Thursday, November 11, 2010

Group 1: Alligators of Newtown Creek

NEXT MEETING: 10AM Friday November 19th, Carman Basement Lounge


Newtown Creek, Long Island City, Queens NY (birthplace of your GSM)
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What's wrong with this river?!

Artist Olafur Eliasson drew attention to ideas about the natural environment and water pollution with this work, Green River (1998-200). Intrigued? Read an interview with the artist.

5 comments:

  1. On the 17th of November ExxonMobil agreed - because of a lawsuit - to cleanup Newtown Creek! Now, 25 million dollars are being allocated to this cleanup, Riverkeeper is going to monitor it and the community, along with the Newtown Creek Alliance.
    So, much is happening in our area right now

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  2. an oral history project about the creek:
    http://www.newtowncreekalliance.org/community-health/creek-speak/

    the epa report about the spill:
    http://www.epa.gov/Region2/superfund/npl/newtowncreek/newtowncreek_review.pdf

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  3. oh and also the final creek speak oral history report:
    http://newtowncreekalliance.org/docs/CreekSpeak_FinalReport.pdf

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  4. Responsibilities for December 2nd Proposal
    Feride- Current situation
    Kebe- What happened in the past
    Bavi- Our vision!
    Edwin- Prospective interviewees and readings

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  5. This sounds great, a hot topic right now!

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