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Our Way or the Highway: Inside the Minnehaha Free State

Our Way or the Highway: Inside the Minnehaha Free State

Losure, Mary

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Series: Ecology

Business GeneralEnvironmental StudiesGeneral Political Science

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ISBN10: 0816639051
ISBN13: 9780816639052
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: Aug 23 2002
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.78 Depth: 9.16
Language: English

An eyewitness account of this controversial environmental action.

Construction plans for the reroute of Highway 55 through south Minneapolis sparked an environmental movement that pitted activists against public authorities in one of the most dramatic episodes in the city's history. Mary Losure was there; as a reporter for Minnesota Public Radio she witnessed the neighborhood's transformation from a quiet street to the center of an emotionally charged standoff. Fueled by idealism and anger, a diverse coalition banded together to try to stop the highway expansion. Beginning in 1998, this group sustained protests for more than one year and eventually faced an unprecedented show of force by law enforcement.

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