Monthly Archives: June 2010

Some Brief Vienna

Some Brief Vienna

June 28, 2010

A very brief and simple glimpse of 2 moments from a Saturday in Vienna. A protest in the university area and a folkloric band parade in front of city hall.

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They Renamed Pretoria

They Renamed Pretoria

June 24, 2010

The plane ride from Amsterdam to Vienna is more of hop than a flight. You're up, you get a drink and a snack, you look out the window - you're there.  Yet even in that short time, I found myself engaged in a thought provoking conversation last week on...

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ctrp340 India Unheard

ctrp340 India Unheard

June 21, 2010

India Unheard is a new project by VideoVolunteers which focuses on helping develop a network of citizen journalists and concerned video citizens throughout India. My guests, BaghdadBrian and Stalin K, are both involved with the project and agreed to talk to me and explain what VV is, the idea...

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When Theres No More Belgium

When Theres No More Belgium

June 14, 2010

Over the past 10 years, besides regularly visiting friends and family, I have taken countless train rides through and around Belgium.  Looking out the window from the quiet and comfortable SNCB trains at the beautiful green fields that stretch as far as the eye can see. Not quite as...

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ctrp339 Sharing Culture in Japan

ctrp339 Sharing Culture in Japan

June 8, 2010

Yuuki Aki is no ordinary Japanese writer. He's been living and writing an issue that many westerners wouldn't believe would be so contreversial in such a modern place: room sharing. In an unexpected podcast conversation, Aki takes us to post-war Japan where the country adopted a tradition of renting only...

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