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Do you want to seel real change in the word and in the way we live on this planet? Are you tired of hearing about species going extinct everyday, methane plumes in the Antarctic, dead zones in the ocean? Would you like to meet more people like yourself, and create a reinvigorated movement. If so, then you're in luck, because there are two events coming up this week in Chapel Hill for you!
Thursday June 21st, free screening of the documentary film Just Do It! A Tale of Modern Day Outlaws 7 p.m. 405 W. Franklin St.@ Internationalist Books
Saturday June 23rd, a presentation by the Deep Green Resistance Roadshow from Wisconsin 7 p.m. @ Internationalist Books 405 W. Franklin St.
Descriptions below:
The United Church of Chapel Hill, in partnership with Fisher Memorial Church in Durham and the Racial Equity Institute in Greensboro, is holding a 2-day Anti-Racism Workshop on July 6th and 7th at the United Church of Chapel Hill (1321 MLK Jr. Blvd, Chapel Hill, NC) from 8:30 am to 5:15 pm each day.
More information can be found on the new website: Organizing Against Racism under 'Upcoming'.
This website provides more information about the workshops and our People of Color and White Anti-Racism Caucuses.
Tonight, the Chapel Hill Town Council received a report from the developers of what once was the Colony Apartments and will now be called The Park at Chapel Hill (a mixed use development). Colony Apartments was one of the only locations of affordable rentals in Chapel Hill, but with this redevelopment that is no longer likely to be the case. With the redevelopment of Glen Lennox in Chapel Hill and the recent purchase of the majority of the units at Abbey Court (now to be called Collins Crossing), affordable rentals may become extinct in Southern Orange County.
This is an issue that Orange County Justice United has been focused on and Tish Galu, Strategy Team Chair for Justice United, made the following statement at the council meeting:
All owners of Weaver Street Market Co-operative (both worker and consumer) will shortly be receiving an Owners’ News talking about the future of WSM, and inviting folks to stand for the Board of Directors.I strongly urge folks to stand for the Board. If you are less than happy with what is happening with WSM, it is no good merely standing on the sidelines. If you do nothing, then nothing is what you will get. Take a stand, and stand for the Board.
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Owner News also has an Address from Ruffin Slater, WSM General Manager, in which he suggests that WSM should increase its impact in our community by becoming bigger. I disagree. I think WSM has, over the past 24 years, become too bloated, unwieldy and unresponsive. I believe that WSM can achieve more (and better quality) impact by becoming smaller. Sort of.
Monday night (June 11th), the Inter-Faith Council will present it's Good Neighbor Plan and consider a lease between the State of North Carolina and the Town of Chapel Hill for the land and a sublease between the Town of Chapel Hill and IFC to build the new men's shelter on the property.
More information on this story can be found here.
Public comment is expected both for and against the plan. OP will be live tweeting.
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