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Important meeting and news for the East Phillips Neighborhood.
Mar 21st, 2009 Posted in GROUPS & ORGANIZATIONS | no comment »EPIC E-News for March 19th, 2009
EPIC E-News provides information on community events, neighborhood meetings, and important news for the East Phillips Neighborhood.
COMMUNITY MEMBERS!!
Please Attend this Very Important Meeting!!
WHEN: NEXT MONDAY, MARCH 23rd, 6:30 PM
WHERE: PHILLIPS POOL & GYM BUILDING (former BOYS &
GIRLS CLUB
11th Ave. S. and E 24th St .
TIME: 6:30 PM
WHY:
Community Voices and perspectives need to be heard by the PARK BOARD! The East Phillips Community Design Team has redesigned the Park Center after being presented with an Unacceptable Building Design. The Design Team’s plans are larger, a more efficient use of space, and much more of what everyone voted we need and want for the price!
The Design Team wants the new plan and its architect to be accepted, replacing the Park Board’s choice.
This is the MOST IMPORTANT MEETING since we overturned the Park Board’s decision to build the building on the East Side of the Park!
If you want a Center that works,
PLEASE JOIN US ON MONDAY!
Bring your Families and Friends!
THE ISSUE:
At its March 9th meeting, the East Phillips Park Community Design Team carefully reviewed a redesign of the East Phillips Park Cultural and Community Center (Center) that LHB Architects prepared for the Park Board. By directions from the Park Board and Staff, the Community was not allowed to participate in the final LHB redesign. It was done without any community involvement.
The Design Team came to a strong and unanimous conclusion that the LHB/Park Staff redesign of the Center will not work because it is too expensive, too small, is a misguided use of space and will not meet the community’s needs.
As a result, the Design Team passed a motion, seconded by Rep. Karen Clark, to hire another architect without Park Board funds, DJR Architects, to create a Center design that will work, is larger, is a more intelligent use of space, and will be far more cost-effective. We believe DJR Architects accomplished this for us.
We strongly encourage you and other concerned residents to attend this meeting and review and comment on both the LHB/Park Staff Design and DJR Design and support the Design Team vision. This has been a long process by representatives of many Phillips neighborhood groups to create a place we can all share and provide for ourselves what others would not provide for us. We hope we are near the end of this part of the journey.
Carol Pass , Chair, EPIC
William (Bill) Carter
American Indian Community Advocate
City of Minneapolis
Direct: (612) 673-3028
Fax: (612) 673-2599
Strength and answers (to you)
Birch Bark Books
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Native-owned bank opens in south Minneapolis
Mar 14th, 2009 Posted in GROUPS & ORGANIZATIONS | no comment »Native-owned bank opens in south Minneapolis
| Written by Aimee Loiselle | |
| Wednesday, March 11 2009 | |
On March 2, Woodlands National Bank opened its first branch office in the Twin Cities. Located at 11th Street and Franklin Avenue in Minneapolis, it will provide a full range of personal and business services to the community. Woodlands National Bank is owned by the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and headquartered in Hinckley. It has branches in Onamia, Hinckley, Sturgeon Lake, the Mille Lacs reservation, and Cloquet. The bank focuses on serving minorities, and President and CEO Lew Anderson looks forward to working with the diverse communities of the Phillips neighborhood. |
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ STRUGGLES TO DEFEND SACRED PLACES:
Mar 9th, 2009 Posted in GROUPS & ORGANIZATIONS | no comment »
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ STRUGGLES TO DEFEND SACRED PLACES:
HUMAN RIGHTS TRAINING AND SYMPOSIUM
San Francisco State University
San Francisco California
Saturday March 7th, 2009
Morning and afternoon sessions will be held in the Richard Oakes Room,
Evening program will be in Jack Adams Hall auditorium
Program Agenda
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9:00 – 9:30am |
Opening prayer (Welcoming Remarks § Andrea Carmen, IITC Executive Director § Morning Star Gali, IITC Community Liaison Coordinator § Introduction of participants |
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9:30 – 10:10 |
Andrea Carmen, Executive Director, IITC: Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples at the UN and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples |
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10:10 – 10:30 |
Questions and discussion |
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10:30 – 10:40 |
Break |
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10:40 – 11:15 |
Alberto Saldamando, IITC General Counsel: The United Nations structure and using the UN to defend human rights |
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11:15 – 11:45
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Julie Cavanaugh-Bill and Carrie Dann: Using the UN Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination to defend the rights of the Western Shoshone |
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11:45 – 12:00 noon |
Questions and discussion |
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12:00 – 1:30 pm |
Lunch on your own |
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1:30 – 3:00 pm |
Panel and Roundtable: Current struggles to defend sacred sites and cultural rights: threats, successes and current strategies, from the local to the international levels: Radley Davis, Mark Lebeau, Manny Pino, Carrie Dann and Corrina Gould Moderator: Morningstar Gali |
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3:30 – 3:45 |
Break |
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3:45 – 5:00 pm
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Open discussion: How can we work together and use Human Rights to address Sacred sites Violations and other Situations Facing Indigenous Peoples? How can we support these struggles? Moderator: Morningstar Gali |
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5:00 – 5:30 |
Closing remarks, Alberto Saldamando, Manny Pino, Andrea Carmen, Radley Davis and all
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5:30 – 7:00 pm |
Dinner provided for all participants |
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7:00 – 7:15 |
Evening Program opening, All Nations Drum, and invocation |
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7:15 – 7:30 |
Introduction of Honoring on behalf of IITC, Andrea Carmen |
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7:30 – 7:45 |
Honoring Human Rights Defenders Presentations, Radley Davis, IITC Board member, Pit River Nation, California |
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7:45 – 9:15 |
Evening Keynote Speakers:
Carrie Dann and Manny Pino
“Human Rights and Sacred Responsibilities, defending the Sacred Places that give us life”
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9:15 PM |
Closing drum, thanks and adjourn |
IITC gives special thanks to our guest presenters, to the SKINS organization and San Francisco State University, the Lannan Foundation, AFSC, Bay and Paul Foundation and all others who’s support made this event possible
National Museum of the American Indian
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