SUNDAY, June 22
HEADLINES
Truth-seeking: historic Liberia hearings in St. Paul reveal horrors
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/12188
by Anna Pratt, Minnesota Independent
Describing the events that unfolded in July 1990 still brings tears to
the eyes of Liberian native Jane Allison Samukai. After civil war
broke out in her homeland, rebel soldiers attacked her home. Those who
didn't heed the soldiers' demands were shot. "I witnessed my
neighbor's killing and torture," Samukai said, wiping her eyes.
"People were taken away in the night I knew they were going to kill
me."
Additional coverage from <a href=" ">Twin Cities Daily Planet original
reporting
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/12092
and <a href=" ">African News Journal.
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/12178
Panel reports that Minneapolis art scene is healthy and vibrant
http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/12074
by Betsy Mowry, TC Daily Planet
The Twin Cities have long been distinguished by a strong and diverse
arts scene. On June 12, representatives from five high-profile
organizations and one area foundation convened at the Minneapolis
Institute of Arts for a panel meeting to discuss the current state of
the arts in the city.
Back on track at Hallie Q. Brown/MLK Center
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/12180
by Stacey Taylor, Insight News
In 2009 The Hallie Q. Brown/Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center
(HQB) will celebrate 80 years of service in St. Paul's Summit-
University neighborhood. This year the organization will be taking on
new challenges. In order to meet those challenges the organization
expects to make several key changes and has hired a new executive
director to continue their original mission of providing much needed
services to the community.
Teen Pride Review premieres Friday
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/12237
by Cass Sanford, TC Daily Planet
Younger Twin Cities Pride-goers will no longer be shut out of big,
nighttime festivities as Minnesota GLBTA Campus Alliance hosts its
first Pride Revue on Friday June 27. The event is open to those 16
and over, and will feature an array of performance art from live music
to a drag show.
INSIDE THE DAILY PLANET
Readers, Writers, and Books
Book note: Ib's smooth <i>Self-Expression</i>
http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/12130
by Dwight Hobbes, TC Daily Planet
Ib's self-published chapbook <i>Bumper-Sticker Self-Expression</i> is
indisputable proof that even the best publishers can miss the boat.
Long story short: homeboy got skills.
Book Note: No Limit</i>
http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/12236
by Cyrus Wolff, TC Daily Planet
The danger of gambling is an unusual subject for a young adult novel.
Compared to sex and drugs, poker may seem a rather innocuous pastime.
However, <i>No Limit</i> by Pete Hautman powerfully portrays the risks
inherent in it.
Imperial Jesus: 'Family" author Jeff Sharlet on the secret history of
the other Christian right
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/12108
by Steve Perry, Minnesota Independent
Jeff Sharlet's The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of
American Power may be the best book anyone has written about the
politics of the Christian right. Certainly it's the most surprising,
and therein lies a catch: The Family is not about the "Christian
right" we know, the popular fundamentalist evangelicalism of TV
preachers and retail bloc-voting and abortion clinic standoffs. Its
subject is an elite fundamentalist organization almost no one had
heard of before Sharlet's book, a quiet network of powerful people --
"key men," in the group's phrase -- at home and abroad built in the
name of a strong-man Jesus who cares much more for power than piety,
and prefers foreign affairs to domestic politicking.
NEW IN VOICES
Sugar shock
http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/11309
by Colette Davidson, TC Daily Planet
In order for Americans to get healthy, we have to get back to our
roots and stop eating so much faux food. Enough with thiamin
mononitrate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, and yellow no. 5. Give me
ingredients that exist in natureand that I can pronounce.
NEW IN BLOGS
Best prom couple ever
http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/12214
by Ellen Dahl, The Minneapoline
Outfits made out of duct tape.
HEADLINES
Truth-seeking: historic Liberia hearings in St. Paul reveal horrors
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/12188
by Anna Pratt, Minnesota Independent
Describing the events that unfolded in July 1990 still brings tears to
the eyes of Liberian native Jane Allison Samukai. After civil war
broke out in her homeland, rebel soldiers attacked her home. Those who
didn't heed the soldiers' demands were shot. "I witnessed my
neighbor's killing and torture," Samukai said, wiping her eyes.
"People were taken away in the night I knew they were going to kill
me."
Additional coverage from <a href=" ">Twin Cities Daily Planet original
reporting
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/12092
and <a href=" ">African News Journal.
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/12178
Panel reports that Minneapolis art scene is healthy and vibrant
http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/12074
by Betsy Mowry, TC Daily Planet
The Twin Cities have long been distinguished by a strong and diverse
arts scene. On June 12, representatives from five high-profile
organizations and one area foundation convened at the Minneapolis
Institute of Arts for a panel meeting to discuss the current state of
the arts in the city.
Back on track at Hallie Q. Brown/MLK Center
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/12180
by Stacey Taylor, Insight News
In 2009 The Hallie Q. Brown/Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center
(HQB) will celebrate 80 years of service in St. Paul's Summit-
University neighborhood. This year the organization will be taking on
new challenges. In order to meet those challenges the organization
expects to make several key changes and has hired a new executive
director to continue their original mission of providing much needed
services to the community.
Teen Pride Review premieres Friday
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/12237
by Cass Sanford, TC Daily Planet
Younger Twin Cities Pride-goers will no longer be shut out of big,
nighttime festivities as Minnesota GLBTA Campus Alliance hosts its
first Pride Revue on Friday June 27. The event is open to those 16
and over, and will feature an array of performance art from live music
to a drag show.
INSIDE THE DAILY PLANET
Readers, Writers, and Books
Book note: Ib's smooth <i>Self-Expression</i>
http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/12130
by Dwight Hobbes, TC Daily Planet
Ib's self-published chapbook <i>Bumper-Sticker Self-Expression</i> is
indisputable proof that even the best publishers can miss the boat.
Long story short: homeboy got skills.
Book Note: No Limit</i>
http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/12236
by Cyrus Wolff, TC Daily Planet
The danger of gambling is an unusual subject for a young adult novel.
Compared to sex and drugs, poker may seem a rather innocuous pastime.
However, <i>No Limit</i> by Pete Hautman powerfully portrays the risks
inherent in it.
Imperial Jesus: 'Family" author Jeff Sharlet on the secret history of
the other Christian right
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/12108
by Steve Perry, Minnesota Independent
Jeff Sharlet's The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of
American Power may be the best book anyone has written about the
politics of the Christian right. Certainly it's the most surprising,
and therein lies a catch: The Family is not about the "Christian
right" we know, the popular fundamentalist evangelicalism of TV
preachers and retail bloc-voting and abortion clinic standoffs. Its
subject is an elite fundamentalist organization almost no one had
heard of before Sharlet's book, a quiet network of powerful people --
"key men," in the group's phrase -- at home and abroad built in the
name of a strong-man Jesus who cares much more for power than piety,
and prefers foreign affairs to domestic politicking.
NEW IN VOICES
Sugar shock
http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/11309
by Colette Davidson, TC Daily Planet
In order for Americans to get healthy, we have to get back to our
roots and stop eating so much faux food. Enough with thiamin
mononitrate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, and yellow no. 5. Give me
ingredients that exist in natureand that I can pronounce.
NEW IN BLOGS
Best prom couple ever
http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/12214
by Ellen Dahl, The Minneapoline
Outfits made out of duct tape.
