November 05, 2004

Please, give a round of applause to the CultureKitchen Cabinet Members
by Liza Sabater

I want to thank the following people for answering the call to action this past week and fucking rocking the house with their contributions:

Adam Greenfield
v-2 Organisation | beauty. utility. balance.

Carlos
The Daily Texican - Chicano, Hispanic, Latino Blog

Joy Garnett
NEWSgrist

Louis Pagán
Latino Pundit A Latino Blog Born Out Of Underrepresentation

Roxanne
Rox Populi

Gracias, gracias, gracias.

Thank you so much for turning culturekitchen into an open space for dissent, discovery and discussion. It was amazing to come to post something and find that one, two, three of you were already keeping the fires burning. I actually would have to visit what was once my site, to check what was new. It was awesome to see a community of people busy in what was once my online cultural kitchen.

I say "was once mine" and I am happy for it. culturekitchen is not going to be mine anymore. This here blog will be going through some radical changes in the next weeks. I am turning culturekitchen not only into a community blog, but into an online community and network for progressive activists. I will be using CivicSpace's platform to turn the place around and make it a node of the progressive movement. Many of us have recognized a movement germinated during this presidential campaign. Many have asked, what's next? My response is simple : let's turn action into community.

With the new culturekitchen.network I see the possibility of tending to this new progressive movement and growing it, propagating it. I see the possibility of using the technologies and practices we've developed online to build a stronger, more unified reality-based community.

In net art, critical theorists and curators talk about the use of the internet and software art as a means to creating virtual spaces that augment the geographical, analog, reality-based world. Well, after these elections, I see the online community building opportunities in reverse. We can use them not only as spaces to augment what's on the ground, but as outgrowths of what's happening online. We can use our online power to reach and transform the geographical, analog, reality-based worlds we're living in.

Many people living outside of faith based community have lost their ability to connect, to organize, and to network. But on the internet it is very different. Let's use the practices we have already put in place here and bring them to our geographical communities. To effect them, not through demagoguery, fear and manipulation, but through the transformative power of creative action.

So thanks again to the culturekitchen Cabine Members for showing us a glimpse of what's to come.

A big THANK YOU also goes out to Beverly Parenti of Feedster.com. Instead of just linking to the same old mega political blogs, Beverly went out of her way to include oblique, smaller blogs like mine and I truly appreciate her including culturekitchen in the list at Feedster Poltics From Left To Right. As the only blog in the list powered (heh) by a Puerto Rican, black woman, I say onto you Gurl, ¡Gracias!

Last but not least, I want to thank all the readers of this here site. Without your comments, your private e-mails, and all those hot and sexy hits on the syndication pages and the site, I would not have had the push to make this site what it is. Thanks so much for your support. Keep visiting. Keep commenting. Keep spreading the word through your emails and forums. It really keeps us going. It's because of you we do this labor of love.

Smoochies and hearts to all,
/ l i z a

Posted by Liza Sabater in 2004 Elections, Activism, Blogs
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