Over a lifetime, the average woman spends about $200 on single-use pads and tampons, creating an enormous truck-loads of trash. Menstrual cups are made of latex or silicon and catch, rather than absorb, menstrual flow. They can last for up to 10 years !
For more info:
sustainablecycles.org
Menstrual cups booth
Most Third World cultures have strong and rich histories of cooperative lifestyles. These experiences are strongly reflected in United States within communities of color. However, these same communities are disproportionately low-income and severely under-resourced in part due to histories of colonialism and capitalist exploitation. By promoting self-determination, community decision-making, and economic independence, cooperatives can serve as a tool for decolonization while at the same time help maintain strong ethnic identities. This workshop examined how the Untied States Cooperative Movement can be better representative of communities of color and how to facilitate cultural competence within existing cooperative organizations.
Adrienne Maree Brown on media outlet DemocracyNOW speaking about her work in Detroit and the US Social Forum
Organizing is to the community like spirituality is to the individual
Adrienne Maree Brown
NASCO Keynote Speaker 2011
In-between Course Block 2 11/5/11
Saturday Afternoon
The Beehive Collective taught us how to make silk screen prints Friday night at Vail house! The prints are part of a children’s book the group is making.
NASCO DIY Sale and The Community Book Shelf & Boxcar Book Sale. Also, come out to the Campus Club to see Beehive Collective Art Work
-via Media Members: Andrew Morrison and Jilla Nadimi
DOCUMENTATION TEAM MEMBER #1
Hey gurl hey,
My name is Andrew Morrison and I am a cooper from Students’ Cooperative Minneapolis! I like sloths and being a recruitment manager! Ask me about my beekeeping skills.
DOCUMENTATION TEAM MEMBER #2
BonJOUR,
My name is Jilla Nadimi, and I am a co-oper at the Students’ Cooperative in Minneapolis, MN. I love, love, love catz, and I am currently working on a plan to infiltrate my house with them ;)
DOCUMENTATION TEAM MEMBER #3
HI! My name is Katie Karie! I’m a co-oper in Luther Haus, here in Ann Arbor. If you see me around with a camera, let’s chat about yoga, Walt Whitman, food, buying food for fifty people, cooking food for fifty people, or strange dreams.
DOCUMENTATION TEAM MEMBER #4
Hey hi. I’m Laura from Minneapolis. I’ll be wandering around taking pictures, videos, and documenting NASCOian things in general. Ask me about MARS, food justice, farming and indigenous solidarity, and making zines and fliers.
DOCUMENTATION TEAM MEMBER #5
hi! hello! thanks for coming & watching & being
xo- Salam Rida
DOCUMENTATION TEAM MEMBER #6
Hi! Emily Kennedy, Oberlin Student Co-operative Association. Glad to see you here!
