uh oh!
Tuesday, December 20th, 2005look, here’s a note about something that i am doing for the prometheus radio project , they are very nice when they are not stressed out. (by ‘they’ i mean ‘me’)
how am i? hMmmMm i am okay. i don’t really feel like working very much. my sister moved to dundee, scotland, which is the sister city to nablus in the west bank. we got asked to strategize on radio station building with a neat group there, and it would be cool to work with my sister, yo.
more on foods: if you are making a shepherd’s pie, do not follow the instructions that tell you to use only mashed potato for the crust rather than traditional dough. now, you should use mashed potato — it will be a component in your dish — just not a solo ‘crust replacement’ as they say on baltimore avenue.
instead, get about 7 bigass potatoes from the fu-wah at 47th and baltimore on your way home from work. boil them, while frying garlic, carrots, and onions in bacon fat (or olive oil if you are some kind of way). when they are done boiling and the roots are done crisping, mash up the potatos with butter or oil and milk or water. you can use a blender on a stick if you have one, they work well! blend up the boiled and fried roots together.
then line your baking pan with the potato mash, and cover the mash with sauteed collards, more carrots, corn, and maybe some organic beefs. or not.
then cover that with pie dough that has been chilling in the fridge! bake at 400 degrees for 1 hour. baste the combination with oil or butter.
now for the work. see some of you soon when you come to philadelphia.
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hey all, can you let me know re: effective organizations in NYC who might wanna host a workshop on community internet and media?
there’s a pretty big movement afoot — community organizers are building wireless networks and advocating for cities to subsidize cheap/free/universal wireless connections. bigass companies like verizon, SBC, and comcast are making it illegal for cities and communities to build wireless networks, which is pretty crappy when so much vital public information is only readily available over the web.
the group i work with, prometheus radio project, is interested in going around the region and the country, demonstrating the technology and letting communities know their rights in defending their freedom to use it.
we’re looking to hold big workshops in and around philadelphia and across pennsylvania (which has made it illegal to build wireless networks though we can overturn the act — http://mediatank.org/Issues/wireless/act183/ ), and in places where wireless is taking hold (new haven is going to build a municipal wireless network for the whole city to use, just like philly — http://tinyurl.com/dyk38 ).
we can make the workshops benefits for excellent local tech or media initiatives, and we definitely make them lots of fun. it is great if you have a university group or what have you that can sponsor our trip, but often we can subsidize one trip with another.
if you’ve never been to a prometheus workshop — heh. they are pretty rad, you get to use neato technology and debate how it impacts your organizing, and strategize on the right tools for smashing the state and how to get them in your hands/the hands of other people who need them.
check out some prometheus activities here — http://media.prometheusradio.org/gallery/main.php — workshops, barnraisings, and other awesome events.
and if you can help out, email me at hannahjs (at) prometheusradio.org. thanks a ton people.
