As the first days of September are upon us, I've been remembering this time last year, during the Beslan hostage crisis. Last night I watched a documentary on BBC1 which consisted primarily of interviews with children who survived, images from the seige, and english subtitles. To say that...
What is it about Canadians? Stay with me here--- I can't resist the friendliness. The coolness. The relaxed; good-heartedness; so many of them bleed. Not only here in Amsterdam, but all over the world, I have Canadian friends that I adore living outside their home country....
The way mass media chew up and spit out news, you don't tend to get much in terms of history or updates for different issues and events. So today I've been combing the internets for info about the Tsunami recovery. Bet you hadn't thought about THAT for...
Progressive Podcasts Review; What I listen to and why. AudioCommunique #62(mp3)30min+, 64kbps, 14Mb+ Public Radio Podcasts Discussed: Democracy Now Off the Hook Radio Open Source Media Matters On the Media Traditional Alternative Media Podcasts: Fire On the Prairie from In These Times magazine, NOT the New republic. Whoops. Radionation Indymedia Podcast Feed Native Podcasts: Yeast Radio AudioActivism Doing it with music: Tinkoff...
I figure since the blog felt dead for 24 hours... I would tell about the circumstances in which this communique of mine was born: The year was around 2000 and I was busy playing horn for OCG, working on my bachelors, and plotting a move to France for a semester...
