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AT GROUND ZERO AN 18TH CENTURY SHIP WAS FOUND BURIED

Posted in News, tagged , , , on July 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Just thought you should know: “By Wednesday, the outlines made it plain: a 30-foot length of a wood-hulled vessel had been discovered about 20 to 30 feet below street level on the World Trade Center site, the first such large-scale archaeological find along the Manhattan waterfront since 1982, when an 18th-century cargo ship came to [...]

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‘ZINE MAKING CLASS BEGINS THIS SATURDAY! (Brooklyn)

Posted in New Old Traditions, News, tagged , , , , , , , on July 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

NEW OLD TRADITIONS IN THE CLASSROOM 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY DIY Publishing: ‘Zine Making, Saturdays July 17, 24, 31, 2:30pm – 5:30pm By the end of the course students will have collected material for, laid out, printed, bound, and photocopied a completed ‘zine to either keep for themselves, or distribute guerilla style to the masses. [...]

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SUMMER SUN AND CULTURAL APPROPRIATION

Posted in News, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Warm sunny days and new moons make for wonderful outdoor revelry, but are disastrous to websites and blogs. This gives me hope that no matter how enticing binary code is, a cloudless sky will ultimately win the day. And, such has been the case around here. Creativity for many of our writers has been found [...]

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START YOUR OWN RELIGION & GUERILLA PUBLISHING CLASSES: Two New Old workshops in Brooklyn

Posted in Making Things, New Old Traditions, News, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on June 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

NEW OLD TRADITIONS IN THE CLASSROOM:3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY Start a New Religion, Mondays June 28, July 5, 12, 19, 7:00pm – 10:00pm In this class students will each write, design, and craft a new spiritual path (as far out or traditional as desired), to be summed up and presented at the end of the [...]

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TWO RECENT MAGICK(ALLY) CHAOTIC ARTICLES: Phil Hine and Peter J. Carroll

Posted in All That is Sacred, News, tagged , , , , , on June 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The quite lovable Phil Hine, author of Condensed Chaos and man of many interests has a new piece up on his Enfolding site title “Occult gender regimes: Polarity and the body electric,” which is just a grand ole read. Hine has been going just where I’d like to see chaots headed these days: identity politics. [...]

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THE EARTH IS ALIVE!: The Guatemalan sinkhole

Posted in News, tagged , , , , on June 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »

While our hearts go out to all those effected by Tropical Cyclone “Agatha,” including the 150+ people who have died across Central America, I’d like to also bring your attention to how quickly the Earth, this planet many people seem to think they are in control of, can, in the blink of an eye, swallow [...]

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NEW DANIEL HIGGS DOUBLE LP: “Say God”

Posted in All That is Sacred, New Old Traditions, News, tagged , , , on June 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Daniel “Nomo” Higgs, along with a number of other notable travelers, is probably the biggest influence behind my willing participation in these things we call New Old Traditions. So, lucky for me, he’s got a new double album out on Thrill Jockey Records. Here’s what I believe to be the first track.

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PAGAN BLOGGER CALLS OUT BP: As we all should be doing anyway

Posted in News, tagged , on May 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Beliefnet‘s resident pagan blogger, Gus diZerega, has a good, if short, piece up begging the question: Should corporations have anything to do with anything that requires ethical decisions? He writes, Over the past several years I have slowly come to the conclusion that corporations should not be allowed, ever, to engage in activities that require [...]

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ARIZONA IS REALLY GETTING ON MY NERVES: New Old News Feed (Tuesday May 31, 2010)

Posted in News, tagged , , , , , , , , , on May 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »

In Arizona, teachers with “heavy accents” can’t be in classes where students are still learning the English language. The Arizona Department of Education recently began telling school districts that teachers whose spoken English it deems to be heavily accented or ungrammatical must be removed from classes for students still learning English. Because, you know, there’s [...]

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PLEASE GIVE A BIG WELCOME: New N.O.T. writers Blujay and Cody Meyocks

Posted in New Old Traditions, News on May 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

It is with great pleasure that I welcome two new New Old writers to the team. Hello, Blujay. Hello, Cody Meyocks. _____________________ Blujay lives in Brooklyn. She just started occupational therapy school. Her piece on Memorial Day can be found here, while her piece on the intersection of consumerism and gift giving is here. _____________________ [...]

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CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS OFF THE GRID (sorta) AND READY TO PEACE OUT OF DODGE

Posted in News, tagged , , , , , on May 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

“Making the government an idol is the problem. That’s what stands in the way of Christian sanctification,” Humphrey says. “It’s hands off mainly things like our family, our children, our bodies, our health, and even our money, the fruits of our labor. These don’t belong to government.” The video of Keith Humphrey, leader of the [...]

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EVENT REMINDER FOR THIS SATURDAY: “Kombucha and Kimchi Talk and Giveaway” in Brooklyn, NY

Posted in New Old Traditions, News, The Kitchen, tagged , , , , , , on May 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Join Onalistus Reveler, Daisy Jane Danger, Ernistine Cabins, and Briar Reveler for this New Old Event where we will learn how to make kombucha and kimchi, discuss the history of these two mysterious edibles, and learn about some of the benefits of putting them in your belly. Below are the details: “Kombucha and Kimchi Talk [...]

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CARDS OF WU: New non-deck of new divination cards

Posted in News, tagged , , on May 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Uh…kind of amazing. A series of woodcuts by Ellis Nadler in the form of divination cards. Don’t we wish these were actually a deck of cards? Via Technoccult.

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THE DESIRE TO LEARN PRECEDES THE ASSUMPTION OF SCHOOL: New Old News Feed (Thor’s Day May 20, 2010)

Posted in News, tagged , , on May 20, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Just two for this morning. The trick is to figure out how they go together! ____________________ English professor, Joel Shatzky, gets into all that stuff about how schooling kills the inherent drive to learn in young people. even inspiring teachers cannot motivate those students who are turned off to the bizarre notion of mass education [...]

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PANERA GOES ANARCHIST: Pay what you like at a popular sandwich chain

Posted in News, tagged , , , on May 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Possibly taking a cue from anarchistically-minded new-economic-paradigm peoples the world over, chain bakery, Panera, is trying an experiment whereby instead of having a menu with prices next to every item, customers may simply pay what they want. According to the AP article: “The national bakery and restaurant chain launched a new nonprofit store here this [...]

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AN OPEN LETTER TO GLENN BECK: AK Press responds to GB’s ramblings

Posted in News, tagged , , on May 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »

An Open Letter to Glenn Beck By kate May 14, 2010 Dear readers: We here at AK Press were both shocked and (we’ll admit it) thrilled when right-wing media mogul Glenn Beck held up our new book on the Greek Insurrection of December 2008 on his FOX News program a couple of weeks ago, and [...]

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PLACEBOS (un-medicine medicine) MAY WORK BETTER THAN MEDICINE

Posted in News, tagged , , , on May 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

NPR has a great story on the effect of placebos, calling into question (heavily) the power of the mind in the process of healing. From the website: Placebos, or sugar pills, are one of the building blocks of good science. For decades they’ve played a major role in medical experiments and drug trials. In some [...]

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START YOUR OWN RELIGION: A new writing class in Brooklyn, NY

Posted in News, tagged , , , , on May 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »

A friend of ours is teaching a class in Brooklyn, NY this summer on starting your own religion. It sounds amazing. If you or anyone you know lives in the area and is interested in this sort of off-the-wall revelry, do sign up quick, as this might fill up soon. The class will take place [...]

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LOOKING FOR NYC BLOGGERS/WRITERS

Posted in New Old Traditions, News, tagged , , , , , , , on May 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

We’re looking for someone to cover the NYC anarcho-mystical, pagan, psychedelic, magickal, herbalist, real-foodist, primitivist scene, with a special heart-warming interest in pieces that show or talk about where the latter group of fun words intersect (but we’ll defs take them a la carte!). We’d like our readers to hear about events, talks, happenings, shop [...]

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STOP RETROGRADING, MERCURY! We’re bigger than you.

Posted in News, tagged , , , on May 12, 2010 | 4 Comments »

I think we’re almost out of this weird Mercurial pass, right? Good, ’cause we’ve been admittedly a little slow on the content. I can admit that. In any case, new super exciting stuff is on its way. In the meantime, why not get on the Hate Bus with me against Arizona who in record time [...]

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