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engaging talks from NYPL

Guntar Grass and Norman Mailer  (watch or listen)

Miranda July, Becky Stark & David Byrne (listen)

Werner Hertzog "Was the 20th Century a Mistake?"

Japanese Smoking Symbols

Polyvalence (blog)

Who Is That Caped Woman?? (superhero bikeriding)

Great Costumes at Portland Tour-De-Fat '06

Kaiju Shakedown (blog)

the secret life of toys : slideshow

plastic-face pill-dolls in japan : pic

paper-lantern characters : pic

"sonny angels" : pic

YouTube Doubler

The History Of European Cinema (google video on page)

Center For Investigative Reporting (blog)

A Brief History Of Culture Jamming (from good magazine)

Z Communications Media Institute

Z Media Institute was started in 1994 by the cofounders of Z Magazine (1988) and South End Press (1977) to teach radical politics, media and organizing skills, the principles and practice of creating non-hierarchical institutions and projects, activism, and vision and strategy for social change. Classes are held around Eel Pond in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
         

COURSES

• Political courses include:  principles of workplace democracy, foreign policy, ecology, political science, queer theory, women and revolution, labor, race, youth liberation, economic and social vision and strategy, and more.
                    
               
• Media courses include: Analysis of mainstream media; starting a media project (newspaper, radio, video, magazine, Internet, organizing); challenges of alternative media; pressuring mainstream media; research and investigation techniques; more.
                 
              
• Skills courses include: Finances, promotion, fundraising, design, production, promotion, editing, facilitating meetings, and more.

                   

Z Communications (more information)

craft in america

We have always had a deep sense of longing for the handmade. Perhaps because each of us, in our own way, has had a craft experience. Sometimes it’s an object passed down to us, or one that crosses our path, and connects us to others in traditions, heritage and rituals. You’ve begun your understanding and appreciation with our tv series. Now go further with craftinamerica.org – our web vortex, where you can view over three hours of additional video, and explore almost 300 pages of content about craft and its artists. And as craft is always changing, so will our site, so come back and visit often. It promises to be a terrific journey. Welcome.

found at lisa congton's blog

Keith calls on the President and Vice-president to resign. (via onegoodmove)

It is nearly July 4th, Mr. Bush, the commemoration of the moment we Americans decided that rather than live under a King who made up the laws, or erased them, or ignored them—or commuted the sentences of those rightly convicted under them—we would force our independence, and regain our sacred freedoms.

We of this time—and our leaders in Congress, of both parties—must now live up to those standards which echo through our history: Pressure, negotiate, impeach—get you, Mr. Bush, and Mr. Cheney, two men who are now perilous to our Democracy, away from its helm.

For you, Mr. Bush, and for Mr. Cheney, there is a lesser task. You need merely achieve a very low threshold indeed. Display just that iota of patriotism which Richard Nixon showed, on August 9th, 1974.

Resign.

quiltsryche : evil rock quilts

customized vans in Japan

mizpee : when you've got to go and your on the road

princess sparkle pony : one of my very favorite blogs

idaho radio news : blog

high-res photography : via flickr and wallpaper.sytes.org

he's a crazy koot, but did you know Mike Gravel read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record?  i didn't . . . check it!

Watch the Full Presentation Here

* Headlines for July 2, 2007

* How the Pentagon Papers Came to Be Published by the Beacon Press: A Remarkable Story Told by Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, Dem Presidential Candidate Mike Gravel and Unitarian Leader Robert West

The Time Is Right For The New Pentagon Papers