May-June 2019
- May-June 2019 Gainesville Iguana
- Strong coalition forming around renters’ rights
- The case for sanctuary
- Adjunct faculty organize at Santa Fe College
- From the publisher … Disconnected not divided
- Fight Toxic Prisons Convergence coming to Gainesville
- Quitting tobacco isn’t easy, finding help should be
- Group aims to reduce the spread of HIV locally
- WGOT begins streaming, seeks local sponsor relationships
- Satchel’s May ATM fees will go to CMC
- Porters Quarters residents fight land grab
- Dr. Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons retires
- SB 168 goes against fundamental American values
- Memorial Mile
April 2019
- April 2019 Gainesville Iguana
- Student Power: Major victory for Divest UF
- Student Power: Boot the Braids
- Positive reflections on recent city election
- From the publisher … Community
- Youth Climate Strike: Why me and why now?
- Florida legislative update: Bills to watch
- Protect sex workers, respect voluntary sex work
- Gainesville May Day 2019: Celebrating the working class
- History and the people who make it: David Horne
- Fight Toxic Prisons Convergence coming to Gainesville in June
- Book launch/signing to feature author Jenny Brown
March 2019
- March 2019 Gainesville Iguana
- Why should UF Divest?
- Gainesville city elections, March 19
- From the publisher … On saying no
- City, County decisions to cut prison labor contracts lands major victory for modern day abolitionists
- Santa Fe adjunct faculty file for union election
- Stop the drift to war on Venezuela
- Global youth climate strike
- Boot the Braids: Farmworkers fight Wendy’s
- Civic Media Center to hold Springboard annual fundraiser
- Despite setbacks, WGOT hopes to stream in 2019
- Vote NO on the Charter Review Commission
- History and the people who make it: Mildred A. Hill-Lubin, pt. 2
- African American Oral History Symposium: March 21-23
- UF Campus Coalition teach-in
- Rush to the Rad Scene
January-February 2019
- January-February 2019 Gainesville Iguana
- Sunrise Movement & the Green New Deal
- From the publisher … People get ready
- How Florida can legalize cannabis in 2020
- Alachua County launches Second Solar Cooperative
- City elections coming up in March
- Changeville
- An African American history of Alachua County with author/historian Lizzie P.R.B. Jenkins
- Petition for expansion of Medicaid in Florida
- Registering to vote? Florida Rights Restoration Coalition is here to help
- Department of Doing fails to support neighborhoods
- History and the people who make it: Mildred A. Hill-Lubin, pt. 1
- Women’s March
- WGOT celebrates 11 years on the air this month
November-December 2018
- November-December 2018 Gainesville Iguana
- 32nd Annual Winter Solstice Celebration
- Proposed phosphate mining update: Gearing up for legal battles ahead
- Checks and balances – Gainesville’s Department of Doing: ‘Gainesville, Citizen Centered, People Empowered’ or ‘Gainesvile, Citizen Censored, Developer Empowered’?
- News from the Civic Media Center
- A day in the life of a poll worker: Mid-term election November 6, 2018
- WGOT seeks help to resume streaming worldwide
- Emily Browne, activist, NOW president, RIP
- Protest against anti-LGBTQ conference, Nov. 30-Dec. 1
- Transgender Day of Remembrance, Nov. 20
- From the publisher … Suppressing Democracy
- Two labor related holiday parties
- Update from the Alachua County Labor Coalition
- North central FL results not good
October 2018
- FMEA Letter to Gov. Scott — Veto HB 759
- October 2018 Gainesville Iguana
- Fest 17 at the CMC, October 26-28
- In memory of Harriet Ludwig: CMC co-founder
- History and the people who make it: Joseph W. Welch: Part 2
- United Nations Day 2018
- Busting myths about the GRU Authority Referendum — Vote NO on Gainesville Municipal Referenda
- Palestinian UF graduate Lara Alqasem detained at Israeli airport
- The power of Participatory Defense
- Don’t bundle this election, keep home rule
- From the publisher … Evolution and trauma
september 2018
- September 2018 Gainesville Iguana
- Keep GRU Local
- Amy Goodman coming for CMC 25th
- Prisoners lead the way on another nationwide strike, Students announce intent to follow with walkout
- From the publisher … This show must not go on
- Alachua County Supervisor of Elections expands access to early voting
- Gainesville native marches in NYC Pride Parade
- Repurpose Project has new hours
- ‘Nothing about us, without us’ — Madres Sin Fronteras (Mothers Without Borders)
- Peace activist David McReynolds: Two lighter sides
- On to the Nov. 6 elections
- History and the people who make it: Joseph W. Welch
- Radical Rush to take place first week of October
- Happy birthday Stetson Kennedy!
july-august 2018
- July-August 2018 Gainesville Iguana
- Primary Elections, August 28
- State, federal government continues to support fake clinics
- From the publisher … Take heart, the Resistance is alive
- From the sunflower to the sunshine state, solidarity still sings: A report on the radical roots of the Kansas Poor People’s Campaign
- Labor Notes Conference renews, inspires attendees
- Phosphate mining plans, citizen input in the sunshine
- Celebrate Medicare with Alachua County Labor Coalition
- GRACE celebrates four years of ending homelessness
- In memory of Harriet Ludwig, activist, reporter
- Women on the run Changing the face of elected office: Friends of Susan B. Anthony to celebrate Women’s Equality Day
- CMC has its own 501(c)3 again!
may-june 2018
- May-June 2018 Gainesville Iguana
- ROAD TRIP
- May Day celebration includes prison labor demands
- From the publisher … The art of dealing with Trump
- Fight continues for UF OPS workers
- 435 South Main opens next to CMC
- Thanks from the CMC!
- Elections 2018
- Gary Gordon in Concert June 16
- Mine fight escalates
- WGOT prepares to go live from CMC studio
- FOG continues Food Justice Study Group
- Artwalk sale to benefit CMC, women’s groups
- History and the people who make it: David Thurston
- Peace Poetry Contest winners share poems at public reading
- Peace Scholarship awarded to four Alachua County students
- Memorial Mile: Veterans display tombstones of fallen service members in Iraq and Afghanistan wars
April 2018
- April 2018 Gainesville Iguana
- G’ville protesters in solidarity with March for Our Lives
- American civilians in Saigon 1963: U.S. still making war to negate peace efforts
- Gainesville’s Food Not Bombs chapter is back
- Women and the environment: let the healing begin
- UF OPS workers continue fight for better conditions
- Food Justice Study Group
- Queer Soup Night: Soup from the LGBTQ Soul
- Prison visitation cuts held at bay … for now
- History and the people who make it: Clarence Sears, pt. 2
- Sara Amatniek at CMC’s ArtWalk
- From the publisher … The heat is on, and it’s not just Spring
- Elections update: May 1 runoff — Vote Gigi Simmons for Gainesville City Commission District 1
March 2018
- March 2018 Gainesville Iguana
- CMC board member featured in book on Latin America
- Have you had enough? Give them the heave ho!
- Veterans for Peace announces fourth annual college scholarship program for local students
- VFP Peace Poetry Contest call for submissions
- Upcoming events at Working Food Center, Gainesville
- WGOT-LP Gainesville celebrates 10 years on air
- Roy Zimmerman: ReZist
- Latin American Studies Center conference: Buen Vivar and other Post-Development Pathways
- Phosphate mining update: ‘opportunistic, irreversible decision’
- History and the people who make it: Clarence Sears
- Explaining city candidates’ ‘criminal’ histories not job of corporate media
- CMC SpringBoard fundraiser at new location
- From the publisher … Marjory Stoneman Douglas would be proud
- Reflection on support for prisoners’ Operation PUSH And a call to action in Tallahassee on March 8 against visitation cuts
- GNV votes March 20
january-february 2018
- January-February 2018 Gainesville Iguana
- United We Dream’s D.C. takeover
- 2018 means voting (and more)!
- Women’s March anniversary event: Power to the polls!
- From the publisher … Make America Grate Again
- Beehive Design Collective visits CMC
- Wild & Scenic Film Festival will show Earth’s challenges
- Divest our tax dollars from fossil fuels, private prisons
- Florida textbook attack
- Honor Indigenous Peoples of North Central Florida
- Gainesville Food Justice Study Group announces February reading selection: Will meet February 22 at CMC
- Take action to protect Alachua County’s water and air
- The people have spoken on water and wetlands: pass WQPO
- Public education under new threats
- Changeville: Gainesville’s Social Change Festival
- Heartwood Soundstage celebrates first anniversary with reprise of Heartwood Festival February 24
- History and the people who make it: Perla Meissner
- Dan Berger speaks on prison issues
- ‘I Love Local Food’ Week celebrates our bounty
november-december 2017
- November-December 2017 Gainesville Iguana
- Spencer Takeaway
- From the publisher … Winding down 2017
- Voting Rights Restoration Amendment: Homestretch for making the 2018 ballot
- Morris Dees speaks at SLC’s 40th Anniversary
- Alachua County at turning point: Repair bureaucracy
- Humanist Society presents ‘Why I love Kurt Vonnegut’
- Clay, Putnam, Bradford County updates
- Holiday events: Party for Progress!, CLC spaghetti dinner
- Exhibits, events at the Matheson History Museum
- Author Larry Schnell at CMC, Nov. 12
- CMC celebrates 24 years
- History and the people who make it: Luresa Lake
- Wes Skiles Water Stewardship Awards on Nov. 13
- “Outrage” — Film explores the murder of black citizens, shot at lynching sites in six states
- Veterans for Peace to host annual Winter Solstice Celebration
october 2017
- October 2017 Gainesville Iguana
- Anti-Fascism FAQ
- Civic Media Center to hold 24th anniversary dinner, speakers: Matheson Museum, Friday, Oct. 20
- UF denies most vulnerable workers pay during hurricane
- From the publisher … Making sense, finding purpose
- Gainesville Pride Days events for October 13-22
- No to phosphate mining in our fragile aquifer
- Rewild Soul: For those who know there’s more: Get out of your office chair, connect with yourself in the woods
- CSUSA withdraws proposal for charter school
- The Rocky Horror Show playing Oct. 20-Nov. 5
- Wild Iris Books to close Dec. 23
- The Year of the Gator
- New York Times investigative reporter and author Mike McIntire to speak on FSU sports’ scandals
- Fall happenings at the Matheson History Museum
- Affordable Care Act open enrollment, Nov. 1-Dec. 15
- Dismiss the myth, superstitions at Bat Fest 2017
- A bit of Iguana history: looking back 30 years
- History and the people who make it: Vanessa Carlo-Miranda
- Come Fest with the CMC October 27 – 28
september 2017
- September 2017 Gainesville Iguana
- Nazis protected by US government, speaker says
- A living wage, the right to a union at Santa Fe College
- From the publisher … Fundamentalism stops a thinking mind
- Civic Media Center is hiring coordinators
- Labor Council backs Parents Against Corporate Takeover
- Food Justice Study Group to discuss ‘The Potlikker Papers’
- ‘1984’ (the play) hits the Hippodrome Mainstage
- Humanistic Judaism community to hold open house
- United Nations Day 2017 Celebration
- Crisis Pregnancy Centers are not health clinics
- Southern Legal Counsel celebrates 40 years of social justice lawyering with guest Morris Dees
- Institute of Black Culture, Institute of Hispanic/ Latino Culture buildings torn down in August
- Humanist Society of Gainesville: what we believe
- Say Yes to Second Chances: signatures needed
- Graduate Assistants United fights for GatorGradCare
- History and the people who make it: Leroy Bell
- Stetson Kennedy 101 – October 4 at the CMC
july-august 2017
- July-August 2017 Gainesville Iguana
- The ‘Say YES to Second Chances’ campaign needs you! Get Voting Restoration Amendment on 2018 ballot
- News from the Civic Media Center
- Democratic Socialists of America come to Central Florida
- What you need to know about the Alachua County Solar Cooperative (deadline to join is July 28)
- Gainesville marches in solidarity with national Equality March for Unity and Pride
- The story of Grow Gainesville, Or, how to start a local food security and community resilience movement
- July events to support Medicare for all
- Prisoners and solidarity groups call for National Day of Action Against Prison Slavery
- Thoughts from a local radio-head
- Sponsorship keeps community radio vibrant
- GUTFEST: Three-day performance art festival covers downtown Gainesville
- Friends of Susan B. Anthony to celebrate Women’s Equality Day 2017
- History and the people who make it: Linda Lee
- Labor Daze Fest — Sept. 3
- So Not Wasted Fundraiser for the Repurpose Project, July 22
May-June 2017
- May-June 2017 Gainesville Iguana
- Madres Sin Fronteras fights racism
- Update: Voting Rights Restoration Initiative
- Legislative Recap 2017: immigration, education, etc.
- From the publisher … On bending the arc
- New Gainesville city commissioners sworn in
- Working Food Community Food Center supports farmers, food entrepreneurs, resilient food system
- Open House/Open Wings at Lubee Bat Conservancy
- Debunking alternate energy denial: seven responses
- Vietnamese writer to speak May 30
- Women’s March Gainesville
- Who is the Resistance?
- ACRev continues political revolution
- WGOT-LP FM to hold volunteer information meeting
- Veterans for Peace announces public reading, reception for Peace Poetry Contest, Peace Scholarship Awards
- History and the people who make it: Lilly Sanchez
- Veterans display tombstones to remember fallen soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan
april 2017
- April 2017 Gainesville Iguana
- All out for May Day: May Day Rally, Monday, May 1, 5-8pm, Bo Diddley Plaza
- 38th annual 5th Avenue Arts Festival: April 22-23
- From the publisher … Holding on, and being ready
- Bring demands to the streets at DC Climate March on April 29
- Film screening: ‘Almost Sunrise’ features veterans against war
- Florida’s Voting Rights Restoration Amendment Raising awareness of the pervasiveness and horrible effects of disenfranchisement
- National Day of Action for Housing in Tallahassee
- Help bring Memorial Mile back to Gainesville
- History and the people who make it: Patty Sheehan
- March to fight for science and its role in our society
- Join League of Women Voters Alachua Solar Cooperative
- Women’s March on Florida -Gainesville Chapter going strong
- Pierce Pettis to play benefit show for Civic Media Center on April 28
MArch 2017
- Gainesville votes March 14: We like Powell, Ward, Arreola
- From the publisher … Resist, reclaim, move forward
- WGOT-LP now on 100.1 FM full-time, seeking sponsors
- Pivot Toward War: US Missile Defense & the Weaponization of Space
- Gainesville for the people: candidate statement
- Update on the Sabal Trail resistance
- Fake news, The Gainesville Sun, & the Cuban War of Independence
- Editors’ picks: news that didn’t fit
- GRACE houses 300th person
- History and the people who make it: Lawrence Goodwyn
- ‘What’s Next’ for solar energy for Gainesville?
- March 2017 Gainesville Iguana
january-february 2017
- Inauguration Actions in and around GNV, Jan. 20 and 21
- January/February 2017 Gainesville Iguana
- GOP looks to phase out Medicare, repeal ACA: House Speaker Paul Ryan, incoming Republican Congress plan to take away benefits
- From the publisher … Don’t Mourn, Organize!
- Celebrate Bulla Cubana!
- Help! Tents needed for cold weather
- Dreamers under threat
- WGOT-LP to come home to the Civic Media Center
- A major victory for Gainesville city workers
- Is a home funeral for you?
- Chimera Fest: Bringing the fantastic to life
- Saving cypress: hit offending merchants where it hurts
- Social change festival takes place March 2-3
- CMC will host Changeville’s virtual reality event
- Cinema Verde to feature 43 films from around the world, Feb. 9-12
- The Sabal Trail Pipeline: An environmental disaster — Celebrate this MLK Day weekend by stopping it
- Ibram Kendi speaks at Matheson, Feb. 25
- Pivot toward war: US Missile Defense, the weaponization of space
- Hacked By BALA SNIPER
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2016
- November/December 2016 Gainesville Iguana
- This is not a drill: Action to stop the Sabal Trail pipeline has begun and needs your help
- Blue dot report
- Iguana love
- From the publisher … Get ready to rise to the challenge
- Living wage for city and county still important
- Central Labor Council hosts annual holiday spaghetti dinner
- Open enrollment period begins Nov. 1 for 2017 federal health insurance marketplace coverage
- Gainesville Tells: Local vets perform their stories on stage
- Gainesville Homegrown: Businesses + Entrepreneurship celebrates, inspires Gainesville Entrepreneurs Month
- Letter to the DNC: You are responsible
- Feminist bookstore offers social justice books, indie bestsellers, gathering space
- Mayor’s Book Club to read about history of racist ideas
- Humans living, sleeping, dying on the streets is NOT normal
- GCOR: Gainesville City of Resistance
- History and the people who make it: Anthony Ray Hinton
october 2016
- October 2016 Gainesville Iguana
- Alachua County: Where the wild things roam
- Voting 101
- What’s on the ballot on November 8
- CMC to host acoustic side of The Fest
- From the publisher … Yes, We Need To Vote
- Grand Jury: Shooting justified
- 100-year commemoration of Newberry lynching, Oct. 16
- On the campaign trail in District 21
- Share the Road Memorial opens Oct. 29, Depot Park
- In memory: Local activist Zot Szurgot
- Rest in power and in peace, dear Zot
- 12th Annual Florida Bat Festival — Saturday, October 22
- Gainesville gets involved: local prisoner strike solidarity
- Gainesville’s first tamale shop opens on South Main Street
- History and the people who make it: Wilton Russell
- Iguana Fest, Oct. 15
september 2016
- September 2016 Gainesville Iguana
- Reportback from the DNC
- Elections matter … even if it’s not what you want
- Gainesville IWOC strike on Sept. 9
- Rally to end toxic prison slavery in solidarity with nationwide prison strike
- Welcome to Gainesville: some tips for newbies
- Alachua County elections see clean sweep for progressives
- Letter to the Editor
- Living wage campaign update
- Citizens Co-op, RIP
- Black History Task Force hosts Town Hall Meeting
- Freewheel Project reopens
- Join us for Welcoming Week in Gainesville!
- Women’s Int’l League for Peace and Freedom public meeting, Sept. 25
- Community radio station at crossroads
- Civic Media Center needs your help
- History and the people who make it: Wilton Russell
July-august 2016
- July-August 2016 Gainesville Iguana
- Chloe Goldbach, write-in candidate for County Commission District 5
- A Contest for the Future of Alachua County
- What now? Reflections on Orlando
- From the Publisher: Drawing Lines
- A New Turnpike Through Alachua County?
- Bradford County Phosphate Mine is Lunacy
- Please use your vote
- Friends of Susan B. Anthony to Celebrate Women’s Equality Day
- Citizens Co-Op updates hours of operation
- Celebrate and keeping fighting for Social Security and Medicare
- No Partying, Dude!
- Power to the People! Labor Daze Fest
- Paul Ortiz at Pulse Commemoration and United Ceremony
may-june 2016
- Trans Lives Matter: Students stand up for human rights in Marion County
- Alachua County Labor Coalition updates
- From the publisher: Thank you, Bernie Sanders
- ACLC joins ‘Fight for $15’ Orlando protest
- Gainesville Girls Rock Camp returns for 4th year
- Award-winning author David Swanson speaks on ‘War is a Lie’
- Election preview
- Support WGOT, Gainesville’s community radio station
- History and the people who make it: Genevieve Payne Benson
- City eliminates Memorial Mile location
- Music fest coming to St. Augustine, Gainesville, Cedar Key
- May-June 2016 Gainesville Iguana
april 2016
- April 2016 Gainesville Iguana
- From the publisher: All we want is some truth, just give us some truth
- Editors’ picks: News that didn’t fit
- Updates from Alachua County Labor Coalition
- Post-election, pre-election
- Keith Perry is coming for your utility
- Gainesville Votes! pushes for city elections in the fall
- All Joking Aside: An evening of short comedy skits presented by Sidney Homan and His All-Woman Company
- Veterans for Peace Memorial Day display on hold until next year
- David Swanson to speak on ‘War is a Lie’
- History and the people who make it: Phil Fixico
- Citizens group ‘Stand by our Plan’ defeats Plum Creek
- Wild Iris Books celebrates Independent Bookstore Day April 30, 10 am – 4 pm
march 2016
- March 2016 Gainesville Iguana
- Gainesville elections on March 15
- Letter to the City of Gainesville: Vote Lauren Poe
- From the publisher: Not a ‘reality show’ – This is real
- The Family Garden in Gainesville
- Stand up to Plum Creek/Weyerhaeuser
- Faculty salary impasse over, UF finds in favor of UF!
- UF Graduate Student Labor Union pushes for fee relief for graduate assistants
- Medicare CUTS in FY 2017 budget Pay attention to YOUR earned benefits and tell YOUR elected officials: “No cuts to Medicare!”
- Florida State Parks in peril
- Recording artist Pierce Pettis to perform at CMC April 9
- Mayor’s Community Response Council Committee Recommendations
- Artwalk history lesson
- History and the people who make it: Judith Davis
- A living wage in Alachua County
JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2016
- January/February 2016 Gainesville Iguana
- From the publisher — Iguana hits 30: Origins and purpose
- When Trump came to Vermont: The rise of the decent people
- Black lives matter, Black history matters
- “Enough is enough!” Florida Education Association’s march and rally at Florida’s Capitol, Jan. 14
- Planning Commission vote tainted
- Every Student Succeeds … really?
- Peace Scholarship Program for Alachua County students
- 7th Annual Peace Poetry Contest call for submissions
- ELECTION DAY – MARCH 15 Presidential Primary: Vote Bernie Sanders! City Elections: Poe and Hayes-Santos!
- WGOT celebrates 8 years on air, requests assistance to expand
- History and the people who make it: James Steele
- Plum Creek vs. Alachua County final public meetings – please attend
november-december 2015
- November-December 2015 Gainesville Iguana
- From the publisher: Unfortunately, there is no magic wand
- GRACE Marketplace’s Café 131 officially opens
- Restoration of Civil Rights Project in Florida
- East Gainesville Science Clubs
- Editors’ picks: The news that didn’t fit
- AQUIFERious: Enter the Springs exhibition continues at Thomas Center Galleries
- Law and the Library: Adoptions and Voting Rights
- Two craft fairs Dec. 6 — Power District Flea and Craft Market, GLAM Craft Show
- Rwanda Sustainable Families holds annual fundraiser
- Fight for $15 in Gainesville, Florida
- North Central Florida Central Labor Council holiday spaghetti dinner
- Give Florida black bears room to roam
- History and the people who make it: Dezeray Lyn, Part 2
- Old Joe in Limbo
- Support the Civic Media Center!
october 2015
- October 2015 Gainesville Iguana
- Labor Coalition working with Fight for 15 Florida
- Active Streets Gainesville on Oct. 18
- From the publisher: On taking things for granted
- Government in the shadows vs. Paynes Prairie
- Paynes Prairie/ Marjorie Harris Carr bus tour on Oct. 24
- Social Justice Summit runs Nov. 12 to 15 at UF
- Graduate Assistants United goes to arbitration with University over health insurance changes
- Linda Lee: A Voice for Lake Apopka Farmworkers
- Gainesville PRIDE Days: Oct. 16–25
- Theatre Santa Fe presents “Oedipus at Ichetuckneea” Oct. 15–17
- UN Day Meeting, Oct. 22
- Confederate statue may move to Matheson
- The Civic Media Center to host acoustic side of The Fest
- Civil rights activist John Lewis to speak on Voting Rights Act
- News from Gainesville’s Home Van Food Pantry
- CMC celebrates 22nd anniversary!
- Elections coming!
- History and the people who make it: Dezeray Lyn
- 11th Annual Lubee Bat Festival on Oct. 24
september 2015
- Government in the Shadows vs. Payne’s Prairie
- September 2015 Gainesville Iguana
- He ‘fights like hell for working people’
- Daughter of Malcolm X, Ilyasah Shabazz, to speak
- From the publisher: Chin up—There’s work to do (don’t let the bastards grind you down)
- Florida’s Water Crisis is Deepening
- Oct. 4: Birthday celebration for Cathy DeWitt, Stetson Kennedy
- Power to the people or Confederate heritage: Which side are you on?
- Travis Fristoe Zine Library to be dedicated to his memory
- Saving the Sunshine State
- Citizens Co-op seeks board members, invites public to potluck, speak-out
- Fall Trash Festival at the Repurpose Project, Oct. 10
- Proposed zoning overhaul threatens Gainesville neighborhoods
- Francis ‘Pat’ Fitzpatrick made social work ‘absurd and hilarious’
- Redistricting corruption in Florida
- Global March for elephants, rhinos
- History and the people who make it: Hernan Vera
- Activist/progressive organizations holding networking/recruiting fair
- Introducing UF Radical Student Alliance
JULY/AUGUST 2015
- The System Stinks!
- July-August 2015 Gainesville Iguana
- Confederate flags, re-enactors, complex symbols
- What’s in a monument? Dealing with Alachua County’s statue commemorating the Confederate war dead
- From the publisher: Go beyond old myths, false narratives
- Local farms are alive and growing in the summer
- A livable wage campaign for Alachua County
- Rad Press Café closing up shop
- Struggling for justice in Mexico
- History and the people who make it: David Barsamian
- Some reflections on the Supreme Court
- ‘This oppresses women’ stickers go viral
- Co-Op welcomes community support
june 2015
- From the publisher: History, stories and change
- June 2015 Gainesville Iguana
- Which banners are illegal?
- Juneteenth Celebration: Saturday, June 20
- Activist Dezeray Lyn speaks on justice for Palestine, June 3
- Judge’s recommendation threatens Silver Springs
- History and the people who make it: David Barsamian
- Looking back: Kent State revisted
- A proposal for a livable wage for Alachua County workers
- Abby Goldsmith, Rest in Power
- Kenneth “Kenito” Weeks, 1943–2015, peace activist
- Tombstone display honors Iraq, Afghanistan fallen soldiers
- Peace Poetry Contest and Peace Scholarship announce winners
- “The Gap” showing on May 28 in Alachua
- 94.7 WGOT-LP moves ahead with studio plans
april/may 2015
- April/May 2015 Gainesville
- City Election Run-Offs April 14
- From the publisher: My Name is Joe, and I’m a News Junkie
- Film Screening: Lesbians, Gays Support Miners — April 13
- Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Celebrates 100 Years
- Report from CMC’s SpringBoard
- Florida’s Legislative Update
- The Freewheel Project Comes to Gainesville
- South Main Update
- Rad Press Café Re-Opening
- Helping Gainesville’s Homeless Community Digitally Store Documents
- Viva la Vulva
- History and the People Who Make it: Medea Benjamin (Part 2)
- Pillars of Peacebuilding, May 7
- GAU Making Moves
- Gainesville Loves Mountains Opposes Tallahassee Intrusion into Home Rule
- Memorial Mile, May 23-25
- Peace Poetry Reading, May 9
- Songwriters in the Round: Gainesville’s Musical Renaissance
- WUBA 88.1 Community Radio Launches in High Springs
- Feed Your Mind, Support Alternative Radio
- WGOT Welcomes New Shows
- Editors’ Picks: The News That Didn’t Fit
- Tent City Cleanup – April 11
March 2015
- March 2015 Gainesville Iguana
- Coalition of Immokalee Workers Fair Food Parade and Concert
- Iguana supports Harvey Budd and Chris Weaver, election on March 17
- Economist Nancy Folbre to discuss importance of ‘care economy’
- From the publisher: Principles and practicality
- Veterans for Peace announces college scholarship for Alachua County students
- March 10 Hippodrome Film: ‘She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry’
- Garage bands, bar bands and the singer-songwriter 1965–2015
- History and the people who make it: Medea Benjamin (Part 1)
- Doctors’ group hails reintroduction of Medicare-for-all bill
- Lesson in deference
- Citizen’s Co-op Dispute Ends
- Rad Press Cafe re-opening in CMC!
- Female workers push boundaries in ‘Made in Dagenham’
- UF Graduate Student Labor Union pushes for graduate assistant fee relief
- Editors’ picks: the news that didn’t fit …
- Journalist Terry Anderson to speak at CMC’s SpringBoard, March 20
January/February 2015
- January/February 2015 Gainesville Iguana
- Update: Bo Diddley Plaza
- From the publisher: Fundamental change and fundamentalism
- Rockstar Farmer Tour features Curtis Stone, Jan. 28-29
- “Food Chains” returns to Gainesville
- Gainesville city elections preview
- Support the Civic Media Center!
- Ft. Lauderdale homeless hate laws developments
- Local libraries provide free help enrolling in health coverage
- History and the people who make it: Hiram Ruiz
- Gainesville production of The Vagina Monologues partners with Alachua County Labor Coalition
- GRACE Marketplace
- In Memory of Hernán Vera-Godoy
- Sixth annual Cinema Verde Film, Arts Festival focuses on sustainable solutions, environmental concerns
- WGOT seeks volunteers after 7 years on air
- Bike Florida campaign tops $13K to restore Gainesville’s Depot Avenue ‘Share The Road Memorial’ sculptures
- Editors’ picks: the news that didn’t fit …
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2014
- Medea Benjamin visits Gainesville, marches with protesters
- November/December 2014 Gainesville Iguana
- Students for a Democratic Society say ‘Demilitarize UF’
- From the publisher — You can’t always get what you want: 2014
- Reportback from Conference on Immigration to the U.S. South
- Ft. Lauderdale fights against homeless hate crimes
- History and the people who make it: Marie Jose François
- Go Granny D! December 1 at the Civic Media Center
- Winter Solstice Peace Concert on Dec. 20
- Civic Media Center seeks volunteers, (tax-exempt) donations
- Healthcare Marketplace enters second phase
- Local election results not bad
- Let the Circle Be UNBROKEN
october 2014
- October 2014 Gainesville Iguana
- Iguana Ballot Recommendations
- From the publisher: Practical Radicalism
- Home Van Pet Care: Project News from Grace Marketplace
- Gainesville Loves Mountains: Victory!
- Share the road celebration of cycling
- FEST features over 300 bands
- Block the Boat Tampa protest on October 11
- Roy Zimmerman sings politics — Don’t miss this show!
- Medea Benjamin in Gainesville Nov. 6–7
- Radical Press Coffee Collective Needs Support!
- CMC Homecoming Event, Saturday, Oct. 18
September 2014
- Correction for the September 2014 Community Calendar
- September 2014 Gainesville Iguana
- Victory for Graduate Assistants United
- Gainesville Loves Mountains aims to end MTR coal mining
- From the publisher: Rekindling Tribal Feelings
- Youth PROMISE Act: Shouldn’t ‘justice for all’ include youth?
- Moral Mondays coming to Gainesville
- Just Say “No” to Medicare and Social Security Cuts
- Labor Notes Troublemakers’ School comes to Gainesville, September 27
- Only human beings have constitutionally protected rights
- African American History Task Force to hold Town Hall Meeting Oct. 26
- Alachua County Growth Management recommends DENIAL for Plum Creek Sector Plan/Comprehensive Plan Amendment Application
- GRACE Marketplace Update
- Volunteers, support needed
- Primary is over, on to November
- The CMC Presents: Radical Rush
July/August 2014
- July/August 2014 Gainesville Iguana
- Gainesville Hobby Lobby Grand Opening Protest — Aug. 1
- Vote August 26
- From the publisher: Guilty pleasures
- Labor Notes ‘Trouble Makers School’ on Sept. 27 in Gainesville
- America’s apparent Alzheimer’s
- Support the Harkin-Sanchez bill and boost Social Security NOW!
- Alachua County 2014 judicial elections scheduled
- Southern Lesbian-Feminist Herstory 1968–94
- History and the people who make it: Fred Pratt (Part 2)
- The Repurpose Project: Buy USED! It’s good for the planet
- Alachua County’s marijuana problem
- Citizens Co-Op election
- Labor Daze Fest — Aug. 31
- Emergency Action: Solidarity with Gaza
May/June 2014
- May/June 2014 Gainesville Iguana
- Plum Creek’s Smoking Gun
- From the Publisher: Organizing and Disappointment
- Santa Fe United Workers Organize at Santa Fe College
- Memorial Mile, May 24–26
- Gainesville’s one-stop homeless services center – GRACE Marketplace
- Iguana Editorial Board — Reading Recommendations
- History and the people who make it: Fred Pratt
- Death of the Florida Springs and Aquifer Protection Act
- In-state tuition for immigrant students passes Florida legislature
- Citizens Co-op Board election, June 24
- Alachua County Animal Services: Be part of the challenge
- Local elections are coming in August
- See “Targeting Iran”
- Forage plans School’s Out Fest to celebrate the start of summer!
april 2014
- April 2014 Gainesville Iguana Community Calendar
- April 2014 Gainesville Iguana
- From the Publisher: Technology and Us
- What will save Citizens Co-Op (or at least its idea)? COOPERATION
- Gainesville Loves Mountains: Updates on our work
- What’s the deal with Plum Creek?
- In-state tuition for all
- History and the people who make it: Ines Rios
- Gainesville City election report
- WGOT gets FCC go-ahead for full-time broadcast status
march 2014
- March 2014 Gainesville Iguana
- From the Publisher: On Disproportionate Effects
- Czopek, Tattersall Win Penrod Award for Peace and Justice
- Landmark Decision: OSGATA et al. v. Monsanto
- Thoughts on the March 11 Gainesville City Elections
- Civil Rights Struggle, Past and Present — March 12
- Tuition Equity for All
- Gainesville Women’s Liberation Speaks Out on Abortion
- History and the People Who Make It: Eddie Steele
- Never Can Say Goodbye: Amiri Baraka (1934–2014)
- Scott Camil: Resistance, Liberation
- David Barsamian to Speak at CMC SpringBoard, March 21
january/february 2014
- January/February 2014 Gainesville Iguana
- January/February 2014 Gainesville Community Calendar
- CMC SpringBoard Fundraiser March 21
- Group Forms to Oppose Plum Creek Development
- From the Publisher: Mandela, the Movement, and Me
- City Commission Election in March
- Daily Green: Providing Organic Fresh Fast Food
- International Farmworkers, Small Farmer Leaders Visit Gainesville
- History and the People Who Make It: Marquitta Brown
- Jamie Garvey, 1982–2014
- Joe Haldeman Book Signing
- Medical Marijuana on the Ballot in Florida?
- WGOT Celebrates 6 Years on the Air
- Peaceful Uses, No Excuses
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2013
- Coming Full Circle: Stories from Pistol Alley
- Winter Solstice Peace Concert on Dec. 21
- Tuition Equity for All
- From the Publisher: Contemplating Dominance
- History and the People Who Make It: Allen Cooper
- Siempre Adelante: A Look at Faith and the Immigrant Struggle
- Remembering Helen Safa, 1930–2013
- Chomsky Came to Gainesville
- Alachua Conservation Trust Receives National Excellence Award
- November/December 2013 Gainesville Iguana
October 2013
- Pronoun Trouble
- Gainesville’s FOG Part of National Challenge to Monsanto
- Chomsky to Speak Oct. 15
- From the Publisher… Wanted: Cooler, More Sensible Heads
- Gainesville Rich in Cycling Advocacy Opportunities
- UF Inherits Stetson Kennedy Papers
- Taking a Stand: Advocating for HIV-Positive Women
- Come Out As You Are! Gainesville Pride 2013
- History and the People Who Make It: Liz Fusco Aaronsohn
- The Story of Hyde and Zeke Records
- The Public Truth Tour with Coalition of Immokalee Workers
- October 2013 Gainesville Iguana
- Plum Creek’s “Envision Alachua” Out of Focus
- Voices from Poetry Jam: Oct. 19
- Cinema Verde and Green Drinks Unite
- The Civic Media Center at 20, Why It Matters
september 2013
- September 2013 Gainesville Iguana
- Iguana Community Calendar – September 2013
- Gainesville Restaurant Workers Alliance — Tasty Buddha strikes and beyond
- Chomsky is still coming (updates coming)
- Remembering the 1973 coup in Chile
- Note from the Publisher: Think globally, act locally
- Support local business, explore local culture
- History and the people who make it: Alan & Nancy Bean
- United Nations Day, Oct. 10
- Loblolly Woods Saved… for now
- Introducing Daily Green
- It’s official — Noam Chomsky in Gainesville, Oct. 15
july/august 2013
- 3rd Annual Labor Daze Fest
- Citizens Co-Op Challenge
- From the Publisher… Knowledge and Power
- A Monument to Atheism… in Starke?
- PFLAG Summer Summit
- History and the People Who Make It: Sue Legg
- July/August 2013 Gainesville Iguana
- Happy 48th Anniversary, Medicare! Improve and expand it for the rest of us
- Remembering Charlie “Chaz” Scales
- Matthew Marsh, 1949–2013
- Save Loblolly Woods
- Iguana Community Calendar – July/August 2013
- Radio Junkie
- South Main Fire Station Update
MAY/JUNE 2013
- May/June 2013 Gainesville Iguana
- 8th Annual Memorial Mile Display – May 25-27
- Update on Adena Springs Ranch Battle
- Letter to the Editors: The John A. Penrod “Brigadas” Award for Peace and Justice
- Note from the Publisher: Self-Radicalization & Self-Pacification
- 2013 Peace Poetry Contest
- Election Reflection
- Gainesville Organizes for Immigration Reform, Hopes to Influence Passage of Comprehensive Bill
- “Dirty Wars” Shines a Light
- Wild Iris Is Still Coming!
- Film Alert: “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”
- History and the People Who Make It: Rosa B. Williams
- Editorial Board’s Picks – What We’re Reading Right Now
- Making the Morning-After Pill Available for All, Regardless of Age
- Struggle for Wage Theft Ordinance Not Over Yet, But Close
- Stephen Coats: Teacher of Solidarity, Presente!
- Gainesville March Against Monsanto
- The Gears Grind On – South Main Community Update
April 2013
- April 2013 Gainesville Iguana
- Iguana Community Calendar – April 2013
- Court orders FDA to remove all restrictions on the Morning-After Pill
- Noam Chomsky is coming… again
- Note from the Publisher: Can we overcome intolerance?
- Celebrate Our Springs – A panel discussion on April 20
- 4th Annual Alachua County Peace Poetry Contest
- Open Letter from 19 Former and Current Elected Officials Endorsing Mayor Craig Lowe
- Iguana endorses Craig Lowe for Gainesville Mayor – Election on April 16
- Farm Worker Awareness Week in Gainesville
MARCH 2013
- March 2013 Gainesville Iguana
- Iguana’s Endorsements – Gainesville City Election, March 19
- 200 Miles to Publix: The CIW’s March for Rights, Respect and Fair Food
- Letter to the Editor: Support In-State Tuition for Undocumented Children
- Note from the Publisher: “…wrote it all down as the progress of man”*
- Author Sylvia Giagnoni to Speak at Civic Media Center’s SpringBoard – March 22
- Wild Iris Is Coming
- Energy Conservation Makes Gainesville Stronger: New Initiative from Gainesville Loves Mountains
- Buffer Zone for Bread and Roses
- The Fight for Florida’s Real History
- History and the People Who Make It: Pat Fitzpatrick
- Forward on Climate Change – Demonstrating in the Capital City
- Support Local Radio: A note from WGOT
- The Feminine Mystique at 50 – Stephanie Coontz Speaks March 13
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2013
- January/February 2013 Gainesville Iguana
- Gainesville City Commission passes Move to Amend resolution
- Letter to the Editor: Time to Hold Obama Accountable
- Note from the Publisher: Into 2013 and Beyond
- History and the People Who Make It: Bright Winn
- Radical Press Coffee Collective
- Surveillance State Hits Home
- Fashionable Economics
- One Year Later, Gainesville Still Loves Mountains
- Sequential Artists Workshop Upcoming Events
November/December 2012
- November/December Gainesville Iguana
- Gainesville Residents to Protest Publix during Nationwide “Thanksgiving Week of Action”
- Veterans for Peace Winter Solstice Concert – Dec. 8, 8:00 p.m.
- Walmart Worker Solidarity Action – Black Friday
- Wild Iris Books Find New Home
- History and the People Who Make It: Marisol Pineda
- Grand Jury Resistance in the Pacific Northwest
- Florida’s Hidden Hand in Wrongful Convictions
- Stetson Kennedy: A Life of Purpose
- Wage Theft in Alachua County: Too Often, Too Common
- Note from the Publisher: Big Wins, Big Money Loses… But Now What?
- A New Site for the One-Stop Homeless Service
october 2012
- 8th Annual Lubee Bat Festival, Oct. 27
- October Gainesville Iguana
- October Iguana Calendar.
- This Election is Pivotal
- Note from the Publisher – Assessing the Legacy of Greed
- Occupy Turns One, Local Group Goes to Court
- “First, Do No Harm”
- Changing the Conversation
- Ask Mr. Econ… How do banks lose billions of dollars?
- History and the People Who Make It: John DeGrove Part II
- Eliminating Definitional Ambiguities in the Violence Against Women Act
- “Are You Out There?” – Getting Plugged Into Gainesville Radio
- Verdict: Guilty! of Violations of Human Rights and the Right to Life and Health
- Peace Paper Project Comes to Gainesville
SEPTEMBER 2012
- Farm to Family Needs Your Help
- History and the People Who Make It: John DeGrove
- Report Back: National Veterans for Peace Conference in Miami
- Note from the Publisher
- Ask Mr. Econ: Whatever Happened to the American Dream of a College Education?
- November Elections Update
- The Truth About the Alachua County Budget
- Did they hear us yet? Update on the Adena Springs Ranch Consumptive Use Permit Request
july/august 2012
- Woody Guthrie Centennial Show, July 14
- Woody’s Birthday Party: 50 Years Ago
- July/August 2012 Gainesville Iguana
- July/August 2012 Iguana Calendar
- Dear Mr. Econ… What Happened to the American Dream? Part II
- The Iguana Guide To The Aug. 14 Election
- Weeding Through the B.S. – Note from the Publisher
- History and the People Who Make It: Sonja Diaz
may/june 2012
- May/June 2012 Gainesville Iguana
- May/June 2012 Iguana Calendar
- Memorial Mile: More Than Just a Number — May 26-28
- Selling the Fourth Estate to the Highest Bidder
- Elections Matter!
- Students Speak Out Against Proposed Budget Cuts to CISE at UF
- If You Don’t Know, You Don’t Care – Note from the Publisher
- Dear Mr. Econ… What happened to the American Dream?
- RIP Beastie Boy
- History and the People Who Make It: Norman Markel
APRIL 2012
- Filling Empty Bowls – Bread of the Mighty Fundraiser May 10
- April 2012 Iguana Calendar
- Eco-Health Festival, April 21
- The Big Read Comes to Alachua County
- April 2012 Gainesville Iguana
- Note from the Publisher – April 2012
- Upcoming Important Elections – County, State and National
- “All’s Well and Fair” – Gainesville Documentary About Alternative Moms Premiers April 18
- Civic Media Center SpringBoard and 2012 Penrod Awards
- “The Invisible War” – A Documentary on the Rape Epidemic in the U.S. Military
- Dear Mr. Econ… What’s up with gas prices?
- Workers’ Memorial Day and May Day 2012
- Walking for the American DREAM
- 3rd Annual Alachua and Marion Counties Peace Poetry Contest
MARCH 2012
- The CIW’s Fast for Fair Food, March 5-10
- “Below the Belt” Art Exhibition, Opening March 3
- March 2012 Gainesville Iguana
- Florida Legislature’s Attack on Public Education
- In Memory of Charles Willett, 1932-2012
- Civic Media Center Hosts Annual SpringBoard Fund Raiser
- In Love Memory of Dr. Gertrude Neilson
- Does “The Help” help? – March 16, Ustler Hall, UF
- Sadie’s Tanks and the Militarization of Small Town Police Departments
- Why Occupy? An anarchist’s experience in an evolving, consensus-based movement
- Dear Mr. Econ… Tackling the Federal Reserve
- History and the People Who Make It: Marshall Jones
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2012
- History and the People Who Make It: Margaret Block
- Occupy the Courts! Dr. Cornel West Speaks in Gainesville on Jan. 20
- Tainted Coal: Mountaintop Removal and GRU
- Veterans for Peace Connects with Occupy Gainesville
- The Florida Legislature’s Attack on Women
- Peg Libertus, Local Activist and Playwright: 1944-2011
- The Iguana Bids Farewell to Editor Emeritus Mark Piotrowski
- Introducing Mr. Econ
- January/February 2012 Gainesville Iguana
DECEMBER 2011
- MASS Visual Arts
- “Freedom Never Dies: The Legacy of Harry T. Moore”
- Fight Back Florida: “Hands Off Our Post Office!”
- Lessons of the Past – Words from Bob Zieger, Labor Historian
- The Coalition of Immokalee Workers: A Model for Tackling Corporate Powers
- Remembering Stetson Kennedy Through the Civic Media Center
- History and the People Who Make It: Jon Anderson
- Gainesville City Elections Near – Get out and vote on January 31!
October 2011
- Unions say postal default is a big lie
- Growing Occupy Wall Street protests enter third week
- Michael Moore: Jail bankers who wrecked our economy, not protestors
- Perfect storm from Alberta threatens climate crisis
- “Behind Closed Doors”: the dark legacy of the Johns Committee
- Gainesville Celebrates Food Day
- Musical October for the Civic Media Center
- Publix (still) needs to do the right thing
- Coat drive helps local people in need stay warm
- Florida’s nuclear threats loom
- Florida students fight proposed tuition hikes
- 7th Annual Florida Bat Festival
- Stetson Kennedy (1917-2011) and the pursuit of truth
September 2011
- 130-meal limit repealed…for now.
- Verizon strike ends…for now
- What is the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)?
- Save the date: Civic Media Center’s 18th anniversary, October 14
- Florida Free Speech Forum: Dr. Michael Gannon on “McCarthyism in Florida”
- Radical Rush, Fall 2011
- An Outside Agitator in Wisconsin
- Victory (Finally!) for the San Francisco 8
- October 2011
- History and the people who make it: Daniel E. Harmeling
- How Players Won the NFL Lockout
- “Secure Communities”: Immigration reform gone amiss
July/August 2011
- Firefighter hero-worship and hypocrisy: When public employees save lives
- The Death of Geronimo Pratt
- Bill Moyers: “Democracy should be a brake on unbridled greed and power”
- Help from the Home Van
- How You Can Help the Hungry on July 21
- RIP, Gil Scott-Heron
- Celebrating whistleblowers
- Citizens Co-Op grand opening celebration July 15
- History and the People Who Make It: Martha W. Barnett
- “I am alive because of government medicine”
- Festival for Florida’s Future
May/June 2011
- The Reality of War: Memorial Mile, May 28-30
- FBI Targets Anti-war, Labor Activists
- History and the People Who Make It: Hollis Watkins
- The Fight Continues: Ending the Meal Limit in Downtown Gainesville
- From Prosperity to Austerity: Dialing Down Our Expectations
- Mirage and Reality in the Arab Spring
- Alternative Radio Gets the Axe from WUFT
- Second Annual Peace Poetry Contest for Alachua County Schools
- Three Years and Counting: WGOT 94.7 FM Still Going Strong
- Palestinian Delegation to Visit Gainesville, May 18-25
- Access Denied: Higher education under attack for poor and middle class students
- The Truth About Abortion: Women Speak Out
APRIL 2011
- Citizen Groups Convince Federal Judges To Put Local Nuclear Plant On Hold
- Goodbye, Leonard Weinglass
- GAU Fights Union-Busting Bills
- Anti-Immigrant Sentiments from Tallahassee
- Farm Workers Protest Publix Penny-Pinching
- Take Back Alachua County!
- The 2011 John A. Penrod “Brigadas” Award for Peace and Justice