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It's Fresh Veggies Friday at the Rad Mini Library! June 30: Lettuce Lettuce Lettuce Kale Rhubarb Peas Cilantro This might be one of the last weeks of lettuce from my garden, but there is still so much of it! The kale, rhubarb, peas, and cilantro are super tasty, all from the Hmong American Farmers Association. Eat greens!

What items would you like this library to offer? Neighbors said Chips! Candy! Cookes! glolBars! elechec or K toothbrush 

Added to the Rad Mini Library -- Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Added Rad Books for young people Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o Stuntboy in the meantime by Jason Reynolds 

Why? or, How a Peasant Got Into the Land of Anarchy An Anarchist Fairytale From the Russian Revolution Abba and Wolf Gordin (Authors); Jesse S. Cohn and Eugene Kuchinov (Translated and Introduced by) From AK Press: Why? follows the travels of a boy named Pochemu—“Why” in Russian—as he tries to understand the tsar’s empire, capitalism, state violence, and more. The answers his rapid-fire questions elicit, which make less and less sense the deeper he probes, are just as ridiculous today as they were a century ago, and just as descriptive of a society gone wrong. When Pochemu eventually enters the Land of Anarchy, he is confronted by his own strangeness to its citizens, who study the bizarre customs he brings to their free society. This is a timeless tale of the ludicrousness of power and its deluded defenders. In this fable, a child’s innocent questions meet the lies used to justify a world of cruelty and inequality. The result is quasi-absurdist, political comedy. Abba and W...

It's Fresh Veggies Friday at the Rad Mini Library! June 23: Lettuce Arugula Garlic scapes Pea shoots Cilantro Lettuce and arugula from my garden are in abundance! The garlic scapes, pea shoots, and cilantro are super tasty, all from the Hmong American Farmers Association. Eat greens!

Personal care items: Toothpaste Bamboo toothbrushes Pocket tissues Tampons and pads KN95s, KF94s Snacks: Pretzels Peanuts Fruit snacks Rad books for adults in English and for youth in Spanish and English T-shirts in Adult sizes Kid items - shoes, swim trunks, pool toys

Added Rad Book: Undoing Border Imperialism by Harsha Walia  From AK Press: Undoing Border Imperialism combines academic discourse, lived experiences of displacement, and movement-based practices into an exciting new book. By reformulating immigrant rights movements within a transnational analysis of capitalism, labor exploitation, settler colonialism, state building, and racialized empire, it provides the alternative conceptual frameworks of border imperialism and decolonization. Drawing on the author’s experiences in No One Is Illegal, this work offers relevant insights for all social movement organizers on effective strategies to overcome the barriers and borders within movements in order to cultivate fierce, loving, and sustainable communities of resistance striving toward liberation. The author grounds the book in collective vision, with short contributions from over twenty organizers and writers from across North America.

It's Fresh Veggies Friday at the Rad Mini Library! June 16: Lettuce, lettuce, lettuce  Spring onions Arugula Even though we're in day 30+ of a drought in Minnesota, the lettuce I grew from seed is doing well. Seeds are Strela Green Lettuce and a mix from Seed Saver's. Also this week is lettuce from Hmong American Farmers Association. Eat greens!

If you're out breathing this bad air, please take care .. one way is with water and masks from the Rad Mini Library. More advice: https://cleanaircrew.org/box-fan-filters/ Also known as a Corsi-Rosenthal box, this DIY method of building your own air filter with MERV13 furnace filters and a box fan are an easy and cost-effective way to help clear indoor air from airborne virus particles, wildfire smoke, pollen, dust, and more!

June 9 fresh veggies: Pea Shoots Asparagus Arugula Lettuce Pea Shoots and asparagus are from the growers of the Hmong American Farmers Association. The arugula and lettuce are from my garden, grown from Seed Saver's seeds. 

The World We Make by N.K. Jemisin is the second book of a duology based in NYC...and it does not disappoint! Multiverse, super powers, artists fighting fascism, an avengers-like assembly - the story has everything that makes me excited.

Fresh Veggies are out! Today's veggies: Rhubarb Asparagus Spring onions All grown by the rad people of Hmong American Farmers Association! Sign up by June 5 for the Summer CSA! https://www.hmongfarmers.com/summer-csa/