"...Howard Zinn - anybody interested in the Truth?" - Samantha Smart asks/declares; and with a capital "T".
Keith says; Please defeat this woman at the polls. She's pridefully reading the fantasy of a child/wizard. This gal's other prescriptive fantasies for leading the People's Republic of Mpls. will no doubt follow her wish list for force feeding the rest of us (below). And to sum up, and quote, her remedy for development; TAX IT -but call it, a la' Pawlenty, a "building impact fee". Keith Reitman NearNorth Samantha Smart said: 2) MInneapolis should implement a building impact fee, wherein each new house, development and significant renovation, will be assessed an impact fee that can go directly to libraries, in particular to collections and acquisitions (Franklin library has four copies of Jane Eyre on one shelf, but the fiction shelves are more empty than they are full!) Finally, in terms of books, as a Board member, I will recommend that Minneapolis also adopt the St. Paul idea of the entire City reading one book, and I have a few suggestions: Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Friere - this could be the most powerful and important book ever written about our excrutiating times - the oppresser is also oppressed, but only the oppressed can catalyze true liberation - and how... Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe - what really has been the effect of white supremacy/colonialism/imperialism and how has the european invasion of the world torn everything apart? Predator and Prey by Ward Churchill - how many of us wake up every morning and realize that our european ancestors brutally devastated 98% of the Indigenous First Nations living in this place and that today genocide prevails - when an Indigenous person's life expectancy is less than 50 years? that each step we take is on stolen land? that the lovely woodwork in our older homes is from stolen trees? Affirmative Acts by June Jordan - a political poet and philosopher not to be ignored but treasured Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale by Maria Mies - did you know that the genocide of nine million women in the church-initiated witch-burning times provided the opportunity for church and state to appropriate an enormous amount of capital and property, providing the material basis for colonialism to begin with? People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn - anybody interested in the Truth? and of course, everything by our own treasure, Louise Erdrich yes, Mr. Vreeland, I do read! Samantha Smart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Smart Libraries are OPEN Libraries! Candidate for Minneapolis Public Library Board [EMAIL PROTECTED] Smart libraries are OPEN libraries! REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, contact the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[email protected] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
