Recipes and Essays

Community Happens: prison radio show

Community Happens: prison radio show

I listen to this show from time to time. It’s one of those vibrant media spaces– “community happens” kind of phenomenon. “The Prison Show” runs from 9 to 12 midnight. It connects family members outside the prison walls with family members inside the prison walls. 

hatred as an american trait

hatred as an american trait

As a result of my jetlag (A’dam-Houston) and being awake at 3 AM, I watched a really good documentary on Free Speech TV, “The Letter.” Racisim and hatred show their colors (white) in Lewiston, Maryland, sparked by an open letter the Mayor writes to the 

Taking the Day off to Celebrate

Taking the Day off to Celebrate

Yes, yes, yes. Although still waiting for Virginia and Montana to be official, winning the House so handily means we’ll have some answers and information about this war, our energy policy (It was Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling surely who were the advisors whom Cheney 

Institutional Religion and gay teens

Institutional Religion and gay teens

This morning my thoughts are about: A time to support and celebrate Catholic, Protestant and other insitutional churces that show their love for tenn lesbians, gays. They are so desperately needed. The reason is that during a breakfast meeting I learned that a prominent local 

somehow we became traitors to our nation

somehow we became traitors to our nation

Check this out from the Rosie O’Donnell blog, this was a letter written by a brother of a soldier killed in Iraq. You can check it out also on www.rosie.com It is Pat’s birthday on November 6, and elections are the day after. It gets 

Documentary about Jehovah’s Witnesses

Documentary about Jehovah’s Witnesses

The screening of the documentary about Jehovah’s Witnesses, “Knocking,” produced by Joel P. engardio and Tom Shepard was a standing room only event at the University of Boulder. It was part of the conference on “Fundamentalism and the Media.” The documentary is successful in expressing 

Fundamentalism and the Media

Fundamentalism and the Media

Last night the keynote address of the International Conference on Fundamentalism and the Media by Scott Appleby was long (over 70 minutes) engagingly dense and, at the conclusion stirring. Held at the beautiful Old Main Chapel auditorium on the campus of the University of Colorado, 

Berlin Steles

Berlin Steles

Thanks to Peter Horsfield who reminded me to go see the Holocaust Memorial while I was working in Berlin last week. I beautiful art experience that made my day. It’s about contemporary city life, relationships and how we can easily get lost to each other. 

Free Software Lab in Chillan

Free Software Lab in Chillan

Congratulations to Rodrigo Ramirez and his small Linux community in Chillan, Chile, who last Saturday inaugurated a 20-computer lab in a Catholic elementary school, completely open source, free software. The school, San José, now begins a training program for the kids and their parents. It 

Internet Neutrality — even this is threatened

Internet Neutrality — even this is threatened

I cancelled my mobile telephone contract with cingular/formerly AT&T. I don’t know that my new one will be any better, but I’m trying to avoid paying money into these corporations that want to make the Internet their highway to control (with government permission) of ideas