Each Body is a Miracle

a social praxis, a play in retreat an exploration of health, wellness, and creativity in East Flatbush/Flatbush

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How community fridges are fixing a broken food system

Across the city, community fridges are tackling hyperlocal food insecurity.

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In Our Hearts ( @iohnyc-blog ) is a NYC based anarchist network of autonomous collectives, projects & individuals building a culture of resistance since 2004. Venmo: @iohnyc Instagram: @iohnyc. 

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Health & Justice For All Online Talk - The Old Stone House in Brooklyn

Join the Human Impacts Institute and Old Stone House for this FREE, youth-led conversation about health, justice, and creative communities. Learn from NYC visionaries in policy, health, and education on how we can keep our families safe and healthy, while leading the way for an equitable and fair “new normal”. All ages are welcome. NYC-based …

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Florence Delva (full essay)

A link to Florence Delva, an essay reflecting on cultivating sustainable lives in Brooklyn and beyond, is available to read online:

https://theoldstonehouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Florence-Delva_full-text_FINAL.pdf

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DIANE EXAVIER - The Old Stone House in Brooklyn

DIANE EXAVIER EACH BODY REMAINS A MIRACLE A continuation of Each Body Is a Miracle (Haiti Cultural Exchange, 2017) and Each Body Is (Still) a Miracle (No Longer Empty, 2019), Each Body Remains a Miracle is a play in retreat and an exploration of health and wellness in Brooklyn. Each Body Remains a Miracle reflects …

My essay, Florence Delva, named after the grandmother from my play Bernarda’s Daughters, is available to read online and seen in person (by appointment) at the Old Stone House

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Food educator Marissa Finn created this website to encourage people to redistribute funds from their Pandemic-Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) cards. Her idea: Use the card, and then donate the equivalent funds to help tackle hunger. 

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The card is expected to be in the mail in the next few weeks.

REDISTRIBUTE WEALTH.

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up to date COVID-19 stats by borough

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The popularity of HGTV house-flipping TV shows can’t be overstated: In the second week of July, HGTV was the fourth highest rated cable network, behind only Fox News, MSNBC and CNN, making it the highest rated entertainment network in the United States. Its most prominent programming: the reliable, risk free formula of home flipping shows. All of these shows—Flip or Flop and its many regional spinoffs, Good Bones, Flipping 101, to name just a few—share a basic formula: house-flippers, usually a family business in the form of a husband and wife team or parent and child with a folksy rapport, buy a neglected house on the cheap—cue zoom-ins on mold, water damage, decaying wood, dust and dead bugs—that’s often in a relatively poor or gentrifying neighborhood. They then turn it into something they describe as "beautiful", to be sold at a much higher price to, most likely, young white people looking for a "funky" home in an "up-and-coming" neighborhood. But at what cost do these glossy, get-rich-quick reality shows entertain us? What ideologies do they promote, and how do they erase the working class black and brown families whose housing was condemned, and communities were systemically neglected, before the camera’s even began rolling? On this episode—our Season 3 finale—we take a look at these shows to understand how and why HGTV became a glorified commercial for house-flipping and gentrification, examining its indifference to housing instability and its dead-eyed cheerleading of “middle-class” bourgeois aspirationalism, no matter the social cost. Our guests are culture writer Ann-Derrick Gaillot and Atlanta-based community organizer Kamau Franklin.

How home improvement shows often make the case for gentrification, which also relies on the state to displace people

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MARIAME KABA on Moving Past Punishment /151 — FOR THE WILD

Mariame addresses punishment as an issue of directionality while reminding us why it is vital to have the prison abolition movement in conversation with the movement for climate & environmental justice.

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All forms of harm engender needs. And we have to then figure out...how we are going to attend to those needs.

Mariame Kaba talking about transformative justice on the podcast For the Wild, which focuses on co-liberation and intersectional storytelling.

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Opinion | Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police

Because reform won’t happen.

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There is not a single era in United States history in which the police were not a force of violence against black people.

Mariame Kaba in her NY Times op-ed, “Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police”

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One point brought up in Episode 116, highlighting the connection between real estate interests and over-policing, solicited a lot of feedback from listeners. In this News Brief, we wanted to expand upon this topic by interviewing an academic source we cited in the episode: assistant professor of sociology at the University of Colorado Denver Brenden Beck, whose work focuses on the intersection between "urban development" projects and the targeted, sustain harassment of communities of color.

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Police often respond to the needs of the real estate market.

Brenden Beck, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado Denver on Citations Needed, a podcast about the intersection of media, public relations, and power..

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American Police : Throughline

Black Americans being victimized and killed by the police is an epidemic. A truth many Americans are acknowledging since the murder of George Floyd, as protests have occurred in all fifty states calling for justice on his behalf. But this tension between African American communities and the police has existed for centuries. This week, the origins of American policing and how those origins put violent control of Black Americans at the heart of the system.

This episode of NPR’s Throughline details the history of policing in America and its foundations in antiblackness.

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Flatbush + Main Episode 26: The Police Killing of Arthur Miller Jr. - Brooklyn Historical Society

In Episode 26 of Brooklyn Historical Society’s podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia discuss the tragic 1978 killing of Crown Heights resident Arthur Miller Jr. by police, and consider his important legacy as a community leader, activist, and businessman. For complete show notes,

This episode of Brooklyn Historical Society’s podcast Flatbush + Main is the inspiration behind the essay Florence Delva, on view in Brooklyn Utopias: 2020 at the Old Stone House. In this moment where people are calling for abolition, it is important to look back at the long history of police violence against Black people.