On Food & Culture
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 …
YES! Massachusetts’ highest court ruled today that the state cannot deny gays and lesbians the right to marry and ordered the state’s lawmakers to devise changes in the law within six months. Alaska and Hawaii, when faced with such a decision, passed constitutional amendments against …
Was reminded about the Louisville Kentucky World Conference on Media, Religion and Culture when I read Jason’s description of the paper he is submitting (Nov 12th entry). His blog led me to Jesus of the Week that features sightings and artifacts. Ad�n
Funny how God reveals. Listening to my favorite station, KPFT community radio, while on my way to tennis last week, I heard an interview with Linda Montgomery who talked about her life path change. She was a nature photographer and became blind. There was something …
Yesterday I had occasion to recall that testing for HIV among Latinos and Latinas is poor, even though HIV infection in our community is highly disproportionate to our number. Although we make up about 14% of the U.S. population, we account for nearly 20% of …
It is 15 minutes past midnight. I’m deeply troubled by a documentary I saw last night on HBO2, “Child Soldiers.” Terrible images and interviews with children who have been through the hell of soldiering in Uganda, Sudan, Burma, Colombia and Sierra Leone. This documentary, produced …