Sunday, February 26, 2006
touchstones discussion project
the touchstones discussion project with st john's college in annapolis,maryland is looking for schools for it's project of classics seminars both national and international.it's a non-profit and for more information contact howard zeiderman at hz@touchstones.org.
irish journalist reads in maryland
carole coleman will be at galway bay march 5th at 6:00pm,63 maryland avenue,410-263-8333, for her book alleleuia america:an irish journalist in bush country.the book includes a 2004 live interview with president bush and her travels through "god's country".
Saturday, February 25, 2006
duke falls from grace
who are the patriots now?looks like it'll be a while before we know.can there be any after duke?they insisted on being in charge and it looks like we fell for a criminal.will many liberal bashers go to the slammer?it's only logical to say then that liberal bashers adhere to a criminal code.our former president raegan moved the defense industry to our neighborhood in northern virginia where the white tie hate group as deemed by the southern poverty law center just had a convention.there were just house to house searches of hispanics there.the defense department crowd is now the subject of justice department investigations also.one of raegans aids bought,as so i seemed to have read,the magazine of the nazi party folks.will they see if he's tied to al qaeda?
mexican cultural institute exhibit and winetasting
march3-may 28 at national museum of women in the arts,nmwa.org.divine and human:women in ancient mexico and peru."400 acheological treasures from the unparalleled museum collections of mexico and peru-sculptures,textiles and jewelry explore the feminine "sphere" in cultures as varried as the aztec,mayan,zapoted,moche,mixtec and incan." march 17th winetasting 7:30 at the cultural institute,$10.
Friday, February 24, 2006
zenith gallery
28th anniversary exhibition for zenith gallery march 3-28.reception to meet the artists,friday march3,6-9pm and sunday march5,2-5pm.it's at 413 7th st nw,wash.,d.c.202-783-2963.thirty six artists ahould be there.
d.c.'s connor contemporary art in new york
connor contemporary art will have artists at the pulse contemporary art fair booth 109 from march 10-13.participating artists are-m.friberg,a.khebrehzadeh,j.holcombe,mccallum+tarry,l.villareal. pulse-art.com
united farmworkers action alert
help stop gender bias in the grapes-kovecevich "5"of delano in fresno and tulare counties are being sued by the u.s. equal employment oppurtunity commission.they didn't hire a woman as a seasonal worker between 1998-2002. sign the on-line petition-ufwaction.org/campaign/kovecevich gender.
Thursday, February 23, 2006
south dakota anti-abortion bill
at the rally at the supreme court i went to one of the anti-abortion women called one of the pro-choice's mother a slut.an anti-abortion gentlman ran through the crowd pushing people.you have to wonder how many rights are in their target.justice alitos push for a more powerful presidency has the chilling sound of a threat to democracy.needless to say that not much the president does works.if he's given all the power there may not be much of a country left.
sanctions against sudan
why haven't there been sanctions against sudan?it seems to be the same response bosnia was given by the first president bush.it sounds as though he's terrified of being prosecuted for war crimes.the same people could be involved. savedarfur.org.
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
washington irish arts festival recommendations
irish northern aid committee recommends two events in the festival-irish poetry and prose march 1,7:30 at marymount university,free, featuring terry winch,coilin owens, and catriona o'durdy.march 10th,7:30 at the warehouse theatre for free is the road of women:voices of irish women political prisoners.
dc vote action alert
ask congress to sponsor the dc fair act,dc fairness in representation act,h.r.2043.dc doesn't have a vote.new organizations joining are,the american jewish committee,black leadership forum,fairvote,mautner project,root(reaching out to others together),washington teachers union afl local no.6 afl-cio.
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
maryland institue college of art exhibits queens,ny
crossing the boulevard at the decker gallery in the fox building,1303 mount royal avenue, through march 12."portrays the largely invisible lives of new immigrants and refugees living in queens,ny,the most ethnically diverse locality in the united states."crossingtheblvd.org-410-225-2300.i work with the bangladeshi committee and they ran a candidate against state senator padavan in queens who appears to have written anti-immigrant papers and received a 9% from the new york civil liberties union.
haitian death squads at mass?
what looked like haitian woman in a white headress made her way up the steps of sacred heart catholic church during the labor mass with a south american archbishop and immediately started a shoving match with the usher.they seemed to know her.she finally sat down and then midway through the mass there was another shoving match and she was dragged out of church and arrested.sacred heart has a haitian mass and so does st. charles borromeo where shortly before the coup in haiti what looked like haitian army stood up in the front row and made somewhat threatening poses towards the pastor.
Monday, February 20, 2006
iraq war bloddies virginia
it's over fifty dead now in virginia.one from a local highschool.it seems many of them couldn't afford college.a freind of mine is over there now.do the neo-conservatives who were going to sweep democracy through the region have much to say about iran and the new iraqi government blowing up israel.i don't think it was on the minds of our dead ones.
Sunday, February 19, 2006
univ.of maryland recital
thurs. feb.29th-8:00 and free at the gildenhorn recital hall.tracy wiggins percussion plays-j.tenney-having never written a note for percussion-j.cage-composed improvisationfor one-sided drum with or without jangles-j.welsh's-scraps of echoes-d.mcbrides-peterborough chorale-t.delios-waves and transparent wave VI and a work by t.wiggins.
contemporary music forum at the corcoran
sunday april 23 at 4:30 cmf composers f.weck,d.boyce,s.antosca and m.pudlak.
mccain/kennedy immigration reform
working with hispanics the cruelty of denying them a decent chance for citizenship is a cheap shot and following them to work and home as the minutement do here is a blatantly racist attack. in ohio the nazi party passed out leaflets that said the hispanics should be ethnically cleansed from the place.did any of them have a hand in ethnically cleansing bosnia?
Saturday, February 18, 2006
washington area endorsements
mayor o'malley deserves a chance to be governor as he has worked in baltimore for years when it was disparaged and also supported the irish northern aid committee,i'm a member, which helped end violence in northern ireland.there seems to have been a series of hate crimes in montgomery county. rep.cardin worked with bosnia to end genocide and could help with the peace process in the middle east.rep moran also works with the irish northern aid committee and g.l.o.b.e.,global legislatorsfor a better environment.city councilman graham district has improved and he's been an advocate for good causes and would help washington,d.c.
bosnia
zabih.ba is a party for a multicultural bosnia and could provide stability in the balkans and have normal relations with the outside world.iran was involved in bosnia and al qaeda was arrested in serbia.if possible, support the sarajevo museum of contemporary art at arsaevi.com.
wilmington,delaware's little italy
wilmington,delaware's little italy hosts the biggest italian festival on the east coast in july at saint anthony's church.go to my cousins pub gallucio's and chat with jerry.the little italy neighborhood association is now a non-profit and you can join for a small fee.they also have t-shirts.all the information's on their website.it's a place on the mend and senator biden might talk to you if you go there.
Friday, February 17, 2006
traveling anti-war scroll
the gallery i show at, museum of modern arf, was included in an anti-war scroll which featured iraqi,italian and american artists. it opened at the charleston museum and went to the cuyahoga community college and should be at kent state.if you want it in your town contact mary at mwalker4588@earthlink.net.
artists opposed to the death penalty?
call for entries to, justice for all?artists reflect on the death penalty sponsored by and copyright by the texas moratorium network.also with, the texas death penalty education and resource center,cultural arts division and the texas commission on the arts. for more info, death penaltyartshow.org.the supreme court may have struck down a texas lethal sentence somewhat categorically. deadline for submissions,march 20th.
slammer for iraq war architect?death squads?
is one of the architects of the iraq war,as i read in the post, going to prison?mr perle seems to be accused of stealing half a million dollars from the bank he was on the board of.does he have any of the missing millions from the war?has he steered our nation to safety and made right the holy land?can he do this from jail?where has elliot abrams been when the new iraqi death squads were formed?i remember some problems with death squads in central america.
have democrats violated the voting rights act?
the democrats haven't violated the voting rights act lately.i think it could be an issue in the black communities.lynn swann in pennsylvania and supporters of steele in maryland seem to think democrats have taken blacks for granted.at the moment the justice department seems to be investigating problems with the voting rights act in the republican house majority leaders texas and the former speaker of the houses georgia.in the senate, the senate majority leader trent lott seemd to voice the same concerns as far as blacks voting.
chalk4peace with earth day
my gallery,museum of modern arf,is doing this project with earth day set for september 16-17. the website is chalk4peace.com and the director is john aaron. at the moment we are working with the dr.martin luther king memorial library and the washington,dc public library system,boulder public library,boulder,co.,berkeley,ca schools,alameda,ca schools,arts alive!santa barbara,ca,arlington county schools,va,fairfax county schools,va,new hampshire board of education,united kingdom through infinitepossibility.org and the art educators of the state of ohio.the project's now a non-profit.
Thursday, February 16, 2006
rep. davis's gay basher
rep. davis has hired the gay basher from virginia beach. there is a republican from virginia beach who's doing time for pedophilia and there is or was a serial killer preying on homosexuals there.is there any chance the gay basher has any ties to these people?i don't think it will help traditional values much.
al qaeda with the far right
the washington post reported that neo-nazi's were arrested with al qaeda in germany a while ago.if you look up the nazi partys website under the national alliance you'll find all the far right is tied to them and they have many people in the washington area.the nazis attended a demonstration for the minutement recently against illegal immigration.
