Category Archives for DC
Judith Hawkins’ family needs help, so please join me in supporting them in this time of crisis. See the crowdfunding page here, or just give in the gizmo below. As is sadly typical, I’m coming to write about this a bit … Continue reading →
19. September 2015 by greg.bloom@gmail.com
Categories: DC |
Tags: Bread for the City, Chocolate City, organizizing |
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My favorite story about organizing in Marion Barry’s city: it happened at the height of the Save Our Safety Net campaign. We’d been putting ‘SOS’ capes on DC councilcritters who pledged to prevent Fenty’s budget cuts by voting for higher … Continue reading →
24. November 2014 by greg.bloom@gmail.com
Categories: DC, Stories |
Tags: Chocolate City |
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For much of 2013, I traveled to sites where I could learn firsthand about cooperative organization, co-productive labor, and the commons. Some of this work was through formal ‘residency’ programming designed to support social research and creative practice. Some of … Continue reading →
04. January 2014 by greg.bloom@gmail.com
Categories: Annual Reporting, Community Resource Data, DC |
Tags: commons, community informatiics, data commons, digital justice, hacking, organizizing, work |
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Throughout most of 2012, I worked on a couple of projects that I’d started while at Bread for the City. (I left Bread in March of 2012, but in both of these projects I saw the promise of opportunity to … Continue reading →
04. January 2014 by greg.bloom@gmail.com
Categories: Annual Reporting, Community Resource Data, DC |
Tags: broadband, commons, community informatiics, data commons, digital justice, organizizing, recap, work |
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Thanks to Code for America for inviting me to submit this paper as a chapter of their new book, Beyond Transparency: Open Data and the Civic Innovation. I’m at CfA’s summit in San Francisco this week, and I’ll be posting … Continue reading →
15. October 2013 by greg.bloom@gmail.com
Categories: Community Resource Data, DC, Stories |
Tags: 211, commons, community informatiics, cooperatives, writing |
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Over the past few years I’ve been thinking about what I call, wonkily, ‘the community resource directory data problem’ — by which I mean: information about the services that exist in a community, and the challenges posed by the collection … Continue reading →
15. October 2013 by greg.bloom@gmail.com
Categories: Community Resource Data, DC |
Tags: 211, Bread for the City, commons, cooperatives, hacking, writing |
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I wrote this shortly after Brian passed away, which was a year ago today. Decided to post it after a celebration of his memory last weekend, on Ontario Road in Adams Morgan. We planted a tree among his ashes. R.I.P. … Continue reading →
28. August 2013 by greg.bloom@gmail.com
Categories: DC, Stories |
Tags: organizizing |
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