[UC] Is anyone missing a bike near 48th and Springfield? Town watchers involved with recovery of one....

[Patty Bulack]

Hello All,
Last night a bike was recovered near 48th and Springfield.  Did anyone have
one taken before 10 pm last night?  If you did, please contact me (
pbul...@gmail.com)  with the description, and any other identifying numbers
you might have, and we will see if its yours.
Thanks,
Patty

[UC-Announce] Su 10/28: Tim Eriksen, shapenote singing & hard core Americana

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Tim Eriksen & Friends
Hard core Americana
"Best known for his haunting music for the film Cold Mountain... helped ignite 
the string band revival with Cordelia's Dad... focused fresh attention on 
19th-century shape note singing with Northampton Harmony. Wild, beautiful, and 
full of unexpected moments; at once sweepingly epic and as intimate as a 
lover's whisper." - Boston Globe

Concert:
Sunday, October 28 at 801 South 48th Street, Philadelphia

Shape note singing workshop:
Monday, October 29 at Studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Ave, Philadelphia 

Tim Eriksen is acclaimed for transforming American tradition with his startling 
interpretations of old ballads, love songs, shape-note gospel and dance tunes 
from New England and Southern Appalachia. He combines hair-raising vocals with 
inventive accompaniment on banjo, fiddle, guitar and bajo sexto - a 
twelve-string Mexican acoustic bass - creating a distinctive hardcore Americana 
sound that ranges from the bare bones of solo unaccompanied singing through 
stripped-down voice and bajo sexto to the lush, multi-layered arrangements on 
his new album of northern US roots music.

Tickets ($10-30), audio, and more information at www.crossroadsconcerts.org

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[UC] PA fracking in parks official, links

[Glenn moyer]

Fracking will also be allowed at public universities and K-12 schools. The public didn't know about this plan until it was too late.
 
Well, our motto here in the district on all important public matters is, "put your money where your mouth is"  (FOCP 2000-2012)
 
I wonder if anyone out there in the UCD regrets supporting the end of democracy and exclusion of the public in favor of backroom deals.  Please note, this is separate from the bill to allow the sale of urban parks. (3rd linkhttp://www.desmogblog.com/2012/10/19/study-fracking-pa-poisoning-communities-as-floodgates-open-drilling-campuses-public-parks
 
 
http://blog.shaleshockmedia.org/2012/10/19/the-fracking-of-pennsylvania-state-parks/
 
http://www.metro.us/philadelphia/local/article/1152665--pa-senate-s-consideration-of-parks-for-cash-bill-angers-philly-conservationists
 
 

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RE: [UC] A good use for $650,000?

[Lalevic, Darco]

No, the reason our society has sunk so low is because people don’t care about 
something until it affects them.
Or, maybe everyone else is ok with the selling off of public lands?
I just find it funny that you spend so much effort criticizing the decisions of 
local civic groups.

Darco

From: Glenn moyer [mailto:glen...@earthlink.net]
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2012 1:12 PM
To: Lalevic, Darco; UnivCity@list.purple.com
Subject: RE: [UC] A good use for $650,000?



"or happy that at least UCD is grabbing that money instead of it going to 
building malls in Kansas?"





Darco, generally this theft of taxpayer money is a package of city, state, and 
federal money.  Government is corrupt and serves the plutocracy at all these 
levels, and all of the money should be going toward the public good as Al 
suggested.  I've heard your argument many times.  Somebody is going to steal 
the public money, so we should get it.



Darco, this lack of ethics among the middle class is why our society has sunk 
so low.  This was the justification used many years ago when our civic 
associations betrayed our community and cheered the portrayal of all of us as 
criminals.  Now, we have no rights to public land and all public land in the 
entire state is going to be sold off for $1 to connected corporations.  Had we 
stood up together and didn't conspire with the original theivery and lies, the 
plutocracy could never have stolen our public spaces and the Bill of Rights.



When people reduce their ethics to criminality, they guarantee that they too 
will be victims.  That's how the criminal world works, and that is why we have 
a morally bankrupt society that backs the most evil military empire the world 
has ever known.  Our collective loss of the American principles we blabber 
about is the reason we live in a police state heading the planet toward 
extinction.



So no, I want to see that money go to healthcare, and schools in Grays Ferry, 
Detroit, and Camden, or to reduce the cost of public transportation so that we 
have some hope of saving the planet.



I hope you think about this slippery slope that the middle class has tumbled 
down.



All the best,

Glenn
























-Original Message-
From: "Lalevic, Darco"
Sent: Oct 19, 2012 4:03 PM
To: "UnivCity@list.purple.com"
Subject: RE: [UC] A good use for $650,000?


Umm, isn’t most of the funding for UCD from Penn/Drexel/USP/etc? Although, I 
guess the grants it pulls in are mostly from the feds. In which case shouldn’t 
you be complaining that the federal government gives out tax money or happy 
that at least UCD is grabbing that money instead of it going to building malls 
in Kansas?

From: owner-univc...@list.purple.com 
[mailto:owner-univc...@list.purple.com] On Behalf Of Glenn moyer
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 9:46 AM
To: krf...@aol.com; 
UnivCity@list.purple.com
Subject: Re: [UC] A good use for $650,000?


http://www.thedp.com/article/2012/10/penns-campus-may-see-new-retail-additions



This was in the DP yesterday.  I believe these developments are why taxpayer 
money will be used for this upscaling.



The 650,000 will be called grants, as usual, and then the Penn barking cheese 
gang will insist that it's not taxpayer money, but materialized as charity from 
above.



Glenn






-Original Message-
From: krf...@aol.com
Sent: Oct 19, 2012 7:51 AM
To: UnivCity@list.purple.com
Subject: [UC] A good use for $650,000?



No, I'm not planning to donate $650,000 to some neighborhood group for 
worthwhile causes.

But I've heard that UCD is going to spend this much money on a project somehow 
connected with the subway portal at 40th & Baltimore.

I can't help but believe the community could use this large amount of money for 
something more worthwhile. Certainly, if Penn and the VA think that an enhanced 
portal would be valuable to them, they can pay for it. Or, if SEPTA officials 
think such a project will increase use of the subway-surface lines, they can 
pay for it.

Anybody have any ideas about a better use for $650,000?

  *   Improvements at the Lea, Wilson, and/or Powel schools?
  *   Street tree care -- pruning what we've got and planting new saplings?
  *   Fixing the new corner curb ramps where big pools of water collect 
whenever it rains?
  *   Scholarships for West Philly High grads to attend Community College or 
enroll in a trade school?
  *   A fund to partially reimburse property owners to fix their uneven and 
broken sidewalks?
  *   Less exorbitant fees for parking close to Penn so suburbanites don't fill 
all the non-permitted spaces in front of our homes so residents and their 
guests don't have to keep driving around looking for spaces for their own cars?
  *   Other? ()
--

[UC] PBS special on war policy, link

[Glenn moyer]

I ran across a reference of this 1987 PBS special after the Iran Contra revelations, The Secret Government. This is a very good special that includes a good primer on US backed terrorism since WW II (Iran, Chile, Guatamala, Vietnam, Laos, etc). It is far from a complete overview of the global terrorism and atrocities, but it is an excellent reminder of American foreign policy, as you prepare for the sham debate.  Unfortunately, most people ignore this history!Remember, democracynow.org is continuing the expanded debates with Dr. Jill Stein and Rocky Anderson.say a prayer for the great Senator George McGovern! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiRBxDEGDqw

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[UC] Re: [UC-Announce] Su 10/28: Tim Eriksen, shapenote singing & hard core Americana

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Both events are at 7:30 - sorry about leaving that out.

On Oct 22, 2012, at 1:56 PM, Daniel Flaumenhaft wrote:

> Tim Eriksen & Friends
> Hard core Americana
> "Best known for his haunting music for the film Cold Mountain... helped 
> ignite the string band revival with Cordelia's Dad... focused fresh attention 
> on 19th-century shape note singing with Northampton Harmony. Wild, beautiful, 
> and full of unexpected moments; at once sweepingly epic and as intimate as a 
> lover's whisper." - Boston Globe
> 
> Concert:
> Sunday, October 28 at 801 South 48th Street, Philadelphia
> 
> Shape note singing workshop:
> Monday, October 29 at Studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Ave, Philadelphia 
> 
> Tim Eriksen is acclaimed for transforming American tradition with his 
> startling interpretations of old ballads, love songs, shape-note gospel and 
> dance tunes from New England and Southern Appalachia. He combines 
> hair-raising vocals with inventive accompaniment on banjo, fiddle, guitar and 
> bajo sexto - a twelve-string Mexican acoustic bass - creating a distinctive 
> hardcore Americana sound that ranges from the bare bones of solo 
> unaccompanied singing through stripped-down voice and bajo sexto to the lush, 
> multi-layered arrangements on his new album of northern US roots music.
> 
> Tickets ($10-30), audio, and more information at www.crossroadsconcerts.org


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[UC] Community Meeting October 25th

[Freda Egnal]

Garden Court Community
Association wants to know...



Are
You Our Neighbor?



Yes,
if you live between 45th and 52nd Streets and
Locust and Cedar Avenues, Garden Court Community Association is your
neighborhood association.  Please join us at our next general
community meeting:



GCCA
General Community Meeting
Thursday,
October 25, 2012
7:00
- 9:00 PM at 4725 Chestnut Street



Help
us set goals for the year: 

Tell
us what you like and don't like about our neighborhood.
Do
we need a Town Watch? Learn what's involved from Tara Smith,
Community Support Specialist for Philadelphia Town Watch Integrated
Services.
Learn
how to develop a Household Emergency Plan from the City's
Office of Emergency Management.
Meet
our new officers and committee chairs.
Hear
updates on Lea School, Parks, Planning and Zoning, Business
District.
Enjoy
refreshments and meet new neighbors!




For
more information, contact Kate Mills, Corresponding Secretary, at
katewmills (at) gmail (dot) com. or
267-254-3078. 

[UC] Another abandoned bike found last week on 4800 Beaumont. Is it yours?

[Patty Bulack]

Hello All,
After the last message I sent out about an abandoned bike, someone wrote me
to say they found another one last week, on the 4800 block of Beaumont.
See the description below.  If you can tell me any identifying marks, the
color of it, and/or serial number, you can have it back.
Thanks,
Patty

Hi, Patty,
I also found an abandoned bike.
Last week at night, someone called me and asked if I had left my bike on
the sidewalk.
I went out, and it was sitting randomly on the sidewalk Beaumont St about
100 ft from 48th St.  It was no where near a door entrance, so i assumed it
was abandoned.
I have it in my garage, with a note on our window with info to call.
It is a well used "Tracker" mountain bike.

RE: [UC] A good use for $650,000?

[Glenn moyer]

"I just find it funny that you spend so much effort criticizing the decisions of local civic groups."
 
The local civic groups were the vital pawns used to succesfully abuse power, seize our public spaces, and take away our rights as engaged citizens!  FOCP/SHCA/UCD were the pilot pawns in the pilot projects for the Penn driven plotocratic agenda that has gone city and state wide.  It's not funny at all.
 
When the city officials and their corporate/university masters blatantly circumvented the sunshine law, they used the dishonest civic association leaders around the city.  To create the new rental fee policies, which will soon eliminate non-corporate sponsored uses of public spaces, I discovered that a small collection of "friends" groups were redefined as the "community" or "public."  To create the invitational only, Clark Park Partnership, they called the tiny group of FOCP bullies the community and depended on their meanness.  
 
But do the FOCP leaders ever inform us of their secret back room dealings before it is too late? ???   No, they yell at the whistleblowers and get out their death ray, while lying that the citizens do not want to be involved.  However, when the UCD originally wanted to openly redesign clark Park, LARGE numbers of our neighbors came out to voice their views and told the plutocrats to leave the park alone and honor principles of democracy and ethics!
 
 
It's completely  untrue that people didn't want to be involved with important community decisions, and I spent years leaving a public record showing that truth. Remember, I was heavily involved in the park and community when UCD arrived, but was banned from the secret dealing! FOCP/UCD/SHCA leaders demand secrecy and back room dealing because they couldn't engage their vision for plutocracy openly.  That is why the leaders constantly attacked me personally.
 
 
The silence of the neighborhood came from the unbelievable bullying they saw, and our neighbors weren't willing to risk themselves by standing up for actual principles of democracy and take a public beating like I was given.  Protecting our rights, the constitution, and future generations often requires courage and certainly requires a vigilant citizenry!!!
 
But making fun of the truth tellers and claiming that people really wanted to be reduced to helpless consumers is completely untrue.  Your unsupportable arguments have been made many times before by those who wish to abuse or seize power for their criminal or plutocratic agenda.  The people were banned from participation in back room deals, and bullied with sound bites like "put your money where your mouth is."   That is what the list archives, for many years, proves!!! 
 
People in the neighborhood now feel largely impotent against the corporate hegemony over this once great community.  We all know that miserable people like Tony, Brian, et al. are always around to seize power and bully their neighbors, but I want the large silent majority to understand that their lack of courage is responsible for the actual loss of our community.  The larger group of american consumers also needs to realize that they caused the Iraq war and loss of our Bill of Rights because of confusion and lack of courage.  They were willing to be involved, but too broken to summon courage when it was necessary!
 
Watch Rocky Anderson and Dr. Stein on democracynow.org tonight and see what political courage looks like.  Read about the great George McGovern, John Lennon, MLK Jr., or Ghandi for other examples.
 
All the best,
Glenn
 
  
 
 
 

-Original Message- From: "Lalevic, Darco" Sent: Oct 22, 2012 2:38 PM To: "UnivCity@list.purple.com" Subject: RE: [UC] A good use for $650,000? 



No, the reason our society has sunk so low is because people don’t care about something until it affects them.
Or, maybe everyone else is ok with the selling off of public lands?
I just find it funny that you spend so much effort criticizing the decisions of local civic groups.
 
Darco
 


From: Glenn moyer [mailto:glen...@earthlink.net] Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2012 1:12 PMTo: Lalevic, Darco; UnivCity@list.purple.comSubject: RE: [UC] A good use for $650,000?
 
 
"or happy that at least UCD is grabbing that money instead of it going to building malls in Kansas?"
 
 
Darco, generally this theft of taxpayer money is a package of city, state, and federal money.  Government is corrupt and serves the plutocracy at all these levels, and all of the money should be going toward the public good as Al suggested.  I've heard your argument many times.  Somebody is going to steal the public money, so we should get it.
 
Darco, this lack of ethics among the middle class is why our society has sunk so low.  This was the justification used many years ago when our civic associations betrayed our community and cheered the portrayal of all of us as criminals.  Now, we have no rights to public land and all public land in the entire state is going to be sold off for