The border police, FBI, and ATF barred the American Republican National Convetion “Welcoming Committee” activists from entering Canada to give their talk about the upcoming protests against the RNC this summer in St. Paul, MN. The activists were held at the border for 5 hours while they were investigated…

Free Screening of Spike Lee's WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE, Monday, January 28, 7:00 PM, Mayday Books, 301 Cedar Avenue South, West Bank, Minneapolis

The Experimental College of the Twin Cities (EXCO) offers the fourth semester of free and open classes.

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While some of its local sympathizers are likely to stick around, the country's largest remaining neo-Nazi group has officially pulled up stakes in Minnesota: the Hitler-inspired National Socialist Movement (NSM) has left its longtime Minneapolis headquarters and relocated to Michigan, according to a press release dated Dec. 29.

While people in New Orleans stand down bulldozers menacing public housing, Twin Cities residents served the local HUD office with a "Condemndation Notice". The Director of the HUD office sent a representative to speak with the protesters and agreed to meet with them Monday morning.

This action was part of a rising tide of opposition to HUD's demolition plans in New Orleans and elsewhere. Housing advocates across the country and around the world are calling for a halt to HUD’s ongoing campaign to tear down public housing units and force the relocation of public housing tenants against their will.

It is unfortunate that we live in a world in which our government makes decisions about what we can say and when and where we can say it. The erosion of personal liberties in this country has monumentally increased since 9/11.

From a Twin Cites Activist now living in Venezuela...