puts on events that provide a wide range of perspectives including: movie nights, speaker series, cultural exchange trips, support for traveling activists, etc. This 2011 Fall Semester we put on a DIY music and art show that brought a lot of new folks to the Ramskeller at CSU. This show was to encourage un-restricted expression to CSU music and art students. We then did a Reform COlumbus Day event
, and we showed the film The canary Effect and had a discussion afterwards. UPCOMING EVENTS WILL BE POSTEND ON THIS PAGE! To give a brief history of this group, I started to get involved with F.A.C.t. my sophomore year at CSU in fall of 2009. During that year we brought Malik Rahim, a former Black Panther, to campus to talk about the devastation in New Orleans. We then took students to New Orleans during fall break and did service work with Common Ground Relief to help rebuild the Lower Ninth Ward. During this trip we also went to the School of Americas Protest (SOA) in Georgia where we protested the SOA due to their teaching military torture tactics to those in power throughout the North and South Americas. We brought the Beehive Collective, an organization in which artists come together to create a piece of work that implies any social issue present within an outside of the United States. In this instance they brought their work entitled “The True Cost of Coal”, and issue that encompasses Fossil Fuel extraction. We collaborated with CJPE in bringing Ann Wright, a former veteran of the U.S. Army, to Matter Bookstore downtown to talk about the living conditions and treatment of women in the army. We brought Simon Sedillo to CSU campus as well as to the Bike Coop. Through a multimedia presentation, Sedillo broke down the effects of neoliberalism, NAFTA, and Militarism on indigenous communities in Latin America and the United States. Brent Adams and CSU Alumni), also performed some slam poetry at this campus and community event. Last fall semester we collaborated with the Black Mesa Colorado Caravan from Denver and throughout Colorado to go to the Black Mesa Reservation in Arizona to aide the Dine (Navajo) Elders in preparing for winter. They have no running water or electricity and resources are scarce (we collected food, water and tools to be donated) . This community is on top of a major coal mining area in which the Dine Elders have been constantly harassed to relocate in order for the continuation of the destruction of Mother Earth and the land and animals within it (cancer among people, environmental hazards). I started organizing this in August 2010. I organized many meetings and fundraisers, and gathered many resources such as food, water, and tools in order to make this trip successful. This last spring we did a "Free Crap” day on the plaza. We collaborated with the Fort Collins HammerTime Tool-Coop, Bike Coop, Resource, Books to Prisoners, a vegan group, Poudre River Public Library, and other businesses and organizations. This event was to encourage students to learn how to live in an alternative way, and learn how to live the college life without spending too much money.
