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Artists and enthusiasts will unite in St. Paul July 1 for Boom Bap Village 2011, a Hmong hip-hop event featuring breakdancing, documentary screenings, Hmong food, and a community arts project for attendees to participate in.
The construction-burdened Central Corridor can seem like a messy ordeal to drivers, walkers, bikers, and bus riders, but a cleaner future lies ahead. University Avenue property owners in St.
Bike Walk to Work Day was marked by a downtown Minneapolis celebration at the Hennepin County Government Center Plaza on June 9.
The bustling Uptown intersection of Lake Street and Lyndale Avenue welcomed a new gallery and fair trade store among the area’s numerous restaurants and shops with the grand opening of Regla de Oro November 20. The space adds Latin American flavor and social justice awareness to the popular Lyn-Lake restaurant and shop destination.
UPDATED 11/22/2010—”I was fired for standing up for my rights,” Patricia Gil, who used to work cleaning a Lunds & Byerly’s grocery store, said through a translator. The Center of Workers United in Struggle/Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha (CTUL) led a march through Uptown and South Minneapolis November 6 to protest human rights violations received by employees of cleaning companies that have contracts with SuperValu, Cub Foods, Lunds & Byerly’s, and Target stores. According to Veronica Mendez of CTUL, “Cleaning companies have been ordered to pay thousands of dollars in back wages for unpaid overtime by either the U.S. Department of Labor or federal courts. For example, Prestige Maintenance, which cleans Target, was ordered by federal court in Maryland to pay $3.8 million in back wages.” CTUL also charged that the cleaning companies lowered wages from between $10 and $11 per hour to between $7.25 and $8 per hour over the last ten years despite a nearly doubled workload. The march was part of CTUL’s Justice in Retail Cleaning campaign. Continue Reading
A draft of the St. Paul Parks and Recreation System Plan, proposing sweeping changes to parks, buildings, and other recreational facilities across the city, sparked discussion at the first of five public meetings, held November 3 at the Hillcrest Recreation Center. The proposed closing of the Duluth and Case Recreation Center, located at 1020 Duluth St. in East St. Paul, and added dog parks were attendees’ main concerns.
“Social responsibility in entrepreneurship. That’s what we’re all about,” said Rebecca Brandt-Fontaine, General Contractor of Spero Properties, LLC, a home remodeling company working to revitalize housing in the Twin Cities.
A Community Sing will be held at the Eagles Club at 2507 E. 25th St. at 7:30 p.m. Saturday October 9 as the second event in the effort by Minnesota Community Sings to reinstate a retired Minneapolis tradition.
The floor isn’t usually something that grabs your attention—let alone alarms you—when you enter an art exhibit. But the yellow dots beneath your feet at Legacies of War might inspire a double take when you are prompted to imagine that they are bombs, posing the threat of detonation at any moment.