Archive for February, 2008

Denmark in the Night

February 29, 2008
By bicyclemark
Denmark in the Night

Greetings from Copenhagen. I like how its written in Danish... København. I'm here to spend the weekend learning... about this place, about its history, about its people in the present. What d
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bm251 Struggling in the Streets of Zagreb

February 28, 2008
By bicyclemark

One year after my visit to Croatia, the struggle to preserve historical buildings from being torn down in favor of shopping malls continues. Last month, demonstrators again took to the streets to pro
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Line Them Up

February 26, 2008
By bicyclemark
Line Them Up

During my time at the Village Voice, I would occasionally hear the name Jimmy Breslin. No one told me who he was, it was just a name that would sometimes appear written on a folder or a piece of pape
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A Room of Our Own

February 25, 2008
By bicyclemark
A Room of Our Own

Part of being a fairly old school blogger and very old school podcaster who calls himself a journalist, means that I get invited to speak at conferences and quite often, to give my point of view on is
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bm250 My Mother’s Immigration Story

February 23, 2008
By bicyclemark

Over the summer I recorded podcasts documenting my parents' lives in Portugal. In this podcast I sit with my mother here in Amsterdam and she explains what it was like moving from Portugal to Newark,
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True Magic

February 22, 2008
By bicyclemark
True Magic

I have experienced few more beautiful things than the simple act of sitting next to my mom and cousin as they go through black and white photos from their past in Portugal. Hilarious stories, sad sto
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bmtv76 Forgotten Portuguese WWII Hero

February 21, 2008
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Aristides de Sousa Mendes ignored the orders of the facist Portuguese government during WWII, by helping people escape to Portugal. A diplomat in Bordeaux, he gave visas to thousands of Jewish and no
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Statehood Doesn’t Pay Bills

February 20, 2008
By bicyclemark
Statehood Doesn’t Pay Bills

Nationalism has long been the cause of alot of pain and broken dreams in the history of the world. Yet nationalism is the force that brings about so many changes in so many places, even in this day a
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