For years the communities of Palm Beach county, along with many determined environmental activists, have stood in front of many of South Florida’s worst developmental excesses. This has included campaigns against the expansion of nuclear and natural gas plants and…
Category: International Articles
Peace City, Miami, Days 1 & 108
For some reason, the weekend of October 15th was the weekend all the cool kids decided to Occupy stuff in Florida. It didn’t seem to rely on this new “direct democracy” or on people’s actual ideas on how to change…
Make food, not war: Food Not Bombs collective nourishes Boston
[Reposted with permission by the author, Tzivia Halperin, – thanks Tzivia! read original post here] When Sarah McMullen opened the door to her apartment — home to a 12-person collective that cooks and serves food as part of the global…
Occupying the barracks: make art, not war
[Reposted with permission from the writer, Lily Lynch, see original article here. Thanks Lily!!!] When former socialist military spaces become new temples of alternative culture, not everyone is happy about it. Whereas in Slovakia the art squatters become institutionalized, in…