I just received this cryptic message, informing me that I have until Sunday at 5:00 to figure out how to use Twitter…
I’ve got nothing to do with the planning of this event, but, as I’m all for reclaiming public space, and engaging my neighbors in meaningful dialogue on the future of our community, especially at a time when such spaces are in jeopardy, and such opportunities for human interaction are few, I’m planning to attend. And I hope to see some of you there as well.
In the meantime, for those of you who are unaware of the concept of “the commons,” I’d encourage you to check out the video I shot earlier this summer of author Peter Linebaugh addressing an Occupy Ypsilanti general assembly. It’s interesting stuff, and incredibly timely.
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Judging from the graphic, I’m thinking that a séance might be involved. Please tell me that I’m wrong about that. The last thing we need in Yspi is to start raising the dead.
https://twitter.com/#!/flashcommoning
I’ll bring the pepper spray. (It’s a food item.)
If I’m not mistaken, those are the spirits of our ancestors, the white slaves kidnapped in Kentucky and brought to Ypsilanti against their will.
http://markmaynard.com/2008/07/the-untold-stories-of-kentuckians-brought-by-force-to-ypsilanti/
I looked up hors d’overs and it’s FRENCH for snack.
This stinks of socialism.
Before you know it, they’ll be trying to get streetlights in black neighborhoods, spoiling the poor with free light, robbing them of their desire to create their own light through hard work.
anonymous,
our local high school team is called the Phoenix. Perhaps it is not the dead rising you are seeing, but rather the re-birthing of a community.
“hors d’oeuvre” = “outside the work”
Oeuvre is from opera.
Our high school team was the Hurons. Unlike the phoenix, they’re not coming back.
All the more reason to potlatch.
As Mark looks like Breitbart, I’d suggest having him pop out of some bushes, and scream at all of you to “behave” and “stop raping people.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILZQSmE5Uu0
Am I the only one imagining a hippie orgy on Water Street?
If that’s the case, I hope they don’t wear rubbers. We need to repopulate Ypsi.
What if this is just a trap to get all of the hippies in one place so they can be culled?
Maybe it’s all a plot to get meat for the new bar-b-que place on Michigan Ave!
I’m out of town.
Is that Barbecue place open yet on Michigan Ave?
Red Rock?
WL.
It wasn’t a bunch of hippies, but a bunch community members, Normal Park residents, students, ecowarriors, punks, and grandparents. And some others. It was a blast.
And, sadly, there was no orgy.
Or, if there was one, it didn’t start until after I left.
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