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However, if the management gets its way, that vote won't count, and ballots cast by around 70 Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) in a separate election on July 30, 2003, will never be counted. </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.spokesman-recorder.com/News/Article/Article.asp?NewsID=36375&sID=13" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.spokesman-recorder.com/News/A"><U><B>Walker Methodist workers garner wide support</b></U></A><B> (link to Spokesman-Recorder)</b></div> <div> By: Doug Mann, <I>Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder</I></div> <div> Originally posted 12/17/2003 <B>Conclusion of a two-part story</b></div> <bR> <div> Employees at Walker Methodist Health Center have been trying to unionize, on and off, for at least a dozen years. </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id289.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jennings appointment archives"><U><B>Jennings appointment archives</b></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://southhighsucks.com/suspensionrateskyhigh.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://southhighsucks.com/suspensionrate"><U><B>Suspension Rate Stays Sky-High in Minneapolis</b></U></A></div> <div> by Dr. Vinny, <I>South High Sucks</I> (link to underground student web site)</div> <div> PATHETIC PROGRESS PATROL -- Minneapolis Public School administrators are crowing about a 2.9% reduction in the suspension rate last school year (2001-02) compared to 2000-2001. 18% of all Minneapolis students were suspended at least once in 2001-2002--and a third of them were suspended for subjective, non-violent offenses such as "disrespect" and "defiance." 52% of African-American 8th graders were suspended in 2001-2002. </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id267.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="NAACP branch jumps on the school choice "><U><B>NAACP jumps on the "school choice" bandwagon</b></U></A></div> <div> <B>Archives</b> - The Minneapolis NAACP branch officers illegally opened two parent information centers August 16, 2003. By a two-thirds majority the branch membership voted to kill the project on June 28, 2003, before the national office gave conditional approval for the parent information centers project. One of the conditions was ratification of a hiring policy by the branch membership (which didn't happen). The Parent information center are currently being run by "consultants," including a lawyer. (October 11, 2003)</div> <div> =====================================================</div> <bR> <div> ====================================================== </div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.pulsetc.com/article.php?sid=640" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.pulsetc.com/article.php?sid=6"><U><B>Member of Federal Mediation Panel Brutalized by Police</b></U></A></div> <div> by Doug Mann, <I>Pulse of the Twin Cities, 01 oct. 2003</I></div> <bR> <div> Alfred Flowers, a community representative on a federal mediation panel that is looking into complaints of police brutality was brutalized by Minneapolis Police on the morning of Saturday, September 27, 2003. [The arrest was made and an NAACP meeting was broken up in response to a complaint by the Minneapolis NAACP branch president, Albert Gallmon.  Gallmon resigned his post as NAACP branch president that weekend]</div> <bR> <div> <B>Charges against Flowers dismissed, then reinstated</b></div> <div> Community representives on mediation panel hold press conference on October 25</div> <div> October 26, 2003.  </div> <div> According to Community representatives on the federal mediation panel that is looking into charges of police brutality in Minneapolis, charges were reinstated against Alfred Flowers for trespassing on Urban League property and resisting arrest two weeks after those charges were dismissed.  This move will also allow the city attorney to press charges against  a former Minneapolis cop, Alisha Clemons, for "obstructing the judicial process" by interferring with an arrest. According to witnesses, police officers handcuffed, then choked and beat Flowers. Clemons told the arresting officers that they were violating police department regulations regarding the use of force during an arrest.  Witnesses say that Flowers offered no resistance, and there was a video tape recording of the arrest.  There will probably be a story about this turn of events in the next issue Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder.</div> <div> ======================================================</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.theminneapolisstory.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.theminneapolisstory.com"><U><B>The Minneapolis Story goes on</b></U></A></div> <div> Link to web site and blog of Ron Edwards, long time Civil Rights activist, book author, newspaper columnist, and candidate for Minneapolis NAACP branch president in 2002 (defeated in an allegedly rigged election). </div> <div> =====================================================</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>