Tue 9 Jan 2007
Stone Soup moves into 4 King St.
by anneStone Soup is up and running. Well we still have a lot of work to do to make the space work for all of our projects, But Earn a bike moved in on December 17th. Ex-prisioners and prisioners Organizing for Community Advacement (EPOCA) is busy making there office work for them. Food not Bombs has been cooking in the kitchen. Worcester Indymedia has been plotting a community media center. People have been sanding the floors in the Community Center space and soon we will be able to put the lending library up on the shelves. The Stone Soup School will soon be moving into the first floor and offering a multi-generational learning community to share workshops and activities and a February Vacation Day Camp. It is a very exciting time and we are looking for more grassroots organizations, artists and activists in the Worcester area to come be part of this collective project. Please give us a call at our new phone number (508) 755-4974 or email us at stonesoupworcester@gmail.com.
January 29th, 2007 at 10:01 am
I’m interested in starting a project like this in Boston’s North End. I’m curious … how did you manage to buy your building? Is there some kind of cooperative lending program available to non-profit groups?