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Fundraising Dinner for Ona Kingbird

Submitted by haloka on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 12:58
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6:30pm Tuesday, July 7 at the Indian Center at Bloomington and Franklin Ave. in Minneapolis. $10. for all the spaghetti and meatballs that you can eat. Ona is a Twin Cities Ojibwa elder who has taught for 36 years in Minnesota public schools and prisons. As a Red Lake tribal member and bearer of the pipe given by her father, a medicine man, she preserved the culture of her students at Heart of the Earth school in South Minneapolis.

Business as Usual Disrupted at Hennepin County Sheriff's Foreclosure Sale

Submitted by haloka on Thu, 03/12/2009 - 11:31
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Activists, including many foreclosed-upon and homeless residents, converged on Minneapolis City Hall Wednesday to demand that Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek take action to end the foreclosure crisis in the county. After boisterously protesting outside the room where a sheriff's foreclosure sale was guarded by deputies, three activists entered the room, and PPEHRC national organizer Cheri Honkala was  shoved out by a deputy after attempting to bid on a property.

Then, the group went across the building to Stanek's office to demand a meeting. After deputies were uncooperative, the activists moved in, filling the room while others waited with the media outside. After about two hours, a meeting was held between a chief deputy, County Commissioner Gail Dorfman, and five activists representing the organizing bodies: PPEHRC, ACORN, the Economic Crisis Action Group, the IWW, and Homes Not Jails. The officials promised a meeting with Stanek within two weeks. 

Related: Poor People's Campaign | MN ACORN | Twin Cities IWW | MN Coaliton for a People's Bailout | Star Tribune coverage by Randy Furst | Tough Rental Market Hits Families Hard, TC Daily Planet | Ongoing TCIMC Coverage:  The Foreclosure Crisis in Minnesota | Neighbors Helping Neighbors--To Break Into Vacant Homes | Video of PPEHRC Feb. 14 Housing Occupation

Neighbors helping neighbors—to break into vacant houses

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 02/14/2009 - 18:17
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Neighbors helping neighbors—to break into vacant houses
By: Madeleine Baran
TC Daily Planet
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/article/2009/02/13/neighbors-helping-neighb...

Poverty rights activists broke into at least a dozen vacant Minneapolis buildings this week and helped homeless families move in.

“This is the modern underground railroad,” said Cheri Honkala, National Organizer for the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, the group organizing the “takeovers.”

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