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Dave Penn
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 Austin, Texas
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1989
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Food
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Audio Engineering/Bicycle Delivery
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Pioneer in the "Teknetos Illiteratus" style of guitar playing. The philosophy behind "Teknetos Illiteratus" insists that the only people who should be allowed to play guitar are those who don't know how to play the guitar, as the world has too many white male guitarists already. Live performances have been known to incite riots and topple small governments.
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Keep Austin Stupid. Fuck "Smart Growth!"
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Golden Wade Powell
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Funkytown, Texas
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01/2007
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vegetarian, minus the dairy
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Americorps' Environmental Corps
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I like to kill trees. I like zines and comics. One time in Tokyo I lived in a box for a day. Deep down, I want to be a farmer.
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I would like to pay off my student loans one day.
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Ken "motor-hips" Liao
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 Phoenix
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08/2007
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vegan
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physics graduate student
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what is Ken? is it some kind of creature? or is it some kind of thumping, humping dancing machine? with the most advanced, ecologically conscious engine available, it runs off of 100% straight unrefined vegetable and gets 60 kilothrusts per litre.
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Get PhD, generate fusion power, create magnum opus, end war and hunger, eliminate waste, and go to bed early (but not to sleep).
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Rachel Ecklund
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Austin, TX
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Fall 2007
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Vegetarian Cheese Lover
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American Studies and RTF, Intern at Austin Film Society
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My simple pleasures include: reading Howard Zinn and dystopian novels, rolling cigarettes, radical feminism, drinking copious amounts of coffee, yerba mate and red wine, laughing, traveling, The Simpsons, attempting to speak languages I've never actually studied, riding my bicycle (especially while listening to Queen's "Bicycle"), and practicing yoga.
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My ultimate dream is to make social issue and educational documentaries for PBS.
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Morgan A. C.
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 Urbanana City, OH
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01/2008
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vegetarian who freakin loves her dairy
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Chainsaw Charlie
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Born in the Ohio Chill, Morgan moved South like the Black-Capped Vireo searching for sun. It was a love of chainsaws and live rocking music that led her to Austin. Morgan loves squirrels, movies, chocolate milk, tv, walking, the civil war, dudes names Heathcliff, and the word Skank.
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To live underwater in a shipwreck and invent healthy ice cream.
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Jacob Gleghorn
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Dallas, TX
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01/2008
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omnivore
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Finance
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Been there, done that.
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Reaching cult status for myself.
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lee blaney
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 philly
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vegan
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environmental engineer
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the most amazing experience of my life is when i met Komola Mondol, a Bengali woman who lives outside of Kolkata, India. She has been suffering from arsenicosis (arsenic poisoning) for many years and clearly wears the signs this disease. Regardless, she is one of the most delightful women I have ever met. Although she lives in a mud/straw shack with her husband and they barely get by (i.e., food and medication to ease her pain), she freely offered all of her money up to help her neighbor. This is what motivates me.
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to help bring safe drinking water to developing and developed countries
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L. Amelia Riley
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 NW Arkansas
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03/2008
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Proud Vegan
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Vegan Ice Cream Maker / Tidy Cloth Distribution
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Born in 1982 in the foot of the Ozark mountains, Amelia spends her days at HOC keeping a vegan food blog and embroidering curse words on GUFF items. See more food at http://26andvegan.blogspot.com. |
Teacher of the Gifted
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Katie Fairbanks
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Lubbock, Texas where there is nothing but cotton fields, cows, and bent trees from the wind.
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05/2008
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vegetarian
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peace studies/art
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I am a free bird who needs to stretch her wings. I enjoy yoga, hill country, folk music, the front porch gardens, writing and various types of tea.
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Ashley Asmus
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 Fairfield, Iowa and Indianapolis, Indiana
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05/2008
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post-vegan
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Plantnerd/Garden Center Laborer
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I dropped out of college after a year and a half of griping about it. Then I joined Americorps*NCCC, built some houses with Katrina and Rita survivors, and fell in love with the SOUTH and SUNSHINE and manual labor. Then I joined the Student Conservation Association in Big Bend National Park and fell in love with PLANTS and NATURE and TEXAS. Then I moved to Austin, the land of all my hopes and dreams.
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Owning a little bit of land, growing a successful tomato garden, going back to school, doing 10 pull-ups, getting over my fear of heights & needles, learning the piano so I can start a Hanson tribute band, traveling abroad (India May '09!!!), having the best year of my life every year.
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Mike Gorse
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 Boston, MA
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07/2008
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vegetarian
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Hacker
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I spend my days writing code for Linux. When I'm not doing that, reading, or messing with the house network, I like to work at the CSA farm and generally learn about sustainable living.
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To be part of some kind of intentional community that practices permaculture. To be free.
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Zoja Ulesoo
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Austin, TX
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08/2008
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vegetarian
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Radio Television Film
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Childless/marriageless/genderless/sadomasochistic/vessel of Dharma. Also a radical feminist DJ for 91.7 KVRX.
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Revolutionizing pornography.
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Miguel Aguilera
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 Zaragoza, Spain
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08/2008
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Vegetarian Sympathizer
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Telecommunication ENgineering/Biomedical Engineering
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Bored of his anarchist, activist and bohemian companions in Spain, Miguel came to these conservative place of guns and death penalty lovers called Texas. But now, after his failure trying to prosecute the American Dream and the swindle attempts of the university of Texas, he is trying to reconcile with the ideals he once betrayed by planning a trip to a Zapatist community.
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Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army
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