Sex, fossil fuels, and matriarchal economics
By Winona LaDuke In July of 2013, Ramsey County charged Mike Allen with agreeing to hire and engage in prostitution in a public place. Mike Allen is a Canadian. At that time, Allen was an MLA, a Member of the Legislative Assembly. Allen represented Fort McMurray, the Tar Sands Capital of the Petro State of […]
POLITICAL MATTERS: Nov 2017
By Mordecai Specktor The politics of mining After straddling the fence for years on the introduction of copper-nickel mining to northeastern Minnesota, Gov. Mark Dayton came down on the side of PolyMet’s open pit mine and processing project on the Iron Range. In late October, Dayton told St. Paul Pioneer Press reporter Rachel Stassen-Berger, regarding […]