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organizing
Invincible : Locusts
Submitted by onion on Mon, 12/01/2008 - 21:49
"Sledgehammer!" Official video directed by Kareem Edouard Song produced by 14KT & Haircut of the Lab Techs Sledgehammer!
Save Kingsessing Library-- mtg Mon, Nov 24
Submitted by clarissa on Sun, 11/23/2008 - 02:35
Monday, Nov 24 7:30pm
A-Space 4722 Baltimore Ave, West Philly
Meeting to discuss strategy to stop the proposed closing of the Kingsessing Library Branch
Free! Everyone is Welcome
Beyond Voting
Submitted by onion on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 02:06
from the B U R E A U O F P U B L I C S E C R E T S
THE LIMITS OF ELECTORAL POLITICS
Roughly speaking we can distinguish five degrees of “government”:
Ground Noise and Static
Submitted by onion on Fri, 10/31/2008 - 22:21
In November, one or the other of the corporate candidates will win, and then, as always, it will be what the people do, not the politicians, that counts. A video report on the protests that occurred in connection with the Democrat and Republican National Conventions, Ground Noise & Static is a manifesto. We went to Denver and St. Paul to take the pulse of the movement.
URGENT: Support the Mill Creek Farm
Submitted by onion on Tue, 10/14/2008 - 23:53
Dear Friends of Mill Creek Farm, We are writing to ask for your help ensure that we can continue our work. We are trying to get the land that the Mill Creek Farm maintains along with the adjacent community garden, which has been around for over 30 years, put in a land trust with the Neighborhood Gardens Association (NGA) to protect it from future development. In order to do that, we need the support of Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell to get the title transferred from the City of Philadelphia, which currently owns the property, to the NGA. Please take a minute to send a message to Councilwoman Blackwell To submit your comments online, use this form: http://www.phila.gov/citycouncil/blackwell/feedback.html If you prefer to type or handwrite a letter, we will gladly mail it for you. Please drop it off at the farm or contact us to pick it up. Below is some sample text, but your message is stronger if you personalize it so please edit this and include your personal comments about the food, experience volunteering or visiting, or any other connection you have to the farm. If you send your comments by email and could send us a copy, we'd appreciate it: millcreekfarm@resist.ca. Please be sure to include your name and address or other contact information and mention if you are a constituent. Dear Councilwoman Blackwell, I am writing to express my support of the Mill Creek Farm in West Philadelphia. The project is an important resource for healthy food as well and education in the community. I understand that there is an effort under way to preserve the land that the Mill Creek Farm maintains as well as the adjacent community garden as open space for food production through the Neighborhood Gardens Association. I hope that you will help support their important work by supporting the transfer of the title from the City to the land trust. Thank you for your consideration.
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www.millcreekurbanfarm.org
Community Bike Shops Should Not Be Funded (by Grants)
Submitted by onion on Tue, 10/14/2008 - 01:53
by Laila Davis
This summer I attended the Bike!Bike! conference in Pittsburgh. Bike!Bike! is a yearly gathering of community and non-profit bike shops and projects. One of the topics that many of the attendees were interested in was how to become an official non-profit 501(c)(3) in order to be eligible for grants. While there are benefits to operating as a non-profit, I feel that the disadvantages aren’t as often discussed, so I’ll lay out some of them here. If you’re thinking about incorporating as a non-profit or applying for foundation grants, you should consider these issues carefully first:
Organizing to Abolish the Prison-Industrial Complex
Submitted by onion on Tue, 10/14/2008 - 01:22
An interview with Rose Braz of the CR10 Media Committee, about Critical Resistance’s 10 year anniversary conference on Sept. 26-28 in Oakland, CA.
By Hans Bennett
The prison abolitionist group, Crtical Resistance (CR) is organizing a conference to mark the tenth anniversary of their groundbreaking 1998 conference at UC-Berkeley. For more info: www.criticalresistance.org
Raid On Gilbert’s Shoes Demystified
Submitted by onion on Wed, 10/08/2008 - 23:55
by Tessa Landreau-Grasmuck and dave onion
On the morning of Friday, June 13th, 2008, Philadelphia police entered a Ridge Avenue home without a warrant and arrested four Philadelphia community members and dear friends – Daniel Moffat, Trevor Burgess, Andrea Okorley, and Jennifer Rock. These residents were pulled from their home at 1652 Ridge Avenue, arrested, and detained without charges at the Ninth District for over twelve hours. During their detention, Philadelphia Police called in the City’s Licenses and Inspections Agency, who deemed the house uninhabitable, and sealed the doors. Despite an extraordinary output of community support in response to the raid, the residents of the affectionately named Shoe Store are still facing an arduous struggle to reclaim their home. As we continue to support the displaced family of the Ridge Avenue Shoe Store, we seek to put their situation in the context of policing and displacement happening city, nation and world wide. We send this letter with two-fold intention: to respond to all the comrades who have asked how they can help, as well as to activate our support for those affected by these policies in the context of a diverse movement with wide and varied experience.
July 5th Global Starbucks Day of Action in Philadelphia
Submitted by onion on Wed, 10/08/2008 - 23:51
by John Kalwaic
On July 5th, members of the Philadelphia branch of the Industrial Workers of the World organized a small demonstration in front the Starbucks on 9th and South Street at 1:00pm. This action was to protest the firing of Starbucks baristas who had been trying to unionize with the IWW Starbucks Workers Union in the United States. This event was coordinated with the Anarchist CNT Union in Spain where baristas have also been fired for organizing. Friends and family of IWW members came by to show support for the demonstration. Protesters with IWW flags and songs condemned the actions of Starbucks against union members in New York City, Grand Rapids Michigan and Seville Spain. We handed out flyers so people could contact Starbucks to voice disapproval to the company for its union busting polices. The pickets sang songs such as “Solidarity Forever” and chanted: “What’s Disgusting!?-Union Busting! What’s Outrageous?!-Starbucks Wages!”
