Saturday, December 14, 2013
Friday, December 13, 2013
Lessons learned at AU
American University was locked down on Wednesday night when a person with a gun was spotted on campus at the same time that faculty member Alida Anderson and her class of future teachers were undertaking their final presentations for the semester. Alida’s course was taking place ...Read the WaPo story here...
AU now has the opportunity to do a full scrub on this issue and gather some great lessons learned from this event... one clear one is that something easy and simple has to be developed and placed in each classroom to allow the class to lock the doors from the inside... but in any event, I am very proud of my wife!
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Havana in ruins... 55 years and counting...
Almost every picture I’ve ever seen of Cuba’s capital shows the city in ruins. Una Noche, the 2012 gut punch of a film directed by Lucy Mulloy, captures in nearly every shot the savage decay of what was once the Western Hemisphere’s most beautiful city.Read this sad report at http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/michael-j-totten/once-great-city-havana
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
I shudder at this...
I cannot believe that my President shook hands with a murdering, racist dictator who has been brutalizing his people and enslaving a whole nation for almost 55 years... sigh.
Three years ago Princeton professor Cornel West, actress Ruby Dee and director Melvin Van Peebles and 60 other African-American artists and leaders issued a public statement (titled "Acting on Our Conscience") that criticized the Castro dictatorship for its "increased violations of civil and human rights for those black activists in Cuba who dare raise their voices against the island’s racial system."
People in the US are just not aware of Cuba's bloody racial history and the way that Afro-Cubans (who make up 35% of the Cuban population) have been and continue to be brutalized. POTUS should have been advised about what to do if this came up: what President Carter did decades ago when faced with the same situation and a different Castro: Ignore him.
Three years ago Princeton professor Cornel West, actress Ruby Dee and director Melvin Van Peebles and 60 other African-American artists and leaders issued a public statement (titled "Acting on Our Conscience") that criticized the Castro dictatorship for its "increased violations of civil and human rights for those black activists in Cuba who dare raise their voices against the island’s racial system."
People in the US are just not aware of Cuba's bloody racial history and the way that Afro-Cubans (who make up 35% of the Cuban population) have been and continue to be brutalized. POTUS should have been advised about what to do if this came up: what President Carter did decades ago when faced with the same situation and a different Castro: Ignore him.
Opportunity for sculptors
The Capitol Hill Alphabet Animal Project will commission ten artists to produce sculptures that will be permanently installed on selected street posts in DC.
These are paid commissions, and the project is working with a historian, will have a launch event, as well as produce a book.
Funding for this phase is from the DDOT and the DC Humanities Council.
More details here: https://sites.google.com/site/alphabetanimalsdc/home
These are paid commissions, and the project is working with a historian, will have a launch event, as well as produce a book.
Funding for this phase is from the DDOT and the DC Humanities Council.
More details here: https://sites.google.com/site/alphabetanimalsdc/home
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