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Pipeline Through Our State Forest?
Written by Jana Wilkes, Community Outreach Coordinator, Teams East Last week, Team East biked through the Lowell-Dracut-Tyngsboro State Forest, a beautiful 1,140 acre site of forests, marsh, and ponds. We biked down Trotting Park Road and decided to walk off … Continue reading
Posted in 2014
Tagged #conservation, climate summer, Dracut, environmental justice, Lowell, state parks, sustainability, Tyngsboro
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You, Too, Might Just be an Activist
by Ben Weilerstein, Social Media Coordinator for the Western MA team On Tuesday a railroad track converted into a bike path carried us most of the way from Wilmot, NH to Concord, NH. On Wednesday the hills bore us across … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Team Western Massachusetts
Tagged #garden, #WestMass, Activism, be the change, build new structures, community, contribution, health, impact, Lowell, organizing, protest, resist, shift conciousness, strategy, volunteering
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Biking in Solidarity with Dracut and Lowell
Written by Tuula Perry, Team Leader, Team East I am so proud of my team for hosting our first event this past Tuesday, July 1st. We held the event at St. Francis Church down the hill near a newly constructed … Continue reading
Posted in 2014
Tagged Activism, Climate Change, community, Dracut, Kinder Morgan Pipeline, learning, Lowell, Movement Building, Natural Gas, new friends
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Art in the Movement
by Sophie Sokolov, Social Media Coordinator for the North Shore team It starts with a little banjo picking in the mornings, some tunes to pull us out of sleep. By lunch, half-sung half-remembered lyrics tumble from our lips between bites. … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Team North Shore
Tagged art, banjo, beauty, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Movement, community, creation, love, Lowell, movement, Movement Building, music, singing, utility
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Power to the Gardening People!
Written by Rachel Eckles, Media Coordinator, Team East, written on Sunday, June 22, 2014 Saturday, June 21, a few of us rode across town to join Mill City Grows in a work day for the community gardens here in Lowell, … Continue reading
Posted in 2014
Tagged climate summer, community, education, Food, gardening, innovation, learning, local business, Lowell, Mill City Grows, new friends, sustainability, training, urban gardening
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The Anatomy of a Movement
by A. Grace Steig, Video Coordinator for the Western MA team When I heard that our training at beautiful Camp Wilmot in New Hampshire and the Pawtucket Congregational Church in Lowell, Massachusetts would last two weeks, I thought that time … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Team Western Massachusetts
Tagged #noKXL, #WestMass, biking, Camp Wilmot, direct action, Food, fun, Lowell, training, work, XLDissent
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The Journey (Lowell, MA to Peterborough, NH)
Written by Hillary Bernhardt, Video Coordinator, Team New Hampshire What is a bicycle, but an aluminum frame, rubber wheels, spokes, peddles, and handle bars? What is the act of biking but, a series of steady rotations to transport the rider … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Team New Hampshire
Tagged bikes, biking, biking on the road, Climate Change, climate summer, Lowell, MA, New Hampshire, peterborough, philosophy, pondering, summer
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Anti-Oppression Workshop
Written by Aaron Morales, New Media Coordinator, Team Massachusetts “You know, there is a sign in the middle of Puerto Rico that says, ‘Go To Dunkirk for Food Stamps,’” says the girl behind the cash register at Starbucks as she … Continue reading
A Sense of Community
Posted by Kristin Jackson I was always skeptical of organized religion. Growing up, I went to church at a young age, but as my siblings and I got older and busier, it seemed to just fall out of our schedule. … Continue reading
