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Video: Lea and Danila's Wedding
By Shira | Aug 27, 10 12:04 PM
Here's a video of our close friends Lea and Danila's wedding, which I had the honor of officiating. I had never done this before, and it was an amazingly touching experience. I encourage everyone to get ordained online! Ari shot the video and I edited it.
Lea & Danila's Wedding from Shira Golding on Vimeo.
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Video: Trap, Neuter, Release with Kristin – Ithaca Freeskool Distance Learning
By Shira | Aug 25, 10 06:30 PM
Local animal advocate and TNR expert Kristin Lang demonstrates how to trap feral cats so that they can be spayed or neutered and returned to the wild. Ari shot it and I edited it!
Trap, Neuter, Release with Kristin - Ithaca Freeskool Distance Learning from Shira Golding on Vimeo.
The Ithaca Freeskool brings people together to equalize the distribution of knowledge and confidence with an emphasis on skills and issues of local importance. Check out the calendar for free classes, discussion groups, skill shares, projects, and events hosted in a non-intimidating, informal, radical, creative, and fun environment. Volunteer to teach a class or start a Freeskool in your community!
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The Amazing Hope Machine's Voyage to Mexico - New Video!
By Shira | Aug 16, 10 04:25 PM
I just edited this video of our awesome buddy Max and friends doing some cool performance work in Mexico:
The Amazing Hope Machine's Voyage to Mexico from Shira Golding on Vimeo.
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Mexico and Back Again - New Video!
By Shira | Aug 6, 10 12:52 PM
This winter, Ari and I went to Mexico for a month to explore, visit our friend Emily in Oaxaca and check out another friend's amazing artist residency program at her family's hacienda. To lower our environmental impact, we took trains and buses all the way from Ithaca and we're really glad we did, because the journey was amazing. Here is a half-hour experimental travelogue of our experience that I just finished editing. Enjoy!
Mexico and Back Again from Shira Golding on Vimeo.
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Interview with Lioness Filmmakers on MediaRights.org
By Shira | Jul 28, 10 01:29 PM
We've been working with Room 11 Productions, the team behind the documentary Lioness for a few years now, having designed their website, poster and DVDs. I recently interviewed Meg and Daria about the film's impact for MediaRights.org.
Check out the article:
LIONESS Outreach Journal: Engaging Americans Around the Changing Role of Women in Combat
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Upcoming Events: Freeskool Workshops and Happenings, DIY Movie-Making, and another Really Really Free Market
By Ari | May 26, 10 04:22 PM
Here are some classes and other events we're involved in that are coming up in Ithaca and the surrounding area:
- June 5 - Theodore Case Film Festival is showing Frac Attack (thanks to the festival and to Marina for making this happen!)
- June 7 - Friendface 101: Intro to Social Networking
- June 8 - DIY Movie Making II- Writer's Meeting Where We Write (organized by Lea!)
- June 10 - DIY Movie-Making III - The Musical (More info in Freeskool Calendar)
- June 15 - Animal Rights Sharing Circle
- June 25 - Share Tompkins Really Really Free Market, 4-8pm at Southside Community Center in collaboration with the weekly summer Congo Square Market
- June 29 - Really Easy Blogging with Wordpress
- July 17 - Sing-A-Long II (More info in Freeskool Calendar)
- August 17 - Your Name in Print: Press Release Skillshare (More info in Freeskool Calendar)
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Ithacans: Vote on May 18th in the Ithaca City School District election
By Ari | May 12, 10 08:09 PM
There's an upcoming Ithaca City School District election. The polls are open noon-9pm on May 18th. This is a very important election and we need the community to come out and vote for candidates who will help ensure equity remains a top priority for our district. Please spread the word and bring your friends to vote.
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How To Make Your Own Shampoo
By Ari | May 12, 10 07:30 PM
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Fun with Powerpoint - Share Tompkins Presentation at Ignite Ithaca
By Shira | May 1, 10 04:59 PM
A few weeks ago, we were invited to do a 5-minute presentation about Share Tompkins at the first ever Ignite Ithaca. Check out the video below and watch some of the other awesome powerpoints on YouTube.
IGNITE ITHACA is a high-energy evening of 5-minute talks by people who have an idea and the guts to get onstage and share it with their hometown crowd. Run by local volunteers who are connected through the global IGNITE network, IGNITE is a force for raising the collective IQ and building connections. Via streaming and archived videos of local talks, local Ignites share all that knowledge and passion with the world.
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A Lesson from Jon Voight, Tool of Capitalism
By Ari | Apr 22, 10 09:14 AM
I try to only post positive things but I had to make an exception this morning: Jon Voight on Obama via Huffington Post
The American People are witnessing the greatest lie that is cleverly orchestrated by President Obama and his whole administration. President Obama feeds people poison, giving them the idea that they are entitled to take from the wealthier who have lived and worked in a democracy that understands that capitalism is the only truth that keeps a nation healthy ... [Obama uses] a socialistic, Marxist teaching, and with it, he rapes this nation...
A dude can not use the word "rape" in this way and not be oppressive. Let's leave that word for real rape, okay? That quibble aside, I just want to make sure that everyone knows that it is not socialism but CAPITALISM that is sucking the blood out of the world's people like a giant parasite.
If capitalism is "the only truth that keeps a nation healthy" why are so many people suffering for want of money in this country? Because capitalism is a mechanism for moving money from workers into the pockets of rich people. Where do you think all the money goes? Why doesn't all of our hard work pay off? Because the owner of the coal mine, and the stockholders in the coal company, make astronomically more money than the miners - labor is being exploited. Voight reveals this in his quote - he's essentially saying, "protect me from mean Mr. Obama, I'm a rich person who's profited from the exploitation of workers and I want to keep profiting."
Capitalists want us to believe that capitalism is our friend, that it's how people get rich, and that getting rich is desirable. But it is a lie. Capitalism is doomed to failure. If you read Marx, you'll see why. Marx was not some devil out to destroy our righteous system, he was a humanitarian looking for ways to liberate the masses. WE ARE THE MASSES. Jon Voight is not the masses. Goldman Sachs is not the masses. WE THE PEOPLE ARE THE MASSES. We are the ones being exploited so that people like Jon Voight can jet all over the world spreading lies and misinformation to maintain their power.
This is our world, these are our lives. Capitalism was not made for us, it was made to exploit us. The sooner we can all see that its supporters have bamboozled us, the sooner we can reclaim our freedom and our planet from these thieves.
I am a pacifist and advocate non-violence. I believe the means are the ends in progress (thank you Gandhi). So I believe the solution here is to create positive, non-exploitative alternatives to capitalism. There are beautiful alternatives, and we have our whole future to find even better solutions than those we've already tried. I believe in human kind. I believe that if we put our heads together we can come up with something better than capitalism. Because no joke, capitalism is going to fail again and again - if it doesn't destroy our planet first.
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