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World’s Largest Rooftop Farm Expands its Territory
At 40,000 square feet, the Brooklyn Grange rooftop farm in Long Island City is the largest of its kind. Anywhere. But the folks behind its growing success have decided that such an enormous space still doesn’t stand up under their ambitions.
To hold onto their title, the Grange has recently decided to expand to a rooftop in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, adding more than 45,000 square feet to their current holdings. That’s a heap of vegetables if ever a heap there were.
(via awesomespaces)
book mail!!! back 2 school.
Yep. I think this is the turn.
Arizona Students!
HB 2675 is a bill being proposed in the state legislature which will establish a $2,000 minimum student contribution per year to be paid before any state financial aid can be applied through the university or a university-affiliate. The only exceptions proposed will be for student athletes on a full ride, and the top 5% by academic class ranking. Anyone not in these groups will have to come up with $2,000 before they can access merit-based or additional need-based state financial aid.
The bill’s intention is to increase revenue to the state. Its effects are more likely to discourage already debt-saddled, low-income students from attending, and encourage all students to go elsewhere (in a state with dwindling economic draw as is).
Beyond its likely effects, it’s setting a price in contradiction to Arizona’s constitution which establishes that “State educational institutions shall be open to the students of both sexes, and the instruction furnished shall be as nearly free as possible.” In previous court cases (most recently Kromko v. Arizona Board of Regents 2006) the Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that the definition of “as nearly free as possible” was beyond their authority to define, which has since left it open to the state legislature to decide.
So! To challenge this bill politically, would require organizing pressure on legislators in the house now, or as nearly now as possible. Hopefully to stop the kinds of student contribution thresholds that negate financial aid.
Here is a link to the actual language of the bill and a list of its supporters:
http://www.azleg.gov//FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=%2Flegtext%2F50leg%2F2r%2Fbills%2Fhb2675p.htm&Session_ID=107
And a link to the only news article I’ve seen so far:
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/local/article_adde3104-4944-11e1-868d-001871e3ce6c.html
[As a side note: During the last round of tuition hikes at the regent-level we got ASU admins to hold talks with us and release statements condemning the increases (after 30 students took over President Crow’s floor) but it seems like pressure needs to be at the capitol and I’m not sure you can depend on support from the school administrations this time anyway.]
MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY'
The ONLY day where:
Yo MTV Raps was on air
It was a clear and smogless day
Beepers were commercially sold
Lakers beat the SuperSonics
and Ice Cube had no events to attend was…
woooooooow! good. looking. out.
(via bullshit)
Adbusters Issues New Call to Action: Occupy Chicago for G8/NATO Summit
The Occupy Wall Street movement traces its origin to a call to action in the Vancouver-based magazine Adbusters.
Now, Adbusters has issued a Call to Action to Occupy Chicago for the G8/NATO summit this coming May:
Hey you redeemers, rebels and radicals out there,
Against the backdrop of a global uprising that is simmering in dozens of countries and thousands of cities and towns, the G8 and NATO will hold a rare simultaneous summit in Chicago this May. The world’s military and political elites, heads of state, 7,500 officials from 80 nations, and more than 2,500 journalists will be there.
And so will we.
On May 1, 50,000 people from all over the world will flock to Chicago, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and #OCCUPYCHICAGO for a month. With a bit of luck, we’ll pull off the biggest multinational occupation of a summit meeting the world has ever seen.
And this time around we’re not going to put up with the kind of police repression that happened during the Democratic National Convention protests in Chicago, 1968 … nor will we abide by any phony restrictions the City of Chicago may want to impose on our first amendment rights. We’ll go there with our heads held high and assemble for a month-long people’s summit … we’ll march and chant and sing and shout and exercise our right to tell our elected representatives what we want … the constitution will be our guide.
And when the G8 and NATO meet behind closed doors on May 19, we’ll be ready with our demands: a Robin Hood Tax … a ban on high frequency ‘flash’ trading … a binding climate change accord … a three strikes and you’re out law for corporate criminals … an all out initiative for a nuclear-free Middle East … whatever we decide in our general assemblies and in our global internet brainstorm – we the people will set the agenda for the next few years and demand our leaders carry it out.
And if they don’t listen … if they ignore us and put our demands on the back burner like they’ve done so many times before … then, with Gandhian ferocity, we’ll flashmob the streets, shut down stock exchanges, campuses, corporate headquarters and cities across the globe … we’ll make the price of doing business as usual too much to bear.
Jammers, pack your tents, muster up your courage and prepare for a big bang in Chicago this Spring. If we don’t stand up now and fight now for a different kind of future we may not have much of a future … so let’s live without dead time for a month in May and see what happens …
for the wild,
Culture Jammers HQ
Get money! Get paid!
(Source: solitaryforager, via occupywallstreet)
Never been a fan of the PC trend in using ‘partner’ to refer to significant others. I mean, I appreciate the intention, but it sounds so vague and contractual.
If we’re gonna insist on legalistic terminology, then I think what we should be aiming for are accomplices. At least then you know, whatever shit you get into, it’ll be fun.
(Source: snuh, via fridaynight-res-at-dorsia)
