My close compa Emily recent sent out this tendril of solidarity for a Salvadoran community she's close to which was recently hit hard by a hurricane. They've been left largely to fend for themselves and in serious need of material support. Please be generous, but even for those of us dealing with our own personal financial crises, our dollars can go a long way in El Salvador so even small amounts are worth kicking down...
From the first weeks of Occupy Philly an announcement for a workshop I helped pull together:
Cheers to my compas for pulling together another solid speaking event last night. Luckily I caught some of it on my "tape", albeit with less than exciting sound quality. It's going to be an exciting month coming up with housing and land takeovers across the US.
I recently helped Laura and Carlos with the tail end of installing a solar setup in Laura's media van. She uses her van as a mobile studio to do workshops and presentations on video editing with the aim of enhancing community organizing efforts around Philly. The panels will power a couple laptops and some other video gear. Check out her site: messages in motion
The aspiration for autonomy is above all the struggle against political and moral alienation from life and work - against the functionalization of outside interests, against the internalization of the morals of our foes ...
As organizers and activists in the city of Philadelphia, we’re excited to find ourselves caught up in this vibrant new movement. Few things have happened in Philly since we can remember that have looked so much like a genuine expression of popular power and direct democracy on a large scale. In this movement, we see an opportunity to truly challenge a system controlled by and serving elites. We love this and are full-heartedly engaging in this insurrection!
Following the election of Obama, many folks involved with a spectrum of different anti-racist work were left dumbfounded by the rise of the aggressive and often explicitly racist white Tea Party movement.
Among the most exciting of recent old friends reconnected with via facebook are my old band mates from Nine Twenty Nine from my stint in Colorado Springs. Our drummer Ken-e friended me and hit me with the link to most of our best recordings i remember. Nine Twenty Nine made some rough years in Colorado Springs pretty amazing. We were part of a small number of punk bands that helped revive a then dormant punk scene in the city.