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Summer Camp for Radicals: The Union of Radical Political Economics 2007 Summer Conference

Jenna Allard August 24, 2007 at 10:37 am

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This past weekend I traveled to Pine Bush, New York, for my first URPE Summer Conference. This three-day conference was located at Camp Deer Run, and we all discussed economics around campfires and swimming pools as well as in workshops and plenaries. It was a small and relaxed conference –there were about 90 participants, and [...]

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From Miami…[Part 2]

Katie Clifford August 22, 2007 at 8:07 pm

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Rachel Carson’s book brought me to the realization that human activities have a real, significant effect on the natural environment. I began to question what my best friend at the time adamantly asserted: The government would never allow us to use chemicals that are harmful to our health and to the environment. The FDA shields [...]

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From Miami…[Part 1]

Katie Clifford August 14, 2007 at 7:43 pm

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I wasn’t born and raised in the most environmentally-friendly city in the U.S. That title might belong to where I now live- Portland, Oregon. Instead, the first 18 years of my life were spent in Miami, Florida. There, the extremely poor and desperate meet the extremely rich folk and yearn to be like them in [...]

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Defining the Solidarity Economy, Defining my job

Jenna Allard August 8, 2007 at 1:04 pm

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So, I’m somewhat new to Guramylay: Growing the Green Economy and to Transformation Central, and this means that I am both learning about my new job and learning how to explain it to others. I haven’t quite gotten the conversational job description in a nutshell it down to a standardized spiel yet, so it inevitably [...]

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Inner City students making their hands dirty!

Germai Medhanie August 6, 2007 at 12:35 pm

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By Germai Medhanie

Common Ground High School students are engaged in learning about the value of healthy living and sustainable agricultural practices by making their hands dirty.  The New Haven Ecology Project, which created the school, centers education around the basic issue of food. Most of the students at the Common Ground High are minorities, people [...]

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