#opwalkabout Going Away Party! Tonight!

I'll be saying goodbye to friends and loved ones at UNregular Radio Presents: The Pink Parts, Grimewave, MANandMOUNTAIN, and Roman Numeral III at Rosebud Bar & Grill in Davis Sq Thursday night! 

Come on down tomorrow night at 8:30PM for a cheap show, good beer, and great people!  Purchase tickets in advance and save a couple bucks.

Occupy the Economy

The Sustainable Economy team is surveying farms to determine which are "sustainable enough" to meet with its seal of approval...and to start the list of companies that the mapping tool will encourage people to "vote with their bucks" to "Occupy the Economy".

#opdev: Citizen Journalism 101

Learning about journalism, and setting my own personal standards and practices for writing has led me on a fun research journey that I've yet to be able to verbalize.  I'd hate to sit on the information while I'm away, this isn't pretty but here's a list of links having to do with journalism, ethics, standards, and media/ government/ citizen interaction.

#opwalkabout Makes BostInno!

"[Kristen] Hoye is fed up with what continues to happen in this country.

After realizing that problems people face today mirror those that previous generations dealt with, including sexism and racial profiling, she has decided it’s time to do something different...."

#opwalkabout Media Rundown 12 days and counting

Parkman Bandstand; Boston Common: Boston, MA

Media Rundown: 8/16/2012 #opwalkabout

"I'm walking because I'm ignorant. I'd thought that I was ready to teach, only to find as I'm preparing for this journey, that I have so much more to learn."

Wednesday, August 29, 2012 at 8:00AM I am departing from Parkman Bandstand on the Boston Common, and starting a 462 mile trek to 100 Congress St. SW in Washington, D.C.

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Press Release and follow up (See release below pagebreak)

Boston Metro Coverage (Page one inside cover left column)
http://issuu.com/metro_us/docs/20120815_us_boston

Had an interview with Boston Innovation today!  Should be up on Saturday.

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An Evening of Folk Music and History 9/22/2012

Charlie King and Karen Brandow present... 

Saturday, September 22, 2012 at 7 pm.
"Occupy Lawrence 1912" a multi-media performance about the Bread and Roses textile strike that took place in Lawrence, Massachusetts 100 years ago.

Sponsored by Arlington United for Justice with Peace, Jobs with Justice, Occupy Arlington, the 25% Solution (Arlington), with thanks to New England War Tax Resistance for a grant.

Chris Nauman and Kenny Selcer open.

Steve Early discusses unions – then and now.

Event: Unfolding Changes at Center for Marxist Education 8/18/2012

8/18 Unfolding Changes in Cuba's Economic Organization and Food Production

"Cuba is undergoing significant changes in its economic organization and food production. Two of the speakers, Duncan McFarland and Cristina Martinez, participated in a week-long conference in July co-sponsored by the University of Havana and the US-based Radical Philosophy Association. 

Boston Metro: 460

#opwalkabout get's page one Boston Metro love!

"A Boston woman said she plans to walk 460 miles - all the way to Washington, D.C. -- 

...to personally hand political leaders a letter about "human suffering."  Kristen Hoye (that's me) said she will depart from Parkman Bandstand on the morning of Aug. 29.

Hoye asks in the letter, which was posted yesterday in the State House News Service, "Why is the suffering others, so that we may live, systemic?" and writes "I am afraid for the future, I am afraid for my future children".

Click the "Boston Metro" link and hop over to page one in the left hand column to check it out!