Stone Soup Worcester

King Street Block Party 2008!

Mateo — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:27:08 +0000

Dozens of community members, Stone Soup organizers, Worcester Roots Project staff, EPOCA members and Worc. Lead Action Collaborative folks have been busy organizing a party that might even top last year’s block party.

This year it will be Saturday, August 23rd
4-8pm (Rain date= Sunday, Aug. 24th, 4-8pm)

Free, open to all, on King Street between Main and Queen Streets.
Food, numerous exciting performers, cultural booths, social justice tables, games, tours of Stone Soup’s new garden sites, and much more.

See details and download flyers here:
http://worcesterroots.org/blockparty08.html

Revitalizing Worcester from the Bottom-Up

Mateo — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:19:20 +0000

Please consider donating all or a portion of your “economic stimulus” rebate to Stone Soup, a new community center that is truly revitalizing Worcester’s inner city.

Help support our work for true community improvement:

1. Stone Soup members are creating worker and housing cooperatives to provide secure jobs and to prevent future home foreclosures.

2. Volunteer-based sustainability projects for people and the planet at Stone Soup:

Earn-A-Bike promotes bicycling culture in Worcester
Worcester Roots Project helps create healthy green spaces for growing food
Ex-prisoners and Prisoners Organizing for Community Advancement (EPOCA) is developing a green-collar jobs program.
Stone Soup also strives to be an example of sustainability with roof-top gardens, recycling/composting and future plans for green building.

3. Cultural projects and events. Stone Soup has hosted 16 cultural events since its inauguration in January of 2006. We just held the first “Encuentro Jíbaro de Primavera/Springtime Puerto Rican Musical Gathering” on April 20th, which was a great success.

4. Incubator of new projects and community-based endeavors.

We invite you to work together with us, building on our collective strengths towards a positive, sustainable future for all.

We are currently fundraising for improvements to the space such as wheelchair accessibility, commercial kitchen, and insulation. To donate to Stone Soup, send a check made out to “Stone Soup” to 4 King Street, Worcester, MA 01610. For a tax-deductible donation, make the check out to our fiscal sponsor, Worcester Common Ground, and send it to the same address above. Or DONATE NOW ONLINE:

1 Year, Come Celebrate: Dec. 8th

Mateo — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:40:01 +0000

CELEBRATE 1 YEAR
of S T O N E S O U P
AT 4 KING ST

SATURDAY, DEC. 8TH
6:00pm

FEATURING:

~“Lest We Forget”
Music Video Premier
with Mingo & Epinero
Watch it on YouTube

~“Toxic Soil Busters”
Video Premier

~Stone Soup Graphics Shop
Demonstration & Tour

~Live Music

Free food by:
Food Not Bombs

also apprearing…
~EPOCA

~Tertulia Julia de Burgos

~Stone Soup Learning Co-op

~Stone Soup Puppet Lab

~Bike Raffle by Earn-A-Bike

at Stone Soup
4 King St, Worcester

(508) 755-4974
stonesoupworcester@gmail.com
http://StoneSoupWorcester.org

Download the flyer!

Lakele — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:32:55 +0000

SICKO ON THURSDAY 29

DON’T MISS THE OPPORTUNITY OF DISCUSS THIS IMPORTANT ISSUE!!!!

7:30 AT STONE SOUP

movie serie

Lakele — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:46:39 +0000

Thursday November 8 at 7:30 PM

LOS ULTIMOS ZAPATISTAS, FORGOTTEN HEROES

Is a documental film that made a research among the survivors of the Mexican revolution for land and freedom.

Please, come and share the comments of this testimonial film that highlight the present of THE ZAPATISTAS.

Stone Soup 1-year Celebration: Sat. December 8th

Mateo — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:53:52 +0000

Save the Date!
Keep the evening of Saturday, December 8th open, everyone. It’ll be an event you won’t want to miss. Just one year, so much to celebrate.

FILM SERIES

Lakele — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:32:57 +0000

MACHUCA
Latino America remember another September 11!!!
Thursday 13 at 7 PM we are going to share this very good movie from Chile. It is placed in the Pinochet dictatorship context.

See you there

King St Block Party Video

Mateo — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:59:39 +0000

The event was a success! Over 400 people in attendance, 35 groups collaborating, a good time had by all. Video is 11 minutes long. Produced by Worcester Roots Project.

King Street Block Party Schedule

Mateo — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 06:02:44 +0000

Saturday, August 25, 4–8pm
crazy after party starting at 9pm
on king st between shepard and main

More info on the block party below.

August 23

Lakele — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 22:11:40 +0000

Why we fight?

The $400-billion-a-year American war machine is often characterized as overwhelming firepower supported by overwhelming logistics. Not to mention an overwhelming number of taxpayer dollars funneled into an imperialistic battle plan.

Eugene Jarecki’s stirring anti-war documentary takes its cue from President Dwight Eisenhower’s profound 1961 farewell address that touched on themes of the calamitous rise of misplaced power and the acquisition of unwarranted influence.

We are an incredibly militant nation, according to the talking heads of Jarecki’s urgent dirge: the “United States of Amnesia,” who conveniently manage to forget bungled corruption, mass manipulation and fractured government policy from one war to the next.

Despite the changes wrought by the events of 9/11, there is still a vast disconnect between unrelenting patriotism and the basis on which we send our sons and daughters to war. War-profiteering and economic colonialism rear their ugly heads. The film asks, “To what end?”

U.S. Sen. John McCain, Gore Vidal, ex-CIA operative Chalmers Johnson and retired Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski among others, attempt to unravel the core of our national detachment amidst colorful theories of corporate greed and the relentless responsibility to spread democracy and freedom.

Jarecki’s path to deciphering 50 years of military misadventure is generally bipartisan, and intermittently without focus. But his journey’s end is clear: why do we fight, and when are we going to stand up and say we’re not doing this anymore?