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Start: Nov 23 2008 2:00 pm
Potluck, Meet Up, Round Up... Calling all: Unschoolers, homeschoolers, radical educators, moms, dads, kids, and everyone else interested in creating a community fun childcare/learning collective. Nov. 23rd at 2pm in the backyard of Monkey Wrench. For more info contact: Jose at jlrodri4@yahoo.com Start: Nov 23 2008 3:00 pm
Most Americans know we’ve got a problem: an addiction to oil that taxes the environment, entangles us in costly foreign policies, and threatens the nation’s long-term stability. But few are informed or empowered enough to do much about it. Enter Josh Tickell, an expert young activist who, driven by his own emotionally charged motives, shuttles us on a revelatory, whirlwind journey to unravel this addiction—from its historical origins to political constructs that support it, to alternatives available now and the steps we can take to change things. Tickell tracks the rising domination of the petrochemical industry—from Rockefeller’s strategy to halt ethanol use in Ford’s first cars to the mysterious death of Rudolph Diesel at the height of his biodiesel engine’s popularization, to our government’s choice to declare war after 9/11, rather than wean the country from fossil fuel. | 24
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Start: Nov 29 2008 4:00 pm
End: Nov 29 2008 4:00 pm
Contact: info@austintimeexchange.org "The Austin Time Exchange Network (ATEN), a grassroots, community program, enables individuals to exchange services with one another by sharing skills within a network of people in Greater Austin. It is a local exchange system designed to validate and reward the work of respecting equality and rebuilding community while providing an alternative means for its members to meet their needs. The goal of ATEN is to serve as a bridge between people from different economic, social, and ethnic backgrounds by providing the opportunity for interaction through the exchanging of services. All of this aims to encourage systemic social change, economic equality, and community empowerment in Austin." |
