Community
Silent auction Wednesday at Minneapolis Labor Center
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Get a chance to bid on sporting event tickets, restaurant meals and more at a silent auction Wednesday at the Minneapolis Labor Center, 312 Central Ave.
Community
Help stock kitchens for Minnesota flood victims
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Two and a half months after flood waters swept through southeastern Minnesota, flood survivors are repairing their homes, cleaning up their yards and continuing their recovery.
Community
In New Orleans, they’re fundraising for fire houses
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For members of New Orleans Fire Fighters Local 632, surviving Katrina is an all-alarm battle.
Community
Lessons of Katrina: ‘You really do need a government’
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Right-wing strategist Grover Norquist is famous for saying he wanted to shrink government to the point where "it could be drowned in a bathtub." Little did most folks know that bathtub would be the Gulf Coast, including New Orleans.
Community
Film series features report from New Orleans
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The next program in the Labor & Community Film Series will feature portions of "When the Levees Broke," a film by Spike Lee, and a report from labor journalists who recently visited New Orleans.
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New Orleans after Katrina: Where’s the recovery?
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The buildings sit gaping. They\’re solid, even, some would say, stately. But their windows were blown out, and many are boarded up.
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New Orleans: Stories of despair and hope
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More than two years after Hurricane Katrina, many areas of the Gulf Coast are still waiting for help and untold numbers of people have not returned. Labor journalists, in New Orleans this week for the convention of the International Labor Communications Association, are reporting on life there since Katrina and the connections between what has happened in New Orleans and communities across the country.
Community
The day the music stopped in Worthington
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On Sept. 16, police action stopped a Latino celebration of Mexican and Central American Independence Day in Worthington, though organizers had a permit for the party in Chautauqua Park. The event — and the debate that followed highlighted continuing tension between new and old residents, as well as efforts to work together.
Community
Anne Feeney to perform in Minneapolis
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Singer and songwriter Anne Feeney, veteran of many picketlines and rallies, will perform Friday evening at the home of Minneapolis activist Larry Olds.
Community
Unions seek volunteers to aid in flood relief efforts
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Labor unions in southeast Minnesota are lining up volunteers to help people affected by August\’s massive flooding. With video!