On Food & Culture
Dr. Fausto Neto presented an all-too-brief picture of today’s complex religious market, describing it as “a battle of symbols.” He outlined these four aspects of media as a way to understand, in a practical way, the complex functions of the media marketplace. 1. Constitutional: media …
Just heard Representative John Conyers speaking live at the funeral of Rosa Parks. In his closing he said that Rosa Parks taught him: “You can’t maintain a democracy and an empire simultaneously.” As Frist and Bush try to speak well of her, I cringe. Frist: …
I received an urgent plea from Maria Theresa-Nera-Lauron, WACC member in Manila, asking for e-mail support that will shed more light on political killings in the Philippines. Human rights leaders and religious leaders are being assasinated with increasing affront. ’til later. am
Yesterday I visited Casa Juan Diego where hurricane survivors are still receiving assistance with food, medicine and transportation. Latinas and Latinos were not present at the Astrodome. Their story is one of no information, no access to US government resources, no access to Red Cross …
Rodrigo in Chile , with other University “apasionados” of opensource software, is working on aFirefox for Chile. Their vision is to join a growing community of techies, hackers, business people to continue developing more and more free and open software for Latin America and other …
Last night at our Museum of Fine Arts I saw the gripping 2 1/2 hour version of this documentary, “The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear.” It was introduced by the director/writer, Adam Curtis. Curtis presents: all the cases that Bush’s …
I read about the people who died during the Houston Rita evacuation that I had been caught in last week. It’s very sad. Then later as I was driving to the doctor’s office, I heard this poem on the radio and it linked me to …
Glory Dharmaraj has written a reflection about the recent natural catastrophes. “God’s Presence Amidst Natural Calamity” presents a natural sense of global community, grounded in a living, palpable faith. As Dr. Dharmaraj says, “The church ‘happens’ there right before our eyes.” AM
The arrest just a few hours ago of Cindy Sheehan and others in front of the white house is an opportunity for us to use the Internet forcefully to gather support to end our Iraq occupation. I’ve just written our 2 Texas Senators telling them …
This slogan was on a sign in Crawford, Texas when I was there supporting and joining Cindy Sheehan’s protest of our Iraq invasion. Bush vacationed in, then fled his Crawford ranch to avoid her. He did it again yesterday, flying to Austin to view the …