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1 week agoPower Station review solar power and solidarity on a Walthamstow street
Partners in life and in art, the couple build much of their practice around their community in Walthamstow, east London. Their previous project involved setting up an artist-run bank, selling their own currency notes and using the proceeds to buy back 1.2m of debt owned by ordinary local people. This latest film charts an even more ambitious undertaking: to equip the houses on their street with solar panels, transforming the neighbourhood into a power station.
Film
LGBT
fromwww.cbc.ca
2 months agoPride Toronto must return to political grassroots, advocates say after corporate sponsors pull out | CBC News
Pride Toronto faces a $900,000 funding shortfall due to corporate sponsor withdrawals, prompting calls to rethink partnerships and return to grassroots advocacy.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months agoHow do we celebrate the 4th of July when American freedom is disappearing? | Deborah Archer, Song Richardson and Susan Sturm
Black, brown and Indigenous communities have always seen the gap between the ideals of American democracy and the lived reality of exclusion. The contradiction is far from new.
Social justice
Non-profit organizations
fromNon Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
4 months agoTrump's Authoritarian Spectacle: Corruption in US Governance and What Nonprofits Can Do About It - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
The Trump administration showcases unprecedented corruption that is both open and legally tolerated.
fromBusiness Insider
5 months agoProtesters are taking a victory lap after Tesla's dismal earnings - and taking aim at Musk's other companies
Today's earnings report sends a very clear message. The Tesla Takedown grassroots pressure is beginning to hit Tesla where it hurts - the company's bottom line.
Black Lives Matter
fromWest Side Rag
5 months agoEarth Day on the UWS: Local Climate Legislation That Could Make an Impact
Waskow emphasized that she felt empowered meeting with lawmakers, stating, 'You felt like you were really doing something, that you were able to potentially influence people and get things to change by showing that you cared enough to show up.'
NYC politics
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