Category: Environment


  • Making Medicine and Engaging in Plant Healing

    Ecotone Coop and the DC Free School present: Lesson and workday- making medicine and engaging in plant healing.   Join us for an evening of exploring our relationship to healing and explore what our ancestors saw as an integral part of self-healing – making medicine! We will have a series of mini-workshops running to allow…

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  • DC Free School – Herbal Walk: Identifying Food and Medicine in Your Yard

    Did you know food and medicine grows all around you? Join us for this herb walk led by Ecotone Coop and find out how to stock your kitchen and medicine cabinet with what blossoms on the fringes of your yard! We will show you how to identify and use plants like clover, mallow, plantain, and…

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  • Press Release: ‘We are the Miner’s Canary’: Indigenous Organizations Call for Clean Up of ‘Homegrown’ Radioactive Pollution Crisis

    For Immediate Release Friday, January 29, 2016 Contact: Klee Benally Clean Up The Mines, organizer cleanupthemines@gmail.com http://www.cleanupthemines.org 15,000 Abandoned Uranium Mines Protested at DC EPA Headquarters ‘We are the Miner’s Canary’: Indigenous Organizations Call for Clean Up of ‘Homegrown’ Radioactive Pollution Crisis Editors: High-resolution photos and B-roll available. attached photos by Eli Laliberte, Konnected.tv. EPA…

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  • No Nukes Protest at EPA – Indigenous Delegation Resisting Radioactive Pollution

    Indigenous representatives from the Northern Great Plains & Southwest are traveling to DC for meetings and presentations to address radioactive impacts in their communities. Radioactive pollution is an invisible national crisis with millions of people in the United States being exposed as Nuclear Radiation Victims on a daily basis. Exposure to radioactive pollution has been…

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  • DC Free Store: No Trade Saturdays

    Since we’re receiving a lot more items for the free store and the community wants more consist events like this we’re launching “No trade Saturday’s.” Which will happen every second Saturday of each month. No Trade Saturday’s consists of ZERO exchanges. Only items that are currently at the free store may be taken. Whatever you…

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  • Taking Actions Day 2014

    Days of Taking Actions, Please join this event. Post one of your amazing acts of kindness and help a nominated group or charity receive a dollar for your act of kindness. We also would like to add that the Peace House was nominated as well! Background: Taking Actions was founded on October 16, 2010. Our…

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  • Radical Mycology: Fungi For Human Health

    The Peace House is bringing the Radical Mycology Collective to DC! Join the Radical Mycology Collective for a presentation on the uses of fungi for covering the history of medicinal mushrooms, a variety of medicinal mushroom species and their uses, and methods of properly preparing your own medicinal mushroom products. Radical Mycology is an organization…

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  • Alpha Natural Resources Arrestee Camilo Pereira

    Statement from Camilo Pereira: “Extreme extraction is very close to my family’s story, and the destruction of mountains is near to my heart. My father’s hometown in Peru is right next to the largest gold mine in the world, Yanacocha. As long as I can remember, I’ve had family who worked in the mine –…

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  • The Northeast Sprog Program

    Friends, Family and Supporters, The Northeast Sprog program is looking for recruits. This is organized by one of our comrades. The Northeast Sprog program is a 7 day community organizing training camp taking place in Atrim, New Hampshire, June 22-29, 2014 at Camp Chenoa. The program equips young people and adults alike with the skills…

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  • White Supremacy, Sierra Club, SB1070 and how everything is connected

      I wanted to Introduce to you John H. Tanton. John Tanton is the racist architect of the modern anti-immigrant movement. He created a network of organizations – the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and NumbersUSA – that have profoundly shaped the immigration debate in the United States. A retired Michigan ophthalmologist, Tanton…

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