Recipes and Essays

Hope in the Bronx

Hope in the Bronx

Last night during the Lehrer News Hour, Lutheran Pastor Heidi Neumark talked about her book, “Breathing Space: A Spiritual Journey in the South Bronx.” Neumark is the pastor of the Transfiguration Lutheran Church in the South Bronx, where the congregation is a mixture of Hispanics […]

Copyright with no insight

Copyright with no insight

I find it helpful to try to understand and keep abreast of movements and ideas with which I disagree. This essay by Douglas Spotted Eagle outlines the parameters of current copyright law and includes comments regarding churches and schools. If one were bounded by the […]

Send E-mail to Olive Garden

Send E-mail to Olive Garden

I’ve been swamped with 2004 office work. Estoy super ocupado! But there’s time for taking care of this now: The Olive Garden features Gallo wines�including Gallo of Sonoma�as �wine partners� at its restaurants throughout the United States and Canada. In its television ads, this huge […]

Super Bowl and Baptists

Super Bowl and Baptists

Houston is energized about the upcoming super bowl. The Baptists are praying over seat cushions so that when the fans sit on them, God will watch over them: “Volunteers will say a brief “SOS” prayer over each seat asking for salvation, obedience to God and […]

Satellite Talk Show

Satellite Talk Show

One of the highlights of the North South Radio Dialog was a one-hour talk show about the world summit on the information society and its relevance to local communities. Using its network satellite, ALER connected panelists from four countries: The Netherlands, Argentina, Ecuador and Bolivia. […]

Friends in Blogs

Friends in Blogs

I am sitting with a friend, Pepe Arevalo who is going to start his own blog…daily. He runs the systems at ALER. He is from Peru and wants to hear from anyone who is passionate about radio. Especially from the US he wants to hear […]

Latina/o Digital Radio

Latina/o Digital Radio

Yesterday I visited Ximana Chala, one of the inspiring leaders within the Centro Cultural Afroecuatoriano. She is working on a new video about the afroecuadorian legacy in the tourist areas of Ecuador, unveiling many surprises about the African history in Ecuador. If you click on […]

North South Radio Dialog

North South Radio Dialog

Happy new year. Back from vacationing during the holidays, I find myself in Quito, Ecuador, where I with 12 US and 12 Latin American radio activists-leaders. We�ll be here one week for a seminar that tries to forge working relationships in community and public radio. […]

Feliz Navidad

Feliz Navidad

I’ll be off blogging, off computer, off work. For Christmas I’ll be San Antonio with my extended family, eating tamales, empanadas, mole. Peace and happy new year. Ad�n

The Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments

Fair keeps an up-to-date watch on media coverage practices and features helpful commentaries. This commentary by Norman Solomon humorously compares the ten commandments to media practices. It has been reprinted in the WACC newsletter, “Action.” WACC helped to organize grassroots voices during the recent Geneva […]