Gowanus Writing Workshops - Reporting Altantic Yards&q

anonymous

Hello,

I just want to let everyone know about the fall schedule for the Gowanus Writing Workshop, including a workshop titled "Reporting Atlantic Yards," which will launch a blogging website for community comment on the project. These workshops are held in Prospect Heights.

http://www.GowanusWritingWorkshop.com


FALL SCHEDULE:

• Basic Fiction Workshop
• Do you have murder in your heart? Writing the Crime Novel
• Journalism Workshop - Reporting Atlantic Yards

Next spring look for:

• New Workshops
• Gowanus Writer's Environmental Weekend Retreat
• Web Design for Writers.


The spring Basic Fiction Workshop is ongoing. Due to scheduling conflicts, summer intensive workshops are not happening this year, look for them next summer.

** If you're interested in a fall Novice Fiction Workshop, drop us a note.
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Help Spread the Word:

If you know anyone who might be interested in the workshops, please forward this email and post the URL to appropriate bullet boards, email lists, etc.

Thank you.

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Michael
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dailyheights

a workshop titled "Reporting Atlantic Yards," which will launch a blogging website for community comment on the project.

What, Daily Heights isn't good enough?

anonymous

Subject: Just different...

It's not an issue of good or bad, Blogging Atlantic Yards will be a different kind of forum, and its identity will be Brooklyn-wide. DailyHeights is a fabulous site. I love it.

Michael

dailyheights

This is a good idea, but the online "community comment" about Atlantic Yards is almost entirely one-sided. People against the project are passionate and vocal. However, people who are "for" the project are kind of like, "yeah, that's cool. Maybe sometime I'll catch a game... ... hmm, wonder who's on Leno tonight?"

dailyheights

Actually, that sounds stupid. Let me clarify that. The anti-stadium people are vocal and overrepresented online, while the pro-stadium people have not participated nearly as much. That said, it only takes one pro-stadium person to get the "conversation" going, as we have seen over and over on Daily Heights.

anonymous

Subject: Reporting Atlantic Yards

Well, I would venture to say that promoters of Atlantic Yards claim that a small minority of the community is vocally opposed; while the silent majority wholeheartedly supports the project. While opponents say that the vast political weight of Marty Morkowitz, and the very deep pockets, political influence, and PR campaign of Bruce Ratner’s organization unfairly skew any fair airing of the relative merits of the project.

Blogging Atlantic Yards will offer a thoughtful forum to examine and debate the myriad issues raised by this enormous project. It will also debate the very approval process itself, for which there is little debate. In a democracy, what steps should a large public-private project be required to go through to gain approval? Who’s voice should count? Should the public, and their representatives in the form of local and state politicians, be denied any control over whether this project is built, and on what terms?

The question ultimately is what influence the residents of Brooklyn should have over the shaping of their neighborhoods? Blogging Atlantic Yards is a vehicle for that community voice.

carnivore

If Ratner can finance a fake newspaper to spread propaganda about the project, what makes you think he won't hire people to masquerade as citizens blogging in a project such as this? Will this be anonymous, or are there any safeguards to prevent that type of intrusion?

dailyheights

There's no way to prevent that.

anonymous

Subject: Blogging Atlantic Yards

The content of Blogging Atlantic Yards will pass through an editor to keep the discourse informative and civil. It will also include many articles, interviews, solicited opinion pieces, photographs, etc.