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Hey buddies,

This is the new and (hopefully) improved SeattleDIY website. The SDIY Collective is actively seeking to make your experience with getting more connected to the DIY community here easier and stuff. Check back often to see how we’ve improved the website, as we’ll be working on this a lot.

If you’re unfamiliar with how this is all supposed to work, then go to the “About this website, and how to use it” page.

If you have any suggestions, comments, or questions, email us at: sdiycollective at gmail, yo!

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By seattlediy
December 17, 2008

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Protest Holds off Glacier 4+ hours, need help in continuing

A large group of us put together a nonviolent direct action yesterday (friday) morning. We used lock boxes to form a hard blockade with many supporters in front of us, shutting down the road leading to glacier’s construction site. Those in the hard blockade (myself included) risked arrest to keep work at bay. There has been huge support from Vashon Island on this, and we’re calling out to our greater puget sound community.

The affects of the proposed mine are catastrophic. The site is one of three areas declared aquatic reserved in this state. It is one of the last remaining eel grass beds which are crucial habitat for two species of salmon, and up the food chain crucial feeding grounds for Orca whales. Currently they are building their dock, which would facilitate the moving of gravel onto barges. Their proposed mining is almost 3 million tons a year. The spill rate for this type of loading is 1%. That’s thirty thousand tons of gravel every year on a crucial marine ecosystem.

They have 12 more days to finish their dock. After that it’s Herring fishing season, during which no construction can happen in the water. There is tremendous legal support for stopping this action, but nothing can be done quick enough. If they can be held off so the dock is not finished by Jan. 14th, they will have to stop for six months.

We need your support Seattle community! Come to Gold Beach Community Center tomorrow at 12:00 to participate in a public rally on the beach. If you have a boat bring it! Bring your kids, noisemakers, and tell your friends!

Basically, we’ve put our asses on the line to help protect the sound. We’re willing to do what it takes to keep them at bay for the next 12 days. Are you willing to stand next to us?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008583391_webprotest02m.html?syndication=rss

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By Cloud
January 3, 2009

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January 2009 news!

First of all, it’s a new year! How great is that? A new year to start amazing projects, keep working on the old ones, make new friends, go new places and experience new things. Anyone catch the repeating theme…NEW!

It is a year of new websites also. Seattle DIY has a new website and we would really like your input and additions. You can still find it at www.seattlediy.com. Come check it out! Also the Seattle Free School has a new website and it is www.seattlefreeschool.org. They have some great classes so take a look and see if any things interests you because it is FREE.

Really Really Free Market! The next free market will be on Saturday January 31st at Pratt Park (20th & Yesler, in the Central District). The RRFM is a community gathering where everything is free, and everyone is encouraged to bring something, be it food, clothing, crafts, skills, or your wonderful smile. The RRFM happens every month, rain or shine (there’s a rain-shelter there). We’d love for other organizations and people to get involved and help make this a monthly celebration of community and collective action. For more info, visit the website at myspace.com/seattlereallyfreemarket

The Bike Shack is seeking volunteers! They’re a volunteer run community bike shop that teaches people how to make repairs to their own bikes or build “new” ones! Rent has gone up in 2009 and they operate on donations. If you want to share your knowledge of bikes or want to learn more, stop in! The Bike Shack is located at 55th and 9th in the U District behind the Wayward Cafe. All donations go towards rent and tool replacements. Current volunteer hours are at Bikeshack.org Send an email to bikeshack @ lists . riseup . net if you’re interested in volunteering, or just stop by on Thursdays 4-7. The Bike Shack also needs brewers for its home-brew fest fundraiser. Donate a brew to help us raise rent for the coming year. The Shack will repay your costs and you’ll get in free! Date to be announced, but expected late Feb/Early March. Email RevJesseCard [at] gmail [dot} you know.

The Bikery now has a new location! The Bikery is a collectively run bike shop aiming to demystify bicycles in order to make them a more equitable and accessible mode of transportation. They have open hours and host regular workshops and events. Regular shop hours are Saturdays: Noon-6pm, Sundays, Mondays, and Tuesdays: 2pm-8pm. On January 11th they’re hosting a workshop on overhauling your bottom bracket! Located at: 1265 S Main St. #104. http://www.thebikery.org

Left Bank Books has a number of new collective members, as old members are moving on to other cities and other projects. This new energy is certain to being in new ideas and of course new books. Come in often to see how things change.

Nicklesville, a group dedicated to creating a permanent community space for house-less folks, has been given temporary space at the University Congregational United Church of Christ parking lot on 45th and 15th. They’re needing support and advocacy – find out more at http://www.nickelsvilleseattle.org

Team Victory is active with new projects, now running a Food Not Bombs chapter, and doing community gardening. They also participated in a project in solidarity with Nicklesville. For more info and meeting time and location, visit teamvictorywillwin.org

A new project called North West Common Action has started, stating that they are “a regional anarchist organization in the Northwest United States with members representing the cities of Bellingham, Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia and Portland.” They’ve thusfar published several newsletters about regional, national, and global issues and helped put on a speaking tour. For more info go to http://nwcommonaction.org

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By Benji
January 2, 2009

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December 2008 News

Cascade People’s Center is at risk of closing December 31st as a result of the City of Seattle’s decision to cut funding for the community-run, nonprofit family support center. These funds supported the Center’s core funding, without which it will be unable to continue operating. This will bring devastation to literally thousands of individuals who participate in support services offered through the Center each year.
Take Action! Help CPC stay open in 2009! Donate! Send a check to 309 Pontius Avenue North Seattle, WA 98109 (we will not cash your check unless we are definitely staying open in 2009) OR Donate online at http://www.cascadepeoplescenter.org

‘Tis the Season of Giving…So buy local and not just local but really local. You can do this by going to three local events selling local goods all on Dec. 6th. Talk about convenient.
- Hollow Earth Radio and Healthy Times Fun Club are sponsoring a Local Label Record Craft and Zine Sale! With Lotso Bands
- Holidaze edition of the Punk Rock Flea Market! @ The Underground Events Center at 2407 1st Ave. in Belltown
- Bring It Screen It & Vera Bazaar! Designers make Vera logos and you silkscreen them onto your t-shirt, sweatshirt, or wrist bands!

Really Really Free Market! The next free market will be on Saturday December 27th. For more info, visit the website at: myspace.com/seattlereallyfreemarket

SeattleDIY has a few zines that we need help with! Help us out with the next issue of The Guide To Seattle, The Guide To Putting Shit On, and a Guide To Dumpster Diving. We have our zines in wiki format at seattlediy.pbwiki.com. Make a log-in account and edit them as you’d like!

Wayward Cafe is officially no longer a collectively run space, and is now owned jointly by the wonderful folks from Pizza Pi (a vegan pizzeria) and Sidecar For Pigs Peace (a volunteer-run non-profit vegan grocery store). They’ll be changing the menu eventually and fixing up the place, and already things are looking great. While it’s sad to loose a collectively-run space, we’re happy to see the restaurant stay, and happy that the Bike Shack (a volunteer-run bicycle workshop behind Wayward) will still have a place. Go there - 55th & Roosevelt in the University District.

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By seattlediy
December 16, 2008

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November 2008 News

UMOJAFEST P.E.A.C.E. Center, an up-and-coming new community center!
The Umojafest “Positive Education Activating Contact Elevation” Center, located on 24th and Spring, is a “multi-purpose facility currently being developed… in the heart of Seattle’s historically African-American Central District” that will primarily function as a “Center for Hip-Hop Culture, Business, and Technology.” When completed, this space will be an amazing resource to empower communities in the Central District and throughout Seattle in creating a D.I.Y., youth-oriented Hip-Hop culture that reflects the values of those who participate. The center will provide tools such as Hip-hop oriented entrepreneurial development, music and video production equipment, classes on subjects ranging from life skills to creative writing, office space for community organizations, and an outdoor theatre, stage and place for community events. Stay tuned for more events at Umojafest! To get involved, contact wyking@gmail.com.

Cascade People’s Center may close December 31st ! Some of you have attended Seattle Free School classes at the Cascade People’s Center. Without the Cascade People’s Center many of the classes Seattle Free School offers simply would not be able to happen. Unfortunately the City Council hasn’t put the Cascade People’s Center into next years budget, and without this funding the Center will have to close December 31st. Many people ask us what they can do to help Seattle Free School and now we’re letting you know that helping Cascade People’s Center is indeed helping Seattle Free School. For more information about how you can help please go to http://seattlefreeschool.blogspot.com/

Thanksgiving is this month. Some indigenous groups in the United States do not celebrate at all. Some use it as a day of mourning and remembering the dead. While still others take this day to celebrate indigenous people’s survival and resistance.

Day after Thanksgiving is BUY NOTHING DAY!! Don’t open that wallet for a thing come to the Really, Really Free Market at Pratt Park Saturday November 29 noon-4pm.

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By seattlediy
November 16, 2008

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