Friday, November 27, 2009
If you need a coat, please come get one. If you have a coat, we know people who can use them.
Website: http://www.coatexchange.org
Every year people all over the United States spend the day after Thanksgiving getting ready for the holiday season by patronizing retail businesses for gift buying. We perceived a need for a project for the same day that would be useful and meaningful, as well as educational, and that focuses on concerns about the ecological and psychological consequences of our consumer culture and the impact of our consumerism on society.
To that end, a new community-oriented project was born: The Community Coat Exchange. Patterned after a similar event in Rhode Island, the Coat Exchange is a collection and distribution of winter coats and other clothing items. The event is held between 10 AM and 2PM the day after Thanksgiving.
The idea is for folks to bring donations to any of the drop off centers (see right sidebar for partners and drop off centers) before Thanksgiving or to the event itself. At the event, no questions are asked: If you need a coat, come get one. If you want to exchange a coat, bring the coat you want to donate and take one in exchange. If you have a donation of coats, we know people who can use them.
Left over coats are donated to the Crossroads Urban Center Thrift Store, a project of the Crossroads Urban Center which advocates for low income and homeless people. The Crossroads Urban Center Thrift Store gives clothes away to poor people and also sells clothes and other goods in its retail shop to the general public to help fund the Crossroads Urban Center programs.
Please contact us if your organization is willing to support this annual event as a partner (obligations of co-sponsors are to publicize the event to your network).
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2009 Community Coat Exchange Partners
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DROP OFF/COLLECTION SITES:
City Academy – http://www.cityacademy.org
555 East 200 South, SLC, 801.596-8489
Free Speech Zone http://www.freespeech-zone.com
411 South 800 East, SLC, 801.487-2295
Highland High School – http://highland.slc.k12.ut.us
2166 South 1700 East, SLC, 801.484.4343
I.J.Jeanne Wagner Jewish Community Center- http://www.slcjcc.org
2 North Medical Drive, SLC, 801.581.0098
The Oakley School -drop off center – http://www.oakley-school.com
251 West Weber Canyon Road – Oakley, Ut, 435.783.5001
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Blue Sky Institute- http://www.blueskyinstitute.org
Crossroads Urban Center – http://www.crossroads-u-c.org
Misty Fowler – http://saintless.com
People for Peace and Justice of Utah – http://www.utahpeace.org
Utah Amnesty International – http://www.amnesty.org
Westminster Roots and Shoots – http://www.westminstercollege.edu/biology/index.cfm?parent=4012&detail=4781
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To donate, volunteer, or obtain further information, please contact us at:
801-631-2998
info@coatexchange.org
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There are multiple ways you can donate coats – and it’s easy!
1. Bring Coats to one of the drop off centers (see right sidebar)
2. Contact us for a pick up
801-631-2998; info@coatexchange.org
3. Bring your coats to the event itself!
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Media:
SLUG Magazine:
http://www.slugmag.com/articles/1940/Fighting-Back-at-Black-Friday.html
CATALYST:
http://www.catalystmagazine.net/pdfs/2009-11/calendar_0911.pdf
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Un(Packing) Gender Conference
200 East 400 South
Join HRC Utah in our support of TransAction, the youth-led advocacy group and program of the Utah Pride Center. TransAction has a month-long series of events in November to celebrate Transgender Awareness Month.
The month of events will culminate with a day long gender conference called Un(Packing) Gender on November 28th from 9am to 5pm. The conference will be held at the Main Public Library, and is free and open to everyone.
HRC Utah will have an information table to distribute transgender resource materials, including: Coming Out As Transgender, the Corporate Equality Index and Transgender Americans: A Handbook for Understanding. Additional resources on transgender legislation, workplace, news, laws, articles, FAQ and publications are available on HRC’s website.
Conference Session Topics Include:
•Transgender 101
•Shaving and make-up how to’s
•Privilege and community
•Gender non-conforming in the news
•Gender and philosophy
•Parents, partners, and family members of transgender persons
•Safe sex and HIV prevention for transgender persons
•Plus – Lunch-time clothing swap!
Pre-register for the conference by emailing your name and contact information to transactionutah@gmail.com
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Nationwide Convergence on Fur Farm Capital – Morgan, Utah
10:00am – 5:00pm
On November 28th, activists from across the country will converge on Morgan for Fur Free Saturday. Morgan is the largest fur farming town in the country, with 15 active mink farms. For the first time, the animal rights movement will bring the tears and rage for the millions killed every year for fur to the belly of the beast: Morgan, Utah. This convergence will climax in a one-mile march through the heart of this fur farm capital, past two of Morgan’s mink farms.
The mere threat of this protest has already generated enormous media coverage, and Morgan County’s mink farmers and police are scared. Morgan has responded by amending their protesting ordinance to outlaw protesting within 1000 feet of a mink farm. Activists responded by filing two lawsuits, charging the ordinance is unconstitutional. The protest will continue.
Morgan is clearly a town contemptuous of the constitution and steeped in the tradition of murder. Two lawsuits and numerous news headlines later, activists remain committed to march on Morgan November 28th, and are calling on activists nationwide to join them.
We will meet at Coffee Garden on 9th South and 9th East in Salt Lake City at 10 am and carpool up to Morgan.
This event is likely to be legend.
More info at the Fur Free Utah website: www.furfreeutah.com
Contact: peteryoung@furfreeutah.com
We want as many out of town activists as possible to attend this event. All activists arriving from out of town will be provided with a place to stay.
ALSO:
The day before Morgan, on Fur Free Friday, we will be protesting throughout downtown Park City, Utah. Known as “Black Friday,” this is the busiest shopping day of the year and there will be plenty of shoppers in Park City on this day. We will use the occassion, a traditional day of protest against the fur industry, to demonstrate against Park City’s multiple fur stores.
We will meet at Coffee Garden on 9th South and 9th East in Salt Lake City at 10 am and carpool up to Park City.
