The City Repair Digest
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
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This week in The Word:
0. Nicolettie, Nicolettie!
-CityRepair Announcements-
1. CityRepair’s Community Organizing Workshop Series Part 4:
Non-Violent Communication
– Community Announcements-
2. Global Week of Actions for Water Justice
3. Hands On and DonorsResource.org Networking Night
4. Natural Way: Indigenous Voices is Honored to Present
5. Portland-BrightNeighbor.com Is Amazing!
-CR: On Going-
6. CityReair Donation List
7. CityRepair Community Potlucks
8. Sunday Morning Waffles
9. Be a FOCR (Friend of CityRepair)
10. Videos of the Week
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0. Nicolettie, Nicolettie!
Its Tuesday, I swear!
Howdy everybody! Sorry the Word is late. I had it all written up last
night but my lovely computer crashed and I lost my work 
… I had to
spend the rest of my time preparing for a CR presentation this morning
at Rigler School in the NE, after which Frances and I helped a group
of kids with a creative design cherette for their schools upcoming VBC
project. It was so great, the kids there are awesome and had great
ideas. We should keep our eyes on their project this year. Oof, a lot
of fun but I was tired and had to take a walk and a nap, so now Im
finally getting to the Word (and saving some backups).
In the good news, though, CR superstar Nicolette is back in town!
*spacejamz themesong*. There was much rejoice. We’re not sure how long
she’s going to be in town, so make sure to track her down and get her
autograph soon. I’ll give her a head start and not tell you her home
address. It’s great to see her again, she was really warm and
welcoming when I first stumbled into CR.
So it seems like spring is here! At least the crocuses think so, and
that’s good enough for me. Things were kinda slowing down when I first
join CR last fall, but now things are really picking up, I feel like
im surfing on a tidal wave of social activism, its pretty wild,
exhilarating, and some times overwhelming. Im planning on riding this
one all the way to the shore.
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1. CityRepair’s Community Organizing Workshop Series Part 4:
Non-Violent Communication
The City Repair Project is hosting a series of ten workshops designed
to assist all you organizers out there in working more cohesively,
effectively and inclusively. If you are looking to build your skills
around facilitation, community engagement, public speaking and a host
of other activities, join us! These workshops will be useful to
anybody interested in building a better world, so don’t let thoughts
of a lack – or an abundance – of experience stay your hand.
This Weeks Workshop:
Non-Violent Communication
March 5th, 2009
Stuart Watson, Progressive Mediation, http://www.progressivemediation.com
Learn how to interact with others peacefully, connecting with all that
is alive in yourself and others.
The workshops will run every Thursday from 6 to 8 pm at City Repair
Head Quarters, 3125 E Burnside. We ask for a sliding scale donation of
$5-$10 per workshop, or $40-$75 for the whole series, though no one
will be turned away for a lack of funds. To register, please contact
Jane Gray at: a.janegray.m@gmail.com
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2. Global Week of Actions for Water Justice
March 14-22, 2009
As part of the call to the global water justice movements to mobilize
against the false World Water Forum, we commit to mobilize for the
Global Week of Actions for Water Justice. The global week of action
serves as a common platform for movements, peoples’ organizations,
activists and citizens, elected representatives and governments
committed to water justice for all communities to access safe,
affordable water for drinking, fishing, recreational, and cultural
uses in an equitable, effective, democratic way. These actions will
support all the activities being planned by groups in Turkey to
challenge the 5th World Water Forum.
We invite and urge movements, organizations and citizens around the
world to undertake actions in their own countries that reflect their
own struggles, character, and possibilities. This can either be a
seminar or forum about your struggles, rally or symbolic action, a
concert or press conference, etc. All actions related to our common
goal of water justice are welcome from more modest actions to larger
mobilizations.
We invite you to share information about your plans by going to
www.peopleswaterforum.org, then press “add an event”, and write the
details of your action. You can also send us a short paragraph
outlining your planned activities and engagements (including date and
place), contact details, including Country and
Organization.Information can be sent to mbmanahan@focusweb.org or
claucampero@yahoo.com (for Spanish).
This week includes special dates:
March 14: The International Day of Action for Rivers
http://www.internationalrivers.org/en/day-of-action
March 22: World Water Day
We once again invite you to go to www.peopleswaterforum.org to find
out more about how you can support these efforts. With you, together
we can build a truly global week of action for water justice.
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3. Hands On and DonorsResource.org Networking Night
Hands On and DonorsResource.org, two separate organizations with like
missions are working together, invite you to come hang out with us to
celebrate our new partnership and connect with other fantastic
organizations.
March 5th
5:30 to 7:30
Hosted wine and cheese
To RSVP and for direction please email Robyn@handsonportland.org or
call 503.200.3368
Our thanks to the event sponsor:
GISI Graphic Information Systems, INC.
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4. Natural Way: Indigenous Voices is Honored to Present
The Struggle to Become Human with Paul GhostHorse
Friday, March 20, 2009, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Paul GhostHorse is the oldest son of Lakota elder Buck GhostHorse, who
was a teacher and historian of his culture. Paul was taught the
Natural Way of his family and continues to share his knowledge with
the next generation. He has spent his life trying to live a spiritual
tradition often in conflict with dominant culture values. Paul was
chosen as spiritual head of Sungleska, a national organization of
multi-racial families who strive to live a Native Spiritual lifeway.
We are the seventh generation to be born after the end of the world.
Air, water, land, food and mind have been polluted. Dominant Culture
tried unsuccessfully to destroy the original instructions given to the
First People and break their covenant with the Spirit. Born as two
leggeds, into a technological world in disorder, we still have the
tools, resources and ancestral memory to retain our spiritual
integrity. We still have the prayer, song, altar and way of becoming a
conscious Human Being in this new age. In doing so, we remake the
world.
Location: PSU Multicultural Center, 228 Smith Memorial Union,1825 SW
Broadway at Harrison, Portland, Oregon
Cost: $10-$20 donation requested for speaker’s honorarium
Co-sponsored by Multicultural Center at PSU, and the Earth & Spirit
Council, ~ contactus@earthandspirit.org.
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5. Portland-BrightNeighbor.com Is Amazing
Bright Neighbor is a Portland community system that helps Portlanders
discover our neighbors, coordinate community projects, share, lend,
sell, and barter stuff, network better, save money, learn new things
like growing and preserving food, find people with similar interests,
ride-share, and much more. With Bright Neighbor, we have an
opportunity as Portlanders to help one another out – the more things
that we collectively add to our shared pool of stuff, the easier it
will be for us to locate what we need.
Here is an Introduction Video to help you learn how to use Bright
Neighbor to connect with your neighbors better:
http://www.screencast.com/t/qrgz7x91
You guys, this site is amazing. Sign up! Sign up now! :O
http://www.Portland-BrightNeighbor.com
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6. CityRepair Donation List
Maybe you have things that you don’t want that we want you to know
that you don’t know that we want!
Now you know:
1.Garden tools – shovels, trowels, turning forks, pitch forks, stirrup
hoes, actually any tools really
2. Office supplies – dry erase markers!!!
3. Larger branches
4. Usable wood for building projects
5. Wood chips (especially if you can deliver!)
6. Straw
7. Video Camera
8. Bamboo
9. Food – We have people cooking all the time in the kitchen,
perishable and non
We’ll be updating this regularly
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7. Community Potlucks
Now that the holidays are over, it’s time to resume our regular
scheduled Community Potluck. We gather each Sunday night at our
headquarters starting around 6:30-7pm, 3125 E Burnside. Join us for
friends, food & fun. And bring a friend.
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8. Sunday Morning Waffles
City Repair and Food Not Bombs is teaming up to serve you waffles
every Sunday morning from 10:30am to noon. Come for warm waffles and
good conversation. No need to bring your own plate, but please do
bring your own toppings.
These servings are happening at City Repair Head Quarters, 3125 E Burnside.
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9. Be a FOCR (Friend of City Repair)
Have you been following what we do for years? Do you attend the
Village Building Convergence? Do you consider yourself a City
Repairer? Do you read The Word every week? Did you brave the weather
for Earth Day 2008? If you answered yes to any of these question, you
are a friend of City Repair. Now is your chance to give back! We are
asking for a small monthly donation or a one time donation that will
allow us to continue facilitating building community and creating
beauty in the world. http://www.cityrepair.org/wiki.php/about/support
We are asking each FOCR to give atleast $5 a month. Our monthly
expenses are $3,000 a month (mainly staff, rent, bills and insurance)
so if 600 FOCRs give $5, our monthly expenses will be paid and the
core can focus entirely on Placemaking and Community Transformation.
Thank you for being part of the change!
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10. Video of the Week
Each week Im going to share two videos with yall. One clip will be an
informative and inspiring, probably having to do with permaculture or
some other area of sustainability. The other clip with be of debatable
benefit to society at large, but will hopefully be at least
entertaining. If you have something that you’d like to share feel free
to send it my way. We’ll see how this goes!
Paul Stamets: 6 Ways Mushrooms Can Save The World
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_can_save_the_world.html
Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip – Letter from God:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4467CI4y0M
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