The ACTIVATE Tour gathering for the Southeast FWT Region: North & South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, FloridaSkill-building, Theatre of the Oppressed, Eating together & dancing, Local Street Team & Regional planning, Movement Building, Community Organizing trainingWe need representatives from every street team in the region to attend! Be in touch with Mrs.Lesley (SE FWT Regional Rep) for more details and to figure out how you can be there!!For more info on the ACTIVATE Tour '09, check…See More
Flobots.org requests your presence at an Open House to celebrate our new office, community space and cultural centerWhere: 2705 Larimer Street, DenverWhen: Friday, June 12 - 6-9 pmTwo doors down from the Meadowlark LoungeJOIN us on the outdoor stage for performances by Westword Music Showcase nominee Rob Drabkin and Serafin SanchezMEET students from Live from DCH, a music therapy program at Denver Children's Home created by Flobots.orgENJOY refreshments and light snacksLEARN about Flobots.org,…See More
This is a setting for the Denver Street Team to come together and tell the stories of our life experiences. These Sessions have been inspired by the Highlander School, which helped to shape leaders like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr in the '50s and '60s. According to the Highlander website, which continues to bring people together today,"The founding principle and guiding philosophy of Highlander is that the answers to the problems facing society lie in the experiences of ordinary…See More
Fundrasier show for the Denver Chapter for IVAW/Progressive Veterans. Come out to enjoy some great local Denver Music, Fight With Tools Activate booth will also be set up at the event to speak about the fight with tools organization as well.Location Name: The Wal-nut RoomLocation Street Address:3131 Walnut StreetDenver, CO 80205Phone Contact: 720-206-9570Organized by: Amber Adams, Dan ConerdSee More
Saturday, FEB 21, 2009 from 7-9PM at AFSC, 901 W 14th Ave # 7 Denver, CO 80204.We'll be discussing practical ways to make our street team(s) sustainable - or healthy - whichever term you prefer! We're thinking that it's going to be important to find ways to learn to know each other and encourage each other as we work together.A couple of example ideas for discussion: 1) We could figure out a way for people who want to to get together to share versions of our life stories. 2) We could maybe…See More
I love music, cooking, thinking and talking about nonviolence and trying to put it into practice in my life, hanging out on my porch with friends and neighbors, and mountain biking. And dogs. And red wine. I love cheese, too. Isn't the world full of wonderful things, and even more wonderful people?
How I would like to change the world:
I would like to make it so that everyone feels part of a close-knit community. I'd like to slow down the pace of life and consumption in the West. I'd like for everyone to be able to have all their basic needs met, and I wish we could be so extravagant as to call a weekly massage part of basic needs. I'm only half kidding.
Tools I Have
I'm a pollinator--I connect people to people and people to ideas, hence the photo with the bee in the rose. Cooking is my best tool for connecting people and building community. Nothing like yummy food to bring people together to talk about what's up in their world. I have enthusiasm and curiosity, too, and compassion. I can edit and proofread and make sure the fliers for the big rally are grammatically correct. Unfortunately I can't make them look pretty. BUT I have many friends who can! I have a rudimentary knowledge of various movements for social change, but my knowledge of history is pitiful, and I'm sad because I think that's a powerful tool. Labyrinths! That's my tool for staying (or trying to stay) grounded. Labyrinths are a form of walking meditation for people like me who can't sit still to meditate. Check them out: http://veriditas.org/ Denver has the best labyrinth I've ever seen at Arvada United Methodist Church. And I have the "Southern Center for Teaching Peace Lending Library". It's a bunch of books on nonviolence and social movements that I loan to people (it gives me an excuse to buy great books I won't get around to reading for a while...).
Tools I Need
Patience. A better understanding (and acceptance) of life in the online world. Discipline to walk a labyrinth every day, and the time and schedule to ride my bike to work every day. The ability to play barre chords. Somehow I think it would help.
Favorite Bands
Flobots, Old 97's, David Garza, Donkey, Alejandro Escovedo, REM, Sorta, Spoon, Berlin, Bob Schneider, Billy Bragg, My Morning Jacket, Derailers, Neko Case, The Cure, The Reivers, Reckless Kelly, Ray Charles.
What issues are you most passionate about?
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Here's a great video about nonviolence! And some other really cool stuff.
Favorite quote of the moment: 'A man of peace is not a pacifist; a man of peace is simply a pool of silence. He pulsates a new kind of energy into the world, he sings a new song. He lives in a totally new way. His very way of life is that of grace, that of prayer, that of compassion. Whomsoever he touches, he creates more love-energy. The man of peace is creative. He is not against war, because to be against anything is to be at war. He is not against war; he simply understands why war exists. And out of that understanding he becomes peaceful. Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will the war disappear.' OSHO, from: 'Zen: The Path of Paradox, vol. II' This is the most fabulous video I've seen since the "Rise" video. The technology behind it blows my mind, but the sentiment is what makes it supercalefragelistic!
New quote of the moment. I don't completely understand it, but I think I agree. "People today seem unable to understand love as a political concept...The modern concept of love is almost exclusively limited to the bourgeois couple and the claustrophobic confines of the nuclear family. Love has become a strictly private affair. We need a more generous and more unrestrained conception of love. We need to recuperate the public and political conception of love common to premodern traditions. Christianity and Judaism, for example, both conceive love as a political act that constructs the multitude...There is really nothing necessarily metaphysical about the Christian and Judaic love of God: both God's love of humanity and humanity's love of God are expressed and incarnated in the commmon material political project of the multitude. We need to recover today this material and political sense of love, a love as strong as death. This does not mean you cannot love your spouse, your mother, and your child. It only means that your love does not end there, that love serves as the basis for our political projects in common and the construction of a new society. Without this love, we are nothing." Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire (New York: The Penguin Press, 2004), pp. 351-52.
Sarah! hey, i'm so sad that i didn't get to see you before you left, unfortunately, my parents were in the process of moving to Washington and really, really needed my help. How are thing/was the move? Hopefully i'll gonna make plans to be out that way soon, so i might have to figure out i could visit!
Sarah!
I guess this is goodbye. Not sure how it happened, but we didn't get to hug goodbye...& I owe you a book! shoot.
Well, hopefully you're move was better than could ever be expected! :) & hopefully you are even happier than you expected!
Much Love from the whole fam.
I know this is probably not going to work for you, but just in case...I wanted to let you know that ArtificiallySweet and I have set a brunch date for Friday the 31st at 10AM at Racines! Wanna come?
If you could that would be awesome! I have a lot of links in the Persian-American community also who are very fired up, so once I get a date set then I'll start contacting them. :)
:( I am working...like always. Kristine and I wanted to meet up too sometime soon (we were considering lunch at Racine's). Maybe you would be interested in coming too?
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Hearing from you just made my day!!!! How is everything going? It seems like just yesterday we said goodbye..
I guess this is goodbye. Not sure how it happened, but we didn't get to hug goodbye...& I owe you a book! shoot.
Well, hopefully you're move was better than could ever be expected! :) & hopefully you are even happier than you expected!
Much Love from the whole fam.
p.s. I hope your ski dilemma worked out.
I know this is probably not going to work for you, but just in case...I wanted to let you know that ArtificiallySweet and I have set a brunch date for Friday the 31st at 10AM at Racines! Wanna come?
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