Friends, Comrade, Artists, Culture Creators, Activists, Performers, Ranters, Dancers, Spirit Leaders, and Exuberant New-path Makers,
What are you passionate about? What are you working on? Come and tell us!
7th Annual St. Pat/St. Brigid All City Gathering of Activists, Artists and Culture Creators at Club Timbuktu
Join us for music, dancing, poetry, puppetry and all kinds of soapbox moments! This is an opportunity for you to showcase your ideas, projects, movements, hopes, organizational work and art to hundreds of the city’s most active and engaged people. You will have only 2 minutes (120 seconds) to present. Because the place will be crowded and distracting, we encourage presenters to be engaging and demonstrative. Think of this as an opportunity for Show and Tell .
There will also be a lit table available. Feel free to bring something to share.
***IMPORTANT***
If you want a 2-minute soapbox moment, please email at sura@suraforchange.com a.s.a.p. (instructions below).
7th annual St. Pat/St. Brigid All City Gathering of Activists, Artists and Culture Creators
Tuesday, Mar. 17, 5-10pm
Club Timbuktu
520 E. Center St.
Donation requested ($5 or 1/2 -1 hour registering people at the door)
Changes this year
We are going to be watching the time (and we’ll have a gong or cane. watch out!). Please time yourself, so that we don’t have to.
While we hope to accommodate everyone, we are unable to guarantee late inclusions. Please sign up ahead of time if you want a sure spot.
To be included in the soapbox moments:
. If you are representing an organization, movement, group or idea, we need the name of that org, etc. along with the name of the person presenting.
. If you want to do a creative piece , i.e. poetry, music, dance, performance, etc. send us your name, what you want to do, and time requested. We may be able to allow for more time on some of the creative presentations.
. What time slot do you want to be in? We haven’t exactly determined them, but generally: 5:30 – 7:00, 7:00 – 8:00, 8:00 – 9:30. Please give your first and second preference. We will send out the schedule after we have you plugged in, and you’ll need to register your arrival at the door.
“What a stretch of 7 years since this sweet event began! Let’s call the meeting to order!” – Olde Godsil
The Merry Band
Community
Nia Dancers
George Martin calling our ancestors
Bill Sell
25 Feb 2009 | 12:18 pm | Art, DIY - Do It Yourself | No comments yet - Add your comments
Have you heard of the Transition Movement? or the Transition Handbook?
There are Transition Towns all over the world, but very few in the U.S. Folks in Milwaukee are working to change that.
Essentially, TTs are a way to create a thoughtful, deliberate transition to the world we are now facing, the one that’s post-peak oil, that is experiencing greater climate change. It is creating change on a very local level, so our community can become resilient in facing upcoming food, water, transportation, economic and other problems.
TTs build and thrive on community.
From Wikipedia:
Central to the Transition Town movement is the idea that a life without oil could in fact be far more enjoyable and fulfulling than the present “by shifting our mind-set we can actually recognise the coming post-cheap oil era as an opportunity rather than a threat, and design the future low carbon age to be thriving, resilient and abundant – somewhere much better to live than our current alienated consumer culture based on greed, war and the myth of perpetual growth.”
17 Dec 2008 | 4:31 pm | DIY - Do It Yourself, Environmental Sustainability, Water | No comments yet - Add your comments
Tuesday, July 29
7:00 pm
First public meeting
Urban Ecology Center
1500 E. Park Pl
(parking will be at a premium. please walk, bike or carpool.)
Where will UWM’s new dorms be?
- On the Milwaukee River?
- East Side?
- Brady St. area?
- Riverwest?
- Prospect Mall?
- Maryland Ave. School?
- Downtown?
- Capitol Drive?
UWM’s RFP (Request for Proposals) specified housing for 500-700 lower division students (RiverView Dorms house ~475 students).Will UWM show its commitment to our city and its residents? Is UWM using the UWM Foundation so they can bypass public process? How will the Dorms be designed? Will they be LEED certified? Will the Milwaukee River Overlay District be respected? Will the size of dorms be manageable? Is re-use of existing buildings being considered?
Come and find out more!
This is a resident-driven meeting. Alderman Nik Kovac will be attending to hear your concerns and answer questions.
We want a strong and healthy UWM, which will improve the health and vitality of our neighborhoods. Come hear the discussion and share your ideas about size, environmental impact, accountability, etc., with your neighbors and Alderman Nik Kovac.
On the agenda:
- Overview of process and how the community can get involved
- History/Impact of RiverView dorms
- Review of the Milwaukee River Overlay District
- Are there alternative locations?
- Feedback from residents (you!) on where or how to build the dorms
Tuesday, July 29
7:00 pm
UWM Dorms in our neighborhoods
First public meeting
Urban Ecology Center
1500 E. Park Pl
Sponsored by: Brady St. Area Assn., Cambridge Woods Neighborhood Assn., East Village Assn., Greenwich Village Neighborhood Assn., Mariners Neighborhood Assn., Murray Hill Neighborhood Assn., Prospect Ave. Assn., Riverside Park Neighborhood Assn., Riverwest Neighborhood Assn., Water Tower Landmark Trust and Milwaukee River Neighbors
21 Jul 2008 | 6:44 pm | 3rd District, Development | No comments yet - Add your comments
Join us at our planning meetings. Ideas on the table include:
- Discussion/study groups
- Alley/Street Art and beautification (garage murals, stencils, flowers)
- Local currency
- Tool sharing
- Car sharing
- Better bike lanes
- Information kiosks
- Community Supported Bakery
- Community Pharmacy, including natural remedies for medical autonomy
- Small scale and community solar ovens
- Victory gardens, urban agriculture
We’re narrowing down the focus. Join us now or for future meetings!
Call or email for location.
21 Jul 2008 | 6:31 pm | 3rd District, Art, DIY - Do It Yourself, Environmental Sustainability, Streets, Bicycles, Pedestrians | No comments yet - Add your comments
I understand that you are accepting comments on the freeway expansion that will cost taxpayers $1.9 billion.
I and most (all?) of my community is strongly opposed to this.
Expanding the freeways is backwards, wasteful, environmentally irresponsible and a full-out slap in the face to forward thinking for our future.
It will cost us far too much money in order to keep a dying system as “king,” when instead we should be looking at greater public/mass transit options. A recent report Public Transportation’s Contribution to Greenhouse Gas Reduction stated, “One of the most significant actions that household members can take to reduce their carbon footprint is to use public transportation where it is available…. Reducing the daily use of one low occupancy vehicle and using public transit can reduce a household’s carbon footprint between 25-30%.”
If we are to build and maintain an infrastructure that will serve not only our future–but present–needs, surely public transportation is the way to go. The City of Milwaukee is #2 in the nation for unemployment, is lagging behind in environmental leadership, and is known nationally for its hyper-segregation. As Wisconsin’s largest city, one would hope that the State DOT is considering the impact of its decision on its largest population.
Please do not expand the freeways. Invest in our future – public transportation.
Sura Faraj
27 Jan 2008 | 7:04 pm | Health, Public Transportation, Streets, Bicycles, Pedestrians | No comments yet - Add your comments
Recently, I had a constituent tell me that his issue was something the city doesn’t really deal with: animal rights.
There are many ways the city impacts the well-being of animals though. From the current practice of citing people for cruelty to animals to the potential of promoting the Wisconsin Humane Society’s Trap, Neuter and Return (TNR) program, which slows the spread of disease.
I’m an animal lover and I believe that the humane treatment of our pets — and all animals — is basic to a healthy community psyche.
Feral Cats: No Simple Solution
26 Nov 2007 | 4:57 pm | Health, Questions from Constituents | No comments yet - Add your comments
Bike shop promotes ‘revolutionary’ idea
Bike culture shapes our youth, creates employment, promotes good health, saves our environment and creates community.
1 Nov 2007 | 7:49 am | Economic Development, Health, Streets, Bicycles, Pedestrians | No comments yet - Add your comments
