January 2010
1 post
for those of you who are in NYC - jan 12 event!...
A message from Melissa Ennen, the wonderful host of our ‘We Co-Create’ workshop series in Brooklyn: Tuesday Talks with Andrew Faust, one of NY’s most stimulating permaculture speakers Jan. 12: Decadence vs. Abundance: A Brief Ecological History of America and the World Come learn what history has taught us about how to create ecological economies and increase natural capital....
December 2009
5 posts
MillionTreesNYC, Green Infrastructure, and Urban Ecology: A Research Symposium
Friday, March 5, 2010
9:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
The Spring 2009 workshop “MillionTreesNYC, Green Infrastructure, and Urban Ecology: Building a Research Agenda” brought together more than 100 researchers, practitioners and New York City policymakers to collaboratively develop a research agenda to support the...
greetings humans
apathy kills
write something on this blog if you want to share any ideas, links, photos, thoughts over the break. it would be great to all hear from each other on what we’ve been thinking and experiencing!—-gracie
p.s.
sfsu is san francisco state university. lets take action like this in the spring…
http://occupysfsu.wordpress.com
this one is good too:
...
SF State Student Bldg Takeover →
-gracie
FOOD →
can NY state feed itself?
-gracie
fem-men-ist →
-gracie
November 2009
8 posts
free books →
thoughts →
right now
I wanted to bring an event to your attention that is scheduled to take place during the week of November 9th-14th in New York. JOURNEY NYC is an art installation co-created by Emma Thompson and “Elena” (a woman who was victimized by sex traffickers). The installation is comprised of seven cargo containers furnished to represent different stages of one woman’s journey of human...
NY Times article about Palestine →
-gracie
When is voluntary labor not voluntary? →
been doing research on the connection between slavery & prisons
New York State just passed a proposition allowing prisons to contract prisoners to “voluntarily labor” for non-profits…
-gracie
bell hooks! interesting video →
October 2009
13 posts
Saturday, October 31st @ 12PM – 2PMMarcel van der Linden: Working Class History from Below 16 Beaver Group16 Beaver Street, 4th fl.New York, NY 10004 Marcel van der Linden will be presenting research from his book, “Workers of the World, Essays Towards a Global labor History,” which builds the foundations of a global history of capitalism from below: a history freed from Eurocentrism and...
amazing: The New School for Pluralistic... →
the dirty lie - clean coal →
350 action - soon - →
judith butler speaks for free in nyc tmrw night...
Friday October 23 – 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
A conversation with Simon Critchley, Judith Butler and Jacques Ranciere. An event hosted by Verso
Location:
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor
Admission:
Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served
if youre going, give me [gracie] a call,...
Written (as satire?) by a man who grew up as a...
‘…If I were told “love thy neighbour”, what came of it?’ Pyotr Petrovitch went on, perhaps with extensive haste. ‘it came to my tearing my coat in half to share with my neighbour and we both were left half naked. As a Russian proverb has it, ” Catch several hares and you won’t catch one.” [Actual proverb: Chase two hares and you won’t...
the new gender gap →
thoughts?
**event thursday (tmrw) night** →
gracie again. zack is driving and aside from us we can fit 4 other people. We are meeting at the co-op at 6:30 - if anyone else wants to drive that’s great, since about 10 or 12 people said they were interested in going tonight at the push meeting. please write an entry here if you have any questions, comments, etc.. this is an open forum!
*american civil liberties union event next tues* →
hi lovelies,
this is gracie. im skipping class on tuesday and going to this event because it is interesting and important to me. if you want to go too, please e-mail me before Sunday so we can make arrangements. The MSN speaker will be here from 230-5 ish and then I’ll be going after that.
my e-mail is radicalfood at gmail dot com
love
end the occupation →
Palestinian Author at Ossining Library →
I don’t know how far away Ossining is, but I’m interested in going to this.
-gracie
banned books week →
September 2009
29 posts
“I call myself a feminist. Isn’t that what you call someone who fights for...”
– Dalai Lama
[via]
(via lkay)
(via feminismisforlovers)
September 29, Tuesday, 7:30pm EDT LIVE WEBCAST FUNDRAISER FOR REVOLUTION BOOKS WITH RAYMOND LOTTA “Behind the World Economic Crisis: System Failure and the Need for Revolution” HERE)
Would anyone be down to split the $20 between a bunch of us? It would be very cheap if a bunch do it! Let me know 845-542-7541
(Watch Raymond Lotta on YouTube speaking on “The Rape of the Congo...
upcoming event at bluestockings
Sunday, October 18th @ 7PM - $5 Suggested Discussion: Cindy Milstein “Taking Ourselves Seriously” With Josh MacPhee, Maia Ramnath, and Joshua Stephens Anarchism has become a widely espoused organizational practice in radical American communities, but many anarchists seem to revel in the margins and are prone to dismissing their own potential. Join our panelists for a discussion of the...
coming out in middle school →
"Why We Refuse"
When: This Thursday: October 1st at 7:30pm
Where: Sarah Lawrence College, Titsworths Lecture Hall
Who: Two young Israeli women discuss their experience as conscientious objectors following the Israeli military draft.
How: Meet at the CCS bus stop. We’ll take the 5:35 #12 Beeline Bus to the White Plains metro station, then catch the 6:39 train to Bronxville. We’ll take the Loop...
German elections, in case you care
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8277526.stm
It seems that the Social Democrat party went down 11 points, while the liberal party gained 5. On the plus side, the pirate party got 2 points and the Christian democrats lost 2. Merkel is still going to be chancellor though
-Gerlach
brooklyn skill share →
im going to this. anyone want to come?
-graysea
WE'RE SCREWED →
-graysea
funniest protest signs 2009 →
-graysea
prisoner support network in binghamton - →
I would love to have a letter writing dinner once a week (or biweekly) - maybe we can dicuss this tomorrow at the meeting?
-graysea
- the new domestic order →
hi everyone! i know i’m posting a lot of links tonight but hopefully some of these are on issues that we can have conversations about if anyone is interested! -
-graysea
climate change? →
-graysea
*****NY Times article on zapatistas***** →
-graysea
URGENT: Support the people of Honduras
President Manuel Zelaya returned to Honduras yesterday. He is based at the Brazilian embassy along with members of his cabinet. Early this morning, police and military violently dispersed a large crowd that spent the night in front of the Embassy to support Zelaya and in defiance of the 5pm curfew instituted as part of the state of siege declared by the coup regime. There are reports of wounded...
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE!
PROTEST CHEVRON, URIBE, AND BACHELET! DEMAND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE! On September 23rd, Chevron, Barrick, and Freeport McMoRan, and the Council of the Americas will sponsor a dinner featuring Chilean president Michelle Bachelet. On September 24th, Chevron, Mizuho Bank, Telefonica, Bunge, and Sikorsky will host Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. Many of these companies and presidents have an ugly...
Corporate Personhood
An anomynous op-ed from the New York times on Corporate personhood-
The question at the heart of one of the biggest Supreme Court cases this year is simple: What constitutional rights should corporations have? To us, as well as many legal scholars, former justices and, indeed, drafters of the Constitution, the answer is that their rights should be quite limited — far less than those of people.
...
Immediate Response Required :) G-20 Protest!!
Joe and I are DETERMINED to go to the Protest in Pittsburgh wednesday night…but plans on getting there are still pending due to me not being able to get out of work in time to go.
Anyone interested in going/driving—we’ll obviously chip in for/pay gas $$.
Or anyone REALLY nice wanna lend a ride, or have an idea of how else to get to PA on a wednesday night?
Mutadhar al-Zaidi tells the story of his shoe... →
One Year Later
The New York City Local of the Democratic Socialists of America presents an educational and political forum on the
Empire State Meltdown:
Who Pays for the Economic Crisis?
Friday, September 25th
7:00 PM
SEIU 1199 Headquarters
310 W 43rd Street
New York City
Speakers:
Nomi Prins, author of It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals from...
Sunday in Manhattan
The HUMAN COUNTDOWN: A Climate Wake Up Call Join thousands in Central Park on Sunday Sept 20th for a massive flash mob and photo opp calling for climate action. Sign up to join the action! http://bit.ly/cfmQR Oxfam America has teamed up with renowned choreographer Christopher Caines, as well as US Climate Action Network, Greenpeace, Energy Action Coalition, 1Sky, 350.org, AVAAZ, NYPIRG, World...