Digitization made possible by the State of Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, approved by voters in 2008.
February 18, 1974 - ?As a Congressman I shall continue to build on the programs of social and economic progress to which I have already contributed. The legislative programs I shall propose and will pursue will be aimed at strengthening the people power of the 8th Congressional District, whether it?s in economic development, housing, manpower, education, environment, or in programs for the young, the elderly, the gifted, and the afflicted. With the experience I have gained in the past eleven years in Washington, I shall will work, with all of my strength, to fulfill these goals for the people of the 8th District.?
February 20, 1974 - Unknown speaker talks about people having input to the political process. He mentions the problem of people having a feeling of alienation, that the individual is powerless in dealing with large instittutions and how people have a desire to feel they have opportunity to influence the process.
February 20, 1974 - Speaker wants to give back to the people the right to initiate measures and approve or reject laws passed by the legislature. He says this issue could be addressed at upcoming precinct caucuses and action could still be taken this legislative session if the people let their voices be heard.
February 20, 1974 - Minneapolis representative Frank Knoll said the federal government is gradually withdrawing from the housing scene and has introduced a bill attempting to fill the void concerning housing rehab. The bill is designed to meet the problem on a statewide basis, not just in urban areas. Knoll has also proposed a bill to reduce noise levels in neighborhoods near the airport. It provides a tax credit to property owners of fifteen percent; the MAC would have to reimburse local governments for lost revenue. Knoll says residents shouldn?t be raced with the choice of moving out or suffering the noise.
February 20, 1974 - MPR’s Connie Goldman interviews Lowell Gomrood, president of The Minnesota-Vietnam Association for Bi-National Adoption, discusses establishing an office here and in Vietnam to look for children in orphanages who need to be adopted. These children would then be sent to adoptive parents in Minnesota.
February 20, 1974 - Sacheen Littlefeather, the actress who refused Marlon Brando’s Oscar for him, comes to St. Paul to show support for Russell Means and Dennis Banks. She says people don’t remember the times of revolution in 1776 when they were also searching for justice, forgot Bill of Rights and Constitution are for all people. When you equate “Indian” with “savage” it’s like other racial epithets, this has no place in today’s films or on TV. We have to teach children respect for all people. Schoolbooks are antiquated, eliminate contributions of the Indian, need reawakening about minority groups so we can learn about people because world getting smaller. She talks about over 400 unkept treaties, There are many ways to be militant, can be militant with love, kindness, showing humanity, doesn’t have to be with a gun or profanity, can be showing you care. She says she risked her life at the Academy Awards, she was beaten and harrassed and had armed guards for protection, was not a publicity stunt.
February 20, 1974 - MPR’s Bob Potter reports on Clyde Bellecourt speech on Indian reform policy.
February 21, 1974 - AIM leader Dennis Banks speaks out about Patty Hearst kidnapping, stating that AIM takes an immediate position of totally condemning the act of kidnapping.
February 21, 1974 - There is fear that there will be more kidnapping, and ironically from poor and oppressed people that they?ll be hurt. We?ll take position to totally condemn any kidnapping, this or any other, that might innocently draw this country into being a police state. In Pine Ridge attitude of there being a police state exists already. When fear comes from poor and minorities to the degree where they feel there will be reprisals then we have to condemn it right at the beginning.
February 21, 1974 - Two controverial sections remain in the new bill. Ones is a provision restoring the requirement for contributors donating over $100 to be listed by name, occupation and place of employment. Another provision allows union dues to be used in state political campaigns. An election bill involves rotation of names in an election; currently the highest vote getter from the previous election is listed first. This practice is criticized. Secretary of State Arlen Erdahl talks about the position of names on the ballot and name rotation. He says this bill would restore eroded confidence in government.