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Grassroots initiatives as pioneers of low-budget practices: An activists' roundtable
'Saving' the city: Collective low-budget organizing and urban practice
CiT-Collective
New Cross Commoners
Revolutionary Autonomous Communities
Heike Derwanz
Hans Vollmer
15-1derwanzvollmer.pdf
low-budget practices
alternative organizations
Grassroots initiatives around the world try to balance neighbourhood responsibility with politics. As David Harvey writes: 'The urban obviously functions […] as an important site of political action and revolt' (Harvey, 2012: 117). He regards territorial organisation and spontaneity, volatility and rapidity as characteristic features of urban political movements (ibid.). Other writers dealing with critical urban theory describe the political and economic tasks relevant groups need to perform. In this round table we wish to inquire into these performances. To this end, we have taken Brenner, Marcuse and Mayer's finding that the accumulation strategies one finds in cities not only concern capital, but can also be local and highly specific (Brenner, Marcuse and Mayer, 2012: 1) as our starting point for asking the activists themselves how these other strategies and urban change come alive on a grassroots level.
RAC-LA from Los Angeles, the New Cross Commoners from London, the CiT Collective from Vienna and Gängeviertel from Hamburg answered our questions concerning the manner in which they organise to 'save the city'. In this round table, 'saving' the city refers to all the various notions of saving: refashioning a civil society by mobilising the public, helping neighbourhoods or urban society in general to cope with current and future challenges such as growing inequality, avoiding the waste of money and resources in their voluntary work by redistributing, reusing or preserving items within the metabolism of the cities, or in many other ways. Some are aligned with the 'right to the city movement'[1], a name coined by Henry Lefebvre, nowadays an umbrella organisation for activists 'fighting for democracy, justice and sustainability in our cities'[2]. They share similar ideals, interests and motivations, but have developed diverse ways of pursuing them. All four of them, centred on the fight for space, resources and collectivity, sent contributions in response to our call for participation and contributed their experiences with organising themselves. After sending a questionnaire to four representatives, we compiled them for an activists' round table which introduces their initiatives and shows how they work. Our questions concerning the 'how-to' are focused on methods, skills and calculations like the juggling of finances versus autonomy. The questionnaire enabled us to place different experiences and organisation models side by side, hopefully without losing their original voices.
RAC-LA: For more than 7 years, The Revolutionary Autonomous Communities-Los Angeles (RAC-LA) have distributed, on average, over 150 baskets of food (vegetables and fruit) every Sunday, affecting the lives of 450-600 persons. RAC-LA is based around McArthur Park, downtown Los Angeles, and consists of approximately 35 members with an additional 300 supporters. RAC-LA is overwhelmingly made up of the working poor, in many cases migrant workers (not 'immigrants', which assumes the existence of a 'border'), in the main from Mexico and Central America, though there are black, white and members of Asian descent. In addition to our food program, RAC-LA distributes free cooked food made by our members to those we serve: the homeless, the poor and those without documentation, has 'Know Your Rights' seminars, has an attorney (member) who gives legal advice, and a physician (member) and nurse (member) available for health inquiries on our two feast days (May Day and 1st Sunday in November). In addition to those regularly scheduled events, RAC-LA gave a presentation and hosted the final day of the Anarchist Bookfair in LA (on December 8, 2013).
Figure 1: RAC-LA distributing food. (RAC-LA)
NXC: The New Cross Commoners is a collective of people living, working, studying in New Cross, an area in the South East of London. Many of us consider what we do as a sort of activism. It is an activism organised not around campaigns but around issues, needs and desires. It is activism as a process organised around our everyday lives. It is also activism as a collective learning process, learning from the neighbourhood, learning from each other, learning from the texts we read together. The question is: how can we do things differently, away from the competition imposed by the market, away from the hierarchy imposed by the State. The shape of the collective is difficult to define, at the moment (January 2014) there are something like a dozen people who see themselves as part of the collective. The composition of the collective has been a subject of discussions from the beginning: how to respond to the complex social composition of the neighbourhood and, at the same time, how to sustain the consistency of the collective?
Figure 2: The New Cross Commoners (New Cross Commoners)
CiT: The CiT-Collective (Culture is Transformation) is an independent group of urban activists with the aim of a collective appropriation of the former Gaswerk Leopoldau in the north of Vienna, and bottom-up city planning strategies in general. The group, founded in summer 2011, consists of architects, city and landscape planners, artists, researchers, theorists, social workers and people related to the field of art and culture. The collective gathers knowledge about participatory processes, needs, ideas and spaces of cultural activists and cultural workers in Vienna and beyond and brings this knowledge into city politics and city planning situations.
Figure 3: Performance by CiT Collective in the disused Leopoldau gasworks (CiT Collective)
Gängeviertel: The Gängeviertel initiative started on August 22, 2009, around Valentinskamp, in the inner city of Hamburg. The Gängeviertel is a non-commercial urban space in the heart of one of the most expensive office locations in Germany. It occurred out of the first successful building occupation in Hamburg for twenty years. Over the last 5 years the occupiers have established studios, workshops, offices and event venues by refurbishing the old buildings to the extent possible with the resources available. With the foundation of a cooperative, the Gängeviertel is undergoing a structural change in its organisational model as a registered association.
Figure 4: The Gängeviertel buildings (Franziska Holz)
Why did you start? What is your motivation?
RAC-LA: The initiative that led to RAC-LA and culminated in the launching of the Food Program in November 2007 began in the wake of the police riot in MacArthur Park on May Day of that year, wherein the LAPD launched brutal attacks upon a march for human rights initiated by migrant workers, their families and people having but not necessarily claiming 'citizenship' in the US. The idea of mutual assistance (not charity) as a vehicle for building a non-hierarchical model of a revolutionary organisation via such mutual aid in the form of a food assistance program was launched. RAC-LA is today an exportable model of self-agency on the part of members of the working class and as such constitutes important work.
NXC: In February 2013 we came together as the New Cross Commoners to learn from forms of self-organisation in New Cross, and also in an attempt to organise our lives differently and contribute to the existing collective experiences happening in the area. It was not just learning from the neighbourhood but also from the city at large with its squats and social centres, with its occupations, with its campaigns and demos, with the life of other collectives some of us had experience of. As students or ex-students many of us had a frustration with Goldsmiths[3], with the way it exists as a separate entity from the life of New Cross, with the self-referentiality of a knowledge too often designed to feed the academic system. The New Cross Commoners has been thought as a process of learning differently, a process where people could learn from theory as well as from the neighbourhood and from various experiences of self-organisation. This is what makes this learning (micro)political. Another motivation for coming together was a desire to become gradually independent from wage labour by experimenting with the sharing of resources, with collectivised forms of production and reproduction, with forms of cooperation, with community based economies. A third and more basic motivation is to make our life in the neighbourhood less alienating by connecting with other people who have a desire of changing New Cross for the better by organising bottom-up.
CiT: The main motivation of the collective and its collaboration network is to perform their 'right to the city' by negotiating new public spaces for practices of cultural and social transformation. By researching and practising urban common strategies, possibilities and productions, we emancipate ourselves from an everyday paralysing situation and formulate our own aims and strategies regarding the city as a social and political space. This is a process within networks and collaborations to create a positive utopian contribution to contemporary theory, production and mediation in the field of city planning and the production of space.
Gängeviertel: Many of the Gängeviertel activists had lost their studios and apartments as a result of the progressing gentrification process, or were threatened by steep rent hikes. The prospects of finding adequate spaces on the real estate market appeared slim at best in the eyes of the protagonists, most of whom had very few financial resources. Rents in Hamburg were rising rapidly, and urban niches for cultural activity and affordable housing were disappearing day by day. Instead of taking counteractive action and providing for affordable housing and working spaces, the city government opted for costly lighthouse projects that gave further impetus to the upward price spiral. The occupiers originally wanted to make a statement in opposition to this policy. But once they got the chance they developed the aim to realise a lasting alternative social model in the Gängeviertel based on self- administration and openness.
How do you work? What are your methods and forms of working together?
RAC-LA: Anyone can join RAC-LA by participating in the work that we do. When RAC-LA began it did so with a group of a dozen or so activists. Since that time all but two of the founders have gone on to other work. But these have been replaced by members of the community who came because they needed the food and who saw what we were doing and decided to join. There is no longer any distinction of moment that divides the activists from these members of the working class.
The innate purpose which drives RAC-LA is the building of a model of a revolutionary organisation through a mutual aid food program. What we are doing is technically illegal as we have no permit to do our work in the park. In addition, RAC-LA needs to block off parking spaces for the arrival and loading and unloading of both the vehicles of compost-seeking gardeners as well as the trucks bringing the food donations. As it is illegal this has been an excuse for police interventions. In spite of all of this, members of RAC-LA 'cop-watch' (with video cameras) all such incursions. In the process of distribution we try to achieve maximum equality. Picking-up food at farmers and wholesalers and distributing food according to the number of people desiring parcels of food is voluntary work sans the incentive of payment – though most workers opt to receive baskets of food at the end. RAC-LA is thus a mode of cooperative production, where one works for the benefit of all and is, in turn, benefited by the work of all.
No one assigns anyone to any sector. Anyone can do any job. In our methods of production, the first order of business is the unloading of the vehicles bringing the raw materials of RAC-L's production, fruits and vegetables to our location. Separately, a group of 4-6 people measure and package quart-bag-size packets of rice and beans. RAC-LA has full intentions of creating value-adding jobs for its members as well as the community at large. When tabling at other events, members of RAC-LA will cook and offer food for donations with a portion of the surplus above the costs of the items cooked going to the comrade who did the work, and a portion to the organisation. Also we have created a line of organic soaps which will employ some comrades in their production as well as sale. Also RAC-LA t-shirts and handbags are prized by other comrades and we offer them for donations at every event we table or participate in. But our food program is our base for launching other projects like our garden, our exercise program, our soap- and t-shirt-making efforts. This is the hard work, the real work, of readying ourselves, our comrades and our neighbours to take up the struggle for and the building of a new way of life: new vistas, new horizons, new visions made manifest through such work.
NXC: The New Cross Commoners is an open collective, and this openness is something that is actively pursued. Openness doesn't simply mean that what we organise is open to everybody, it means that we try out ways to engage with different people by organising different activities. When we read theory together, we read very slowly, not so much to understand the meaning of a text but to understand the connections it can have with the neighbourhood and our life as part of it. Still, a reading session would attract certain people and not others. The people's kitchen as we conceived it[4] has been thought for this as well, to get other kinds of people engaged in activities that would also make us think together about our life in the neighbourhood against the many forms of enclosures produced by capitalism: enclosures of knowledge, housing, food and food production, and care. We have been discussing the problem of homogeneity since the very first Commoners meeting. De Angelis defines the commons as characterised by a 'non-homogeneous' community (de Angelis/Stavrides 2010). It is not easy to increase the degree of non-homogeneity of a collective: for us it is a matter of creating new terrains where consistency can be created through a diversity (of class, race, gender, age, ability) that does not get erased or ignored.
The organisation of the New Cross Commoners is not hierarchical, and it is anarchic in a literal sense because there is no leadership. But this issue is more complicated by the fact that only a few of us initiated the process, after a long period of discussions. In such a case it is not easy to redistribute power and responsibility: they get conferred even when they are unwanted. It was very useful for us to propose the format of the 'people's kitchen' to other local collectives as well, so that even if for the moment some perceive the New Cross Commoners as somehow leading the people's kitchen, the dynamics got redistributed, new people took responsibility for this new 'project', and this makes the whole process more complicated, but allows for others to come to the fore, with their interests, desires, experiences. More specifically about the organisation: we have two mailing lists, one for activities open to everybody (readings, visits/walks, people's kitchens, workshops etc.) and another one for 'commoners', that is people who get involved in the organisation.
CiT: As a collective, CiT embraces each member's individual skills and experience. We communicate in person and directly trough meetings as well as using the Internet or individual sub networks. Tasks are worked out by specific members of the group or if necessary in sub-groups and through delegates. All main decisions and results are talked about and decided upon in consensus.
We are working within different formats – written, spoken, performative, visual, audio and moving image. We instigate political negotiations and understand ourselves as part of the DIY movement, amateurs with high compatibility to technocracy. Our main agenda is the conceptualisation, the development of visions. We sit down and talk, try to listen to each other as much as we can, bring forward all cases and stay mindful and respectful towards diversity in the group. Collective writing through open source tools, sharing of files, images, insights, regularly inviting in collaborative activists, politicians, inhabitants and locals to discussions and multi-layered forms of exchange. We apply the concept of 'actocracy'. If no one opposed to an idea, any person can go ahead and proceed with an action.
We publish our outcomes, information and results on our mailing list at our regular meetings and/or at our webblog. Thus we reach not just people from and in Vienna, but all over the world. We prepare press work and keep contact with journalists. We are in conversation with various departments of the city government and keep in touch with specific municipal authorities for the sake and purpose of knowledge transfers.
Through workshops (Urbanize-Festival 2012 and others) we collect wishes, ideas and needs of visitors and local residents. Post-cards, e-mail campaigns and (online-) petitions are means to mobilise political protest and for initiating discourse among citizens and politicians, as well as through press work, publications, articles, university classes, talks, panels, radio shows and academic papers. Artistic interventions, tactical media, performances, street art, invisible theatre, film screenings and cultural activities in public spaces allow for inclusion and urban communing to create an issue and talk about new options and perspectives.
Gängeviertel: The occupation of the Gängeviertel (2009) was disguised as an art and courtyard festival and advertised throughout the city. Exhibitions and performances that had secretly been prepared for weeks became visible for thousands of visitors by opening one door after the other, which had been locked for years. This tactic of cultural appropriation generated a positive response from all parts of the city's society. Today there are exhibitions, concerts, film showings, readings, discussions or workshops taking place nearly every day. Hundreds of visitors come each week and take advantage of the free program of events and activities.
Where the association is primarily responsible for the design of the program, the cooperative is going to manage the houses after the renovation. For the ongoing renewal process, a 'building commission' was founded to mediate between the architectural office, a private development agency and, if necessary, the municipality.
The weekly general assembly is the most important organ, to ensure self-administration in a complex organisational structure. There is a basic consensus of how to work together. The association and the cooperative as formal institutions are hierarchal organisations. The members elect their chairmen, who can act after they informed and asked the general assembly. This is an informal committee where all relevant decisions are made on the basis of grass-roots democratic principles. The meetings are mostly open to everyone and thus also serve as a point of contact for outsiders who wish to become involved. The principles are: partisan and religious independence, openness, commonness, self-management, preservation and non-commercial use of the place. Several working groups, temporary or consistent, are responsible for certain tasks (cultural program, public relations, planning).
As the Gängeviertel is an open place and fluid social system it is hard to draw a line between in- and outside. There is something you can call a hard core of round about 80 activists but new people and ideas are very welcome. Venues can be used by all kinds of groups for non-commercial events and activities. Space is limited and there are some unwritten rules of how to behave: no violence, respect to others and so on. Unfortunately all kinds of social collectives produce excluding behaviour, like common symbols and language that might deter other people. But most of the members are aware of this and try to avoid this exclusion.
The Gängeviertel uses social networks (Facebook and Twitter) and runs two webpages (das-gaengeviertel.info, gaengeviertel-eg.de) to share events, dates and news, mostly about cultural and political issues. A monthly newsletter or the 'Übergänge' (transitions), which is part of a newspaper published by the municipality to inform neighbours about the ongoing renovation process. In 2012 the Gängeviertel released the publication 'Mehr als ein Viertel' (more than a quarter).
What are your resources?
RAC-LA: The greatest resource that RAC-LA has is the quality of its constituent members. Being revolutionaries whose ultimate aim is the destruction of the existing capitalist economy and its state apparatus, RAC-LA accepts no assistance whatsoever from that existing state. We are not a 501.c.3 - U.S. tax code reference number for an officially recognised non-profit organisation. Donations to us cannot therefore constitute an income tax deduction for our donors; donors who thus have no incentive to so donate to us save the presentation by and the representation of our organisation by the RAC-LA members who have made the initial contacts and stay in contact with these our donors. Our second greatest resource is the people that we serve. For, in the main, this is how it is that RAC-LA continues to be a growing dynamic. RAC-LA makes no 'recruitment drives'. There is no pressure exerted by members to 'do this so as to get that'. Members recruit themselves. And do so only out of the good that is in their character. Seeing others working voluntarily with no thought of compensation beyond 'Thank yous' impels a person into self-evaluation. A private introspection that, given the right type of person, can lead that one to do that which he/she has come to admire, i.e. join RAC-LA. This is the method to the model that is RAC-LA.
NXC: At the moment, the New Cross Commoners have no budget. So far the funding we got was very little and it was used mainly to cover production costs[5]. In our exploration of the neighbourhood we came across different resources that people use collectively, both material and immaterial, resources used for production and for reproduction. We could associate different kinds of resources with different places explored: housing for Sanford housing co-op, food for Common Growth communal garden, knowledge for the New Cross Learning (former public library), care for the New Cross poetry workshop. The New Cross Commoners itself have been dealing with knowledge (to self-organise a production of knowledge that comes from theory as well as from the experience of a specific context), care (to take care of the formation of a collective, to take care of our differences, to take care of our potentials) and more recently food (skipping food for the people's kitchen and cooking together not for charity and not as a service/entertainment), but it might be reductive to categorise resources in such a way.
In more concrete terms we have often been using Goldsmiths as a resource for meetings, but also cooking, printing and making photocopies, getting materials for workshops and using the library. For us it is a way to reclaim Goldsmiths as a public place, to crack the enclosure of knowledge academia produces.
A resource in New Cross are also the several local collectives organising from below, sometimes in dialogue with public institutions, like New Cross Learning, a former public library closed because of the cuts and then reclaimed and run by locals. A tool we use and often go back to in order to interrogate the potential of local resources are maps like this one http://nxc.smappamenti.org/, which came out of a workshop we had as part of Party in the Park, a local free festival. These mapping exercises are more than simply a matter of locating and transcribing what exists in New Cross, they are a tool to think what does not and should exist in New Cross, where enclosures are produced, what should be reclaimed and collectivised. They are a tool to discuss together, to incite people's imagination, to see what we got already, what has been taken away, what we could make use of. People as well can be considered as resources, against a neoliberal ideology of 'human capital' and 'human resources' based on exploitation and self-exploitation.
To talk about resources is to talk about local economies, and in this respect we will soon experiment with local economies also through The Field, a small building owned by a private landlord that some of the commoners got rent-free for a few years[6]. We are talking about the possibility for The Field, besides being a meeting point for locals and for activist collectives, to make some profit by selling food and drinks. At the same time the space will also offer a free use of tools and facilities. A community economy has to be fed not only by public money and private income but also by sharing and exchanging (skills, labour, goods) that do not involve the use of money, by self-productions (food, energy, clothes, cleaning products, medicines) and collective uses of resources: this might allow a partial withdrawal from a monetary based economy.
The question of ownership is important in the context of the commons. As a collective the New Cross Commoners does not own anything. A public square is not a commons in itself because the citizens cannot make a free use of the square, there are rules which regulate the use of the square, and those rules have not been decided by those who use the square. A commons is a resource whose use is negotiated, decided and regulated by its users on a direct and non hierarchical basis. A commons is not a resource that everybody can use, it is a resource that can be used by people who take part in the processes of negotiating and re-negotiating its regulations – people who take part in commoning. Such a commons is something that has to be taken care of against the control of the state and the privatisation of the market.
CiT: A crucial resource for the CiT-Collective is the space in which we can work and that allows us to talk and listen to each other. A space to cultivate the community through social and cultural practices that emphasise creativity and ever redefined learning. This space can be (nearly) everywhere. It is also on us to generate this space, not on others to give it to us. Simultaneously a main source for the group and our work is the idea and practices of a collective/solidarity distribution of resources within Vienna (and beyond). We demand a direct democratic, creative and bottom-up planning process opposed to top-down, profit-oriented practices of exclusion as witnessed in today's city politics. Our network, which allows communication and collaboration with similar projects and groups all over the world, and the sharing of experiences and tactics within these networks, are as such a fundamental resource and aim at the same time.
There is no financial budget, just personal/collective resources so far. No plan to apply for sponsorship/subsidies until we get the planned project Gaswerk Leopoldau into practice. If not, it could happen that the collective applies for subsidies within a framework of other projects if necessary.
Gängeviertel: The fundamental resource of the Gängeviertel is its place with the twelve historic houses. Individual donations and pro-bono services help to organise events, which are mainly made possible by the unpaid labour of the activists, artists, architects, film-makers, cooks, and all kinds of craftsmen. Social networks, including many actors of the cultural scene and the Right to the City network of Hamburg, contribute and support the Gängeviertel with knowledge and experience (e.g. from former squatting projects). But the most specific resource and capital of the collective is its heterogeneous but coherent social structure.
All buildings belong to the municipality. After a building is renovated the Gängeviertel cooperation is going to leasehold them. But conditions are not negotiated yet. In the eyes of the activists the municipality has to waive profits and regard the activists' high amount of voluntary work in the process. In general there is no budget and no paid position. Only some of the temporary jobs for the most responsible and time-consuming functions in the frame of the renewal process are paid. These wages are paid by visitors' micro-donations and funding from the municipality. In addition, the cultural office funds some galleries in the Gängeviertel with project-linked payments. But in general the activists are paying for their success with self-exploitation.
How do you balance autonomy and institutionalisation?
RAC-LA: RAC-LA was founded and constituted as a long-term project – not as a quick, easy 'solution'[7]. When we began a comrade voiced the admonishment that we were undertaking a 15-20 year project, with the first 5 being committed to gaining the trust of the community, the second 5 or so would be establishing ourselves as a force in the neighbourhood, and the third 5 being the beginnings of the exercise of that ability to influence and change our surroundings. In this, we will be greatly assisted once we find a place for a RAC-LA community centre that is close to the park and affordable for us. Towards that we have saved money and are ready to lease if and when a location in the area comes available.
The 'balance' referred to in the query just above flows as a matter of course from the 'first fundamental' that the organisation, development and evolution of RAC-LA has proceeded from: the equality of worth of every member sans regard for age, race, language, 'nationality', sex or sexual preference. This is readily relatable to the 'autonomy' portion of the above inquiry. As for 'institutionalisation', the word has an echo of a 'finished product', like dried solid cement. For RAC-LA, 'institutionalisation' would perhaps be better replaced by 'institutionalising', i.e. the creation, experimentation and, if need be, negation of ideas and/or practices as we try to learn how it is that we want ourselves to be. For, and this is the 'prime directive', 'we cannot get to where we have not travelled'.
NXC: There are often compromises to be faced when getting funding, and it is vital to be able to mitigate them. The only 'compromise' with the Design Department which gave us some funding for the first year of activity was that we had to produce a publication as an outcome. To get compromised through public funding might also mean to deal with a public institution in direct ways, and in the best scenario this might open a process of dialogue, negotiation, confrontation that can have a political relevance, it can have an impact on the institution itself or at least on some of the people working for it.
An institution is not necessarily something evil, it depends how we understand it and what kind of institution we are talking about. 'Institutionalisation' could be seen as a goal if we understand it in these terms: in five or ten years the New Cross Commoners could exist as a revolutionary collective and an institution of the commons without having to rely on the singularity of the commoners composing it today.
In order to answer this question it would be useful, especially in the context of New Cross, London and the UK, to talk about 'Big Society'. This is a programme the current Tory government has promoted to 'support and develop talent, innovation and enterprise to deliver social impact' (this definition is taken from the Big Society Network website).[8] In other words, Big Society is a way to exploit people's desire to do good, build communities, improve their neighbourhood as a way of filling the holes that the erosion of the welfare state, the cuts and the austerity measures are provoking. It is like saying 'dear citizens, the government doesn't have much money to help you anymore and now you have to help each other' – but this has to happen now under the government's 'facilitation' and control. Whenever you do something for your 'community' on a voluntary basis you have to ask yourselves: to what extent am I playing the Big Society game? Is it fair for public money to feed the financial market instead of the welfare state and do I want to be complicit with this? We could answer to this problem like this: we build communities, improve our neighbourhood, as long as we don't do this for someone else, for charity, and as long as we do also fight in some way against the privatisation of the market and the control of state, as long as we can obstruct gentrification, the multiplication of enclosures, the commercialisation of our lives.
CiT: As long as the CiT-Collective is not officially part of the planning process (Gaswerk Leopoldau), we were not forced to institutionalise ourselves. But in the future it is possible that we have to do so if we want to make any sort of official contract in terms of using the former gasworks for our means. For that matter, the foundation of a parallel organised NGO-association (KIT Kultur in Transdanubien) is a first step we took in this direction. But the CIT-Collective itself is a (fluid) collective and as such in general not an institution at all. Our autonomy and solidarity is a core content of our position as a independent structure and social-political actor.
Gängeviertel: To reach the goal of self-organisation and – management also after the renovation in negotiation with the municipality, the Gängeviertel initiative founded the cooperative. In the eyes of some activists this progressive institutionalisation poses the risk that the Gängeviertel could lose its openness and its character as an experimental free space. On the other hand, through the process of institutionalisation, they hope to build a more reliable foundation upon which to live and work. From the standpoint of de Certeau's distinction between strategy and tactic, institutionalisation can be seen as a transition from the tactic of cultural appropriation to a strategy through which the occupants of the Gängeviertel hope to overcome the precarious status of their situation.
Principles, strategies and lessons learned
RAC-LA: To paraphrase Marx in the 'Critique of the Gotha Plan'[9]: Only then, when we have eliminated the social and economic bases of greed – will society be able to inscribe on its banners that we have at long last made the transition from 'each according to his greed', to 'each according to his need'. Towards that end, RAC-LA has discovered that one of the asserted 'problems' of communism solves itself. It has been alleged that when goods no longer have a price that greed will run rampant leading to gross inefficiencies. What has been seen in RAC-LA is that when we have a surfeit (sometimes we have an extreme amount of a certain item) and we 'communise' it, that, at first, people will take as much as they can, i.e. wildly out of proportion to their needs or even desires. What happens? They with effort lug it home where a portion of it remains unconsumed and rots. They have to throw it out. They do this once, twice, by the third or fourth time many have learned.
Another 'problem' is that of the disassociation of work from compensation, of effort from reward. The spirit that binds RAC-LA together is the celebration of working with and working for each other. Of course we have problems. All of us joined RAC-LA suffering from the PTSD that is endemic to capitalism. When disputes flare, we solve and resolve these by placing and examining the problem in the context of seeking 'what is right?' and not 'who is right?'.
RAC-LA is an experiment, an experiment of anarchist-socialism[10] operating within the very bowels of the beast that is capitalism. And as an experiment we must try things. Some work. Some do not. The point, however, is that we try. And that we learn.
NXC: We don't have a manifesto, but there are some principles that also emerge from the documentation gathered in the New Cross Commoners website[11]. An important principle is that of an experimentation with a temporality of care, to follow a sustainable pace, to avoid burnouts but also to allow for different kinds of speeds to be taken into consideration, for different issues and desires to emerge, to be perceived, to be taken care of. This is the meaning of 'going slowly to go far', starting from a micropolitics, a politics of subjectivity, of a becoming collective that requires care.
A second principle has to do with the necessary connection between micro- and macropolitics, between a politics of subjectivity, desires, conflicts and care, and a politics of institutions, rights, decisions, campaigns. Commoning is not just a matter of changing lifestyles, of buying less and sharing more, it is also a matter of fighting enclosures, of reclaiming a collective use of resources, of opposing the government's austerity measures, of withdrawing from the market and its logic of competition. The New Cross Commoners attempt to bring together the 'positive' of a creative experimentation with the 'negative' of a critical analysis, by starting from the micro to engage with the macro. For example, a practice of commoning around care cannot be separated from the struggle against the closure of Lewisham hospital. Otherwise you might end up either paralysed by the enormity of what is unjust, or inadvertently complying with the dominant system.
Another connected principle is to start from the middle, from where we are, who we are, and what we do. This principle comes from a feminist tradition that takes experiences and living conditions as starting points for a critical analysis that moves onto action. We live in London, we live in New Cross, we share a precarious condition. At the same time there are differences, we are not all precarious in the same way. To start again and again from the middle means to recompose our differences without erasing or ignoring them. It is a way of starting now, with what we have, instead of preparing for something to come in the future, or getting paralysed in the present. And it is a way of undoing an 'us and them' dynamic that we see so often when it comes to social engagement.
CiT: The act of a participatory/bottom-up/direct-democratic planning intervention and planning process, without making the same mistakes like economic exploitation and political adsorption as many other creative planning projects faced. Acting as a coming voice. Speaking out positions to confront hegemonic principles and power productions. Generate utopian pictures, ideas and aims to practise the production of a critical common voice in opposition to political and economic stakeholders. One key principle of CiT is therefore not to fix one use and state of the (city) space, but to implement a floating self-transforming system of (cultural) usages and to take a clear (political) position at the same time.
Gängeviertel: The Gängeviertel as a collective has something one can call a joint action. Like a colleague once wrote, it 'finds its form within the process of acting' and follows a direction 'based on overlapping interests of individuals around a situation'.
If their strategy proves successful, the activists in the Gängeviertel will have secured yet another part of their 'right to the city'. Henri Lefèbvre sees this in part as the production of one's own urban space, which represents a social change. The Gängeviertel is already a symbol of opposition to a purely investor-oriented urban development policy and to gentrification, and of the appeal for free spaces and self-determination. Now the initiative is working on transforming that symbol into an alternative urban space from which the actors themselves and the people of Hamburg can derive sustainable social and cultural benefits.
The editors would like to thank John from the Revolutionary Autonomous Communities in Los Angeles, Paolo from the New Cross Commoners, Iver from the CiT-Collective and Michael from Gängeviertel for their contributions.
[1] Their aims are: 'We fight for concrete improvements that result in stronger communities and a better state of being for our friends, families, and for our children's futures. Our organisations take on campaigns to win housing, education, transportation, and jobs. We struggle for community safety and security, neighbourhood sustainability, environmental justice, and the right to culture, celebration, rest, and public space' (Perera, 2013).
[2] Original slogan from the website: http://www.righttothecity.org.
[3] A college of the University of London situated in New Cross.
[4] The people's kitchen as we organise it involves the usual food skipping, cooking and eating together, but also discussions around tables: the attempt is to bring together the conviviality of the people's kitchen with discussions about issues affecting our lives in the neighbourhood, so that the people's kitchen could function also as a platform to organise other activities.
[5] We got 1,000 pounds from the Goldsmiths design department and we used them to pay travel for people coming to visit us, materials for workshops, and for this publication: http://newxcommoners.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/nxcpublication_2013.pdf.
[6] http://thefieldnx.wordpress.com/.
[7] http://fourstory.org/features/story/who-are-rac-la-and-what-are-they-doing-in-macarthur-park/.
[8] http://www.thebigsociety.co.uk/.
[9] In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labour, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labour, has vanished; after labour has become not only a means of life but life's prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-round development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly – only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs! https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch01.htm.
[10] http://revolutionaryautonomouscommunities.blogspot.com/2011/02/experiment-in-socialism-racs-free-foo..html.
[11] http://newxcommoners.wordpress.com/.
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Heike Derwanz is associate researcher at HafenCity University in Hamburg, Metropolitan Culture.
Email: heike.derwanz AT hcu-hamburg.de
Hans Vollmer is a landscape architect working in Basel.
Email: derselbstbauer AT gmail.com
Thinking like Apple's recycling robots: Toward the activation of responsibility in a postenvironmentalist world
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Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue features its first-ever plus-size model
Ad for swimwear manufacturer features a 'curvy' woman in a bikini
Appearance comes one year after annual issue featured Barbie on cover
A screenshot of the ad with plus-size model Ashley Graham featured in this year's Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. Photograph: Instagram Photograph: Instagram
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Last year, Sports Illustrated put Barbie on the cover of its annual swimsuit issue, seeking to stoke controversy – and sales – through hashtag-enhanced debate about sexism and body image. This year, a similar debate is under way regarding the appearance in the magazine of plus-size model Ashley Graham.
Graham's picture in the magazine is not all it might seem: it is a paid advertisement. The company paying for it, however, is keen to present it as a step forward for women and their portrayal in the media.
"Today there is growing enthusiasm for the curvy, natural body type," said a statement from the swimwear manufacturer swimsuitsforall. "Celebrities are flaunting their curves, major fashion labels are signing curvy models alongside thinner counterparts and Instagram is awash in images of confident curvy women."
This is not the company's first campaign linked to the SI swimsuit issue. Last year, it re-created the magazine using plus-size models.
Barbie, sexualisation and body image: the debates rage on | Eva Wiseman
Reaction on social media – as sought by the company under the hashtag #CurvesinBikinis – was mixed:
Never thought I'd say this, but well done, Sports Illustrated. #CurvesinBikinis http://t.co/ImWbPfAnCB
— Heather LBA (@HeatherLBA) February 5, 2015
Ashley Graham is beautiful but this ad just doesn't feel like a big victory for women. Thoughts? http://t.co/eTsQXMv5M1. #CurvesInBikinis
— MEDIAGIRLS (@MediaGirlsOrg) February 5, 2015
This year's swimsuit issue cover star, in a predictably risqué pose, is the 5ft 10in Hannah Davis. The 24-year-old is the girlfriend of retired New York Yankees star Derek Jeter.
Undaunted, Moshe Laniado, chief executive of swimsuitsforall, pressed the point.
"Tastes and body types change over time and curves have never been more 'in'," he said. "There is no better way to celebrate and show off than by donning a bikini. When the #CurvesinBikinis ad in Sports Illustrated is released, the world will be watching and they'll like what they see."
According to Forbes, the swimsuit issue, first published in 1964, has made more than $1bn since becoming a stand-alone issue in 1997. Nonetheless, this is a difficult time for the venerable magazine, which is owned by Time Inc. Amid ongoing cost-cutting measures, last month it fired its remaining staff photographers.

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Cass County Courthouse
The Cass County Courthouse, built between 1904-1906, is a fine example of Renaissance Revival architecture. It was designed by Charles Bell who designed many other government buildings from Montana to Minnesota. The courthouse is the third one; the first was torn down (it is not clear when it was built) and the second burned down in a fire in 1903. Luckily, the jail and sheriff's house from the second building survived and were used until they were replaced in 1913 with new steel and stone structures. The courthouse continues to serve as the seat of county government.
The Cass County Courthouse
Several architects from Fargo submitted plans for the courthouse but Bell's was chosen for its classically inspired design. The buildings (the courthouse, jail and sheriff's house) are among the more important works of Bell's career.
"Cass County Courthouse." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_County_Court_House,_Jail,_and_Sheriff%27s_House.
Dr. Norene A. Roberts and Tom Jenkinson. "Cass County Court House, Jail, and Sheriff's House." National Park Service - National Register of Historic Places. December 22, 1983. http://focus.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/83004062.pdf.
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Enter the date you started your challenge!
Most people choose 500 or 1000 miles.
If you can walk 2.75 miles a day, 20 miles a week for 50 weeks, you can walk 1000 miles in a year!
Improve Your Life One Step at a Time!
What an incredible journey it has been. Last year when I made this challenge to hike 1000 miles I was in pretty rough shape in all ways. I had sore knees, elbows, was more overweight than I had ever been, and recently diagnosed with diabetes. I was physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually drained. All I could do was literally put one foot in front of the other. I could walk. One step at a time.
1000 miles later I am 35 pounds lighter, free from diabetes, my knees are strong and I am healthier than we have been in years. I began to learn how to overcome deep life wounds and false beliefs that kept me imprisoned in self-defeating thoughts, depression, anxiety and self-destructive behaviors.
When I began to walk, heart shaped rocks appeared as if they were placed before me, a love note from Mother Nature, the Universe, God. A sign I was on the right path. What kept me going some days. Today I have hundreds of heart shaped rocks. They are all very special, a symbol of love and hope. I also became very mindful of the beauty all around, the flowers that seemed to be placed just for me, and the animals that crossed my path. I stepped onto the path of authenticity, internal knowingness, self-confidence, self-love and care. I stepped into my true power, knowing that we am the creator of my reality, the author of my story and truly understanding and experiencing "as within so without". The veils I hid behind began to lift. Immersing in the stillness of Nature, I heard the whispers of my soul and experienced the joy, freedom and excitement of finally dancing with my shadows, integrating the dark into light, on a path to wholeness. In the still of Nature I found clarity, vision, passion, and the sacredness of my soul. I found myself.
Make the challenge today. Give yourself the gift of transformation.
YOU'VE TAKEN THE FIRST STEP TO TRANSFORMING YOUR LIFE!
As always, before you begin a new exercise program, check with your doctor first. As long as you're cleared for exercise, walking for weight loss is a great place to start. These tips will help you create a walking fitness plan that fits within your abilities and helps you lose weight.
Even though walking is as natural as breathing, you still need to give your body time to adapt to the increased demands you're putting on it. So don't begin your walking program with a 10-mile hike. If you've been inactive for several years, begin with as little as 15 minutes walking per day, five or six days per week.
Can you sustain 15 minutes of continuous walking without becoming overly tired or sore the next day? If not, dial it back to 10 minutes per day. If 15 minutes is comfortable, keep up that level for a week before you try to increase your time.
There is no right speed to walk–there is only a right speed for you. The pace that's right for you is the pace you can sustain for 15 minutes at a time, gradually building up to 30 minutes. You should be breathing deeply, but not out of breath or gasping for air. You should be able to talk, but not sing.
Keep Track of your course.
When you're just getting started, the time you spend walking is more important than the distance you cover, but it can be comforting to know where you're going and fun to track where you've been. Whether you're at home, at your in-laws, or on a trip, you can easily keep track of your course.
Challenge yourself, but be smart!
It doesn't matter whether you're chasing fitness goals, financial goals or personal goals; tracking your progress makes you more likely to hit your target. Keeping a log of your walks gives you concrete proof that you're doing what you set out to do, and that you're making steady progress toward your goal.
You remember the story of the tortoise and the hare; the slow and steady tortoise beats the speedy hare who gets distracted and loses sight of his goal. Walking is a very moderate exercise program, and you're not going to lose 10 pounds a week. But if you combine regular, moderate walking with a healthy diet, you can develop the lifestyle habits that will help you lose weight over time and keep it off for good.
Whispers of Nature 1000 Mile Challenge has the best Facebook group in the world! You can get ideas, help, make friends, share your walks, arrange meet-ups or just shoot the breeze.
We celebrate every milestone, in Photos, Facebook, Badges, and Certificates.
walking or hiking, any reason to celebrate, we want to know and celebrate with you.
You will receive a 500 or/and 1000 mile embroidered patch. Completed challenge patch.
THIS WILL BE AN INCREDIBLE JOURNEY.
At the beginning you may become tired, sore and discouraged, but please do not give up. Do not quit. Get a partner, a friend, a co-worker, a neighbor, a walking partner will make all the difference.
Other than a walking partner, the next best thing you need is a good pair of sneakers; don't wear the ones you've had for several years, get a good pair, and good doesn't mean expensive, and start walking.
Pace yourself when you first get started, keep a log of your walks, write your distance of course, but write if you saw something awesome, or went a different route, make a note if you were winded or sore. You'll soon realize that you are enjoying more, seeing more, embracing it more and then you'll look back and say, I can't believe I walked that far! I CAN DO THIS!
If you're a beginning exerciser or a busy Baby Boomer or Senior, walking is the easiest exercise to get you on your way to losing weight. It's easy to integrate into your daily routine, and for most people it's a really painless way to increase your activity level.
Walk at a time of day and on days of the week when you will enjoy walking most! If you're a morning person then get up and go when you get out of bed. Some of us like to wait for a friend or spouse to go with us. Others like waking after a long day. There is no right or wrong time to walk. We do suggest picking a time that you will stick with and be able to do most days of the week. Most sources recommend a minimum of no less than 150 minutes a week that's just 30 minutes a day five days a week!
How do we start walking?
It is easy to begin. Just move! We suggest starting by setting a goal. Your health care provider, a family member, friend or colleague might be able to help you with setting a goal. You can begin by setting a goal to walk for a specific number of minutes, a specific distance or number of steps. Any goal is good just be sure to make it something that you understand and will be able to keep up with. Any activity is better than no activity at all. Why should you start walking? Walking for 30 to 60 minutes each day is one of the best things you can do for your body, mind, and spirit.
Here are great reasons to start walking.
A typical number of steps per mile is between 2,000 and 2,500 steps.
Below is a simple estimation to help you determine yours steps.
Please download our Walking Log to keep track of your walks and help yourself stay motivated.
Brag! Boast! Dare! Challenge Others!
You have the right. You should be proud of what you are doing. Let your family and friends know. Challenge them to join you.
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Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN
In 2020, Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN had a population of 134k people with a median age of 39.3 and a median household income of $56,875. Between 2019 and 2020 the population of Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN grew from 133,476 to 133,804, a 0.246% increase and its median household income grew from $55,991 to $56,875, a 1.58% increase.
The 5 largest ethnic groups in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN are White (Non-Hispanic) (94%), White (Hispanic) (1.52%), Two+ (Non-Hispanic) (1.38%), Other (Hispanic) (0.917%), and Black or African American (Non-Hispanic) (0.767%).
6.19% of the households in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN reported speaking a non-English language at home as their primary shared language. This does not consider the potential multi-lingual nature of households, but only the primary self-reported language spoken by all members of the household.
99.3% of the residents in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN are U.S. citizens.
The largest universities in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN are Huntington University (303 degrees awarded in 2020).
In 2020, the median property value in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN was $133,700, and the homeownership rate was 78%.
Most people in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN drove alone to work, and the average commute time was 22.7 minutes. The average car ownership in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN was 2 cars per household.
Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN borders Noble, DeKalb, LaGrange & Steuben Counties PUMA, IN, Kosciusko & Marshall Counties PUMA, IN, Allen County (Outside Fort Wayne City) PUMA, IN, Grant, Miami & Wabash Counties PUMA, IN, Henry, Randolph, Jay & Blackford Counties PUMA, IN, and Auglaize, Mercer & Van Wert Counties PUMA, OH.
Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN is home to a population of 134k people, from which 99.3% are citizens. As of 2020, 1.32% of Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN residents were born outside of the country (1.77k people).
In 2020, there were 61.8 times more White (Non-Hispanic) residents (126k people) in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN than any other race or ethnicity. There were 2.04k White (Hispanic) and 1.85k Two+ (Non-Hispanic) residents, the second and third most common ethnic groups.
The most common non-English languages spoken as the primary langauge in households in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN are German (4,346 households), Spanish (2,017 households), and Yiddish, Pennsylvania Dutch or Other West Germanic Languages (296 households).
As of 2020, 99.3% of Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN residents were US citizens, which is higher than the national average of 93.4%. In 2019, the percentage of US citizens in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN was 99.4%, meaning that the rate of citizenship has been decreasing.
The following chart shows US citizenship percentages in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN compared to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
The 3 largest ethnic groups in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN
3.09% of the people in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN are hispanic (4.13k people).
The following chart shows the 7 races represented in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN as a share of the total population.
In 2020, the most common birthplace for the foreign-born residents of Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN was Mexico, the natal country of 498 Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN residents, followed by Philippines with 133 and Canada with 132.
As of 2020, 1.32% of Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN residents (1.77k people) were born outside of the United States, which is lower than the national average of 13.5%. In 2019, the percentage of foreign-born citizens in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN was 1.29%, meaning that the rate has been increasing.
The following chart shows the percentage of foreign-born residents in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN compared to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
Yiddish, Pennsylvania Dutch or Other West Germanic Languages
6.19% of the households in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN reported speaking a non-English language at home as their primary shared language, which is lower than the national average of 21.5%. This does not consider the potential multi-lingual nature of households, but only the primary self-reported language spoken by all members of the household.
In 2020, the most common non-English language spoken in households in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN was German. 3.49% of the households in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN reported speaking German at home as the primary shared language between all members living in the household.
Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN has a large population of military personnel who served in Vietnam, 1.9 times greater than any other conflict.
The economy of Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN employs 61.4k people. The largest industries in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN are Motor vehicles & motor vehicle equipment manufacturing (3,739 people), Construction (3,608 people), and Elementary & secondary schools (3,396 people), and the highest paying industries are Navigational, measuring, electromedical, & control instruments manufacturing ($110,370), Data processing, hosting & related services ($106,684), and Support activities for agriculture & forestry ($104,274).
Males in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN have an average income that is 1.39 times higher than the average income of females, which is $39,407. The income inequality in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN (measured using the Gini index) is 0.402, which is lower than than the national average.
The workforce of Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN in 2020 was 61,370 people, with 46.5% woman, and 53.5% men.
The visualization shows the distribution of the workforce by gender and age in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN.
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From 2019 to 2020, employment in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN declined at a rate of −0.739%, from 61.8k employees to 61.4k employees.
The most common job groups, by number of people living in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN, are Other assemblers and fabricators (1,931 people), Laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand (1,791 people), and Driver/sales workers & truck drivers (1,691 people). This chart illustrates the share breakdown of the primary jobs held by residents of Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN.
Data is only available at the state level. Showing data for Indiana.
This chart shows weekly unemployment insurance claims in Indiana (not-seasonally adjusted) compared with the four states with the most similar impact.
The most common employment sectors for those who live in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN, are Motor vehicles & motor vehicle equipment manufacturing (3,739 people), Construction (3,608 people), and Elementary & secondary schools (3,396 people). This chart shows the share breakdown of the primary industries for residents of Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN, though some of these residents may live in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN and work somewhere else. Census data is tagged to a residential address, not a work address.
The industries with the best median earnings for men in 2020 are Information ($54,938), Transportation & Warehousing, & Utilities ($52,377), and Finance & Insurance, & Real Estate & Rental & Leasing ($50,506).
The industries with the best median earnings for women in 2020 are Transportation & Warehousing, & Utilities ($41,250), Information ($37,500), and Wholesale Trade ($36,221).
As of May 2021, there are 145M people employed in Indiana. This represents a 8.45% increase in employment when compared to May 2020.
The following chart shows monthly employment numbers for each industry sector in Indiana.
Domestic production and consumption consists of products and services shipped from Indiana to other states, or from other states to Indiana.
In 2020, the top outbound Indiana product (by dollars) was Motorized vehicles with $78.4B, followed by Mixed freight ($44.4B) and Base metals ($39.6B).
The following chart shows the share of these products in relation to all outbound Indiana products.
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2020 Value in Indiana
Projected 2050 Value in Indiana
In 2020, total outbound Indiana trade was $486B. This is expected to increase 84.5% to $897B by 2050.
The following chart shows how the domestic outbound Indiana trade is projected to change in comparison to its neighboring states.
Interstate trade consists of products and services shipped from Indiana to other states, or from other states to Indiana.
In 2020, the top outbound Indiana domestic partner for goods and services (by dollars) was Illinois with $41.4B, followed by Michigan with $40.6B and Ohio and $40B.
The following map shows the amount of trade that Indiana shares with each state (excluding itself).
Todd Young and Mike Braun are the senators currently representing the state of Indiana. In the United States, senators are elected to 6-year terms with the terms for individual senators staggered.
Indiana is currently represented by 9 members in the U.S. house, and members of the House of Representives are elected to 2-year terms.
US Senators from Indiana
Senatorial voting results are only available at the state level. Showing data for Indiana.
Senator from Indiana3
Todd Young and Mike Braun are the senators currently representing Indiana.
The following chart shows elected senators in Indiana over time, excluding special elections, colored by their political party.
US Representatives from Indiana
Indiana is currently represented by 9 members in the U.S. house.
Members of the House of Representives are elected to 2-year terms, and the following chart shows the how the members for Indiana have changed over time starting in 2008.
In 2020, universities in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN awarded 303 degrees. The student population of Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN in 2020 is skewed towards women, with 513 male students and 878 female students.
Most students graduating from Universities in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN are White (258 and 90.2%), followed by Two or More Races (10 and 3.5%), Black or African American (8 and 2.8%), and Hispanic or Latino (7 and 2.45%).
The largest universities in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN by number of degrees awarded are Huntington University (303 and 100%).
The most popular majors in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN are Occupational Therapy (35 and 11.6%), General Business Administration & Management (31 and 10.2%), and Cinematography & Film Production (22 and 7.26%).
The median tuition cost in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN for private four year colleges is $25,956.
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In 2020 in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN, the percentage of applicants admitted was 77.7%, while the percentage of admitted who enrolled was 30.3%. The number of students enrolled in 2020 was 1,391 (36.9% men and 63.1% women).
Universities Baccalaureate CollegesAll
In 2020 there were 1,391 students enrolled in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN, 36.9% men and 63.1% women.
Associates DegreeBachelors DegreeMasters DegreeProfessional Doctorate
Cinematography & Film Production
In 2020, the most common concentation for Bachelors Degree recipients in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN was General Psychology with 12 degrees awarded.
This visualization illustrates the percentage of students graduating with a Bachelors Degree from schools in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN according to their major.
Huntington University
In 2020, the institution with the largest number of graduating students was Huntington University with 303 degrees awarded.
In 2020, 108 men were awarded degrees from institutions in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN, which is 0.554 times less than the 195 female students who received degrees in the same year.
In 2020 the most common race/ethnicity group awarded degrees at institutions was White students. These 258 degrees mean that there were 25.8 times more degrees awarded to White students then the next closest race/ethnicity group, Two or More Races, with 10 degrees awarded.
Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above ($890) is the sector with the highest median state fee in 2020.
Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above ($1,000) is the sector with the highest average net price of books and supplies.
The most common educational levels obtained by the working population of Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN in 2020 were High School or Equivalent (40.4k), Some college (20.7k), and Secondary Education (17.3k).
The median property value in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN was $133,700 in 2020, which is 0.582 times smaller than the national average of $229,800. Between 2019 and 2020 the median property value increased from $125,900 to $133,700, a 6.2% increase. The homeownership rate in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN is 78%, which is approximately the same as the national average of 64.4%.
People in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN have an average commute time of 22.7 minutes, and they drove alone to work. Car ownership in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN is approximately the same as the national average, with an average of 2 cars per household.
Median household income in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN is $56,875. In 2020, the PUMA with the highest Median Household Income in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN was Carmel City & Fishers Town (West) PUMA, IN with a value of $103,803, followed by Noblesville City & Fishers Town (East) PUMA, IN and Boone & Hamilton (Northwest) Counties PUMA, IN, with respective values of $100,373 and $87,888.
The following chart display owner-occupied housing units distributed between a series of property tax buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. In Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN the largest share of households pay taxes in the < $800 range.
The chart underneath the paragraph shows the property taxes in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN compared to it's parent and neighbor geographies.
In 2020, 78% of the housing units in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN were occupied by their owner. This percentage declined from the previous year's rate of 78.4%.
This chart shows the percentage of owner in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN compared it's parent and neighboring geographies.
Race/Ethnicity TotalWhiteNative AmericanOtherTwo Or MoreWhite Non-HispanicHispanic
Carmel City & Fishers Town (West) PUMA, IN
Noblesville City & Fishers Town (East) PUMA, IN
Boone & Hamilton (Northwest) Counties PUMA, IN
In 2020, the PUMA with the highest Median Household Income (Total) in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN was Carmel City & Fishers Town (West) PUMA, IN with a value of $103,803, followed by Noblesville City & Fishers Town (East) PUMA, IN and Boone & Hamilton (Northwest) Counties PUMA, IN, with respective values of $100,373 and $87,888.
The following map shows all of the PUMAs in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN colored by their Median Household Income (Total).
In 2020, the median household income of the 52.2k households in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN grew to $56,875 from the previous year's value of $55,991.
The following chart displays the households in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN distributed between a series of income buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households have an income in the $75k - $100k range.
2020 Wage GINI in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN
In 2020, the income inequality in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN was 0.402 according to the GINI calculation of the wage distribution. Income inequality had a 2.09% decline from 2019 to 2020, which means that wage distribution grew somewhat more even. The GINI for Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN was lower than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN in comparison to the national average.
This chart shows the number of workers in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN across various wage buckets compared to the national average.
In 2020, 83.7% of workers in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN drove alone to work, followed by those who carpooled to work (8.23%) and those who worked at home (5.38%).
Using averages, employees in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN have a shorter commute time (22.7 minutes) than the normal US worker (26.9 minutes). Additionally, 2.33% of the workforce in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN have "super commutes" in excess of 90 minutes.
The chart below shows how the median household income in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN compares to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
The following chart displays the households in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN distributed between a series of car ownership buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN have 2 cars.
11.6% of the population for whom poverty status is determined in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN (15.1k out of 130k people) live below the poverty line, a number that is lower than the national average of 12.8%. The largest demographic living in poverty are Females 25 - 34, followed by Females 18 - 24 and then Males 6 - 11.
The most common racial or ethnic group living below the poverty line in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN is White, followed by Hispanic and Other.
90% of the population of Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN has health coverage, with 52.3% on employee plans, 11.3% on Medicaid, 13.7% on Medicare, 11.3% on non-group plans, and 1.42% on military or VA plans.
Per capita personal health care spending in Indiana was $8,300 in 2014. This is a 4.76% increase from the previous year ($7,923).
Primary care physicians in Indiana see 1498 patients per year on average, which represents a 0.86% decrease from the previous year (1511 patients). Compare this to dentists who see 1752 patients per year, and mental health providers who see 594 patients per year.
Showing data at the state level for Indiana. Hospitalization data for some states may be delayed or not reported.
This chart shows the number of COVID-19 daily new cases by date in Indiana, as a 7-day rolling average, compared with the four states with the most similar number of confirmed cases.
Patient to Primary Care Physician Ratio in Indiana
Primary care physicians in Indiana see an average of 1,498 patients per year. This represents a 0.86% decrease from the previous year (1,511 patients).
The following chart shows how the number of patients seen by primary care physicians has been changing over time in Indiana in comparison to its neighboring geographies.
This chart presents movement trends over time in the state of Indiana across different categories of places such as retail and recreation, groceries and pharmacies, parks, transit stations, workplaces, and residential.
Between 2019 and 2020, the percent of uninsured citizens in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN declined by 4.76% from 10.5% to 10%.
The following chart shows how the percent of uninsured individuals in Huntington, Whitley, Adams & Wells Counties PUMA, IN changed over time compared with the percent of individuals enrolled in various types of health insurance.
Noble, DeKalb, LaGrange & Steuben Counties PUMA, IN
Grant, Miami & Wabash Counties PUMA, IN
Kosciusko & Marshall Counties PUMA, IN
Auglaize, Mercer & Van Wert Counties PUMA, OH
Allen County (Outside Fort Wayne City) PUMA, IN


A delightful 3 bedroom (1 ensuite), 1 1/2 reception semi detached chalet bungalow in a cul de sac location off the Portrush Road/Queens Avenue/Greenhill Drive area in Ballymoney. The property benefits from oil fired heating, uPVC double glazed windows, has a burglar alarm and has uPVC fascia and soffits. This property is sure to appeal to a wide range of prospective purchasers and early viewing is highly recommended to fully appreciate the location and accommodation of this delightful family home.
3 bedroom (1 ensuite) accommodation.
Located off the Portrush Road/Queen Avenue/Greenhill Drive.
With telephone point, storage cupboard understairs.
With tiled fireplace, tiled hearth, wooden surround and T.V. point.
With a range of eye and low level units including electric hob, electric oven, extractor fan, 1 1/2 bowl stainless steel sink unit, plumbed for automatic washing machine, display shelf, part tiled walls and T.V. point.
Ensuite with Redring Expressions 500 electric shower, tiled cubicle, w.c., wash hand basin, tiled splashback and extractor fan.
With fitted suite including bath with telephone hand shower, w.c., wash hand basin, tiled splashback, tiled around bath, Thermostatic shower, tiled cubicle and extractor fan.
Raised shrub bed to rear of property.
Leave Ballymoney along the Coleraine Road and turn right after the mini roundabout into Queens Avenue. Continue along and take the second on the right into Greenhill Drive. Continue along and take the second right into Model Court. The property is located along straight in front at the end of the cul de sac.


This is the Stock Market Cartoon Section. Please feel free to Contribute your Cartoons and comments in this thread.
True for most of the CSE traders.
Suit to the current situation.
I'm invite you all to have a break when you feel tired with stocks.
Lets post some cartoons and jokes related with the stock market.
This section will not be needed for some time as there are many live cartoons on the news these days!
All new cartoons with stock market interest will be posted here in the future and members could comment.
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Nintendo Switch Pro Controller Hits Lowest Price Ever for Cyber Monday
By Game Share Online	 Last updated Dec 8, 2020
I have rambled on at length about whether or not you should buy a Pro Controller for the Nintendo Switch, but my personal experience is this: It's an awesome peripheral, and it costs too much money.
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That's not the case today, however, as you can get a Pro Controller for an all-time low price of $51. The deal, at present, is available at both Amazon and Target, but don't be alarmed if you don't see it right away. Taking advantage of the full discount takes a little bit of legwork.
When you add the Pro Controller to your cart, it will appear to cost $60 — a decent discount, but not worth jumping out of your seat. However, if you follow the process all the way to the checkout, Amazon and Target will take an additional $9 off the purchase price, leaving you at $51. As far as the Tom's Guide staff can tell, this the lowest price a major retailer has ever offered on a brand-new Switch Pro Controller.
For gamers who are debating the merits of the device, the Pro Controller is a much more traditional peripheral than the mounted Joy-Cons, with more even button spacing and handles with softer, more comfortable grips. You can take advantage of an additional button to take screenshots instantly, you can connect it to Amiibos via NFC and you can use it with PCs via Bluetooth. It's a much more comfortable way to play big adventures on the Switch for hours at a time, and makes a great extra controller for multiplayer matchups.
If you decide you want one, this is probably the time to buy it; the Pro Controller hasn't been this cheap before, and may not be this cheap again until after Christmas. Or, if you're still holding out for a different product, check out our Nintendo Switch Cyber Monday Deals or our Best Cyber Monday Deals overall.
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Even though Margie is still on the sign, she is apparently long gone. However, the Merry-Go Round lives on serving Chinese, American, and Mexican food. If you're like me, combinations three-deep usually are a big warning sign to stay away as most places like that can't do one of those well much less three. However, the Merry-Go Round is rated quite well online so, if you're doing that run up or down beautiful U.S. Route 395 — especially if you're in a car full of people getting fussy over not being able to agree on what to eat — this might just be the place for you.
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* Built-in support for __[JSLint](http://www.jslint.com/)__ and __[JSHint](http://www.jshint.com/)__ linters
* Picks all __.js and executable Node.js files__ from all directories recursively (nest level is configurable)
* [__Provides simple external configuration file standard__](#configuration-files) that allows to keep options out of program files
* If needed __understands _.gitignore_ rules__
* Additional [__ignore rules can be defined in _.lintignore_ files__](#ignoring-specific-files-and-directories)
* __Optional caching__ mechanism (no re-evaluation with same options on not modified files)
* Provides __live console__, that updates when code or configuration files are updated
* Covered by [__over 150 unit tests__](#tests-)

## Usage

```
$ xlint [options] [<paths>]
```

for example:

```
$ xlint --linter=path/to/jslint-module.js project/path
```

Interested in live console?

```
$ xlint --watch --linter=path/to/jslint-module.js project/path
```

## Installation

	$ npm install -g xlint

## Options

* __linter__ `path` - Path to linter module. It must be CJS module, see e.g. [xlint-jslint](https://github.com/medikoo/xlint-jslint) for JSLint provided as one
* __cache__ `bool` - Whether to cache generated reports. Very useful if we rerun the script on large projects. Cached reports are saved into _.lintcache_ file in your project main directory _[default: true]_
* __color__ `bool` - Colorize console output _[default: true]_
* __depth__ `number` - How deeply to recurse into subdirectories _[default: Infinity]_
* __ignoreRules__ `string` - Whether to obey rules found in ignore files (Currently just _git_ for _.giitignore_ rules is supported). It's backed by [_fs2.isIgnored_](https://github.com/medikoo/fs2#isignoredmode-path-options-cb) _[default: git]_
* __stream__ `bool` - Whether to generate reports on the go (as soon as first filenames are obtained) _[default: true]_
* __watch__ `bool` - Output reports in live console which updates after code or configuration files are updated _[default: false]_

## Ignoring specific files and directories

Apart of support for _.gitignore_ rules, XLint also looks for rules in _.lintignore_ files. Syntax rules for those files is same as for _.gitignore_ files.

## Configuration files

XLint supports external _.lint_ configuration files, through which we may setup options that are passed to linter. There can be many_.lint_ files placed in any directory within project

File format is similar to _conf_ files as we know them from *nix systems:

```
# This is a comment, any of this are ignored by the parser

@root                     # Root of a project, means that any rules found in upper directories won't have effect

plusplus                  # Regular boolean option
indent 2                  # Numeric option
predef console, window    # Array of strings

./foo.js                  # Options that would only address foo.js file
!plusplus                 # Overridden boolean option (set to false)
predef+ XMLHttpRequest    # Add token to array option
predef- console           # Remove token from array option

./some-dir                # Options that address only files within given directory
predef foo, bar           # Override array option
otherarr one,             # Other array option, if we set just one token, we need to post-fix it with comma
```

### JSHint case

XLint doesn't support options defined in `jshintrc` files.
JSHint separates _global_ variable settings from other options, but in XLint configuration files, _global_ should be defined same as other options (as e.g. _predef_ for JSLint), it will be passed to JSHint as expected.

## Tests [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/medikoo/xlint.png)](https://travis-ci.org/medikoo/xlint)

	$ npm test


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Commonwealth Bank Tennis Classic 2007 — жіночий тенісний турнір, що проходив на відкритих кортах з твердим покриттям Hyatt Hotels Corporation на Білі (Індонезія). Це був 13-й за ліком Commonwealth Bank Tennis Classic. Належав до турнірів 3-ї категорії в рамках Туру WTA 2007. Тривав з 10 до 16 вересня 2007 року. Несіяна Ліндсі Девенпорт здобула титул в одиночному розряді й отримала 32240 доларів США.

Повернення Ліндсі Девенпорт
Ліндсі Девенпорт, колишня перша ракетка світу, повернулась після народження сина. Це був для неї перший турнір того року і перший професійний поєдинок після перерви тривалістю 51 тиждень. Попри тривалу перерву Девенпорт була у формі й виграла турнір.

Фінальна частина

Одиночний розряд

 Ліндсі Девенпорт —  Даніела Гантухова 6–4, 3–6, 6–2

Парний розряд

 Сунь Шеннань /  Цзи Чуньмей —  Джилл Крейбас /  Наталі Грандін 6–3, 6–2

Примітки

Посилання
 ITF tournament edition details
 Tournament draws

Commonwealth Bank Tennis Classic
Commonwealth Bank Tennis Classic
Commonwealth Bank Tennis Classic

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DIANE SHEETS
VOICE TEA
VOICETEA.COM
ABOUT DIANE SHEETS
With more th an 20 years of music business experience, Nashville-based celebrity vocal coach Diane Sheets is the magic behind some of the best voices in music today. For two decades, artists like Little Big Town, Natalie Grant, Danny Gokey, Matt Maher, Lauren Daigle and Casting Crowns have depended on Sheets' renowned vocal techniques and progressive approach to vocal production, which allows them to give award-winning performances both in-studio and on-stage. In addition, Sheets has worked with countless session singers and developing artists.
With a formal educational background in music and years of study in the anatomy and physiology of the voice, Sheets specializes in vocal technique, vocal health and individual styling. In addition, Sheets has assisted numerous acclaimed singers through recovery following vocal injury, surgery or other trauma. In the studio, she is considered an advocate for both the producer and the artist. On the road, her vocal regimen is regarded as a necessary daily ritual backstage. Furthermore, she is often called upon by some of Music Row's biggest record labels to assist in developing the fresh voices major A&R departments are scouting. In addition, Sheets is a sought-after speaker, bringing her respected teaching and advice to conferences, workshops and music programs around the globe.
© 2020, diane sheets.


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SSD Pop-Up Blog Post #5: One in a Million
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: One in a Million is another one of my favorite SSD films. It's filled with humor, romance, joy….and singing and dancing!
In it, a singing waitress mails a proposal and a lottery ticket to her boyfriend, a singing waiter. Unfortunately, he breaks up with her just before she learns that the ticket was a winning one. Desperate to get it back, she enlists the help of the Postables, but her letter was one of many that were seized by Dudley, a disgruntled postal worker preparing to retire. Dudley never received the recognition that Oliver, Oliver's dad and Oliver's grandfather received, so he holds the mail until his demands are met.
This feel-good film also features what should be Oliver and Shane's first date at the restaurant where the singing waitress and waiter work. But due to a comment he makes to the waitress, Shane doesn't believe it's a date, and the night is awkward. Ramon, a recurring character who's a local television personality, is there, and he gives Oliver advice. This is the first film in the series where it seems to hint that Ramon is an angel. He mysteriously shows up when the characters need advice.
The theme focuses on the importance of second chances, when someone's true intentions aren't really known. The twist at the end between the waitress and waiter reflects this in a sweet, wonderful way. Dudley learns that his hard work and dedication really mattered to people. Shane realizes that Oliver does want their relationship to move forward; he's just still hesitant due to his past. And when she gives Oliver a second chance at a first date, she does so with a rose – from a rose bush that Oliver planted -- in her hair that finally bloomed after she had almost given up hope. Great metaphor!
Mission #5: If there's a positive dream you've had, but you think you've made too many mistakes, give yourself a second chance. It's not too late to do good things in a world that needs your goodness.


Partner in the firm of Anshen and Allen, San Francisco, CA. Designed the Chapel of the Holy Cross (illus.), Sedona, AZ (1956), the International Building (illus.), San Francisco, CA, (1961), and the Bank of California Building (illus.), San Francisco, CA, (1967).


Volunteers are needed on Thursday mid-afternoon to early evening (roughly 3-8 pm) to assist with set up and break down for the food bank delivery to the Mosaica Family Apartments, a supportive housing site for formerly homeless families and older adults in the Mission District. Lutheran Social Services (LSS) of Northern California provides social services to approximately 36 families with children and older adults who live in these apartments.
The volunteer(s) would arrive around 3 pm to assist the LSS staff person in preparing the community room for delivery of the food bank items and in packing up once shopping ends at 7 pm. The volunteer(s) can stay for the duration of shopping time or rotate in and out based on time.
This activity happens weekly, but we would be grateful for even one Thursday a month to relieve staff so they can attend to other duties on-site.
2-5 hours (this could be done in shifts, with each person spending approximately two hours on site, or as a team.
Some lifting (20-30 pounds) and bending is required.


A mild, sweet and light scent, a practical and very interesting product that will spread its fragrance throughout your home.
A mild, sweet and light scent, a practical and very interesting product that will spread its fragrance throughout your home. The smell is very nice, composed of musk.