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Chiara is having a yard sale with clothes, furniture, books, shoes, bikes, children’s clothes, toys, art, freebies and more!

Event At: The Monroe County Public Library 303 E. Kirkwood Ave. Bloomington, IN 47408 (812) 349-3050 http://www.mcpl.info Sunday, June 1, 2008 2-4pm Free “I WANT TO DO THIS ALL DAY” Audio Documentary on Radical Education to Debut in Bloomington with Performance In March and April of 2006, Amina Althea and Amber Woods visited 23 radical [...]

Portland Journal – As Portland Changes, Blacks and Whites Talk It Over – NYTimes.com: PORTLAND, Ore. — Not every neighborhood in this city is one of those Northwest destinations where passion for espresso, the environment and plenty of exercise define the cultural common ground. A few places are still described as frontiers, where pioneers move [...]

June 19, Art Hospital 8:00 P.M. $4   Ahleuchatistas Planets Basilica Impure Jazz   On June 19th, the Art Hospital will host four instrumental groups who transcend their complexity throughout their high-energy performances.   From Asheville, N.C., Ahleuchatistas (it’s the name of a Charlie Parker tune and it sounds like it’s spelled) is a trio [...]

Stop I-69 Music Festival June 6 and 7th 8pm Normanoak Dust From 1000 Years Looks Like A Snake kt the band Caethua Uno Moss see website for details: www.myspace.com/stopi69musicfestival

Oxford Collapse (Sub Pop Records) Everything, Now! (Indianapolis) Knifey Spoonie (Bloomington) @ Bear’s Place Wednesday, June 11 10pm $7 OXFORD COLLAPSE http://www.myspace.com/theoxfordcollapse They have a new album coming out on Sub Pop in August, so you will be some of the first to hear some new material from this uber-fun indie-pop band! And they will [...]

Embroidery is constructed (mostly by women) in hundreds of tiny stitches which are visible on the front of the fabric. The system of the stitches is revealed on the back of the material. Some embrioderers seal the back of the fabric, preventing others from seeing the underlying structure of the pattern. Others leave the back [...]

Having a job at the university means that I have access to hardware that I can’t afford to buy for myself.  My coworker was getting a new video card for his workstation and they just ordered me one too.  The card is an Nvidia GeForce 8400 GS PCI Express card manufactured by Chaintech. Downloading the [...]

I’ve been reading Radical Equations, a book of stories of the civil rights movement during the 60s and of Bob Moses’ work with the Algebra Project and the threads that connect those movements. The stories of civil rights organizing in Mississippi is a history that I knew little about, so it was enlightening and hearing [...]

GENDERING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE Digital Divide for Women Persists at Work, According to Nielsen Understanding the Digital Divide The Digital Divide: A Resource List