This month, Tom Smith will be sharing the amazing powers of Red Wigglers to transform our waste and our communities. Tom is a worm composting evangelist and has spent years developing vermicomposting programs for neighborhoods, community gardens, and beyond....
This month, we’re honored to have Dr. Arturo Escobar, professor at UNC Chapel Hill, recent inductee to the American Academy of Sciences, and author of Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. He has spent his career...
We’re so excited to have Colin Ryan back with us again this month. Colin is a speaker and storyteller, and has been developing a new communication method he calls “Speak to the Heart.” How can your words leave lasting...
Free markets are, in mainstream economics, supposed to optimize supply and demand by the “invisible hand” of self-interested individuals, but in practice that free market is supported by policies and laws that favor corporations over workers. Even in theory,...
Please join us for our Solstice celebration! This month will be a little different from most assemblies; we won’t have a speaker, but we will have more songs, more readings from members of our community, and a potluck after...
Many of us are, or know, people who have been hit hard by the economic strain of the pandemic. But at the margins of our communities, queer black and indigenous people are on the brink. Since the start of...
Our culture has gotten better at discussing mental health issues, but how does public policy and the market effect us en masse? Our speaker this month is Jeremy Fine, an MD-PhD student at UNC’s Health Policy and Management program....
What role do people with wealth and class privilege have in the fight against systemic oppression? How does class & access to wealth impact the ways we show up in our families, friendships and communities? Ansel Dow (he/him) is...
We’re excited to invite longterm Tai Chi teacher Dr. Jay Dunbar to our assembly! He’ll share his decades of experience and some Daoist wisdom. Then, he’ll lead the group in some of the basic exercises of Tai Chi. At...
There’s been a lot of difficult news this month, so we’re going to find ways to reconnect with the strength and belonging we find in our communities. Our own Sam Anderson will speak to the ways that we build...