Earth Day 2016

Come and join in the fun!  Love your Mother

The Book of Mormon in Knoxville

The Book of Mormon will be playing The Tennessee Theatre 4/05/16 - 4/10/16!

Sustainable Urban Farming Progress

Perhaps the most honest coverage of Mayor Rogero's urban farming initiative is at the Mercury:

In a lonesome corner behind Knox Rail Salvage where East Depot Avenue dead ends at the high concrete wall of James White Parkway, a little over a half-acre of land sat for years, an odd grassy area surrounded by the hardscape of downtown. The hardware store that once stood there was torn down in the mid-2000s to make way for the parkway construction. Now it’s the site of Old City Gardens, the city’s newest, and closest-to-downtown community garden, which had its ceremonial ground breaking Friday morning.

by Eleanor Scott
 
Keep watching this blog as we spot and share more locations for urban pioneers to plot their nourishing, sustainable garden plots. Break the chains of corporate slavery!  The city just cleared a block in Happy Holler at W. Anderson and Wray that is just begging for tents and crops.

Deannexation: Knoxville Declares Solidarity for the People

Knoxville votes to oppose 21st century white-flight.

Time was that when the Lilly-white elites caught a fear of Brown people, they had to pack up and move to the hills, or what Ron Kuby has dubbed "Whitelandia."  Now the capitalist puppets in Nashville wish to make white-flight effortless, by having the elites opt-out of city taxes while continuing to receive the benefits of already installed infrastructure.

Infrastructure that was built with the blood, sweat, lives, and tears of the inner city workers.  Not to mention tax money taken from the poorest of the poor.

Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero and all but one member of the City Council have authored a letter opposing a state bill that would allow residents in a handful of Tennessee cities, including Knoxville, to vote on leaving the city and becoming part of the surrounding unincorporated county. In fact, the city opposes this deannexation bill so staunchly it even underlined “strongly opposes” in its letter to state lawmakers to drive home its message. - Clay Duda, Knoxville Mercury

 Praise Comrade Rogero and her valiant stance for the workers!

Update: The fascist plan was killed in committee.

May Day 2016

First Annual Knoxville May Day Celebration

Knoxville: Migrants Welcome Here

In solidarity with President Barack Obama, Comrade Mayor Madeline Rogero and the City Council stand with migrants and declare sanctuary status for Knoxville.

Comrade Mayor Madeline Rogero

(KNOXVILLE) Immigration rights activists are hailing the city of Knoxville for formally throwing its support to an effort to spare undocumented adult workers from deportation.The city is among more than 100 cities that submitted this week what are called "amicus curiae" or friend of the court briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court. The move pits Knoxville directly against the state of Tennessee, which is among more than two dozen states suing the Obama administration.