinian food served at 3pm; Talk begins at 3:30

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