It’s that time again, when F.R.E.E. organizes one of those clothing swaps we’re so fond of. Along with the standard clothing items that will be on-hand, we will also be offering (drum roll, please) MOVIES!!! If there’s one thing that people love more than movies, it’s FREE movies!!! You’re going to write down the place and time and [...]
[ November 14, 2009; 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm. ] WHEN: Saturday, November 14, 2009
WHERE: Krankies
TIME: 4:30p - 6:30p
WHAT: Bring the clothes and music that you no longer want and get some stuff that you do!
Bring your clothes, music and a friend and leave with someone else’s pants!
One Man’s Trash … (read article)
By KATE MURPHY
Published: September 3, 2009
To Dan Phillips, who constructs low-income housing in a town in East Texas, almost anything discarded and durable is potential building material.
Surge in Homeless Pupils Strains Schools (read article)
By ERIK ECKHOLM
Published: September 6, 2009 in The New Yokr Times
Budget-battered school districts must try to salvage education for more than one million children whose lives are filled with insecurity and turmoil.
Big Food vs. Big Insurance (read article)
By MICHAEL POLLAN
Published: September 10, 2009 in The New York Times
The American way of eating has become the elephant in the room in the debate over health care.
[ September 13, 2009; 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] This Sunday at The EM Gallery inside Krankies, there will be a daylight art opening (3:00pm-5:00pm) for “Found Objects, Recycled Materials and Pastel Paintings” art by Ralph E. Calhoun. If you can’t make it on Sunday, then it’s not too late—the show runs until October 3rd. Go check it out!
I read about this in July’s issue of Skirt! magazine. Read it. Do it. Save your local economy
Piecing Together an Immigrant’s Life the U.S. Refused to See (read article)
By NINA BERNSTEIN
Published: July 6, 2009
The story of a detainee and his death, kept in official oblivion for three years, shows how 9/11 changed the stakes for those tangled in U.S. immigration laws.
Street Farmer (read article)
By ELIZABETH ROYTE
Published: July 5, 2009 in The New York Times
Can Will Allen make the inner city the next front in the good-food movement?
taken from Democracy Now! Headline for 06.09.2009
“In environmental news, a top UN official is urging a global ban on plastic bags, in part because plastic is the most pervasive form of ocean litter. Achim Steiner, executive director of the UN Environment Program, said, “Single-use plastic bags, which choke marine life, should be banned or phased [...]
