HEY BOSTON FOLKS!!!!

TUESDAY, MAY 9th, 2006
the riot-folk! collective hastily presents...
a show organized on three days notice...
with some of the best performers we've met in years...
@ THE LUCY PARSON'S CENTER
**549 Columbus Ave, Boston MA**
(right off mass ave, near green and orange line T)
6:00pm - 10:00pm // All Ages // $6 - 15 sliding scale.
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Hey!
The Women's Resource Center will be open till 3am this saturday during the bubba! Our Voice volunteers will be available to chat. Feel free to come hang out, watch movies, dance, whatever. Basement of stepheson!
Thanks
becca

Also, here is a tracklist of an awesome May Day mix cd that will get you pumped to ... do whatever mayday might lead you to do ( Read more... )

We hung our red and black solidarity flag high on the flag pole and sang labor songs until the march started. We marched alongside a sea of white shirts and american flags all contained between ropes that designated their borders. We kept a close eye on the police who had been paid (by the organizers) to keep us safe. Who was supporting who ( Read more... )

I want to come home really badly right now, i dont know why.
I won't be home for a long time.
Old friends should head to asheville in may and june. Come live in a cob hut and tear up the city.

The first socialization i ever recognized was the need for male approval. No matter how strong i thought i was, starting with my first ever relations with guys, i knew they had some sort of power over me. I saw it as a weakness and i hated it. And now, seven years later, it is still the same. I fall into the same mindsets and cycles, but i have ( Read more... )

"This isn't a socialization" she said as she ran ice over my arms. But how does she know? How do i know which pieces i'm trying to tear apart and which ones i'm trying to build apon? It's all mixed so deeply that how can we ever know what we are fighting for?

everything makes more sense now. i would have not known any of this a week ago. how quick things change, and how it all changes at the same time, eh?

I got a job as a waitrae on star island for full season. But as of this weekend and seeing mountiantop removal sites and communities, i really don't want to spend two months of my summer up on the island. I have never felt so upset and motivated by one issue before. I'm going to do a huge post with lots of pictures about this weekend very soon.

some personal/environmental updates:

I bought a diva cup  yesterday!  i'm kinda scared, but also really excited.

Tonight, i'm heading to West Virginia to go to Larry Gibson's site and witness some of the mountain top removal sites that are there.  We are also doing some sort of service on his land, maybe some listening projects or building some ( Read more... )