Tag: New York City

  • Worker Cooperatives Spring Out of Occupy Movement

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    Reposted from Co-operative News: During Occupy Wall Street, protesters spent thousands of dollars printing pamphlets and posters to spread their message. Watching money flow into the corporate companies whose principles they protested, a small group of participants planned to start their own printing cooperative founded on the principles of equal responsibility, ownership and pay. Two…

  • Certified Naturally Grown Label Tailored for Direct-Market Farmers

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    Mary Esch of the Associated Press writes about some organic farmers in the Northeast that are eschewing organic certification by the USDA: Started by a group of organic farmers in New York’s mid-Hudson Valley as a backlash against federal takeover of the organic program in 2002, Certified Naturally Grown has expanded over the past decade…

  • Bill Moyers Interview with Richard Wolff

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    Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, New York City. He also teaches classes regularly at the Brecht Forum in Manhattan. If you want to learn more about…

  • Join the Global Citizen Festival

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    Global Citizen Festival Saturday, September 28th, 2013 Central Park, Great Lawn New York City A world without extreme poverty is only going to be become a reality if we – as Global Citizens – create and commit to a new global partnership that involves us, charities, companies and governments around the world. The 2013 Global…

  • The Poetry Society of New York Holding Third Annual Festival

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    The 3rd Annual New York City Poetry Festival Saturday & Sunday, July 27th & 28th, 2013 11am-5pm Governors Island, Colonel’s Row For directions to Governors Island FREE ($10 Suggested Donation) Featuring Lara Glenum, Cornelius Eady, Dorothea Lasky, Catherine Wagner, CA Conrad, Paul Legault, Todd Colby, Anne Waldman, Geoffrey Nutter, Andrew Durbin, Miguel Algarin, J. Hope Stein,…

  • Melon Mysticism for Everyone

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    Affixed to the Manhattan Bridge chain-link fencing above Forsyth Street is a series of artwork. Arc your head upward; there it is. Artist Jen Liu created the five banners, collectively called “Melon Mysticism for Everyone.” Each panel features a watermelon carved into a mandela pattern that is eaten by different animals: goat, horse, chicken, and sheep. Chinatown diversity, the…

  • Sustainability Surge: NYC gets free solar charging stations

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    Reposted from Eco-Business: AT&T, together with Goal Zero, Pensa and the New York city government, has given New Yorkers a means to stay connected with solar charging stations. Image: Gizmag New York is becoming a hotbed for sustainability lately. Following the recent announcements of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on a $20 billion climate change…

  • Bloomberg still trying to create the nanny state – in a good way.

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    If the endeavor gets off the ground, all 8 million residents of the most populated city in the United States will have to start putting aside food waste and other organic materials, such as houseplants and eggshells, then package them separately to be picked up by specialized trash collectors. Compostable waste will have to be…

  • Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?

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    HEIST: Who Stole the American Dream? traces the worldwide economic collapse to a 1971 secret memo entitled Attack on American Free Enterprise System. Written over 40 years ago by the future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, at the behest of the US Chamber of Commerce, the 6-page memo, a free-market utopian treatise, called for a…