greentastic
October 1, 2008
magnificent magnificence this past saturday at Local Motive! just to preface we planned this event in a little over a weeks time so while it was a little out of order we were shown and returned so much love for the mission of sustainability in food, business, ecology and the green jobs initiative.
thanks a million times over to Fetien, Raw(b), and Daroni for bringing the vegan nourishment, to the mile high business alliance for partnering with us and letting the whole world know, the redirect guide, denver coop, pangea organics, transition denver for tabling and teaching!, akwe starnes for inspiring me to return to live food, Ona for breakin down backyard herbalism, malik for donating water, the alliance building for donating recycle bins, deejays sd & cavem for spinning me right round (baby right round like a record baby…j/k), mike word & ietef for the bboy/bgrrl class with the little people, jason bosch/argus fest for showing brilliant food justice films, environmental film fest for showing love support and showing a trailer to a film coming out soon!, magnet mafia for freaking magnets on the bus w/ the little people, slamnuba for doing a spoken workshop & stimulating neurons in my seeds 3rd, Ashara for being an organizer & Guerrilla marketer of magnificent proportions, Maurice for showin up EARLY and being a huge support, speech for translating energy into english for us, Mani for being the rock of the day, Art for talking about how grassroots activism can affect policy change ( NO on 46!), Celia for being the matrix guru and master wrangler of wild & young energy, Kinh for putting in LABOR for days, Lavell for easing us in to futuristic funk, gerald for donating pansies and sharing his vision, the shoppe for the gifts certificates (which we gave away with love), hysteria who donated a party (and added so much adult conversation!)… there are so many add ons… it was inpriring on so many levels, people reached out to me and added bricks to our community building… it was a beginning for what can be done in the face of stereotypes. I love people (and their guts)
p.s. This friday were having a community forum to discuss amendment 46, 47 & 48 which are initiatives that are on the ballot in the coming weeks locally. Faatma (yes me) is making food for this event for y’all to partake in while we have some serious discussion about language in local politics and it is the day before the last day to register to vote! LOCAL MOTION… we hope to see you all there from 6-9pm friday oct3rd at SOLAR.
PEACE (and organic peas)
Faatma