Re: [UC] Schemers on the Schuylkill

[UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN]

Amara Rockar wrote:


The mailing sticker rises again to be rehashed in the pages of CP

http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2007/05/17/schemers-on-the-schuylkill



yes, the article does sound like a rehash -- it actually 
repeats the very same speculations that were aired here on 
this list (the speculation about how the stickers are in 
reaction to a 40 year old marketing scheme, the speculation 
about how they must be the work of "young activists who live 
in a kind of self-imposed temporary poverty.")


still, it always cracks me up watching the lengths some will 
go to in order to explain away those little stickers!


meanwhile, marketing is marketing, branding is branding, and 
some quiet little truth of the stickers' message has now 
been amplified, ironically, in giant painted letters above 
the walnut street bridge: a penn-branded message that links 
"Penn" with a tagline "welcome to university city".


as the author says, 'university city' IS a marketing scheme 
-- but he doesn't seem to appreciate that it's happening 
now, at the same time the stickers are appearing and ucd has 
claimed the "leading role in developing, managing and 
expanding the university city brand".  most of the article 
is spent trying to explain how the stickers are in pointless 
reaction to a 40-year old marketing scheme, to inevitable 
urban changes happening in many cities decades ago...


but then again, the article is entitled, 'schemers on the 
schuylkill'... perhaps after all someone at city paper wants 
to remind us that we *should* be looking at that painted 
bridge, so close to the schuylkill? :-)






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btw, does anyone know if the author of the cp article is the 
same andrew zitcer interviewed here?:


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[UC] Schemers on the Schuylkill

[Amara Rockar]

The mailing sticker rises again to be rehashed in the pages of CP

http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2007/05/17/schemers-on-the-schuylkill

Also in this issue is a (more interesting and) heartbreaking story on
the major Oxycontin lawsuit by Jeff Deeney. His work on Phawker.com
just amazing.

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[UC] Good news about govt

[SANDRA KNIGHT]

I have a positive experience to share with the list.  

Yesterday, I called a city department to get some info, was transferred about 3 
or 4 times within that dept and gave the last person a request.  Today
I stopped in, requested a look at the material, had copies made, paid for them 
and picked them up to take home.  Amazing!  All within 10 minutes.
sk 

Re: [UC] Plumbing stolen

[UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN]

Bill Sanderson wrote:
I've got a cast iron radiator sitting on my porch now.  I won't miss it 
much,, but I'd rather choose the disposition myself.
 
Any neighbor interested in a claw-foot tub in reasonably good condition, 
or the radiator, send me email? 



on a related note --

apparently, someone with a serious basket fetish has been 
donating to the second mile center -- check it out!




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Re: [UC] Thanks for the emails, but really, all is well!

[UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN]

Glenn wrote:
Ray, I'm glad you brought this up on the list. Even though you haven't 
let out your anger about this, you get real ad hominem attacks aimed at 
you by Tony frequently. I believe this double standard has become 
completely accepted here in what Craig called the UCD culture.




yeah, plenty others here see this, too.



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Re: Great saturday for Porch Sales RE: [UC] Block Wide Porch Sale

[frbyers]

Hi, All,
 
 I am chairing the 29th annual St. Francis de Sales Parish Porch Sale on 
June 9-10.  If you have any good usable items (possibly left over from your own 
sale) that you would like to donate to it, BUT NO CLOTHING OR LARGE FURNITURE, 
we are accepting donations in the school auditorium on Friday, June 8.  If you 
want to donate beforehand, call 267-312-2255.  Thanks very much.
 
   Fran
  
 
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Subject: Great saturday for Porch Sales RE: [UC] Block Wide Porch Sale 


I checked in Craigslist and there are a few porch sales in the neighborhood 
this saturday. In addition to the Hazel block wide sale, there is a sale on the 
4600 block of Larchwood. 
In addition, the Greatest Enon Baptist church (47 and Cedar) is having a flea 
market and another sale on the 4600 block of Cedar. 
Too bad it doesn't coincide with the House Tour on sunday. 
 
Enjoy! 
 
 
Maty 
 
 
 
 
>From: Margie Politzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
>Reply-To: Margie Politzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
>To: University City listserv  
>Subject: [UC] Block Wide Porch Sale 
>Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 15:30:12 -0400 
> 
>Come to the 
>2nd Annual 
>Block Wide Porch Sale 
>Saturday May 19th 
>10 am to 2 pm 
>4600 Block Hazel Ave 
> 
>Treasures galore at this multi-family porch sale! 
>Lots of free stuff too! 
> 
 
 
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Re: [UC] recycling questions about plastics

[Cindy Miller]

Or...you could just e-mail me (after you've got a good-sized stack) and 
I will come over to your house and pick them up!


(I use them in my work for...you-know-what)


-cm
Cindy's Pet Care©






On Thursday, May 17, 2007, at 02:06 PM, Vivianne T. Nachmias wrote:


and also at whole Foods... and at the Acme in Bala Cynwyd

Vivianne
On May 17, 2007, at 12:50 PM, Leila Graham-Willis wrote:

You can recycle plastic bags at the entrance to the Acme at 20th & 
Oregon. There are probably other grocery stores that have bins as > well.

 
Also, on a related note - IKEA has a recycling bin near the cash 
registers where you can recycle batteries, light bulbs, etc.

 
Leila








Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 12:25:50 -0400
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Subject: Re: [UC] recycling questions about plastics
To: univcity@list.purple.com

No and No.

Margie

Are these items allowed in our single stream bins?
 
1. cut up plastic rings from 6 packs of soda
 
2. plastic bags from supermarkets and those from other stores such as 
the Barnes and Noble or Ritz camera

 
Thanks,
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[UC] August Wilson's "Gem of the Ocean" at Bushfire on 52nd

[anm]

If you're a fan of August Wilson or just need an excuse to check out the grand
old Bushfire Theater at 52nd and Locust, "Gem of the Ocean" is playing until
May 27th.  Tickets are 2 for $30 Tuesday through Friday, which ain't a bad deal
for live entertainment of any kind.  My brief pablum-laden review is right here:
www.malcolmxpark.org

Andrew

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[UC] Report on _another_ municipal election

[John Desmond]

Salutations, gentlefolk,

Thought some of thee might be interested in news about another city's 
government ...


Yours, John Desmond


<<

Chicago Unions Flex Political Muscle

By David Moberg

In These Times
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3194/

Frustrated with city hall's tilt to a business elite,
Chicago's labor unions decided to send Mayor Richard M.
Daley a message: The 'city that works' doesn't work for
working families. In the February and April elections,
the labor movement broke with the city's fabled but
feeble Democratic machine, and helped oust key Daley
allies and elect seven new members to the 50-seat city
council.

Despite scandals engulfing his top aides, the mayor
easily won his sixth term in February against weak
opponents. But the Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL)
-for decades a pillar of the city's machine
politics-did not endorse Daley (although the building
trades did). Instead, unions spent roughly $3 million
and fielded a political operation stronger than Daley's
that backed challengers to the mayor's council allies.

They targeted aldermen who had opposed labor
objectives, such as a living wage for 'big box' retail
workers. Although the council passed the ordinance last
year, several aldermen later switched votes, dooming
the effort to override Daley's veto. In 2004 the
council had also split over Wal-Mart's request,
supported by Daley, to build two stores in Chicago, one
of which was narrowly approved.

In the council debates about Wal-Mart and the living
wage standard, black council members split into a pro-
labor faction and a faction that attacked unions as
racist enemies of the black community. Black council
members targeted by labor in this year's elections
continued their race-baiting attacks, even though the
most politically active unions, such as the Service
Employees (SEIU) and the American Federation of State,
County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), have a
majority black membership in Chicago.

Most unions regarded the battle over the big box
ordinance as a symptom of the new class-based divide in
Chicago politics, but not the crux of their dispute
with Daley. 'It became symbolic of the city's
relationship to the labor movement,' says John Cameron,
political director for AFSCME District Council 31, 'to
the extent that it refocused city politics around
class, wages and jobs instead of race and ethnicity
issues, which have always been the historic
conversation, or ‘independent' versus ‘machine'
politics, when independent didn't necessarily mean pro-
labor. For the first time I can remember, we had a city
election about class.'

'The press wants to make it about big box,' says SEIU
State Political Director Jerry Morrison, 'but this is
about a larger agenda, about SEIU and the rest of the
labor movement building independent political power.'
Unions began planning their challenge to Daley's allies
long before the big box vote, and they have goals far
beyond challenging Wal-Mart.

Chicago's economy has been relatively strong under
Daley, who has promoted the city as a global hub for
business services, rather than the city of big
shoulders as it once was known. New apartment towers
flourish around the downtown, and gentrification has
spread into working-class neighborhoods. Daley lavished
subsidies on business through tax increment financing
districts that were intended to revive blighted
neighborhoods but which have mainly benefited already
dynamic Loop locations, depriving local government of
desperately needed taxes in the process.

The mayor-typically with city council support-refused
to aid key organizing drives at the city's major
hospital chains, failed to support hotel workers now on
strike for nearly four years at the Congress Hotel,
dragged out city worker contract negotiations, and
pushed privatization of city services and properties.

'It will be good to have a more independent council,'
says SEIU Illinois Council President Tom Balanoff. 'We
sensitized the aldermen to working family issues.
Equally important, labor has established its
independence from many of the city's political
fiefdoms. Now the challenge is to figure out how to use
the new-found power, or perception of it, for working
families.'

A potential new labor/reform council bloc would not
have a majority but would roughly double its previous
size. Labor and its community allies have no settled
agenda but are likely to push for strong affordable
housing legislation, reforms of tax increment financing
and a new living wage bill. Reformers may also pursue
ethics reform and the creation of a civilian police
review board.

Overall, University of Illinois at Chicago political
science professor Dick Simpson says, the new council
bloc will be pushing a 'working-class, middle-class
agenda, as opposed to the global economy tilt of the
Daley administration.'

Having broken loose from its self-imposed shackles to
the Daley machine, Chicago labor unions say they will
escalate their fight in the council 

Re: [UC] recycling questions about plastics

[Vivianne T. Nachmias]

and also at whole Foods... and at the Acme in Bala Cynwyd

Vivianne
On May 17, 2007, at 12:50 PM, Leila Graham-Willis wrote:

You can recycle plastic bags at the entrance to the Acme at 20th &  
Oregon. There are probably other grocery stores that have bins as  
well.


Also, on a related note - IKEA has a recycling bin near the cash  
registers where you can recycle batteries, light bulbs, etc.


Leila




Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 12:25:50 -0400
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [UC] recycling questions about plastics
To: univcity@list.purple.com

No and No.

Margie

Are these items allowed in our single stream bins?

1. cut up plastic rings from 6 packs of soda

2. plastic bags from supermarkets and those from other stores such  
as the Barnes and Noble or Ritz camera


Thanks,
Muriel



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Re: [UC] recycling questions about plastics

[Margie Politzer]

> Whole Foods on Callowhill has a container in its exit area for recycling
> plastic bags.
> 
> Margie
> 
> 
> 
> You can recycle plastic bags at the entrance to the Acme at 20th & Oregon.
> There are probably other grocery stores that have bins as well.
>  
> Also, on a related note - IKEA has a recycling bin near the cash registers
> where you can recycle batteries, light bulbs, etc.
>  
> Leila
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 12:25:50 -0400
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: [UC] recycling questions about plastics
>> To: univcity@list.purple.com
>> 
>>> No and No.
>>> 
>>> Margie
>>> 
>>> Are these items allowed in our single stream bins?
>>>  
>>> 1. cut up plastic rings from 6 packs of soda
>>>  
>>> 2. plastic bags from supermarkets and those from other stores such as the
>>> Barnes and Noble or Ritz camera
>>>  
>>> Thanks,
>>> Muriel
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> See what's free at AOL.com 
>>>   .
>>> 
>> 
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RE: [UC] recycling questions about plastics

[Leila Graham-Willis]

You can recycle plastic bags at the entrance to the Acme at 20th & Oregon. 
There are probably other grocery stores that have bins as well.
 
Also, on a related note - IKEA has a recycling bin near the cash registers 
where you can recycle batteries, light bulbs, etc.
 
Leila


Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 12:25:50 -0400From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [UC] 
recycling questions about plasticsTo: univcity@list.purple.com

No and No.MargieAre these items allowed in our single stream bins? 1. cut up 
plastic rings from 6 packs of soda 2. plastic bags from supermarkets and those 
from other stores such as the Barnes and Noble or Ritz camera Thanks,Muriel

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Re: [UC] recycling questions about plastics

[Margie Politzer]

> No and No.
> 
> Margie
> 
> Are these items allowed in our single stream bins?
>  
> 1. cut up plastic rings from 6 packs of soda
>  
> 2. plastic bags from supermarkets and those from other stores such as the
> Barnes and Noble or Ritz camera
>  
> Thanks,
> Muriel
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 

[UC] I have the sign frames I needed - thanks!

[MLamond]

I have the sign frames I needed for the UC Historical Society's house tour on 
Sunday from 1-5 p.m.

Get your tickets now, way cheaper than on Sunday!

Email me if you need more info.

Thanks,

Melani Lamond, for the UCHS House Tour





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[UC] recycling questions about plastics

[Mbkudera]

Are these items allowed in our single stream bins?
 
1. cut up plastic rings from 6 packs of soda
 
2. plastic bags from supermarkets and those from other stores such as the  
Barnes and Noble or Ritz camera
 
Thanks,
Muriel



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[UC] Brick pointing,house painting, and storm window repair/ replacement

[Matty Hart]

Hello:

I am a new homeowner and long time resident to the neighborhood and find my
self, of course, with a long list of projects for the next several months.
I was wondering if people might have suggestions for quality people for the
following services:

Brick pointing,house painting, and storm window repair/ replacement

Please email me off the list.
Many thanks in advance!!

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