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Jay and I are shocked and saddened to hear that Kirsten Brydum, organizer of San Francisco’s Really Really Free Market, was found murdered in New Orleans yesterday. As you can see in this July 2007 interview we taped, she was extremely committed to educating people about alternative economies and passionate about connecting people to the idea that we can share in the abundance that exists all around us. Kirsten, you will be missed.
Oh man, that is so sad.
I was wondering if anyone had any information on how to contact her family. I am an old High School friend of Kirstens and would like to give my condolences. Thanks.
oscar,
it seems that several of her family members have been posting on this article: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/09/30/18542081.php
you might want to leave a comment there.
Oscar Mendoza
There is a service that her family is holding in Woodland hills at 2:30 pm. I am not sure exactly where it is I will find out tomorrow after I speak with her sister. If your interested in knowing email me blakerblaker211@gmail.com
did you go to birmingham HS
so did I
I am Kirsten’s cousin. I’m currently in Madrid, Spain, but I do have information about the service and ways to contact her father, sister, cousins and grandparents, all of whom are still living in California. Her father (Steen) has also set up a memorial website, where you can view and comment on photos and share information, as well as find the memorial service information. Thank you for your condolences and please feel free to contact me. Since I’m unable to attend the service (I simply don’t have the money to get back to LA), I feel I should facilitate as many people as possible attending her memorial. The website is:
http://kirstenbrydum.virtual-memorials.com
Again, thank you for your condolences.
Sunni Brydum
sunnivie.brydum@gmail.com
Found this somehow on the web and i’m struck by what a wonderful, caring visionary she was, what a tragedy for those who knew her (which obviously meant to love her) and what a loss for humanity (at such a difficult time as now).
somehow i’ll try to work her story into a conversation with my 14 year old daughter, casually mentioning at the right time about bravely living a good life on positive principles, and i’ll use the phrase, “like there was a really neat person named kirsten i heard about, who organized…”
Kirsten was my college roommate my freshman and sophomore year at UC San Diego. She was always a free-spirited, caring and loving friend.
She will be missed.
Great job on the video.
I thought Kirsten was a goddess. She and I went to New College together and we both organized events and advocated like crazy inside school and out.
If anyone is curious. This is where they found her, I seriously doubt she was riding her bike through this ‘hood
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=3000+Laussat+Place+New+Orleans+LA&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=31.013085,56.601563&ie=UTF8&ll=29.988226,-90.039976&spn=0.00827,0.013819&z=16&layer=c&cbll=29.984077,-90.040765&panoid=9kXLyo5txSbJuPapGAeSww&cbp=1,108.78920709138555,,0,8.393778820919882
that google maps link didn’t work for me…
here’s another:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=3000+laussat+place+new+orleans+la&sll=37.757685,-122.389542&sspn=0.007702,0.019312&ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=29.984145,-90.041076&panoid=r0xLo4SGXRV8uEShq1SBZw&cbp=1,241.45540249240503,,0,19.738441187171663&ll=29.988375,-90.041091&spn=0.008438,0.019312&z=16
and a tinyurl link just in case:
http://tinyurl.com/3qfzut
Her is her aunt Cathy’s telephone number 1-818-887-6821
I am her cousin on my dads side. I just am numb and can’t believe it.
Debbi Wilson
Another Amy Biehl. Another Marcella Eiler. Not the last, I’m afraid.
I wonder what her final thoughts were?
Oh yeah, I know — “Stop the hate!”
what a sweet woman. I heard about her on tv and wanted to know more about her and now I’m interested in the really free free market and will maybe contribute some stuff.
Kirsten Brydum was a really sweet woman and
I wish her family that they should feel proud that their relative
was such a good person and made a name for herself at such a young age.
Maybe they will change the Really Free Free Market to honor her memory.
this is just so tragic. so unfortunate. i don’t know her, and never had heard of her before today… but she sounds like a hero. larger than life, and although she may be gone she had enough ideas to live on forever.
This is a tragedy. I am deeply saddened by this. I have been to this beautiful event she started in Dolores Park many times and know mutual friends of Kirsten. My condolences to all her friends and family.
Another tragedy in the “greatest Nation on Earth”, ( how I often hear the U.S. reffered to).
Apparently there will be no legal closure to this.
i did not know Kirsten. But she reminded me of me. And others who have tried to make a difference in a Nation that needs difference infused into it.