Osseo Class of 1989

10/24/2024

Trump's Dog Whistles Incite Hate and Violence

https://www.reporterherald.com/ci_31484322/rev-howard-dotson-colorado-leaders-must-denounce-hate/

For years I have asked elected officials to denounce the hate and violence Trump incites. (2017)
After Jan 6th I went back to some of them and asked
"What say you know?'"
The FBI has intercepted 2 would be domestic terrorists in the MN and now this in Arizona. This is why I asked Minneapolis to invite the DOJ United Against Hate back to MN after 6 attacks on MN mosques in 1 year.

https://youtu.be/ONWPnjixAlI?si=-862ydickpYIeVY3

Trump is hosting a rally in Duluth on Monday. He will most likely make comments about our Somali Muslim community just as he does against Haitian immigrants in Ohio. They have already signalled out one of our new MPD officers who is part of an African immigrant communities.

Our law enforcement officials need to be prepared not just for the campaign event but the hate and violence Trump incites. Ever since Trump began his reelection campaign in Waco as a dog whistle to anti government militias, we should have been preparing and empowering our MN Muslim for these predictable moments as we approach the election.

https://www.ktsm.com/news/national/ap-suspect-in-shootings-of-democratic-office-in-arizona-had-over-200-guns-in-his-home-officials-find/

Howard Dotson
Minneapolis

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona prosecutor said the man arrested in the shooting of a Democratic National Committee office in suburban Phoenix had more than 120 guns and over 250,000 rounds of ammun…

08/22/2024

Did what I could in Lebanon. Thank to my angels. Hopefully peace prevails and the PTSD Coach App in Arabic project launches soon.
Love you Lebanon and my Syrian picassos.

08/10/2024

Soon I will be in Beirut again.
We need restorative justice for the Trump Muslim Ban. Ramy Hammoudy my interpreter in Beirut was one of the victims of the Trump State Dept.
President Biden act boldly with the days that remain in your Presidency. It's not to late to right this wrong.
25,000 Syrian refugees have been cleared and vetted yet they still languish in refugee camps for over a decade!

Every refugee is child of God created in the Divine image of our Creator.

"Welcome the Stranger " Matthew 25

Chaplain Howard Dotson
Howie's Art Circle
Minneapolis

Ramy is a righteous Palestinian refugee in Beirut. He has been my host and interpreter several times (2017-2021). The US State Dept needs to do right by him ...

06/25/2024

Stay tuned. We are starting a new music group in Minneapolis. The Paisleys will be a Prince cover band performing on the weekends.

06/08/2024

Too funny. Someone went through my car last night. They took expired cards, an expired ID and debit card with 98 cents on it. I wish I could be there when they try to run the cards. I would offer them some ketchup for their nothing burger.

04/22/2024

The military trained me well in threat assessment and mitigation. For the past 11 years I have provided reports with leaders in DC, Bahrain, Lebanon, Jordan, Romania, Moldova, Poland and Ukraine.
Our leaders in DC and at the state level have not fulfilled their duty to warn our BIPOC and immigrant communities about the looming domestic terrorism threat here in the US.
Ever since Charlottesville, I have been urging elected officials to denounce this rise of white nationalism and hate crimes that Trump has incited with his dog whistles. With the war in the Middle East, Trump's legal jeopardy on 4 fronts and his Presidential election campaign, all these factors are converging for predictable political violence and hate crimes when he is either arrested and imprisoned or he loses this election bid in November.
Our BIPOC and immigrant community members deserve to hear from our elected officials at all levels of Government what some of the safety measures are to protect ourselves from this looming domestic terrorism threat.
This is not fear mongering, this is realpolitik. For 2 years I have been encouraging our BIPOC and immigrant community residents in Minneapolis to go to the gun ranges and get their permits to carry because this political storm and domestic terrorism is on our horizon.
I have encouraged the Mayor and City Council to invite the DOJ United Against Hate program to visit Minneapolis to help educate and equip our residents before this political unrest translates into violence that could have been prevented.

Chaplain Howard Dotson
Twin Cities Crisis Response Team
Minneapolis

03/28/2024

Chaplain Howard's 5th Mission in Ukraine

PTSD Coach App Live in Ukranian
Lecture: Trauma Informed Expressive Therapies for Post Trauma Recovery in Ukraine
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Family, Friends and Colleagues:
I am intenerating before I head back to Ukraine soon. If you want to support our mental health ministry, you can send donations to
Venmo -dotson-4
Cash Ap $HRD89
I will send you an art piece from one of our art circles in Ukraine.

Chaplain Howard
5th Mission in Ukraine Soon!
Minneapolis
[email protected]

02/26/2024

I have often sent this video to many politicians who bucked at my assessment of the rise of white nationalism during the Trump era. Look at the FBI stats. With the war in Gaza, we have not seen these numbers since 9/11.
When the handcuffs are placed on Trump and he is ecscorted to his cell there will be a nationwide spike in hate crimes and domestic terrorism. BIPOC and immigrant community members, when you hear Trump has gone to jail, please gather your family and stay home in shelter in place. When this political storm passes through there will be fewer bulls eyes on the back of God's rainbow of humanity we call neighbors and friends.

Jack Nicholson delivers this world-famous line.

02/17/2024

Minneapolis Community Connections
Minneapolis Convention Center

Thank you Mayor Frey, public servants and community partners for another amazing Community Connections conference.
We have risen from the trauma and ashes into greater healing and reconciliation work.
Minneapolis is back on the global stage for the right reasons.
Strong!

Chaplain Howard Dotson
Twin Cities Crisis Response Team

07/05/2023

My 4th mission in Ukraine was to help prepare Ukraine for the threat of a nuclear incident. Both Kviv and Moscow have raised the alarm about a threat to a nuclear radiation incident at Zaporizhzhia-
This is Europe's largest nuclear reactor and is under the threat of a radiological incident. Last year CIA director Burns publicly warned that a nuclear incident fit our US intelligence assessment.
https://www.theguardian.com/.../zaporizhzhia-nuclear...
That is why I went to Ukraine last winter to help with the efforts to prepare for a nuclear disaster response strategy. Ukrainians know about this because of the tragic memory of Chernobyl. We learned that the pharmacies had been emptied of Potassium Iodide that was used in 1986 as part of the disaster response to radiation exposure.
I went to the NATO Summit in Bucharest to lobby for Ukraines ask from Romania which had a stockpile of 1 Million tablets. Every Ukrainian under the age of 40 needs 2 tablets for 2 days after radiation exposure. This will push the radiation out of the thyroid gland and prevent thyroid cancer.
https://www.startribune.com/chaplains-mission.../600227089/
It took several months but eventually Ukranian authorities had enough Potassium Iodide tablets to distribute through the pharmacies again. Again our US intelligence has provided Ukranians with critical information to cope with and confront the war criminal in the Kremlin.
Chaplain Howard Dotson
4 Missions in Ukraine, 5th Mission Sep 23

On Thanksgiving, Howard Dotson is going to fly to Ukraine again. He'll try to help reunite a separated family he met in July in Lviv. This time, though, he has a new mission: to deliver a cache of potassium iodide pills.