[varyouga]

"How is this different from a beijing sweatshop??"


Check it out:


http://www.twinoaks.org/FAQ.html


So lemme get this straight. You work a minimum of 42 hours a week. You get 1 bedroom, share a car with 3 other people, eat crappy soy hippie food and only get 75 bucks a month to spend in the outside world.

It sounds like a regular communist paradise. I'll bet they also have a corrupt leadership.

[Teflonic]

This is directly from their website: Activism: Twin Oakers are involved in a variety of activist work. Some social justice activities that members have participated in include serving food to the homeless with Food Not Bombs, working at a battered women's shelter, going to demonstrations, animal rights work, protesting the School of the Americas/Assassins in Georgia, writing letters for Amnesty International, participating in Lesbian/Gay/Bi/Trans/Queer Pride marches, and more. While many individuals at Twin Oaks engage in activist activities, as a community we do not officially endorse any particular course of political activism (i.e. members do this work as individuals, not in the name of community).

I laughed thinking of what would happen if Anne Coulter along with a few dozen protest warriors and freepers moved in. Would it change their society? Their section under "conflict" states all must be treated equally and their views respected...

[No.6]

"I'll bet they also have a corrupt leadership."

Of course they do! I've seen similar efforts elsewhere, and if you get into the legalities every single one of those vests all real controlling interest in a very few persons. I'd bet the same is true here.

If push comes to shove the seven founders walk away with the proceeds of the land, and everyone else walks away with the clothes on their back and a bad memory.

I've never yet seen one of these 'cooperative' efforts that didn't, in reality, revolve around a little soviet of power brokers who get everyone to bust tail for nearly free.

[Mr. Jeeves]

So lemme get this straight. You work a minimum of 42 hours a week. You get 1 bedroom, share a car with 3 other people, eat crappy soy hippie food and only get 75 bucks a month to spend in the outside world.

But it offers the greatest benefit these types could ever want: they don't have to think for themselves.

[kalee]

Did you read that FAQ? My son and I were ROFLOL!!

[jla]

The Photo Gallery is interesting, to say the least.

Blessing Way gathering.

Description: Large gathering of women for a ritual preparation for Gwen's birth to Thea (on right with colorfully braided hair). Group includes friends and exmembers. Photo by Joan Mazza.

[xpertskir]

That was an informative link. More amusing than a kennedy at rehab.