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A Photo Shoot Friday Peace Vigil:  Postcards for Obama November 20, 2009, On the sidewalk in front of the Michigan State Capitol Building in Lansing, MI noon hour, 12-1pm We’ll be sending this message: Dear Mr. President, Please Dont Send More Troops to Afghanistan. Find a Way Out. Love, Lansing, Michigan Bring a bell to [...]

David Castro and Becky Payne at the 2008 holiday sale

Featured Alternative Holiday Sale Vendor: David Castro

David Castro has been a quality woodworker for Lansing area homebuilders for over twenty-five years.  He makes cutting boards, children’s toys and other items with the ends and pieces he saves from the scrap heap.  Look for oak, cherry, walnut and other hardwoods in beautifully rendered crafts.  He will be joined by Becky Payne, selling items to help lower our [...]

Palestinian Olive Oil sold by MPT

Featured Alternative Holiday Sale Vendor: Michigan Peace Team

Michigan Peace Team is a nonprofit organization that pursues peace through active nonviolence in places of conflict. The founder of Michigan Peace Team, Peter Dougherty, has just won a prestigious international peace award. Read more about it by clicking here: Peter Dougherty wins Peace Prize

Featured Holiday Sale Vendor: Kate Darnell, Illustrator and Calligrapher

Featured Holiday Sale Vendor: Kate Darnell, Illustrator and Calligrapher

Kate Darnell is a professional Illustrator and Calligrapher with a studio at 210 Abbott Rd. in East Lansing. She will have books she has illustrated for sale, as well as note cards with her illustrations. Kate is also running Knitting for Non-Violence. A compulsive knitter, she knits socks all year and once a year offers [...]

Featured Holiday Sale Vendor: Kirabo

Featured Holiday Sale Vendor: Kirabo

For the next few days we’ll be featuring vendors that will host tables at our 2009 Alternative Holiday Sale, which is fast approaching, this Saturday, Nov. 14 from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church in East Lansing. Today’s featured vendor is Kirabo; Kirabo fair trade is part of the growing fair trade movement [...]