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At 3:30 Sarah Lazare is a free-lance writer & the Project Director of Courage to Resist, an organization that supports military war resisters. we will discuss her recent article, co-authored with our friend-of-the-show, intrepid journalist Dahr Jamail. Sarah’s work often appears in many progressive liberal journals.
Echo Platoon: Warehousing Soldiers in the Homeland
at 4:30 Evan Greer – activist, singer & songwriter. Evan’s website
“An eloquent and energetic writer. He reminds me of Phil Ochs.”
- Howard Zinn
at 5 PM Laura Kimpton’s work concerns itself most of all with issues of freedom. “She challenges stereotypes & any efforts to constrain or pass judgment. Kimpton recycles images & memorabilia from the past in encaustic & collage to communicate to & about her culture. By using recycled materials in her work, Kimpton says she is able to start with a history & personality that helps guide where the work is going.” (press release, Donna Seager Gallery, September 2007)
While embracing many “new age” systems of our era Kimpton became especially interested in the largest social art experiment of our time, Black Rock, Nevada’s “Burning Man” movement. In 2007, Kimpton along with her team received a grant to build “Celtic Forest”, a sculpture and fire site consisting of a 13 foot ritual statue and fire moat surrounded by four 25 foot steel trees. Various parts of the site have been exhibited in New York and throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
“Indeed, the art created at and for Burning Man is among the most important contemporary art being created today. As an open door to creative activities & to experimentation, it is democratic, often ephemeral, & built on the principle of risk taking.
This mindset allows for a distilled, elemental experience that is the visual & emotional manifestation of Art, Soul & Spirit. – Close to the Flame: In the Spirit of Burning Man”, Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, California
The nature of Kimpton’s work is inherently social as she requires reaction & discussion for it to complete its task. She is continually exploring new mediums in her search for revelatory communication. Kimpton received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The San Francisco Art Institute and a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from The University of San Francisco. She currently resides in Marin County, California. Her works have been exhibited throughout the US including the Schomburg Gallery, Los Angeles, Pigman Gallery, San Francisco, NY Studio Gallery, New York, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, California, Flow Miami Art Fair, & the Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz, California.
We also spoke with David Hill in a first of our series of interviews with activist researchers from Survival International. David knows a lot about uncontacted tribes particularly in the Peruvian Amazon, where he spent three months in 2006 researching their location and the threats they face (without attempting to make contact with them himself, of course). However, he can also talk more generally about uncontacted tribes worldwide, where they are, why they are uncontacted, what threats they face, and what Survival’s campaign for their rights is about.
See the short film and articles on this page of their website for information about uncontacted tribes:
details of uncontacted tribes in Peru
And we spoke with Felipe Matsunaga from Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Where is the Administration Heading?
“Obama’s Slow (and Familiar) Dance With Cuba”
…Though it is true that the easing of telecommunications marked a slight departure from the Clinton years, it has served to highlight some of the inconsistencies in the current administration’s timid and minimalist approach toward Cuba. In a largely under-reported event by major media outlets, Microsoft blocked access to its Messenger instant messaging service in Cuba during the last week of May. The company justified its decision by releasing the following statement: “Microsoft has discontinued providing Instant Messenger services in certain countries subject to United States sanctions. Details of these sanctions are available from the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).” Messenger, which had been used as a means of communication on the island for the past decade, had operated in Cuba despite the existence of the embargo….
VW ‘Dudeism‘ ad bowls into cinemas
a mini-film exploring Dudeism, the “religion” inspired by the character “the Dude” in 1998 movie The Big Lebowski, in more than 500 independent cinemas across the UK.The 60-second clip, which tells the story of Dudeism devotee Oliver Benjamin, is one of three telling the story of people whose lives have been changed by films.
