As I look forward to participating in this Saturday's antiwar rally and march and as I also prepare for the next campout to again decry the terrible manner in which people who are poor and homeless are treated in our fair city....
I urge all of us to have long memories ... remember the city council people who killed the anti-war resolution presented to them...
Remember that the Mayor promised to veto the anti-war resolution if it did pass.
Remember, that even during the "good money times" this city, this county, this state allowed poverty and homelessness to grow....
Remember the politicians who argue that "these are complex issues" as an excuse to do nothing... yet are able to rally massive resources to push the debacles of Target, Block E, the 35 W access project.
And even those "tiny" insults that are carried out daily... a statue to a fictional Mary Tyler Moore character is erected on the Nicollet Mall...
How about erecting a statue to all of those who have suffered and died on the streets of Mpls... with an inscription that reads "Never Again"? (and then actually take action to make that inscription true.)
Sometimes the best thing we have is a long memory..
Margaret Hastings-Kingfield-Minneapolis
