June, 2006Averill Park, NY Contact: Reed Dunlea, redunlea@vassar.eduCreated by Hudson Mohawk Independent Media Center, www.hmIMC.org---------- Student protest to target militaryAverill Park groups that oppose recruiters on campus plan rallyBy DANIELLE T. FURFARO, Albany (NY) Times Union Staff writerJune 8, 2005SAND LAKE -- Military recruiters on campus make Reed Dunlea and some of his fellow Averill Park High School students uncomfortable."We don't want our classmates to be manipulated into si...
Claudia Lefko, of the Iraqi Children's Art Exchange, with Iraqi artist Thamer Dawood, held a day of art, eating, and socializing at the Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy NY as part of an effort to build ties with Iraqi families who have recently immigrated to the United States and settled in the Albany area.
Mike Bonanno of The Yes Men kicked off the "Be The Media" Workshop Series Sunday (2/4/07) from 1-5 PM! He'll shared some of his renowned strategies for getting mainstream media coverage of his pranks, which range from the Barbie Liberation Organization (switching voice boxes of GI Joe and Barbie dolls and putting them back on store shelves to shine light on gender stereotypes in the toy industry) to his satirical impersonation of "suits" at World Trade Organization meetings (as documented in t...
What is Green Hermetism? Hermeticism, the tradition of occult arts and sciences, is introduced in the first Green Hermetism conference at the Sufi Abode of the Message. Hermeticism is neither a religion nor a science in the narrow sense but an art, a set of symbols and operations that harmonize universally with all forms of spirituality and knowledge. In Sufi alchemy, the highest color, that of the Philosopher's Stone, is gold-green: he hidden prophet Khidr, is also known as the Green Man. In ...