Imagine waking up to a world where people were enthusiastic about their work. Where people made choices out of a drive to better their communities, not out of resentful obligation. Imagine feeling like you have a community supporting you on your path. Imagine a constant flow of curiosity and creativity in your daily interactions. Imagine [...]
The current education system has been under massive critique for centuries. Statistics show that more and more people are dropping out and choosing to expand their learning through different venues. The response from within the school system is often to “problematize” the behavior of parents and children who don’t “fit in.” Instead, lets take a [...]
“O Mighty Free Market, who can possibly understand thy mysterious ways?” a girl with a dollar bill tiara, playing the IMF (International Monetary Fund), squeals delightedly from onstage. I was watching a play by the Social Justice Committee(SJC) called The Dictatorship of Debt. Each of the tables where the audience members sat had been assigned [...]
Last night I watched MILK, a film based on the life of San Francisco City Supervisor and Gay/Civil Rights Activist Harvey Milk. Milk was assassinated by a rival city politician in 1978 after being a catalyst and leader for the gay rights movement across the United States throughout the 70’s. So what does this have [...]
In our day and age the mainstream media is largely a tool for propaganda. Corporations play on the easily manipulable emotions of a population trained to gulability. Independent Media sources have sprung up from the floorboards to couteract the fear-mongering and misinformation running rampant. I believe it is an important challenge for indie media-be it print, radio, web [...]
Food Sovereignty is essential to community resilience. It is well known to be the case that people bond and gather around food. The kitchen is the heart of every home. Currently most of us have our access to quality food controlled by gigantic corporations, often with anything but our best interests in mind. Enter the [...]
So the United States finally has a decent president. There is the potential for radical changes to take place. What is crucial for us to understand is that this recent shift in power does not mean it’s time to put up our feet and wait for the revolution to be guided from on high. The [...]
A new program is being set up in England by which children from underserved households will be given access to free instruments and classical music training. The program is an echo of the Venezuelan project, “El Sistema”, which focused on providing musical training to children from some of the poorest slums in Venezuela as an [...]
The Light Up The World (LUTW) Foundation has been running officially since 2002. Since it’s conception as a humanitarian aid organization it has provided over 14,000 homes in over 42 countries with safe,afforadable, ecologically sound, highly-efficient lighting through the use of WLED technologies (White Light Emitting Diodes). Their vision is to make ligthing of this [...]
Divide and conquer has been a tactic for too long to not be obvious at this point, yet fragmentation between groups and individuals working for social change persists. Within the bubbles of our daily trouble-shooting we lose sight of the larger picture. While it is definitely essential for us to focus our energies on community [...]
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