Monday, June 10, 2002

Rhino Here: This is the only advertisment you'll see on Rhino's List. A bit of Shameless promotion for the weekly TV series I curate for WorldLink TV. You need either a Direct TV dish or a Dish Network Dish to receive it. Best regards all 11:01:45 AM    comment

THIS WEEK (6/13) ON FIRST PEOPLES TV "Singing our Stories" A visionary journey through the landscape of Native North American music-from Tuscarora singer/songwriter Pura Fé to pop icon Rita Coolidge, from Blackfoot composer Olivia Tailfeathers and the Old Agency Singers to the traditional music of the Zuni Olla Maidens. This ground-breaking film profiles the "First Ladies" of indigenous song and pays tribute to the precious musical archive they preserve and celebrate. Through their language, heritage and homelands, the stories and songs of the women link the past to the present as they trace the voices of their ancestors. THIS WEEK'S SCREENING TIMES Thu, Jun 13, 10:00 PM ET (Thu, Jun 13, 7:00 PM PT) Fri, Jun 14, 4:00 AM ET (Fri, Jun 14, 1:00 AM PT) Fri, Jun 14, 10:00 AM ET (Fri, Jun 14, 7:00 AM PT) Fri, Jun 14, 4:00 PM ET (Fri, Jun 14, 1:00 PM PT) TO ORDER A VHS CASSETTE http://www.visionmaker.org/ FOR MORE INFORMATION ON FIRST PEOPLES TV & WORLDLINK TV: For program descriptions visit http://www.dreamcatchers.org/fptv or for program schedules visit http://www.worldlinktv.org FIRST PEOPLES TV WorldLink TV (http://www.worldlinktv.org), the first nationwide television network providing Americans with global perspectives on news, events and culture, is broadcasting a new weekly series by and about the tribal peoples of the world. "First Peoples TV" features 26 award-winning documentaries and dramas focusing on the lives of contemporary Native and Aboriginal people and the issues they face. WorldLink's programming consists of first run documentaries, foreign feature films, global news reports and eight hours of world music each day. Launched in December 1999, the channel is available in over 17 million U.S. homes via basic service on the direct-to-home satellite services DIRECTV® (Channel 375) and EchoStar's DISH Network® (Channel 9410). "First Peoples TV" is the first time a regularly scheduled TV series concerning tribal peoples will be accessible to all urban areas, including the territories of every Indigenous nation in the United States. 10:59:15 AM    comment

QUOTE OF THE DAY "If you're patient in one moment of anger, you'll escape a hundred days of sorrow." - - A Chinese Proverb 7:14:12 AM    comment

Rhino here: Nearly twenty years after one million people gathered in Central Park in New York City on June 12 to demand a freeze of the nuclear arms race, many believe that the time has come again for the public to make its voice heard in protest against the direction of nuclear policies, and are therefore issuing an Urgent Call for Ending Threats of Mass Destruction. You can read the Call: http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020624&s=schell2 7:13:13 AM    comment

Urgent Call for Ending Threats of Mass Destruction There are numerous ways you can help pull the world back from the brink of nuclear insanity: Sign the Call, make a tax-deductible donation to help disseminate the Call, present the Call in your local community, email this note to others, and join up with one of the many terrific groups working toward the goal of complete nuclear abolition. To sign the Call, and for much more info, go to: http://urgentcall.org You can check out The Nation Magazine's compilation of some of the major and not-so-major groups working in the field, including who they are, what they're doing, and how you can help. All available at: http://www.thenation.com/special/20020606call.mhtml As one of its chief signatories and author of the seminal antinuclear text The Fate of the Earth, Nation Institute Fellow Jonathan Schell explains the Call's necessity in an accompanying Nation essay detailing the growing nuclear perils of our age. http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020624&s=schell2 As Schell explains, the cloud of nuclear danger is blacker at this moment than at any time since the Cuban missile crisis. Along the Line of Control in Kashmir, one million soldiers confront one another across the Indian/Pakistan border in the world's greatest military mobilization since World War II. Writing from New Delhi, author Praful Bidwai offers possible ways out of this potential conflgration in a new Nation editorial: http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020624&s=pbidwai You can get involved in one of the upcoming nationwide antinuclear marches, protests and events. One of the largest is expected in NYC next Wednesday. On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the historic June 12, 1982 demonstration in Central Park, long-time disarmament activists Randall Forsberg, David Cortright and Cora Weiss join other former SANE/Freeze organizers to spark a new movement to abolish nuclear weapons. Speakers include Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Grace Paley, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee and Jonathan Schell, among many others. June 12, 7:00pm / Society for Ethical Culture 64th Street and Central Park West FREE, For info, call 212-870-2304, or go to: http://www.urgentcall.org/php/new_june12pr.php And for info on other related events, check out The Nation's special antinuclear events calendar at: http://www.thenation.com/special/2002june12.mhtml Finally, you can check out The Nation's special antinuclear archive of articles, essays, editorials and columns featuring material all originally published in the pages of The Nation. Featured pieces include Albert Einstein's 1931 plea for disarmament at a time when the destructive power of the atom had yet to be unleashed, then-Nation editor Freda Kirchwey's 1945 meditation on the bomb and the Cold War, The Nation editors' comments on the 1982 peace march, E.L. Doctorow's 1995 essay on mythologizing the bomb and Schell's classic 1998 call The Gift of Time, among many other selections....available at: http://www.thenation.com/special/nukearchive.mhtml 7:10:31 AM    comment

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