On Food & Culture
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. …
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
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 …
Mary points to a speech by Howard Dean on December 7th in which he offers reasons for winning in 2004. The speech is inspiring: “….we want to raise our children in a world in which they are not taught to hate one another, because our …
On Sunday in Dublin I visited the designer of the website, Sacred Space, which is now so popular that it gets 10,000 visitors daily and lots of email. Rev. Alan McGuckian, S.J thought of this design after attending a retreat in India where the group …
The central London traffic and pedestrian congestion is so dense that it is difficult to walk. I am told that everyone is scurrying to do Christmas shopping. I’ll return to Houston next week and get into this frenzy. Tamales will be on my table. This …
I’m in Amsterdam and keeping an eye on the upcoming “World Summit on the Information Society” (WSIS), a full UN Summit that will be held in December 10-12 in Geneva with a second meeting in Tunis in 2005. Early hopes that the WSIS would tackle …
I miss my mom at thanksgiving. I call one of my sisters at whose home we used to gather to celebrate and eat turkey with the trimmings: chile verde, beans, tortillas. This year i cooked and had an enriching banquet w/friends who are now family. …
This Spanish-language Chicano poem, “Desesperaci�n” is a terribly haunting image of the dangers that we face, that are inside of us. published by Calacapress,a family-owned publishing house in San Diego that “strives to bring about change through the literary arts.” Here’s a work on “Calacas” …
I like the many facets in this undergraduate essay, “The complexities of the Chicano Spirit,” written in 1997 by sophomore Rebecca Rodriguez at UT, Austin. I found it while looking for any mention of religion in chicano scholarship. I think there was traditionally a general …