SURGE
Via Facebook:
BUY TICKETS ONLINE AT http://www.surgenetwork.org/leadership/tickets.html
Only $15 for students! ($25 general public)
Thursday, September 18th, 6pm
Carrboro Century Center
100 N. Greensboro St., Carrboro, NC
Come
help us celebrate the achievements of young leaders from around North
Carolina who have made significant contributions to the struggle for
justice in our communities.
This year's finalists are :
•
Chris Parker, Chapel Hill High School, is a leader of Chapel Hill High
School SURGE and worked to develop the Celebration of Earth and Sky and
campus biodiesel processor.
• Rosemary Johnson, Southern
Guilford High School, founded a student group to encourage dialogue
about gender, body image, and media representations of women.
•
Student Action with Workers (SAW), at UNC-Chapel Hill, led a three-week
long sit-in to demand that the UNC administration adopt a policy to
ensure that university-licensed products are made in factories that
respect workers rights.
• Feminist Students United (FSU),
UNC-Chapel Hill, led a series of campus discussions about gender,
heterosexism, and privilege.
• Andrew Zonderman, Duke
University, led Duke Students against Sweatshops' efforts to convince
Duke University to join the boycott of Smithfield Foods products.
•
Rosie Rangel, Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF), led a coalition of
rural Latino youth from migrant families in North Carolina.
•
iNSIDE oUT 180 creates safe environments for LGBTQ youth by providing
opportunities for them to express themselves and by educating the
broader community about LGBTQ issues.
More information and tickets online at http://www.surgenetwork.org
Don't forget to join the SURGE Facebook Group! http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=2207469071
Date:
Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 2:00pm
Speaking of Cyclists...
Matthew Lee does it again, this time in celebration of the inaugural Carrboro/Chapel-Hill Cruiser ride three years ago.
While the ReCYCLEry does not host Cruiser Tuesdays, you will ind a lot of us participating! For more information, please
read the following:
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
What: Cruiser Tuesday dress up and ride
Where: Starting at the newest BUB Hub location,
Johnny's Sporting Goods, 901 W. Main Street, Carrboro
When: 7:00pm gathering, 7:30pm ride
Theme: Funky Formal -- semi-formal, fully funky!
It's a social cycling mobile dancing costume party. Usually there's a theme, and quite often a Pabst tasting or a final stop at the Resevoir. It's NOT a "critical mass" type ride; we obey all street lights and traffic rules and do not block motorists. All bikes and skill levels are welcome.
Matthew has a Cruiser Tuesday blog with photos and details: http://www.cruisertuesday.blogspot.com/
Here's an article describing how Matthew Lee brought it to the Triangle: http://www.recyclery.info/node/43
RSVP at: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=77805670496
Date:
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 - 3:00pm
Location:
Starting at Johnny's Sporting Goods, 901 W. Main St., Carrboro, NC
Today, Chris Richmond, Mary Lindsley and myself attended an awards luncheon and presentation at RTP Headquarters on Davis Drive. We accepted the "Go Chapel Hill Community Cycling Award" which consisted of a brief introduction and a shiny new plaque and witnessing a good number of other worthy awards and innovative individuals and companies.. In order to conserve my time and effort in my purely volunteer role, I will simply mirror the post I just uploaded to the ReCYCLEry.info website, and I will follow up with a couple of comments following up on the recent BUB Is Up thread I recently initiated on OP...
Published online as "Award Winning BUB is up! ...not to mention gas prices":
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