> By the time you moved into this neighborhood, Eva > Young, much of the > mess had been moved away and, due to vigilance by > neighbors, enormous > help from CCP/SAFE (Brian Herron and Off. Steve > Revoir, inspections, > landlords, Mike Green (ret. MPD Sgt.) et.al., > several people went to > prison. Those of us who lived through it do see a > certain value in the > Powell Center if it can change the way families and > their young people > respect themselves and others and don't even want to > go down the > criminal clan path. > I no longer live in the Central neighborhood, but I've lived in that neighborhood at various addresses for over 10 years. During that time, I never knew Wizard Marks on a social basis. We didn't run in the same circles.
I lived over near 32nd and Oakland in 82-83, and lived on 35 and Oakland (very close to the Church) from 83-85. I moved onto 3424 Park Av in 91 and lived there 91-2002. The Church and the annoying Soul lib was just down the block. Many neighbors weren't happy with Soul lib - not just John Hustad. Since you cced Art Erickson on this one, I'm interested in hearing when the promised retraction of the Colin Powell/Urban Ventures support for the Pray-In for the Bachmann amendment is going to be posted. The retraction isn't posted on the UV, Colin Powell or the Midwest Chaplains website. Why not? Is it that Art wants to tell one thing to non christian right funders - such as Best Buy, or "partners" such as the University of Minnesota - but they want to say different things when they go to the Midwest Chaplains Pray at the Capital events? http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/7022461/ Art Erickson's email claiming that a retraction is forthcoming is posted on Lloydletta here: http://lloydletta.blogspot.com/2005/03/urban-vultures-and-colin-powell-youth.html While the Colin Powell and Urban Ventures were erased from the online version of this on the Midwest Chaplains website, there was no public retraction. This was the flyer about the event that was widely distributed - and it's interesting that Art only claimed that this was done without their consent AFTER I posted a message about this on the Minneapolis Issues list. Wizard writes: This is the second most important point. These investors are not the rabid Christian right and I, for one in this neighborhood, am grateful to them if they are putting their money into making a real, solid, reliable life for the kids around here a possibility. If I have to sacrifice the possibility, not actuality, but possibility, that they will grow up and be raging homophobes, I won't like it. But so long as they aren't shooting people, stealing things, failing to support their children, having jobs, then so be it. EY: No they aren't - and I doubt that these investors are aware of Urban Ventures and the Colin Powell Center being listed as "endorsing ministries" for the Midwest Chaplains Pray in for the Bachmann amendment. See the image of the proclamation here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/7022461/ >From the Rake's account of Duane Coleman dropping in on the Midwest Chaplains weekly Prayer Session: Duane Coleman has been a repeat guest at Dan Hall's prayer gatherings, and when he arrived on this day, Hall encouraged him to describe the results of the prayers he'd received the week before. Coleman said that, before last week, only the Senate version of the new bonding bill included cash for the Colin Powell Youth Leadership Center. "So I came last week and we prayed over this," Coleman explained. "And somehow, through divine favor, the money ended up in the House bill, too." A late arrival, a woman in the back of the room, raised her hand. "Is your group Christian?" Coleman nodded vigorously. "Yes." "So what are we praying for today?" "Success in conference committee!" Coleman replied. EY: In this case, my prayers were answered, and taxpayers were spared funding this. Wizard: City Pages did not cover any anti-gay activity in the article you cite (addy below). EY: Actually the quote from John Hustad did talk about Art Erickson and Soul Lib - and the anti-gay ranting during that event. Art left Park Av Methodist - and I do recall that Art was a major lighting rod and alienated many neighbors in the area. http://citypages.com/databank/17/833/article3085.asp A neighbor of the church, John Hustad, says that while he was not a congregant, he nonetheless butted heads with Erickson on a number of occasions. According to Hustad, the church held an annual festival called "Soulebration," and the ensuing crowds and noise wreaked havoc on the neighborhood. "City ordinances state that these kinds of events can't run more than three nights, but this event would run for seven. The noise was unbelievable, there was trash everywhere, and parking was a nightmare," he says. What was most galling, he contends, were the messages disseminated by festival speakers. 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