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  • Play

    Co-housing facilitates the interaction among neighbors, providing social, practical, economic and environmental benefits. Co-housing communities build social capital – and encourages more sustainable and fun behaviors. The simple act of eating together on a regular basis is a strong catalyst: As architect and founder of the Seattle Schemata Cohousing Project, Grace Kim says: (FastCompany, 2017):…

  • How to run a small social network site for your friends

    Since August 2018 I have run a social network site called Friend Camp for about 50 of my friends. I think Friend Camp is a really nice place, and my friends seem to agree that it has enriched our lives. I’d like to see more places like Friend Camp on the internet, and this document…

  • ¿El Museo de Arte del Tolima cerrará sus puertas? | El Nuevo Día

    La gente quiere el Museo, pero la empresa privada tampoco apoya con recursos, patrocinio de salas, o como amigo del Museo. Aunque artistas, galeristas, curadores y visitantes se impresionan gratamente por sus instalaciones, después de dieciséis años de trabajo, el Museo aún no tiene un presupuesto fijo, como sí lo tiene el Panóptico. Source: ¿El…

  • Immigrant Freedom Fund Helps Aurora Facility Detainees Bond Out | Westword

    “Our assumption was that by bonding out one person at a time, we could make a difference in each person’s life,” says Liefert. “Soon we realized that we were making a difference not only in the lives of each person that we bonded out, but in the lives of their families and communities.” Source: Immigrant…

  • Intergenerational Trauma Animation – YouTube

    This video on Intergenerational Trauma was shared with me by a former student upon seeing my post on FB about feeling wrecked by the news of the mass shooting at El Paso Texas yesterday, 2019 08 03. It’s a lovely bit of story telling and it points a direction towards healing. My partner has noted…

  • Deaths by Border Patrol – Southern Border Communities Coalition

    Source: Deaths by Border Patrol – Southern Border Communities Coalition I’m placing this here so that I can track it later. It relates to our games, Crosser and La Migra.

  • BORDERWALL AS ARCHITECTURE

    Source: BORDERWALL AS ARCHITECTURE The book and its drawings date from circa 2016. The actualization of the teeter-totter occurred in late July of 2019. The subsequent photos and videos documenting the action/intervention in ANAPRA, near Ciudad Juarez / El Paso, have gone viral. The author, Ronald Rael, is a professor of architecture at UC Berkeley.…

  • Why Growing Food is The Single Most Impactful Thing You Can Do in a Corrupt Political System

    -Undermines Monsanto and the agro-chemical industry that is polluting our world and killing bees -Highlights issues of political control by pitting homeowners and gardeners against government and ordinance makers -Builds and heals community by providing a place and activity worth coming together over Source: Why Growing Food is The Single Most Impactful Thing You Can…

  • Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US | US news | The Guardian

    Travelling in the stratosphere at altitudes of up to 65,000ft, the balloons are intended to “provide a persistent surveillance system to locate and deter narcotic trafficking and homeland security threats”, according to a filing made on behalf of the Sierra Nevada Corporation, an aerospace and defence company. Source: Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the…

  • How robots became a scapegoat for the destruction of the working class

    Three papers in the last year — one by the Aspen Institute’s Future of Work Initiative, one from the Roosevelt Institute and Duke University, and another in development from Roosevelt — suggest maybe the automation we’re seeing now is little different from the technological advances we’ve seen in every other era. Instead, the problems of…