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A proposal at Omidyar Network for grants that I was following did not get chosen. The proposal is about the #2 killer world wide and that's water-borne diarrheal illnesses, mostly kids die but millions upon millions suffer. This problem is not so hard to solve. Anyway the proposal was good enough that matching funds will be provided for donation in December. I don't have money. So my efforts are trying to spread the meme of making paper party hats for fund raising. I made a blog hatsforhealth...
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The Birmingham News sent reporters to cover Civil Rights news in their fair city, but did not publish the photos. Left forgotton they were discovered and the paper published 30 of them along with a story based on interviews with the photographers and some of the subjects still alive. www.al.com/unseen/ Newsworthy indeed.
The folk singer Pete Seeger observed:
"Songs won't save the planet, but then neither will books or speeches. Songs are sneaky things; they can slip across borders."
Yesterday I was moved to read Vincent Harding talk about music in the freedom movement www.pbs.org/wnet/religio...harding.html. I thought about writing about Fanny Lou Hamer www.ibiblio.org/sncc/hamer.html because while best known as the co-founder of Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and s...
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Preston Brooks a Congressman from South Carolina caned Senator Charles Sumner at his desk because Preston thought he's impunged his family's honor. Sumner died a few months after the attack, but I don't ever remember seeing that Brooks was prosecuted or ever censored for it. It's hard to see, but the Senators in the background have varying expressions on their faces, what's clear however was that the code was to stay out of it; apparently nobody thought the honorable thing to do was to inte...
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I live near Pittsburgh and I'm really fond of the place. Something about this place is that it seems everyone is only separated by one degree if you're not already friends. Because of this closeness it's almost a habit when meeting someone new to identify the way you're already connected. This habit takes newcommers by surprise and can lead them to feeling clostrophobic when there's no need to feel that way; oh well maybe there is. People here do have an interest in what neighborhoods yo...
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Make a Simple Paper Hat
(blog entry)
A proposal at Omidyar Network for grants that I was following did not get chosen. The proposal is about the #2 killer world wide and that's water-borne diarrheal illnesses, mostly kids die but millions upon millions suffer. This problem is not so ...
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Birmingham News
(blog entry)
The Birmingham News sent reporters to cover Civil Rights news in their fair city, but did not publish the photos. Left forgotton they were discovered and the paper published 30 of them along with a story based on interviews with the photographer...
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Songs Are Sneaky Things
(blog entry)
The folk singer Pete Seeger observed:
"Songs won't save the planet, but then neither will books or speeches. Songs are sneaky things; they can slip across borders."
Yesterday I was moved to read Vincent Harding talk about music in the freed...
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Violent Memes
(blog entry)
Preston Brooks a Congressman from South Carolina caned Senator Charles Sumner at his desk because Preston thought he's impunged his family's honor. Sumner died a few months after the attack, but I don't ever remember seeing that Brooks was prosec...
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Torchbearers
(blog entry)
I live near Pittsburgh and I'm really fond of the place. Something about this place is that it seems everyone is only separated by one degree if you're not already friends. Because of this closeness it's almost a habit when meeting someone new ...
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