Community

Crowdfunding for Malcolm X Festival 2014

March 18, 2014 Zola Dadawele, www.gofundme.com Resist! Community, Human Rights, Malcom X, Restorative Justice

Malcolm X Grassroots Movement-Atlanta Chapter,Community Aid and Development and the Atlanta community will be celebrating the 25th annual Malcolm x festival. In an effort to make this commemorative year bigger and better we are asking for donations to assist with making the festival and parade a success for the community. Community Aid and Development corp (CAD) is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit and donations are tax deductible. CAD is a Human Health and Welfare service agency with a presence in the Atlanta metropoltian are since 1989.

Learning From Manitoba’s Approach to Community

February 20, 2014 MOLLY MCCRACKEN, www.rabble.ca Educate! Activism, Community, Economic Democracy, Housing

Manitoba has a long history of social justice movements. Manitoba was the first province to grant women the right to vote, home of the 1919 general strike, and is the location of one of the first Aboriginal friendship centres in the country. Our province is imbued with the spirit of solidarity and co-operation borne from a strong trade union movement and rural agricultural roots. First Nations teach us of the importance of considering the impact of our actions seven generations from now. These values inform community-organizing efforts towards social justice in Manitoba. Winnipeg's Inner City in the late 1980s and early 1990s was a place of divestment and concentrated urban decay. The rise of the suburbs had left the core of the city in trouble: boarded-up storefronts and arsons in abandoned buildings were coupled with low graduation rates and high unemployment.

New Index Measures How Co-ops Benefit Communities

January 15, 2014 Co-operative News, thenews.coop Create! Community, Cooperatives

Overall, the 10 largest consumer co-operatives outperform the major supermarkets by 2.6 percentage points, with co-operatives overall investing 6.3% of pre-tax profits in helping communities compared to only 3.7% of the supermarkets. Given the resource cost of investing time and energy into community investment activities and reporting, it is all the more impressive. The multi-billion pound turnover enjoyed by most of the supermarkets gives them access to resources and expertise not available to all, but the very largest co-operatives.

Video: The Foundation Of All We Do: LOVE

December 20, 2013 Staff, www.thelovemob.org Create! Community, Connection, Love

The Love Mob is multi-generational movement that promotes love as a lifestyle. This benevolent "mob" began creating organized acts of love with a massive flash mob in Los Angeles dedicated to victims of Sandy Hook last December: (http://youtu.be/EuTp44xwX7A) After being featured in LA Weekly, Los Angeles Magazine and KTSM9 (NBC), The Love Mob launched a successful clothing drive/block party on Skid Row with special guest speaker Michael Beckwith: (http://youtu.be/I2aDskSRiQM). The Love Mob is committed to inspired action toward global transformation. They are a team of deeply committed leaders in the community that promote love and compassion through organized acts, smaller gatherings to foster community, as well as multi-media and social media efforts. Everyone is welcome to join The Love Mob. Start your own Love Mob in a town near you!!

VIDEO: Friendship Neighborhood Fair To End Gang Violence

August 26, 2013 Marlene Alvarado, www.vimeo.com Create! Commons, Community, Food and Agriculture, Video

The Friendship Neighborhood Fair held at Drake Park in Long Beach, CA. It is organized by a group of activist neighbors who want to help end gang violence. They also have created an urban farm. They cook the produce they grow and hand it out for free. They also clean the streets.

Jane-Finch Community Holds Barbecue To Protest Violence

August 25, 2013 Sahar Fatima, www.thestar.com Create! Community, Violence

“In the past there have been incidents of violence in the community which doesn’t show what the true sense of the community is,” he said. “It’s more just supporting residents in their own reclaiming back the community in a positive way.” Tabnor extended her condolences on behalf of the Jane and Finch community to all the families affected by gun violence. “We do not live in this community as neighbours. We all, no matter what nation we’re from, we are all family,” she said. “Unity is strength and when we come together and unify this community with the presence of elders, youth, adults, children in one place, enjoying themselves without any violence, that’s what you call … community strength.”

Hidden Benefits of Community Gardens

June 17, 2013 Christina Sarich, www.activistpost.com Create! Community, Environment, Food and Agriculture

Community gardening reduces crime rates. Take one community in North Philadelphia that was once full of vacant, rundown buildings and plagued with crime, drugs, trash and derelict people as much as derelict infrastructure. A group of women decided to build the Las Parcelas Cummunity Garden and Kitchen. Not only did it improve crime rates, it caused a ripple effect and people started taking care of their own properties, looking out for one another and completely transformed their neighborhood. Community gardening provides organic food to some people who might not otherwise be able to afford it. At the community garden I volunteered at, I found out that entire immigrant families supplemented their food bills with organic produce from their ‘family’ plots, about 5-foot by 7-foot of soil, made to grow everything from spinach to onions, winter squash, kale, turnips, edible flowers, and so on.

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