Washington University Cooperative

Here is our Coop Cafe schedule for the next four weeks: Monday, Nov. 17, Thevi Jackson will give a Power Point presentation and talk about human rights issues in Tibet (9:30pm), and circulate petitions for Students for Free Tibet; Monday, Nov. 24 we will have an "Un-Talent Show," modeled on the event of the same name at the Dancing Rabbit Eco-Village (9pm); Monday, Dec. 1 we will have a Drum Circle (9pm); and Monday, Dec. 8 a band will play, TBA. The Coop Cafe is held on Mondays in the basement of "The Perry" Coop House, 6021 Pershing Avenue, St Louis, Missouri, 63112. All are welcome!

All are welcome to the Webster University Student Housing Initiative (SHIP) Pot Luck Film Night, 6pm November 9 at Harriet Shanle's house, 1032 N. Taylor in Kirkwood. Many Cooperators will remember Harriet as our "Co-op Granny," who taught us apple pie baking and how to wash dishes when we were just getting started! Now she has volunteered to be Webster Co-op Granny as well!

Tonight we are having local musician, Bird Baker , play an intimate show for our community potluck. Also, Saybre Rae Daniels (Minneapolis) http://www.myspace.com/sabyrerae and Brendan Draves http://www.myspace.com/brendandraves will be joining us. I know this is late notice, but hey, it's Sunday, in St. Charles, there really can't be much else going on. Everything will kick off at 6:00, and the music starts at 7:00 sharp-ish.

See you tonight!

the Franklin House (St Charles Co-op; for address please see stories posted below)

The Washington Universtiy Co-operative is looking for spring residents!! To apply, please contact Grace at cgbarche@artsci.wustl.edu, and residents@washucoop.com. The Coop Application is appended below, and at www.washucoop.com/application. Please see also www.washucoop.org, our MySpace page. For last year's application, please see www.washucoop.com/application_autumn_08

GENERAL INFO
o The Co-op is in The Perry, an apartment building located in the City of St. Louis at 6021 Pershing, 63112. It is very close to campus, and even closer to the metrolink.

All are welcome to attend the free, public version of the Coop Focus Course, "Cooperation, Sustainability, and Spirituality," now taught at Webster University for credit, and through Cervantes Free University as a public service, Sundays 4-5pm, 6036 Pershing Avenue (across from "The Perry").

Discussion Questions for Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael:

1) If you were given the chance to leave “Taker” civilization and become a “Leaver,” would you do it? Why, or why not?

Community Arts Media Project (CAMP) is hosting the Unconventional Tour - a national multimedia film and band a political extravaganza dedicated to speaking truth to power and getting people fired up about being part of the political process. Originally the show was slated to include Wil B and The Political Power of Hiphop - Unfortunately due to a sudden tragedy they had to pull out.

We would still love to have a conscious hiphop band or DJ as part of the event.
If you would like to perform next Sunday, hit us up!

Here's the event details

Peace,
CAMP
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Hey all,
This sunday, the franklin house is having a big stone soup style chili cook. We are providing the base of the chili and you bring an ingredient. keep it vegan please, and try to go organic with it if'n you can. Then we will sit around afire and listen to the beautiful music of Louis Ledford, of New Orleans, LA. www.myspace.com/louisledford www.louisledford.com

start with the cooking around 5:00, then we build a fire and eat, while listening to Louis take us away.

Please check out the Facebook Group, "New Co-ops for St Louis," to help us grow our network, and to keep up with what's already going on here (more than you might think!). If Coop legacy interests you, please consider joining the Facebook Group, "WashU Coop Founders and Alumni."

The title says it. This is our theme for the week, in the public course, "Cooperation, Sustainability, and Spirituality, " meeting this Sunday, September 21, at the Cervantes Coop House, 6036 Pershing Avenue (just across the street from "The Perry" Coop House), 4-5pm. This class is FREE, in every sense of the word. This week, in the Webster University class, we are discussing failed utopian experiments from the nineteenth century, including a community founded by Robert Owen. Apparently, failure to screen its members properly contributed to this community's demise. How can we do better?

Saturday, September 20, 10pm, the "Perry" Co-op House will host our first party of the year, to celebrate our "resurrection" after a summer's hiatus, due to renovation of the building. We will have a bonfire before the party, 8pm. Please come dressed as anything reborn: a phoenix, a butterfly, a Corn King, a shaman. Rumors of the cooperative movement's death have been greatly exaggerated!