For me origami has been more than just paper folding. Once you get the hang of the basic folds, it’s pretty calming for the head and the hands. I’ve used origami to center myself, to step away from the multi-tasked brain. I’ve also used it to calm tweeners. As I said, [...]
After 11 PM last night, the House of Representatives voted on the Democratic health care bill H.R. 3962. The final vote was 220 - 215 in favor; 39 Democrats and 173 Republicans voted against the bill. See the vote breakdown here.
There was one lone Republican vote for the bill. That [...]
INTERCULTURAL NETWORK FOR CULTURAL DIVERSITY
This one’s from James Early about the goings on of the Intercultural Network for Cultural Diversity (INCD). INCD is an international organization based in Toronto (Canada). It’s mission is to counter the adverse affects of globalization on world cultures. In other words, “one world” does not mean one [...]
Message from Thomas Sayers Ellis. See you September 30th
TOWARDS A MORE CIVIL UNION - JIM LEACH, CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
“In our society we rightly identify hate words with racial, ethnic, and gender slurs. What are we therefore to make of the usage or what more aptly might be described as [...]
I can see Alcatraz from my window.
Each year Community Cinema Regional Outreach Coordinators and Producing Partners get together for our annual retreat here in San Francisco. It’s the big check in before we launch the new season of free documentary screenings in our cities and communities. This year, Nashville, TN and Little Rock, [...]
Last week, at the end of our Q&A for the Community Cinema screening of ASK NOT (a documentary by Johnny Symons that explores the effects of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) policy from 1993 to the present), I asked all the people in the room who’ve served in the U.S. military to stand so [...]
I’m looking forward to meeting Alex Nicholson next weekend. So far we’ve only conversed by email. Alex knows five languages. [I'm jealous.] And he is an Arabic linguist. Alex served in the U.S. Army during the height of 9-11 and its fall out wars in Iraq and Afgahanistan. But [...]
March 8 was International Women’s Day. International Women’s Day celebrates the economic, political and social achievements of women past and present. In some countries like China, Vietnam, Russia, and Bulgaria, it’s an international holiday.
This year’s United Nations global theme is woman and men united to end violence against women and [...]
Community Cinema, the ITVS outreach initiative for the PBS series, “Independent Lens,” is presenting [FREE] community screenings and discussions of the documentary TULIA, TEXAS. Community Cinema holds monthly preview screenings across the country to encourage community dialogue on social issues and opportunities to get involved with local organizations and institutions.
ABOUT TULIA, TEXAS: [...]
About two years ago I had the fortune of meeting and getting to know Byron Hurt while organizing our local Community Cinema screenings of his documentary “Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes.” Byron has been exploring a topic that’s always fascinated the wannabe anthropologist in me: masculinity.
Byron’s got a new conversation [...]
