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“Sistahs Black Like Me” Catch It This Time!  See Yeah Review! On Saturday July 27 th , at the Poets’ Den in East Harlem, “Sistahs  Black Like Me” produced “ Bridges”. Sistahs Black Like Me’s producer Clarke Clark, and others are creating theatrical creative outlets for Sisters and Brothers. If we do not initiate, we do not exist. As we lose physical spaces, houses, institutions, it is imperative that we create new spaces for ourselves.  What a wonderful platform “Sistahs Black Like Me” has created, for us to produce and work together using theatre techniques, dance, poetry, and spoken word. The singers were so natural, singing without musical instruments, being voice and the musical sound. The “Violin Diva” was awesome. In fact the whole cast was incredibly rich in their creative abilities. Venues like this are needed. These are spaces for us to be who we are; Nubian queens and kings. They shared their talents and life experiences.  It was truly community ar

Using Crowdfunding to Build Community and Mutual Sustainable Development in Africa! Please join me at: http://www.gofundme.com/Ecology--Culture Field Trip!   2013 Follow-up Ecological Agricultural and Cultural Visit to Ghana As we look out into the world today, it becomes crystal clear that in order to survive, we must, and can become a part of more than one community. It is a global world. We have entered the Age of Community, as we take on the many challenges of building communities, as strong as corporations.  Crowdfunding is a collective financial approach which allows individuals, groups, etc., to pool their financial resources together to support projects. Today as individuals we continue to need community and support. This need is innate. Not only do we need support, but we need to initiate and create our reality collectively, if we are to feel that we are alive, and that we exist. Crowdfunding gained popularity around 2008 in the midst of a global financia

Rural Development - Eco-farming is Key to Which Way Forward in Africa! * The picture below of young girl and the sacred Tano River where the sacred cat fish lives . “Agro-ecological farming/Ecofarming can feed the world and save the climate,” (UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter), said in a report dated 22 June 2010 – “Agro-ecological farming (Ecofarming) improves food production and farmers’ incomes while at the same time protecting the soil, water, climate, and can feed an estimated world population of nine billion people by 2050, and go a long way to save the climate, if implemented now.” He makes it clear in the report that….”scant attention has been paid to the more effective agro-ecological methods. …with more than a billion hungry people on the planet, and the climate disruptions ahead of us, we must rapidly scale up these sustainable techniques,” De Schutter said, …”agro-farming is a way of addressing global hunger, climate change, and the de

  Crowdfunding Builds Economic Community Support!     We have entered the Age of Community, as we build communities as strong as corporations. Crowdfunding is a collective financial approach which allows individuals to pool their resources together to support projects. Today as individuals we continue to need community and support. This need is innate, as we wallow in corporate control and consumerism. Not only do we need support, but we need to intiate and create our reality collectively, if we are to feel that we are alive and that we exist. Crowdfunding is gaining popularity, and it is filling a need for us to connect, to intiate, to support, and to create alternative means for financial support.   Crowdfunding gained popularity around 2008 in the mist of establishment financial breakdown to inspire projects, growth, and support for the making of a creative class in the mist of what seemed to be collapse - change was brewing. Crowdfunding is not confined to tr