Interview with new Freeschool Community and Peace Communities volunteer

Interview with new Freeschool Community and Peace Communities volunteer during a Peace Communities meeting on April 17th, 2010.

ARUNDHATI ROY at Town Hall Seattle, along with ARUNDHATI ROY videos

MP3 File
As many of you know, we currently have one of Arundhati Roy's quotes in the masthead of our blog which is:

  "Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness -- and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we're being brainwashed to believe." 

-Arundhati Roy

So it goes without saying that we encourage you to see her tonight...or forward this to your friends who may be in the Pacific Northwest!

The below Excerpt is from elliottbaybookwebsite:

Co-presented with SEATTLE ARTS & LECTURES. We are delighted and honored to again help present one of the most vital, arresting writers at work in the world today, Arundhati Roy. The Booker Prize-winning author of the 1997 novel, The God of Small Things, and the author, since, of a series of compelling, political non-fiction books, it is with the most recent of these, Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers (Haymarket Books), that she visits Seattle this evening. "After so much celebratory salesmanship about India the 'emerging market,' Roy draws us into India the actual country, peeling away the gloss until we are confronted with perhaps the most challenging question of our time: who and what are we willing to sacrifice in the name of development? Roy is one of the most confident and original thinkers of our time." - Naomi Klein. "Arundhati Roy, the direct descendant of Antigone, resists and denounces all tyrannies, pleads for their victims, and unflinchingly questions the tragic. Reflect with her on the questions she receives from the political world today." - John Berger. Tickets and information are available via Seattle Arts Lectures at www.lectures.org or (206) 621-2230. Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca).

Location: 

The Elliott Bay Book Company
101 S. Main St.
Seattle, Washington 98104

End of Excerpt.

Videos

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One of my personal favorites ---> video Public Power in the Age of Empire: War, Resistance and the Presidency (Democracy Now! / August 23rd 2004)



video Arundhati Roy on India, Iraq, U.S. Empire and Dissent

(Democracy Now! / May 23rd 2006)

video Baby Bush Go Home: Arundhati Roy on Massive Protests Against Bush's Visit to India

(Democracy Now! / March 3rd 2006)

video Crashing the Party: Famed Indian Writer Arundhati Roy Goes Inside the RNC (Democracy Now! / September 2nd 2004)

video Arundhati Roy and David Barsamian at Seattle Town Hall (August 2004)

video Arundhati Roy, Hans Von Sponeck Respond to Bush's State of the Union on Iraq (August 2004)

video Indian Elections, Her Support for the Iraqi Resistance & the Privatization of War (Democracy Now! / January 21st 2004)

video Arundhati Roy Addresses Tens of Thousands At World Social Forum in Bombay (Democracy Now! / January 20th 2004)

video
Speech: “Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy, Buy One Get One Free” (Democracy Now! / October 24th 2003)

audio Come September: Arundhati Roy Speaks Out On Iraq, U.S. Foreign Policy, Palestine & Corporate Globalization

(Democracy Now! / October 15th 2002)

Arundhati Roy, Author of the God of Small Things, Faces Prison for Speaking Out Against the Privatization of Rivers, Energy, and Other Essential Resources in India (Democracy Now! / March 4th 2002)

audio Arundhati Roy Speaks On War, Terror and the Logic of Empire (Democracy Now! / October 19th 2001)

New Zine Review! Reviewing: functionally ill: adventures with mental health

Below is the most recent letter we received. Below the letter is the FreeRentCommunity review of the zine.

The FreeRentCommunity takes reviews to the next level.
This zine review for functionally ill: adventures with mental health recieved...
Twitter promotion - Podcast and Online Radio Promotion (found at the very bottom of this post) - Featured in Film #11 of the Art of Having Fun Film Series and Blog promotion.

Retweet this zine review by going to our twitter account and copying and pasting our tweet found by clicking here.

love, peace and empowerment for all,
-The Freeschool Community and the  FreeRentCommunity.org


The below zine features the above cover image by artist Niku Arbabi.


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Dear freerent community,

Hi! I am sending you the latest issue of my mental health zine
functionally ill for review--it's issue 6. I will send that to you in
the mail, but the form asks me to email you the info as well, so here
it is. Thanks very much, and good wishes with all you do.

Laura-Marie

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Title: functionally ill: adventures with mental health


Issue: 6

Your name (can be made up): Laura-Marie


Address: 1728 Richmond St #9
Sacramento CA 95825

Website: http://functionallyill.blogspot.com
E-mail address: robotmad@gmail.com



price: trade

trades: yes

Free to prisoners? yes

Available in audio versions? no

size: quarter size

Number of pages: 12


Summary of your zine:
I'm diagnosed with bipolar disorder and don't have health insurance.
Functionally ill is about my experiences with mental illness. Issue 6
is a small zine about the logistics of care: losing services, cost of
medication, the quest for refills, and running into a former
psychiatrist at the grocery store.

The Entire Audio Review is Found Below. Thanks.

We are always looking for women's empowerment zines to review.
We will promote your material by our blog, podcast, online radio, Tv show and Film Series (now in it's second season), and much much more! We also promote zine reviews on our Twitter account with over 3,000 followers. Our twitter account currently is #199 on the 'Most Followed' list out of over 3,900 twitter accounts listed in the 'women' category of the We follow International Twitter Directory and we are currrently  #145 on the 'Most Influential' list in the directory's women category.  Let us use our influence to promote your amazing work for a better world!




We review zines, music, art, short Do-It-Yourself DVD videos and most short creative and short artistic material and items which are directly, indirectly or barely related to love and/or feminism and/or especially about women creating a better world through direct action and/or Civil Disobedience.

To print out the form that you need to submit your material please visit FreeRentCommunity.org

powered by The Freeschool Community and the  FreeRentCommunity.org

Radiant Amazing World: ‘Tenants Exploited By Landlords…’

Peace Communities Progressive Coalition is happy to feature a project by some of our members:

Radiant Amazing World:

‘Tenants Who Are Exploited By Landlords – Sometimes We Smile and Laugh Through the Pain’

We are offering $10 for each non-fiction description about tenants who experienced unethical or illegal treatment by their official or unofficial landlord. A lease is not required.

Your non-fiction, uncensored description can be in one or more of the following forms: video, audio, original uplifting music, uplifting artwork, poetry, humorous (sometimes you must laugh through the anguish) or non-fiction written stories, photographs or a portfolio combination of any of the these types of descriptions. All material that we accept to publish will be displayed in exhibits worldwide, published in a booklet, CD, DVD as well as broadcast on Mondays and Friday nights at 11:59pm on TCTV Channel 22 on an uncensored Film Series called: ‘The Art of Having Fun.’

We only accept descriptions about incidents that took place within the last 2 years because it is our hope to provide free mediation services, free emergency and housing repair services, referrals to free (pro bono) legal help and maybe even new homes for tenants in emergency situations. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to keep their identity private.

We always need volunteers! Volunteers are Superheroes! Join us. Interns are eligible for college credit.

We are also looking for feminist groups worldwide who desire to exhibit the finished work as fundraisers for your group.

As tenants and artists, our housing crisis stories are ignored by mainstream media and we have few real, legal or housing options.

Together, we have a voice and we have a choice!

Entry forms found below.

* Document version of the entry form found by clicking here.

* PDF version of the entry form found by clicking here.

We have many different amazing flyers for this project which we would appreciate everyone circulating for us.  To print out some of our flyers please click below:

Flyer 1.  ---- This is the only Flyer with the Word 'Evicted' in large print at the top.

Flyer 2.

Flyer 3.

Flyer 4.

Flyer 5. 

Flyer 6.

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Learn more about the members of the Peace Communities Progressive Coalition at http://www.peacecommunities.org/

A World Beyond Capitalism Team Radio [archives] Nov 2005-July 2009

Found by clicking here.

A World Beyond Capitalism Team Radio [archives] Nov 2005-January 2006

Found by clicking here.