Fire Flies now has a MySpace Profile
For further information on the Fire Flies Festival, check out our MySpace profile here. It's a great place to check schedule updates and to network with other folks interested in the festival in Greensboro and beyond.
GCAC Website Under Reconstruction
The GCAC website will be in and out of service for the next few days as we upgrade to a new content management system. The new site will allow people who are involved in GCAC Projects to login to the site as users and create or edit content collaboratively throughout the site.
This content management system is a Drupal-based project, named CivicSpace. CivicSpace is "a free open-source software platform for grassroots organizing and civic activity. It allows individuals and organizations to build online communities that communicate effectively, act collectively, and coordinate coherently with a network of other related organizations and communities."
“Evidence: An Art Show About Police Brutality” Presents Artifacts About the Death of Gil Barber
WHAT: Evidence: An Art Show About Police Brutality
WHEN: November 10-November 26, 2006. Opening event Friday, November 10th, 6pm-10pm—opening night performers include Enoch the Messenjah, Amaris Howard, Veteran Eye, and Boxcar Bertha
WHERE: A Greensboro Community Space, 217-B West Lewis St (upstairs) near the corner of Eugene and Lee Sts.
www.myspace.com/evidenceartshow
On May 18, 2001 Gilbert Barber, an unarmed 22-year-old African-American man, was killed by Guilford County Sheriff’s Deputy Thomas Gordy. After a five-year struggle on the part of Gil Barber's parents to open a legal investigation into what happened that night, the family’s civil case was recently denied a hearing in the courts. Now they are taking the evidence—including photographs of the death site, autopsy photos, and the video of Thomas Gordy’s deposition--directly to the public.
“Evidence: An Art Show About Police Brutality” Presents Artifacts About the Death of Gil Barber
WHAT: Evidence: An Art Show About Police Brutality
WHEN: November 10-November 26, 2006. Opening event Friday, November 10th, 6pm-10pm—opening night performers include Enoch the Messenjah, Amaris Howard, Veteran Eye, and Boxcar Bertha
WHERE: A Greensboro Community Space, 217-B West Lewis St (upstairs) near the corner of Eugene and Lee Sts.
www.myspace.com/evidenceartshow
On May 18, 2001 Gilbert Barber, an unarmed 22-year-old African-American man, was killed by Guilford County Sheriff’s Deputy Thomas Gordy. After a five-year struggle on the part of Gil Barber's parents to open a legal investigation into what happened that night, the family’s civil case was recently denied a hearing in the courts. Now they are taking the evidence—including photographs of the death site, autopsy photos, and the video of Thomas Gordy’s deposition--directly to the public.
“Evidence: An Art Show About Police Brutality” Presents Artifacts About the Death of Gil Barber
WHAT: Evidence: An Art Show About Police Brutality
WHEN: November 10-November 26, 2006. Opening event Friday, November 10th, 6pm-10pm—opening night performers include Enoch the Messenjah, Amaris Howard, Veteran Eye, and Boxcar Bertha
WHERE: A Greensboro Community Space, 217-B West Lewis St (upstairs) near the corner of Eugene and Lee Sts.
www.myspace.com/evidenceartshow
On May 18, 2001 Gilbert Barber, an unarmed 22-year-old African-American man, was killed by Guilford County Sheriff’s Deputy Thomas Gordy. After a five-year struggle on the part of Gil Barber's parents to open a legal investigation into what happened that night, the family’s civil case was recently denied a hearing in the courts. Now they are taking the evidence—including photographs of the death site, autopsy photos, and the video of Thomas Gordy’s deposition--directly to the public.
“Evidence: An Art Show About Police Brutality” Presents Artifacts About the Death of Gil Barber
WHAT: Evidence: An Art Show About Police Brutality
WHEN: November 10-November 26, 2006. Opening event Friday, November 10th, 6pm-10pm—opening night performers include Enoch the Messenjah, Amaris Howard, Veteran Eye, and Boxcar Bertha
WHERE: A Greensboro Community Space, 217-B West Lewis St (upstairs) near the corner of Eugene and Lee Sts.
www.myspace.com/evidenceartshow
On May 18, 2001 Gilbert Barber, an unarmed 22-year-old African-American man, was killed by Guilford County Sheriff’s Deputy Thomas Gordy. After a five-year struggle on the part of Gil Barber's parents to open a legal investigation into what happened that night, the family’s civil case was recently denied a hearing in the courts. Now they are taking the evidence—including photographs of the death site, autopsy photos, and the video of Thomas Gordy’s deposition--directly to the public.
fun volunteer opportunity 7/4!!
We need YOU to help out with a creative float in the Progressive
Greensboro contingent of the Greensboro July 4th parade.
Ingredients we need:
4-6 enthusiastic, hammy volunteers who are in to performing
2 Bush masks
2 Bush costumes (suits?) that can get wet
Ingredients we have:
*A giant, beautifully painted rolling target, with intersecting bulls
eyes, each labeled with an oppressive or annoying thing (from
imperialism to bottled water, racism to traffic jams)
*water balloons to give out to the crowd
The 2 Bushes will push the target, and probably get targeted in the
Fire Flies Festival + An Inconvenient Truth
A friend of mine just saw An Inconvenient Truth (http://an-inconvenient-truth.com) and says that the movie is very good and very accurate, but that his sense in talking to people who've seen it is that audiences are leaving the theater feeling less hopeful and more powerless than they were when they went in. I'm pretty sure that's now what Al Gore intended!
The movie opens in Greensboro at the Carousel on July 1. The Fire Flies Festival begins on July 4 with the parade and runs through Sunday, July 9 and a Really Really Free Market in Lake Daniel Park. A Really Really Free Market is basically a demonstration of an alternate economy based on community and shared resources (A RRFM is held in Carrboro pretty regularly--you can read more about that one at http://www.carrboro.com/reallyreallyfreemarket/) . Last year's RRFM was a big success and brought in a wide diversity of people; we expect an even better turnout this year.
How To Post Events
With the new influx of users signing up to GCAConline, I thought I might write a little "how-to" on posting events to the gcac events calendar. This will be the first in a series of tutorials on how to tap into the awesome potential of this new open-source dynamic-content website format.
So:
1. Create New Account, if you haven't already done so, by clicking on create new account on the left side of the main page, under the login box.
2. Once your account is activated, log in and change your automatically generated password to something you can remember.
3. Click on "Create Content" on the left side menu.
Greensboro Collective House Featured in New York Times
Inviting Anarchy Into My Home, an article by the GCAC's Liz Seymour was published in the New York Times on Thursday, March 9th. In it, she writes about her experience in one of Greensboro's collective house's:
"On Aug. 1, 2002, I left behind the comfortably roomy semicircle marked 'married-couple household' on the Census Bureau pie chart and slipped into an inconspicuous wedge labeled 'two or more people, nonfamily.' Having separated from my husband of 28 years the day before, I opened our three-bedroom 1927 Colonial Revival house to a group of men and women less than half my age. Overnight, the home I had lived in for 12 years became a seven-person anarchist collective, run by consensus and fueled by punk music, curse-studded conversation and food scavenged from Dumpsters."