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Category: Politics & Activism
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My good friend Kevin Baird is a composer, computer code writer, geek, and all-around hip guy. About a decade ago, he used a speech by George H.W. Bush on the eve of the Gulf War to create a wonderful audio piece called “Just Two Hours Ago.” I came across the audio of the original speech recently, and I asked Kevin if I could post his version on the site. He agreed, so here you go:
- An excerpt of the original speech (:29)
- “Just Two Hours Ago” by Kevin Baird (2:12)
New York shot down gay marriage rights today (read the New York Times article). In response, Rochester’s progressives met in historic Washington Square Park downtown to grieve, shout and plan for tomorrow. Here are two images from today’s events:
I found a link to World Jump Day on my friend Josh Rutner’s site. The idea? To have everyone in certain parts of the world jump at the same time, thus altering Earth’s orbit and stopping global warming. It’ll also make the weather nicer.
Looks like Van Halen were right.
Comments closed“As for the Pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.” – from Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Comments closedYou may enjoy Stephen Colbert’s recent commencement speech.
Comments closedJohn Nichols of The Nation has written a nice piece on Whitman and war. It includes a lovely funeral poem by Whitman. You can read it at thenation.com.
Comments closedAs I’ve mentioned before, I serve on the board of Abundance Cooperative Market, Rochester’s only shareholder-owned natural food store. The natural and organic food market is really growing. How can you tell? Wal-MArt wants a piece of the action. Oy!
Comments closedThis short essay is worth a look, if you’re interested in how the future of humankind might play out. Or even if you’re not.
When you’re finished with that, head over to SignWall.com and see the newest additions to this rapidly growing online museum of vanishing urban history.
Comments closedHere’s a nice video that combines a Monty Python tribute with a protest against the new budget proposed by G.W. Bush.
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Every day, in American and Canadian hotels, hundreds of thousands of men and women make the beds, cook the food, take out the trash, do the laundry, and clean the rooms. Most of these people make a non-living wage. Now, the union I work for, UNITE HERE, has launched Hotel Workers Rising, a campaign to raise the standard of living for all hotel workers, and to give more of those workers the benefits of a union. I urge you to visit the Web site and add your voice to those calling for fair treatment for hotel workers. Thanks.
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Here’s a nice little Flash animation about ExxonMobil. It ends with an opportunity for you to take action.
Comments closedOK, so this video is worth seeing. It’s a slightly … uh … revised version of Bush’s State of the Union address. Enjoy!
Comments closedBack in the halcyon days of The Jason Crane Show on NewsTalk 950, Joan Collins-Lambert talked about the effort by the Maryland legislature to pass a bill mandating that companies with more than 10,000 employees in Maryland must either spend 8% of payroll on healthcare for their employees, or they must pay into a healthcare fund for the state’s poor.
This was seen as a move against Wal-Mart. The company pays its workers so poorly, and provides them with such substandard health care, that states end up footing the bill. The legislature passed the bill last year, but Maryland Governor Robert Erlich vetoed it. Just this week, the legislature overrode his veto.
The New York Times has the story (registration required).
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