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The COVID-19 pandemic forced people around the world to instantly change the way they lived their lives: how they bought groceries, how they traveled, and if and how they worked. Elected officials on the local and national level responded with financial resources, rent and utility assistance programs, emergency housing for those experiencing homelessness, and initiatives that gave residents staying closer to home more use of their streets. Neighbors got to work as well: They organized mutual aid groups, helped one another book vaccination appointments, and offered helping hands. The past 14 months have by no
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Starting this summer, there’s a new CSA in town but instead of receiving heirloom tomatoes or zucchini, participants will receive “shares” of original artwork created by artists in the D.C. area.
The Community Supported Art program is the result of a new collaboration between Rhizome DC, the Takoma-based community art nonprofit, and Guilded: A Freelancer Cooperative, a local chapter of the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives currently recruiting members for its pilot phase. With time, the founders hope the CSA might even blossom into a sustainable way to actively foster community support for the ar
Two new reports reveal just how much our society fails independent arts workers
We must reinvent how we value and protect broad swaths of the labor market if we are to emerge from this pandemic
Lily Janiak March 9, 2021Updated: March 9, 2021, 6:47 pm
Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen at the Radian Gallery in San Francisco. Evans MacFadyen, a curator, visual artist and organizer, has worked on both sides of the employee-independent contractor divide. Photo: Santiago Mejia, The Chronicle
A little more than a year ago, as 2020 was getting into gear, it wouldn’t have been unreasonable to think that AB5 would be the biggest force reshaping Bay Area theater for the year.
Black History Month
February is Black History Month, and DEC joins the rest of the nation in paying tribute to African American men and women whose significant contributions are woven into the fabric of America s culture. Below DEC is bringing attention to some of the most prolific environmental game changers of yesterday and today.
Paying Tribute to a Legacy
Members of the Civilian Conservation Corps
Unit 1251 C II in the 1930s.
In 1933, to combat the turmoil from the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and enlisted thousands of men and women to undertake public works projects and battle significant environmental issues. To address the impact of poor farming practices, deforestation, and destructive pests that destroyed thousands of acres of usable land across the nation, the CCC worked to reforest an estimated one million acres of land to help solve these crises.