College OTR: freeganism

Freegan Movement Invades Princeton: Are They Freedom Fighters or Freeloaders?

Posted by The Grammarian10/27/2008 1:23 PM

For the uninitiated, freeganism is an anti-consumerist movement in which members refrain from participating in the conventional economy, live on minimal consumption of resources and employ alternative strategies, including dumper-diving, to sustain their day-to-day living.

In 2006, a Wesleyan student produced a documentary entitled “Operation ...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: Do you know of any recent graduates of an Ivy college who are dumpster diving? I would really like to contact them.

thanks.

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Freegans Invade CosmoGIRL! Magazine

Posted by JeanDesiree08/06/2008 09:00 AM

This is the strange, but true story of how I ended up in CosmoGIRL! Magazine's September 2008 issue. I'm involved with Freeganism and dumpster diving. I've been dumpster diving for years and I also helped organize workshops on it at Wesleyan for the annual Food Politics Week. I work (and play) with a group of New York City activists who identify...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: There was a movement in the 60's called Diggerism or "the Diggers," who lived off of the charity of other Diggers and from sharing, and had shops where they gave away things that they found. Read up on them, it's interesting, and applicable to this "Freeganism" idea.

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Wes Alums Host Freegan Fashion Show

Posted by JeanDesiree07/05/2008 11:47 PM

How to Party Like an Alumni...

A group of recent Wesleyan grads living the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York hosted the Freegan Fashion Show #3: Green Goddess Dressing last month as a fundraiser party to benefit the Freegan Bike Workshop, a free workshop in the basement of the 123 Community Space in neighboring Bed-Sty. The party rais...

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