Media and Advocacy for the Common Good
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea. ~John Ciardi
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Advocating for good, green jobs in front of Oakland City Hall.
Focus Area
From Bitch to Bite: Lisa Jervis
I’m back to my old blogging ways - I’ve missed you. My Facebook and Twitter might tell me what’s happening in Iran or Honduras or Oakland in the moment, but I miss the long-term connection. The t-shirt said it best - 120 is the new 420. So I’m back.
I just had to share this interview from this morning- with Lisa Jervis. By the time she walked into the KPFA studio, I had googled her enough to know she co-founded the ever-insightful Bitch Magazine. She is totally Oakland - feisty and tatted up and totally authentic. I liked her on sight. Now, she’s discussing her new book - a cookbook no less - entitled, Cook Food: A Manualfesto for Easy, Healthy Local Eating. I told her straight away that I was trying to decide whether to say the b-word on the air. It’s allowed, after all. On a lark, I went for it. You’ll see from the interview I made the right decision.
Enjoy our free form mutual rant on food, feminism and being “vegetarian for political reasons”.
Featured
Allison Awarded Safe Clean Air Leadership Award
I was honored to receive this award today (August 12, 2008) from the Carmel-based organization Helping Our Peninsula's Environment "for providing the first San Francisco Bay Area News Coverage on December 12, 2007 of the aerial spraying of secret, untested pesticides on our California communities which lead to the halt of the pesticide spraying in 2008". More information at http://www.1hope.org/hope.htm
Craigslist Nonprofit Bootcamp Keynote
Aimee Allison, Craigslist Foundation Bootcamp Keynote Speech 2007 where she muses about "retooling" for the long haul and the importance of people who work for change. Download this episode (right click and save)
Winter Soldier Coverage Wins Project Censored Award
I'm so honored to receive a Project Censored Award along with Aaron Glantz for our coverage of Winter Soldier 2008. We'll be in the annual publication and may have some local speaking events in the Fall. Here's part of the letter they sent: Your hosting of the live broadcast “Winter Soldier 2008: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations” on War Comes Home, by KPFA, March 14-16, 2008, ...
Upcoming Events
Center for Third World Organizing
Aimee is giving the keynote address to the latest crop of amazing organizer-graduates. Friday, August 7, 2009, 6-9pm, Oakland Asian Cultural Center; www.ctwo.org
KPFA Morning Show
Weekdays Mondays through Friday from 7am - 9am pacific time. Politics and culture from around the Bay and around the world. 94.1 FM in the SF Bay Area. On-line live and archived at www.kpfa.org.
The Book
An activist’s guide to combating military recruitment.
http://myspace.com/armyofnonebook
Uniformed U.S. Army Officers lunch with students in elementary school cafeterias. Army training programs including rifle and pistol instruction replace physical education in middle schools. Like never before, military recruiters are entering the halls of U.S. schools with unchecked access in an attempt to bolster a military in crisis.
However, even as these destructive efforts to militarize youth accelerate, so do the creative and powerful efforts of students, community members, and veterans to challenge them. Today, the counter recruitment movement—from counseling to poetry slams to citywide lobbying efforts—has become one of the most practical ways to tangibly resist U.S. policy that cuts funding for education and social programs while promoting war and occupation. Without enough soldiers, the U.S. cannot sustain its empire.
Army of None exposes the real story behind the military-recruitment complex, and offers guides, tools, and resources for education and action, and people power strategies to win.