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May 25 2013: East End Share Faire
A Space To Share Goods and Services With Your Neighbors+ Frozen Yumminess -Potluck Dishes And More -
Hotline in Action
To illustrate how our hotline functions outside of the snow arena, we thought it’d be helpful to describe a recent contact. -
Pittsburgh Police Try To Shut Down the East End Share Faire (August 4, 2012)
Statement from East End Mutual Aid regarding police action against the Share Faire on August 4, 2012. -
If the struggle is not intergenerational, it won’t succeed
Inevitably, following discussions of why our group is doing what we’re doing, the conversation will shift into resident’s previous interactions with younger people who’ve moved into the area. It is almost always the same story: disappointment and misunderstanding. -
Compassion Is More Important Than Profit
What does it say about our society when even death can’t interrupt the unquenchable quest for maximizing profit? -
FDA’s Magical Reappearing Trash Bag
Some further discussion of neighborhood conflicts in the Bloomfield and Garfield area -
Who Do Community Groups Represent?
All around us there are organizations and institutions that claim to be working on our behalf. So how do we tell who’s actually on our side and who isn’t? Who’s working for us and who might actually be hurting us? -
The Double Standard
Discussion of the double standard where some community groups assume the right to create community expectations and the subsequent manner in which they discriminatorily seek to enforce them -
Broken Logic at Root of Glass Lofts Development
Who should society reward for building, and buying, property? Is it in the interest of an economically deteriorated community to build new subsidized housing, or could this money be better directed? -
Eyesores are in the Eye of the Beholder
How people define what constitutes an eye sore, litter, pollution, and graffiti, often speaks to their political perspectives and economic interests. -
Reflections on Snow Shoveling
One member of East End Mutual Aid talks about their experiences with this winter’s snow removal project. -
Sharing is Caring, But it isn’t Enough
EEMA has recently held two wildly successful Share Faires. I’ve found these events both inspirational and rewarding, while exemplifying some obvious contradictions and limitations. -
Imposed Scarcity
If a neighbor down the street owned a snow blower or a lawn mower, would you ask to borrow it if you didn’t know them personally? Conversely, if you owned one would you consider lending it out? -
The Dreaded “G” Word
Nothing makes me want to go down to Nico’s and grab a cold beer more than the arguments about gentrification that so regularly occur whenever the issue of development is brought up. -
Thinking About Housing
Some thoughts on housing and recent construction in Bloomfield.
Other Posts
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Regarding the Events of May 4th
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Report from October 23 2010 Prepare Faire!
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Breaking the Binary
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