Local Movements
Race Liberation Alliance
The Race Liberation Alliance is an Ithaca, NY based organization dedicated to:
- Exposing biological "race" as a social construct and racism as a social reality.
- Undoing racism and other patterns of oppression.
- Providing a safe and supportive if not always comfortable space to talk about race and racism.
- Connecting individuals and organizations that share a common goal of eradicating racism, and creating a just and sustainable community.
- Engaging in action that exposes, replaces, and/or transforms institutions that further ingrain racism and white privilege.
- Supporting sustainability in our community for all of our community members.
The Race Liberation Alliance of Ithaca, NY recognizes that the concept of race is an illusion while acknowledging that racism is real and directly related to capitalism and economic greed. Looking seven generations ahead, our vision is to build a sustainable community free of racism and other forms of oppression. We wish to become a unified community who shares local resources that provide for everyone's needs, including: health and well being, food and housing, safety and security, religious and spiritual faiths, education and the arts.
Summertime Block Party
We're taking over the streets in the name of social justice & a good time. Join hundreds of your closest friends for the best party of the summer! YOU are invited to the Third Annual Summertime Block Party on Saturday July 4, 2009 from 2-8pm, at Court St and Albany st. outside Greater Ithaca Activity Center.
Celebrate the fight for good schools, sustainability, equity and unity in our community with free live music, tasty local food, raffle prizes, a fashion show, and more. Past artists include Thousands of One, Mbusi, Michelle Berry, Kevin Kinsella and Food, Clothes and Shelter, Taina Asili Y La Banda Rebelde
Enjoy an organic ribs & chicken BBQ as well as vegetarian fare featuring food grown by local farms and prepared by neighborhood churches - Handcrafted Native American jewelry, organic & re-fashioned clothing and more from local businesses.
- Check out urban, sustainable fashion with the Tuff Soul fashion show
- Informational displays by dozens of local organizations working on social justice & sustainability issues
- Enter raffles for Grassroots tickets and other great prizes from your favorite local businesses
- A kids' play area with face-painting and activities
The Summertime Block Party is FREE and open to the whole community.
Brought to you by Ithaca's Race Liberation Alliance.
The Full Plate Farm Collective
The Full Plate Farm Collective is a multi-farm CSA in the Ithaca, NY area that includes Remembrance Farm, Stick & Stone Farm, and Three Swallows Farm. Our three farms grow over 50 acres of vegetables which we offer through 450 CSA shares to households in the Ithaca area. in winter of 2009 Look out for the MidWinter Farmers Ball featuring music with Thousands of On, raising money for low-incom shares
Trumansburg Learning Cooperative:
Trumansburg Learning Cooperative is a community-based organization tended by a local group of inspired citizens committed to creating educational opportunities for it's community members.
Emerald City
Ithaca past meets Ithaca future Dreams turn to action - We can work together to create the world we want our children's children's children to play in. This site is a communication hub for a growing network of people committing their skills to realize the kind of world we need right now. "The Emerald City" is an allegorical reference to the location and spiritual significance of the land that Ithaca sits upon, made by Frank L. Baum in his book the Wizard of Oz, written in Chittenango, NY, the yellow brick road is now route 13, which leads to Ithaca. This road was once a footpath for the Onieda Indians and countless extended tribes of the Haudenosaunee Nation (Iroquois) to reach the place of vision quest on Cayuga Lake, what is know known as Stewart Park. We look forward to a time when Ithaca can represent the true nature of its power to the world, for the love of future generations and the Earth.
Peoples Garden Project
Call Ananda 607-592-9093
To plant a seed is to spark revolution! In this day, we face ever-increasing resource hoarding by multi-national corporations. The worst casualty of all is our most precious seed. The Peoples Garden Project is engaged in the steady task of planting gardens' in neglected city lands, re-educating the people on how to grow food, and bringing food surplus from this growth to those who need it. Look for PGP at Thousands of One events. Please donate.
Thousands of One STREET TEAM
If you are interested in carrying the word and sounds of Thousands of One to people, please join the Street Team. Contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Street Team people connect and build the community by promoting concerts and workshops. Every community has its character and only you know about both the needs of the community and perhaps a way to reach people. We are seeking people who will find ways in which Thousands of One can effectively support local movements concerning the youth, social equity and/or sustainability. The band has participated in many workshops, demonstrations and awareness raising events concerning community needs.
The time is crucial for our individual works to come together!
Movements around the World
www.aics.org/BM/bm.html
"This page is intended to give a brief history of the Big Mountain, or Black Mesa area, Navajo-Hopi existence in this area, the murderous and genocidal practices of the BIA, and Peabody Coal, and of course - the U.S. Government."
www.coopamerica.org
"Practical steps for using your consumer and investor power for social change - includes the Green Pages and links to investing responsibly."
www.democracynow.org
"A daily radio and tv news program on over 350 station, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the U.S."
www.moveon.com
Macro-level activist network.
www.indymedia.org
Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth.
www.soulsista.com
"Now, I'm free or so I think I am, though I remain ever vigilant. There are paddyrollers all about. There are any number of people who would willingly and quickly re-enslave me, restrict my freedom by any means necessary, and return me to an institution of enslavement. Prison. Drugs. Housing projects. Debt."
www.brianwillson.com
A Vietnam veteran turned peace activist quoting Thomas Jefferson. Brian has seen it first hand...
"I am persuaded no constitution was ever before as well calculated as ours for extensive empire and self-government."
--Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, April 27, 1809"The day is within my time. . . when we may say by what laws other nations shall treat us upon the sea. And we shall say it."
--Thomas Jefferson, 1801
www.leonardpeltier.org and lpdcinc.blogspot.com
Leonard Peltier - Illegally imprisoned for 10869 days, thus far, for acts that he has been proven innocent of.
"Silence, they say, is the voice of complicity.
But silence is impossible.
Silence screams.
Silence is a message,
just as doing nothing is an act.
Let who you are ring out & resonate
in every word & every deed.
Yes, become who you are.
There's no sidestepping your own being
or your own responsibility.
What you do is who you are.
You are your own comeuppance.
You become your own message.
You are the message.
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse"
- Leanord Peltier