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Wednesday, January 29, 2003 |
| PORTO ALEGRE: ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE |
Jan 27 2003 |
 Future Strategies Focus on WSF Discussions
Many events on Sunday, January 26 at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre dealt with media. In a well attended four-hour workshop on "Becoming the Media," members of AMARC (the World Association of Community Radios) dialogued with US-based IndyMedia reporters, Canadian and Swiss labor activists, Argentine documentary filmmakers, Brazilian students of journalism, community radio activists from indigenous communities in the Bolivia Andes, and others about how news production and distribution could be done to counter the pervasive whitewashing of issues in the commercial media.
Read: entire article | CMI Brasil english coverage | special report from Tallahassee-Red Hills IMC | Social Movements Take a Step Forward
Further coverage includes IPS TerraViva reports [ Jan 27 ], and ongoing reports sent to various IMC websites, including South Africa [ 1 ], United Kingdom [ 1 ], West Mass [ 3 | 4 ], Portland [ 10 ], and Thunder Bay [ 3 ]. Feature coverage includes Frutillas y crema para el presidente del PT (es), Otro Foro es posible? (es), Wereld Sociaal Forum in Brazilie van start (nl), World Social Forum 3 (nl/fr), Foro Sociale Mondiale (it), Porto Alegre 2003 (es), WEF in Davos and WSF in Porto Alegre 2003 (de), and previous global features [ January 26 | Jan 25 | Jan 24 | Jan 22 | Jan 30, 2002 ].
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* Quote of the Day January 28, 2003
"The spectacle of the United States, armed with its weapons of mass
destruction, acting without Security Council authority to invade a
country in the heartland of Arabia and, if necessary, use its
weapons of mass destruction to win that battle, is something that
will so deeply violate any notion of fairness in this world that I
strongly suspect it could set loose forces that we would deeply live
to regret."
Former U.N. arms inspector Richard Butler,
quoted by Reuters January 28, 2003
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Today in History
January 29, 1932
The first state unemployment insurance law was enacted in Wisconsin. |
Thanks to Workday Minnesota
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sublunary: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. sublunary [Dictionary.com Word of the Day]
Word of the Day for Wednesday January 29, 2003
sublunary suhb-LOO-nuh-ree, adjective:
Situated beneath the moon; hence, of or pertaining to this world; terrestrial; earthly.
In Shakespearean drama, both tragic and comic, the storms and calamities that shake the sublunary globe are reflections of turmoil in the hearts of men.
--Pico Iyer, "The Philippines Midsummer Night's Dream," Time, July 21, 1986
It's hard to deny that finding oneself in an airless wooden box six feet underground, listening to the wriggling approach of what Poe called "Conqueror Worm," would be one of the worst possible ways to end one's existence in this sublunary sphere.
--Gary Kamiya, "Buried alive!" Salon, March 7, 2001
[M]ay the lexicographer be derided, who being able to produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and decay, that it is in his power to change sublunary nature, and clear the world at once from folly, vanity, and affectation.
--Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Dictionary of the English Language
Sublunary is from the Latin sublunaris, from sub, "under" + luna, "the moon."
Synonyms: earthly, mundane, telluric, terrene, terrestrial, worldly. Find more at Thesaurus.com. |
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