#garyindiana — Public Fediverse posts
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'The storm has prompted calls for investment in what [Gary Mayor Eddie] Melton described as infrastructure “hardening.” He said the utility should examine stronger poles, upgraded transformers, circuitry, and other improvements capable of withstanding increasingly severe storms.
'“We’ve never seen wind this strong before,” Melton said. “They need to ensure that the utility grid system is going to sustain that type of wind.”'
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Gary, Indiana shooting: Kenneth Williams, 67, dead after police-involved shooting near 4th Avenue, Broadway, officials say
GARY, Ind. (WLS) — Family members of a 67-year-old security guard fatally shot by police at a Gary…
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"What Two Weeks without Power in Gary, Indiana Tells Us About Our Worsening Climate Crisis
This community has already faced structural racism and disinvestment. A two-week blackout unleashed a humanitarian disaster.
(. . .)
The power is finally coming back on in Gary, though when I visited hundreds were still without. Stories are unearthing about the squalid—and sometimes dangerous—conditions that residents were forced to endure during outages that lasted up to two weeks.
About 80 percent of Gary’s 69,000 residents are Black, and around a third live in poverty, the result of more than half a century of deindustrialization, disinvestment, racial segregation, and bank redlining.
The crisis, and the slow pace of power restoration, has shone a light on institutional neglect of this community, made worse by human-made climate change. Studies show that the tornadoes, thunderstorms, flooding, and heavy winds that tore through Northwest Indiana starting on August 11 will grow more frequent and severe as global temperatures warm."
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Good: Dolly Parton’s legacy of philanthropy
Bad: the ongoing power outages in Gary, Indiana, a crisis of choice in a majority-Black city
Ugly: TFG’s deranged trade war with Canada
Honor Dolly’s memory with your vote in November.
#dollyparton #garyindiana #canada #votefromabroad
@renewedresistance @democratsabroad @Fobbsie
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See how the Fash will use Climate Crisis to harm Minorities, this was always the plan.
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This is what the #USA is reduced to... The #US can't take care of their own people after storms, but hey... Let's make sure #WeaponsManufacturers get lots of money for #EndlessWars started by #Trump!
Thousands endure 12 days without power in #GaryIndiana
"As the outage stretched into a second week, global food charity World Central Kitchen arrived to help people without access to food."
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hi y'all.
many people in Gary, Indiana have been without power for more than 11 days after bad storms came through and messed a lot of stuff up badly.
recovery and restoration of power is taking a LONG time..this gofundme is for a local community center that is helping families with all sorts of things they now desperately need, including food and drinks.
please consider donating, or sharing.
Thanks!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/uplifting-gary-through-faith-and-service
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@broadwaybabyto you might like to spread the word, @adamgreenfield is crowdsourcing for solar power for people in Gary:
Edited to update: this was fully funded!
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Another story from independent journalist newsroom on how you can help folks in Gary, Indiana (impacted by severe thunderstorms two weeks ago, many still without electricity).
"Gathings said $15 can cover a family’s laundry for a week, while $50 can cover a month and $150 can cover laundry for an entire block or small group of neighbors.
She said she is coordinating drop-off locations with churches and relief organizations in Gary."
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The Mutual Aid Network of Ypsilanti launched an emergency fundraiser to purchase and deliver supplies for folks in Gary, Indiana who were impacted by recent powerful thunderstorms.
While lots of other news stories are capturing headlines, many folks in Gary, Indiana folks have been without power for two weeks.
Here's how to donate to the Mutual Aid Network fundraiser.
https://givebutter.com/supplies4gary?gbtid=d6ebd5f2-34a3-4cd2-8997-9bc341b270f8
#GaryIN #GaryIndiana #MutualAidNetworkYpsilanti #Ypsilanti #MutualAid
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Gary, Indiana residents must wait until Tuesday for power, 9 days after storm knocked it out
Nine days after the storm that was to blame for it all, tens of thousands of people yet again woke up without power in Northwest Indiana on Thursday. In Gary, NIPSCO said the power won't be back on until next week. Things really came to a boiling point for some people in Gary in the last 24 hours after NIPSCO released estimated power restoration times for different areas across Northwest Indiana, but initially left Gary off the list. The latest update on the NIPSCO website as of Thursday […] -
Searching @[email protected] #garyIndiana OK I'm from Chicago but I can't believe this.
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First ME Church & Community House, Gary, Indiana, c.1930 - Tribe of K Postcard
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"The air, as dusk came, grew yellow, like the fog in Prufrock that licks its tongue into the corners of the evening. At five o’clock, oddly enough, tennis balls I had ordered online were delivered."
Colm Tóibín on his experience of the fire in Los Angeles, and reflecting on its random cultural destuction. The Thomas Mann House intact, Gary Indiana's personal library, just tranferred from New York, lost.
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"It’s when things fail to return to normal, that finally you get it: this is normal."
The last essay Gary Indiana published before his death: https://granta.com/five-oclock-somewhere/
#garyindiana
#authorgaryindiana
#writing
#depravedindifference
#newyorkcity
#sevenstories
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Gary Indiana, the acerbic art critic, novelist and playwright, has died at age 74. He started as an actor before joining the Village Voice. His first novel, "Horse Crazy," was published in 1989 and he went on to write 15 works of fiction, including a popular crime trilogy. Here's more from Art Net.
#Art #Literature #Books @bookstodon #RIP #InMemoriam #NewYork #Culture #GaryIndiana
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#RIP Gary Indiana, the matchless novelist, essayist, and author. I was fortunate enough to have dinner with him one night in June 2022. His publisher Dan Simon set it up after I had expressed my love of his writing. Though his acerbic wit on the page made me a little nervous to meet him, in person that night he was gracious and funny.
http://randomcha.net/2024/10/24/rip-gary-indiana/
#garyindiana #authorgaryindiana #writing #depravedindifference #newyorkcity #sevenstories #sevenstoriespress #roysworldfilm
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New #pitchdeck just dropped!
Based on Gary Indiana's acclaimed novel, DEPRAVED INDIFFERENCE is a scathing, darkly hilarious panorama of narcissism, greed and celebrity: the American dream’s septic tank.
Happy to share. (Serious inquiries only, please.)
#filmmaking #satire #GaryIndiana #lookbook #films #comedy #DepravedIndifference
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Okay, I am realizing that finding $5 million to produce my next film is an unrealistic, unreasonable expectation. So I have revised my thinking.
I only need $3.7 million.
(Easy peasy!) 😂
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Made it to page 106 of the screenplay! Should be able to finish the first draft next weekend. I've been so dialed in that it's been easier than I expected; or rather, tough but in a satisfying way.
#screenplays #screenwriting #GaryIndiana #DepravedIndifference
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Wowsers, it's happening! 70 pages into my first draft. My goal is to finish by the end of the month--and then, of course, the hacking down and revisions and anguish can truly begin!
(By the way, I am using Fade In as my screenwriting software and I absolutely recommend it.)
#GaryIndiana #screenplays #screenwriting #DepravedIndifference
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I am beyond thrilled to announce that as my next film project, I will be adapting Gary Indiana’s wicked satire "Depraved Indifference." This is a book that I’ve been slightly obsessed with for years (the original paperback edition of which sports a cover designed by Barbara Kruger!) and so I am super excited to get started. More details: https://randomcha.net/2022/11/30/a-new-project/
#BarbaraKruger #books #fiction #GaryIndiana #movies #novels #screenwriting