AMAZING WEBSITE OF THE WEEK:
A most amazing collaborative graphic art project. You'll see a strip of text and instructions to click on the bottom. Then there's a scene. Click and drag upward very slowly and you'll move forward. Drag down and you'll move back. It's a loop so you'll eventually end up back where you started. Stop frequently and take a good look. It's way-cool!
AT: http://www.eviltree.de/zoomquilt/zoom.htm
TV TIP: "Left Of The Dial" - The Making Of Air
America Radio
A documentary will premiere Mach 31st on HBO.
THE QUOTE: "The elders were wise. They knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; they knew that lack of respect for growing, living things, soon led to lack of respect for humans, too... I am going to venture that the man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures, and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization."
- - Chief
Luther Standing Bear (Lakota Sioux)
THE HISTORY:
MARCH 12TH
295 -- Maximilian beheaded for refusing military service,
Thevesta, North Africa. Romans execute the 21-year-old draft resister. Maximillianus
recently said (quote), "I am forbidden to become a soldier, as I am a Christian."
1860 -- US Congress passes the Pre-emption bill, giving away Indian western territories as "free" land to white settlers. As Ayn Rand would say, since they had no fences, written titles, or any civilization, the Indians had no property rights.
1968 -- The New Hampshire primary election brings shocking
results. The US Senator Eugene
McCarthy campaign for US President, benefiting from the work of 2,000
full-time student volunteers & up to 5,000 on the weekends immediately preceding
the vote, comes within 230 votes of defeating the sitting president Lyndon
Johnson. These students, participants in what McCarthy refers to as his "children's
crusade" have cut their hair, modified their wardrobes, & become "clean for
Gene" to contact the conservative voters in the state.
MARCH 13TH
1925 -- State of Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution.
1932 -- Germany: With six million unemployed, chaos in Berlin, starvation & ruin, the threat of Marxism & a very uncertain future, the German people turn to Hitler by the millions.
In the presidential election, Hitler receives over eleven million votes (11,339,446) or 30% of the total. Hindenburg receives 18,651,497 votes or 49%. Since Hindenburg does not get the majority, a run-off election is held. In the campaign that follows, Hitler crisscrosses Germany in an airplane, descending from the clouds into the arms of growing numbers of fanatics, at ever larger rallies. He gives them a positive message, promising something for everyone, then ascends back into the clouds. "In the Third Reich every German girl will find a husband!" Hitler once promises.
ALSO 1932 -- Hunger marches take place throughout the US.
Herbert
Hoover sends a secret message to Congress advising it not to cut the
pay of Army or Navy personnel because they may be needed to put down revolution.
1945 -- Pax
Christi founded, France.
RHINO HERE:
All hands on deck! The U.S. Senate is likely to vote next Wednesday on a budget resolution that could doom the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to massive oil development and destruction. That vote is now too close to call. So the National Resources Defense Council Action Fund is racing to produce a series of last-minute, hard-hitting print ads that will generate public pressure on those key senators whose votes could literally save the Arctic
Refuge -- and its vulnerable populations of caribou, polar bears, white wolves and other rare wildlife. They urgently need your donation to run those decisive ads in target states --especially Hawaii and Louisiana -- beginning this weekend and continuing Monday and Tuesday in advance of the crucial vote. Help make a wave of national opposition to this sneak attack on the ANWR sanctuary for Arctic wildlife.
TO HELP, GO TO: https://www.nrdcactionfund.org/redfordarctic/donate.asp
(o/)(o/)(o/)
First Blogger Gets White House Pass
AZ Daily Star, 3-08-05
WASHINGTON - With an official credential hanging from his neck, a young man
stepped into the White House briefing room Monday as perhaps the first blogger
to cover the daily press briefings. Garrett M. Graff, 23, writes Fishbowl
D.C. (www.mediabistro.com/fishbowldc), a Web log about the news media in Washington.
He decided to see whether he could get a daily pass for a briefing after a
recent controversy raised questions about White House access and who is a
legitimate reporter. White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Graff
was believed to be the first blogger to be credentialed to attend his morning
press gathering and his televised briefing later in the day.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000828039
(o/)(o/)(o/)
Rhino's Blog Readers Melissa Young & Mark Dworkin Release Another Fine Documentary
For decades Argentina embraced the policies of the International Monetary Fund,
the World Bank and the World Trade Organization, anticipating an economic boom.
But at the end of 2001, the Argentine economy collapsed, and one of the most
prosperous countries in South America was thrust into poverty. The entire political
establishment was discredited, and the country went through a dizzying changeover
of four presidents in less than a month. Unemployment reached 40%, and even people
who were middle class learned how it felt to be powerless, hungry, and poor.
Even the formerly upscale and middle class learned how it feels to be poor, powerless,
and hungry. With times so hard, people might have turned on each other in fear
and desperation, but instead they turned to each other in mutual support. Northwest
documentary producers Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin arrived in Argentina on
vacation when all of this was unfolding, and finding the energy irresistible,
they pulled out their camera. The result is "Argentina ˆ Hope in Hard Times." Dworkin & Young‚s
previous works include "Net Loss: The Storm Over Salmon Farming," "How Can I
Keep On Singing?", gritty tales of settler & indigenous women in the Old West & their
short, "Another World is Possible" about the 2002 World Social Forum in Brazil.
(o/)(o/)(o/)
SAN DIEGO ALERT! PLAYING THIS SATURDAY Mar. 12,
3:30 p.m at the Mann Theatres, 7510 Hazard Center Dr, San Diego, CA The film is listed by its Spanish title, Esperanza en Tiempos Dificiles, on the festival website, but it is narrated and subtitled in English. ( http://www.sdlatinofilm.com )
For more info, GO TO: http://www.movingimages.org
(o/)(o/)(o/)
8:58:34 AM 
|
|
