MONDAY NOV. 10: THE BEEHIVE DESIGN COLLECTIVE gives a talk, or rather, an interactive picture presentation on how to make political posters. With huge portable murals of collaboratively produced illustrations, a six foot tall fabric picture book, and an engaging narrative, the Bees will take you on a visual tour of the interactions between colonization, militarism, and resource extraction in the Americas. Dismantling Monoculture: Tales of Ants and Economics in the Americas. BU Central (GSU basement, 775 Comm. Ave.) 7pm.
TUESDAY NOV. 11: This week's meeting will also be a restaurant outing to Asmara Restaurant, 739 Mass. Ave in Cambridge. It's Ethiopian food, communal and delicious, near the Central Square T stop off the Red Line. Please rsvp to slowfood@bu.edu by Sunday, Nov. 9th if you plan on coming so that we can make reservations. We'll meet at Asmara at 6pm.
WEDNESDAY NOV. 12: Andrew Rimas reads from his non-fiction work Beef: The Untold Story of How Milk, Meat, and Muscle Shaped the World, which examines the cultural and culinary history of cattle. Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St., Brookline. 7pm.
THURSDAY NOV. 13: Louisa Dell Amico speaks on "An Inconvenient Food: The Link between Animal Agribusiness and Global Warming" at the Emmanuel College Library Lecture Hall. 7:30pm.
SUNDAY NOV. 16: SFBU goes roof-hopping in Somerville to check out Tufts' Green Roof Collaborative. We'll hear a bit about the project from Colleen Butler, and then take to the roof to see what's left of the verge. We'll see how we can apply the Tufts model to a possible work-study/internship based green roof collaborative at BU. Meet in the lobby of Tufts' Tisch Library at 10am.
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You are amazing. Nice work I'll try to make as many as possible!
A couple additions:
BU Students Global Health Organization presents:
The Global Food Crisis: Starving on a Surplus?
Town hall meeting Thursday Nov. 13th 6:30-9
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?sid=793899a8f9c6c0b65b8622397381f04d&refurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fs.php%3Fsid%3D793899a8f9c6c0b65b8622397381f04d%26init%3Dq%26q%3Dglobal%2Bfood%2Bcrisis%26ref%3Dts%26n%3D-1%26o%3D4%26k%3D400000010%26sf%3Dt&eid=35303024289
The global sufficiency summit. By the Pachamama alliance.
November 22nd 8:30am-9:00pm, Cambridge.
http://bostonsufficiency.org/
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