May Day community picnic/potluck & Really Really Free Market

Reblogged from Durango Food Not Bombs:

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Because there is enough for everyone Because sharing is more fulfilling than owning Because corporations would rather see landfills overflow than anyone get anything for free Because scarcity is a myth constructed to keep us at the mercy of the economy Because a sunny day outside is better than anything money can buy Because “free trade” is a contradiction of terms Because no one should have to do without food, shelter, entertainment, and community Because life should be a picnic, but it only will be if we make it happen…

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May Day potluck picnic & Really Really Free Market with Durango Food Not Bombs!

May Day General Strike! Rally, march, & more!

Flyer: PDF (English/Español)

We’re seeking activities, workshops, skill shares, presentations, etc. to take place from Noon-4pm in Buckley Park on May Day, and/or after the march. Please post your ideas in the comments. Thanks!

Tentative schedule:

Noon-4pm: Picnic, Really Really Free Market, workshops, sign/banner making, ect. @ Buckley Park

3-4pm General Assembly @ Buckley Park

4-5pm: Rally @ Buckley Park

5pm-?: March down Main St. from Buckley

May Day is known the world over as International Workers Day, a day commemorating violence by police and strike-breakers against workers engaged in a general strike to bring about the 8 hour work day. This struggle was not the end goal for those who put their lives on the line in Chicago in 1886, but it was part of a broader aim of destroying the very means of our oppression— capital and the state. This war continues. So too the general strikes of 2012 will establish a decisive drive towards the materialization of a social force to be feared by bosses and politicians the world over.

It’s time to multiply – to become a global social force capable of attacking our enemies when and where it hurts and sustaining and defending each other in this transformative global moment; a force able to fight and win.

Previously, the ruling classes had slaves and indentured servants, forcing labor relations through brute force. Today they still have us as slaves and servants through wage labor and debt. At work, at home, at school or in prison we organize to become a collective force able to determine our own futures.

May Day Worldwide General Strike 2012 (May 1st)
https://www.facebook.com/MayDay.GeneralStrike.2012

Occupy May Day – General Strike
https://www.facebook.com/events/337068492974144/

Occupy May Day
https://www.facebook.com/events/270243609695753/

Student Walkout – May 1st
https://www.facebook.com/events/344970068856254/

Strike Everywhere! Global General Strike
http://strikeeverywhere.net/

Occupy May 1st General Strike
http://www.occupymay1st.org/

In most European countries, May 1st is traditionally a ‘Workers’ day – a day of Labor Solidarity, and a public holiday. In Los Angeles, it’s a day to celebrate and march in support of im/migrant rights. In protest against the corruption of the worldwide marketplace, which has led to illegal foreclosures, mass unemployment, low wages, high taxes and a penalization of all those who do not own the ‘1%’ of the world’s resources, and in solidarity with the im/migrant movements of May 1st, OLA decided to declare May 1st, 2012 a People’s General Strike. Instead of calling upon unionized Labor to make a specific demand (illegal under Taft-Hartley), OLA is calling upon the people of Los Angeles and the United States of America to take this day away from school and the workplace, so that their absence makes their displeasure with this corrupt system be known.

On December 19th, 2011, Occupy Los Angeles General Assembly consented upon the following statement:

“Occupy LA supports in principle a General Strike on May 1, 2012, for migrant rights, jobs for all, a moratorium on foreclosures, and peace – and to recognize housing, education and health care as human rights, and calls for the building of a broad coalition to make that a reality.”

Occupations across the world have made similar calls for a General Strike, or day of economic disruption, in direct response to Occupy Los Angeles, or through a synchronicity of thought, a buzzing hive mind that feels the need to express solidarity with movements and people throughout the world who honor May Day and see this years expression of that as our next major step.

How can I participate?

If you are part of unionized labor, and your contract is up for negotiation, you can officially strike on May 1st. If you are not – call in sick. Take a holiday. Don’t show up to school. March with us, or join in one of the many events that will be taking place on May 1st, either in the day or in the evening. Block parties, rallies, protests, marches, family BBQ’s – this is a day when we take a stand against the way the system has enslaved us and burdened us with unmanageable debt, incredibly long working weeks, unfeasibly expensive healthcare — by taking a day for ourselves, being human again, spending time with our families and friends. Our bosses dictate everything to us — but not our holiday. The holiday of the working class, the 99%.

If you can’t participate on #M1GS, you can contribute in other ways. Spread the word. Poster your neighborhood. Help form Strike Committees in the workplace. Agitate. Tweet. Like. Donate here (Occupy Los Angeles) to help us get the word out, for logistics — and for TENTS.

STRIKE for:

IM/MIGRANT RIGHTS

ECONOMIC, SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE and LABOR RIGHTS

PEACE WITH JUSTICE

CIVIL LIBERTIES — END THE POLICE STATE

HOUSING, EDUCATION AND HEALTH CARE AS HUMAN RIGHTS

WOMEN’S RIGHTS & GENDER EQUITY

Breakaway: ‘Nothing Like A Metaphor’ tour with the Wild Nettle Bookmobile

From Winona, Minnesota, Breakaway‘s ’Nothing Like A Metaphor’ tour, along with the Wild Nettle Bookmobile, will be stopping in Durango at UniTEA House on Thursday, April 26th at 7pm.

Suggested DONATION:
$5 show
(remember to bring $ for zines too!)

opening artist: Aama Laloni
headliner: Breakaway
closing band: Mollehoj

Breakaway sample tracks:

The City Is Ours.mp3 (4:44) 8.8Mb

Broken.mp3 (4:23) 8.3Mb

Years ago, when we were in high school, a couple of us distributed radical media in Winona—we brought zines, music, books, patches, and other anarchist paraphernalia to punk shows, and this sparked our interest in networking with the broader anarchist community. We experimented with screenprinting and making zines, and designed our first website; we would fill orders out of our parents’ houses. When high school ended, these endeavors faded into history. Years later, we dusted off the leftovers of the distro we did in high school, phased out what we weren’t interested in anymore, and started being more strategic about what to distribute. And so, Wild Nettle Distro was born!

We still want anarchist/anti-authoritarian thought and practice to be visible and accessible. We’ve invested energy over the years into setting up at events in our town, traveling with our table around the country, and sending materials around the world. We are dedicated to providing material that anarchists and the anarcho-curious might find relevant and helpful in understanding anarchist/anti-authoritarian thought and practice and applying them to everyday life.

Along with providing our wares for cheap we also work towards providing as much for free as we can handle, and use our resources to help other projects as well. As an anti-capitalist organization we tend to work better within the framework of gift economics (i.e. mutual aid) rather than exchange economics (i.e. capitalism). A lot of what we carry is very cheap or free, and that is because much of it is gifted to us. The money we make goes directly back into sustaining the distro and offering more for free (i.e. zines, newspapers, posters, prisoner support information, stickers, etc.) especially when you meet us face to face.

While we prefer real life interactions, we’ve also resorted to this website that has connected us with many others around the world. Though, in this digital age, we are excited to offer actual, tangible tools that can be passed along by hand and not just interacted with through screens. We feel it is important to find each other in many other ways than the internet so that we have the attention span to learn and fight together.

May Day Community Organizing/Planning Meetings!

Durango Community Organizing/Planning Meetings

3-6pm, Saturday April 14th 2-5pm, Friday, April 20th & 3-6pm, Saturday April 28th @ UniTEA House

May Day is known the world over as International Workers Day, a day commemorating violence by police and strike-breakers against workers engaged in a general strike to bring about the 8 hour work day. This struggle was not the end goal for those who put their lives on the line in Chicago in 1886, but it was part of a broader aim of destroying the very means of our oppression— capital and the state. This war continues. So too the general strikes of 2012 will establish a decisive drive towards the materialization of a social force to be feared by bosses and politicians the world over.

It’s time to multiply – to become a global social force capable of attacking our enemies when and where it hurts and sustaining and defending each other in this transformative global moment; a force able to fight and win.

Previously, the ruling classes had slaves and indentured servants, forcing labor relations through brute force. Today they still have us as slaves and servants through wage labor and debt. At work, at home, at school or in prison we organize to become a collective force able to determine our own futures.

On Facebook:

May Day Worldwide General Strike 2012 (May 1st)

Occupy May Day – General Strike

Occupy May Day

Student Walkout – May 1st

Also see:

Strike Everywhere! Global General Strike

Occupy May 1st General Strike

In most European countries, May 1st is traditionally a ‘Workers’ day – a day of Labor Solidarity, and a public holiday. In Los Angeles, it’s a day to celebrate and march in support of im/migrant rights. In protest against the corruption of the worldwide marketplace, which has led to illegal foreclosures, mass unemployment, low wages, high taxes and a penalization of all those who do not own the ‘1%’ of the world’s resources, and in solidarity with the im/migrant movements of May 1st, OLA decided to declare May 1st, 2012 a People’s General Strike. Instead of calling upon unionized Labor to make a specific demand (illegal under Taft-Hartley), OLA is calling upon the people of Los Angeles and the United States of America to take this day away from school and the workplace, so that their absence makes their displeasure with this corrupt system be known.

On December 19th, 2011, Occupy Los Angeles General Assembly consented upon the following statement:

“Occupy LA supports in principle a General Strike on May 1, 2012, for migrant rights, jobs for all, a moratorium on foreclosures, and peace – and to recognize housing, education and health care as human rights, and calls for the building of a broad coalition to make that a reality.”

Occupations across the world have made similar calls for a General Strike, or day of economic disruption, in direct response to Occupy Los Angeles, or through a synchronicity of thought, a buzzing hive mind that feels the need to express solidarity with movements and people throughout the world who honor May Day and see this years expression of that as our next major step.

How can I participate?

If you are part of unionized labor, and your contract is up for negotiation, you can officially strike on May 1st. If you are not – call in sick. Take a holiday. Don’t show up to school. March with us, or join in one of the many events that will be taking place on May 1st, either in the day or in the evening. Block parties, rallies, protests, marches, family BBQ’s – this is a day when we take a stand against the way the system has enslaved us and burdened us with unmanageable debt, incredibly long working weeks, unfeasibly expensive healthcare — by taking a day for ourselves, being human again, spending time with our families and friends. Our bosses dictate everything to us — but not our holiday. The holiday of the working class, the 99%.

If you can’t participate on #M1GS, you can contribute in other ways. Spread the word. Poster your neighborhood. Help form Strike Committees in the workplace. Agitate. Tweet. Like. Share.

STRIKE for:

IM/MIGRANT RIGHTS

ECONOMIC, SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE and LABOR RIGHTS

PEACE WITH JUSTICE

CIVIL LIBERTIES — END THE POLICE STATE

HOUSING, EDUCATION AND HEALTH CARE AS HUMAN RIGHTS

WOMEN’S RIGHTS & GENDER EQUITY

Food Not Bombs: Overgrow the System!

From Durango Food Not Bombs:

Greetings fellow feed’em fighters! At long last, Springtime has arrived! Time to dig deep into the Earth, grow roots, and get our hands dirty once again. In this blossoming spirit, Durango FNB has several projects in the works we would like to let you know about, and need your help with!

Food Not Lawns garden!

Durango FNB is starting a Food Not Lawns community garden to grow food for our meals and our community! We’ve got lots of materials coming in from various local businesses, but right now, we need a lawnmower, or something to slash all the weeds in the plot with. So if anyone has access to a mower (preferably a push mower, but we’re not picky), let us know. And if you want to check out the garden site, it’s on second street between 6th and 7th avenues, on the corner of the alley, with a shed and a hoop house frame on it. And if you want to help, let us know. Stay tuned for work day announcements. Thanks!

Greenhouse FUNdraiser!

Durango FNB is also teaming up in solidarity with Buffalo Council on a food sovereignty initiative. We plan to purchase one or two high-quality, sturdy, portable greenhouses, which will be used to propagate organic native plants and pursue an indigenous model of permaculture and paradigm of health. The organic food we produce will be used in FNB meals and distributed to those in the community who need it most, free of charge.

In pursuit of this initiative, Buffalo Council and FNB are hosting a two-phase benefit fundraiser event at UniTEA House on Saturday, April 21, 2012, starting at 4pm with a dinner, presentation, and discussion with Buffalo Council, followed up later in the evening with live music and more.

Stew dinner and talk with Buffalo Council
4-6PM, $5-$20+ suggested donation

LIVE MUSIC starting after 6PM
$5+ suggested donation

THIS A FUNDRAISER FOR A GOOD CAUSE!! BRING YOUR FRIENDS!! PLEASE RESPECT THE VENUE AND THOSE PUTTING ON THE SHOW AND HAVE FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN!!! ALL AGES!! NO BOOZE, DRUGS, OR WEAPONS!

Occupy the Trees! April 22-28

Occupy The Trees (The Mother Earth Tree Convention)

Occupations across the US and around the world are being asked to step up and protest the corporate rape of Mother Earth, and the exploitation of Her limited resources.

“We ask that you take to occupying the trees by placing tree sitters in them for one week, or for as long as your team(s) can do it. Find trees in front of banks who support the corporations, trees in front of the corporations who pollute the earth, air and water. Trees in front of corporations who clear our forests, poison & kill wildlife and people. And rare trees that are at threat of being cut down in the name of corporate greed.” —Occupy The Trees (The Mother Earth Tree Convention)

Earth First! Durango and Occupy Durango will be occupying an encampment on National Forest land somewhere in the Log Chutes “thinning” project & trail area, near Junction Creek just outside Durango, CO. Come prepared for winter weather conditions!

UPDATE: Due to a current lack of equipment and skill sets, Earth First! Durango is calling for support and training from knowledgeable, experienced tree climbers/sitters. We intend to form a ground encampment, but will not take to the trees under unsafe conditions. We will begin our encampment by assessing our options and resources, and deciding together what we’re capable of. Please contact us if you have skills and/or life-safe equipment to offer.

Please contact occupy-the-trees@riseup.net for more info or to get involved!

Planning/organizing meeting! 5PM, Friday, April 13th @ UniTEA House

~This action has not been condensed on by the Occupy Durango General Assembly.~

Background info: The road to Log Chutes: Logging road to replace singletrack

Slow Food and Wild Grooves

A Benefit Fundraiser for Turtle Lake Refuge

Our mission is to celebrate the connection between personal health and wild lands.  We manifest this goal through promoting and practicing sustainable practices. Examples of our work include growing, harvesting and preparing local, wild and living food for the community, educating about the great values of the wild edible abundance available in our area, providing local micro-greens for the public schools. restaurants and stores, biking or driving on alternative fuel when possible, utilizing solar dehydrators, using a bicycle powered blender and wheatgrass juicer and educating about organic land stewardship practices.

May Day Community Organizing/Planning Meeting

Durango Community Organizing/Planning Meeting

Durango Coffee Co., 730 Main Ave. (downstairs meeting room)

5 PM, Sunday, February 26

Meeting flyers: English [JPG/PDF] / Español [JPG\PDF]

May Day is known the world over as International Workers Day, a day commemorating violence by police and strike-breakers against workers engaged in a general strike to bring about the 8 hour work day. This struggle was not the end goal for those who put their lives on the line in Chicago in 1886, but it was part of a broader aim of destroying the very means of our oppression— capital and the state. This war continues. So too the general strikes of 2012 will establish a decisive drive towards the materialization of a social force to be feared by bosses and politicians the world over.

It’s time to multiply – to become a global social force capable of attacking our enemies when and where it hurts and sustaining and defending each other in this transformative global moment; a force able to fight and win.

Previously, the ruling classes had slaves and indentured servants, forcing labor relations through brute force. Today they still have us as slaves and servants through wage labor and debt. At work, at home, at school or in prison we organize to become a collective force able to determine our own futures.

On Facebook:

May Day Worldwide General Strike 2012 (May 1st)

Occupy May Day – General Strike

Occupy May Day

Student Walkout – May 1st

Also see:

Strike Everywhere! Global General Strike

Occupy May 1st General Strike

In most European countries, May 1st is traditionally a ‘Workers’ day – a day of Labor Solidarity, and a public holiday. In Los Angeles, it’s a day to celebrate and march in support of im/migrant rights. In protest against the corruption of the worldwide marketplace, which has led to illegal foreclosures, mass unemployment, low wages, high taxes and a penalization of all those who do not own the ‘1%’ of the world’s resources, and in solidarity with the im/migrant movements of May 1st, OLA decided to declare May 1st, 2012 a People’s General Strike. Instead of calling upon unionized Labor to make a specific demand (illegal under Taft-Hartley), OLA is calling upon the people of Los Angeles and the United States of America to take this day away from school and the workplace, so that their absence makes their displeasure with this corrupt system be known.

On December 19th, 2011, Occupy Los Angeles General Assembly consented upon the following statement:

“Occupy LA supports in principle a General Strike on May 1, 2012, for migrant rights, jobs for all, a moratorium on foreclosures, and peace – and to recognize housing, education and health care as human rights, and calls for the building of a broad coalition to make that a reality.”

Occupations across the world have made similar calls for a General Strike, or day of economic disruption, in direct response to Occupy Los Angeles, or through a synchronicity of thought, a buzzing hive mind that feels the need to express solidarity with movements and people throughout the world who honor May Day and see this years expression of that as our next major step.

How can I participate?

If you are part of unionized labor, and your contract is up for negotiation, you can officially strike on May 1st. If you are not – call in sick. Take a holiday. Don’t show up to school. March with us, or join in one of the many events that will be taking place on May 1st, either in the day or in the evening. Block parties, rallies, protests, marches, family BBQ’s – this is a day when we take a stand against the way the system has enslaved us and burdened us with unmanageable debt, incredibly long working weeks, unfeasibly expensive healthcare — by taking a day for ourselves, being human again, spending time with our families and friends. Our bosses dictate everything to us — but not our holiday. The holiday of the working class, the 99%.

If you can’t participate on #M1GS, you can contribute in other ways. Spread the word. Poster your neighborhood. Help form Strike Committees in the workplace. Agitate. Tweet. Like. Donate here (Occupy Los Angeles) to help us get the word out, for logistics — and for TENTS.

STRIKE for:

IM/MIGRANT RIGHTS

ECONOMIC, SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE and LABOR RIGHTS

PEACE WITH JUSTICE

CIVIL LIBERTIES — END THE POLICE STATE

HOUSING, EDUCATION AND HEALTH CARE AS HUMAN RIGHTS

WOMEN’S RIGHTS & GENDER EQUITY

Transition Town Durango Meetings

For the time being, Transition Town Durango will continue to have meetings every other Wednesday at 11:30 at the Himalayan Kitchen (992 Main Ave in Durango). The next two meetings will be Feb 8th and 22nd. For the next meeting we will arrange to use the private dining room.

What is a Transition Town?

It’s a place where there’s a community-led process that helps that town/village/city/neighbourhood become stronger and happier.

It’s happening in well over a thousand highly diverse communities across the world – from towns in Australia to neighbourhoods in Portugal, from cities in Brazil to rural communities in Slovenia, from urban locations in Britain to islands off the coast of Canada. Many of these initiatives are registered on the Transition Network website.

These communities have started up projects in areas of food, transport, energy, education, housing, waste, arts etc. as small-scale local responses to the global challenges of climate change, economic hardship and shrinking supplies of cheap energy. Together, these small-scale responses make up something much bigger, and help show the way forward for governments, business and the rest of us.

Really, it’s the opposite of us sitting in our armchairs complaining about what’s wrong, and instead, it’s about getting up and doing something constructive about it alongside our neighbours and fellow townsfolk. And people tell us that as a result of being involved in their local “transition initiative”, they’re happier, their community feels more robust and they have made a lot of new friends.

Read more…

More info:

coloradotransitionnetwork.org | transitionnetwork.org | transitionus.org | transitionculture.org

novus ordo seclorum

8:00pm on NYE @ The American Legion, 878 East 2nd Ave., Durango, CO

8pm ALL AGES!! $3.00

sagorith
souls denied
RxAxDx
dan k.
living excrement
whale logic
music destroyer
and possible a band or two more!!