Aerial Maitlan, reporter and friend of The Free State,beaten and arrested in NYC

The Occupation of Highway 55

That's what the sign said but some Twin City activists had another thing in mind.
With the destruction of homes in the corridor of the Highway 55 expansion slated to begin the week of August 10th, 1998 dedicated environmentalist, members of Big Woods Earth First! and members of the Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota community began the occupation of some of the condemned property. These web pages are my account of the amazing transformation of Riverview Road, between 53rd and 54th streets in Minneapolis, into a community of resistance, solidarity and spiritual strength.

The pictures are further down in the calendar format. Last month is now listed first.

The Honoring Ceremony at The Walker Church brings this web site to a close

The Preserve Camp Coldwater website

Pictures and speeches from the convention

Annie Young's observations about the weekend's DFL conventions

Some pictures dedicated to the upcoming caucus

Hydrology Caucus Resolution you can introduce at your neighborhood caucus

Things gone unsaid
Highway 55 and the Camp Coldwater Settlement:
An Independent Investigation

Kurt Seaberg's Closing arguments

Betsy Barnum's closing arguments

We are all fined $228 and we got Hopper for the process

Subpeona of Tinklenberg is quashed, Austin's account

Austin's account of court

Sue Ann's closing remarks

Kurt Seaberg and Susu Jeffrey's letters about the Sacred Burr Oaks

Read an important letter to Minnehaha Creek Watershed District, it could be

Report from the weekly Monday meeting at The Gathering Grounds 1/24/00

Natalia is out of the slammer and she was getting so many phone calls her jailers were begging her to have them stop! Welcome back Talia!

Karla Rose's account of The Minnehaha Watershed meeting on January 6, 2000

If you can only read one thing on these pages this is it; Linda Brown and Jill Walker's updates (last up date 12/28/99)

1/2/2000 Karla Rose's thoughts from this weekend

Update from Mahpiya duta

SEND MONEY

Karla Rose's account of The Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota's day in Federal Court

Coldwater Spring is in danger of being locked to the public. Senator Paul Wellstone needs to hear from you

In court on 12/16 plea "bargains" were offered. None took them. Next court day is Jan. 13th

Fraud and the circumvention of the public process - MN DoT's ways There are #s to ring up too!

MN DoT didn't prove nothin', A Critique of the Cultural Resource Assessment of the Proposed Reroute of Highway 55

There is another collection of images documenting the 55 struggle by Michael J. Bayly.
I found it off of CircleVision's great justice and peace web site.

Clint Foster has a web site devoted to the Highway 55 struggle

Men, whip out your wallets and ladies please open your purses, nows the time to right some wrongs

Cool Tunes

RELATED ITEMS AND ARCHIVED STUFF

The content in these pages does not represent the ideals, musings, pondering, thoughts, beliefs or ranting of any organization or individual involved in the action other than myself, Tom Taylor, unless otherwise noted.

If you would like any background information on what this is all about including what you can do to help stop the reroute, visit the Stop the Reroute web site, that is linked to numerous times from this site.

There is also a web page dealing with the Sacred Sites of the Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota, including affidavits of Gary Cavender and Chris Leith, elders of the Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota community, to the U.S. District Court. I have linked to this web site numerous times as well through out my site.

(Rob's web site should be back up now) Rob Callahan's web page about the Highway 55 reroute that is also linked to numerous times from this site is back up and and rockin' the boat in his radical red way.

Further down the page is a calendar format that has links to images taken on those days. THANKS for your involvement!

Stop the Reroute plans to hold meetings every Monday ("until the road is stopped") at 6:30 p.m. at the Gathering Grounds Coffee House on 50th St. and 34th Ave. So. in Minneapolis.

Senator Paul Wellstone needs to hear from you TODAY!
United States Senate
136 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-2302
Voice:(202) 224-5641 FAX: (202) 224-8438

Tell it to Governor Ventura

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