By Diana Moreno
I know you’ve heard it before. From high school counselors threatening your chances of getting into college if you don’t have a million volunteer hours to UF Preview pounding the message that college just ain’t college if you don’t belong to 50 different organizations, we’ve all been told the tired reasons to jump into the world of “community involvement.”
By Fine Print Staff
About 10 self-identified guerrillas went on a reconnaissance mission of the area surrounding Southeast Fourth Avenue and Main Street on Saturday, April 10. Bombs in hand, we scoured the area. With seeds. From fast-growing summer veggies to Florida wildflowers to culinary and medicinal herbs, our Guerrilla Gardening workshop turned into an insurgency of the downtown [...]
By Nadine Navarro
Why UF agreed to join the Workers Rights Consortium Every day, average Americans drive to their jobs, work for about four hours and then take a legally mandated lunch break for 30 minutes to an hour. After about four more hours of work, they go home. But Gina Cano and Lowlee Urquia’s workdays were nothing [...]
By Henry Taksier
When Mary Ann Jones bought her house in Northwest Gainesville, the real estate agent didn’t mention that her grandchildren may be exposed to a dangerous concentration of industrial toxins.
By Henry Taksier
For decades, Koppers Inc. released industrial toxins into the city’s air, water and soil. After 27 years of Superfund status, concerned citizens are still waiting for answers.
By Henry Taksier
March 19 marks the beginning of the first annual Gainesville Environmental Film and Arts Festival, a 10-day celebration of the earth and its resources with a chance to learn about the problems the earth is facing and how to build a better future. Click here for The Fine Print’s complete coverage of the festival.
By Chelsea Hetelson
The three-day Harvest of Hope Foundation Music and Arts Fest is back for its second year, March 12-14, at the St. Johns County Fairgrounds in St. Augustine. The Harvest of Hope Foundation, a “non-profit organization that provides financial, educational, and service-oriented aid to migrant farm workers all over the country,” according to its web site, [...]
By Fine Print Staff
In light of President Obama’s one-year anniversary in office, The Fine Print staff interviewed both current and former members of the Gainesville community and of all ages and backgrounds to get their take on how Obama’s first year went.
By Henry Taksier
“It was a war between gangs, where I come from,” he said. “We were foot soldiers… only the strong survived.” Tygur One, an underground rapper from east Gainesville, said music saved him from living the wrong kind of life.
By Adam Brown
The restaurant is a co-op, a business owned by the workers. The workers purchase shares of the company, and when the business profits, everyone profits. If at some point I must move on beyond the restaurant (or am asked to leave), the money returns to me.
