SOME CORPORATIONS JUST DON'T GIVE A DAMN, LONG AS THEY SEE THE GREEN

I'm working on putting a website together with some help, so contact me if you dig this idea:

-ON HIDDEN COMPANIES OUT THERE IN THE BOSTON AND OVERALL MASS AREA, EVER SUED FOR RACIAL OR SEXUAL ORIENTATION DISCRIMINATIONS.

-THERE ARE A TON OF THEM OUT THERE, AND THEY DESERVE TO BE LISTED AND IN THE OPEN FOR THE UNETHICAL AND DISCRIMINATORY BUSINESS PRACTICES AND CONDUCTS.

-THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF A COMPANY WHOSE BUSINESS ETHICS AND INTERNAL EMPLOYEE-EMPLOYER CONDUCTS/TREATMENTS I WAS A WITNESS TO:

EKIT.COM

*THEY HAVE THE GUTS: read more...

BANK OF AMERICA SUCKS FOR CERTAIN...

OF COURSE I DID NOT QUITE LISTENED WHEN ONE OF MY GOOD FRIENDS WARNED ME ABOUT THEM.

FIGURED WELL, I ALWAYS MANAGED, AS LITTLE AS MY MONTHLY INCOME IS AND HAS BEEN, TO CORRECT THINGS WITH THOSE PAPER-EATERS. I WAS WRONG. INDEED WE LIVE IN DESPERATE TIMES.
DESPERATE TIMES FOR THE PEOPLE. OUR RIGHTS. OUR NEEDS AND EFFORTS SHOVELED OFF AS HORSE MANURES TO GIVE LEEWAY INSTEAD TO THOSE CORPORATIONS WHO PRETTY MUCH OWNED THIS COUNTRY.

ANOTHER PLACE TO COMPLAIN AND INSIGHT REBELLION OVER WOULD BE: EXPERIAN read more...

In its December 2007 newsletter issue, the Optical Society of America's Minorities & Women (MWOSA) program features a Videos and Reports of Interest section. Minority Women in Science and Cambridge Community Television are both listed in this section. Download the attachment to read the newsletter.

Dr. CORNELL WEST

GROUNDBREAKING AUTHOR EDUCATOR & THINKER

Dr. Cornel West is currently the Class of 1943 University Professor of Religion at Princeton University. One of America's most gifted and provocative public intellectuals, Dr. West has won numerous awards, including the American Book Award, and has received more than 20 honorary degrees. He received his BA from Harvard University and his MA and PhD from Princeton University.

Dr. West's writing, speaking, and teaching weaves together the American traditions of the Baptist Church, transcendentalism, socialism, and pragmatism. His best-selling book, Race Matters, changed the course of America's dialogue on race, justice, and democracy. read more...

I/ In A Beyond-Conscious Nutshell

My intent is to open minds, question everything, learn, educate, forge an even sense of spirituality and Humane bound within myself and those i am able to touch or be touched by-We all are as human as we get, shadeless or Green-Purple-Pink-O-ALL- Licious complexions, and so forth (which should not matter to one non-brainwashed and conservatively conformist mindset). I hope to continue to learn, love, be the vessel i was chosen to be in this lifetime and perhaps even the next, and the next, and the one after the one...

II/ Someone Say: Rise Up!
SOCIALISM/GOING FROM CENTRAL TO LEFT/ART AS A BIGGER TOOL THAN MY SPIRIT/SPIRITUALITY MEETS ALTRUISM MEETS COMPASSIONATE MINDFUL

*Not as social and the party animal i used to be in my better troubled days. However those days of stagnant dooms and gloom have brought me to develop inquisitiveness and fluidity as well as a bigger Understanding of what my passions and my outlook mean. read more...

Peggy Kolm of Women in Science Blog posted about the video Minority Women In Science which was produced and screened at CCTV last year as part of the Cambridge Science Festival.

ONE BIG SHELTER: Could The City Of Cambridge Afford It?
Could the city of Cambridge Afford It?

HOW ABOUT ONE BIG BRAND NEW AND ACCESSIBLE SHELTER

FOR ITS HOMELESS POPULATION IT HOLDS?

Does Cambridge enjoy its reputation of it near-the city hall location in Central Square being referred to as “Mental Square”; fumbling with the ideas of day and night shelters…Wonder what that would be like and how that could help the city’s reputation some’…

I have lived in the city of Cambridge for a while, as a matter of fact so long that I am considering moving and relocating to a newer and fresh area, maybe one of those other sub-cities surrounding it. It has been a while, in and out of here since 1995. I was attending Watertown High School nearby, and when things when down, started to hang out with familiar heads in the pit, in Harvard Square; like most troubled youths still do even up to these days. Yes, lived and enjoyed my stay long enough, and so much that I have had the chance and misfortune to have witnessed a huge part of the social-economical and industrial changes that have been transforming the housing sector. read more...

H, I was reminded this: wanted to make sure that it is understood that i was not praising only Blacks, or the blacks I brought up to the general public attention in this essay; rather it is merely to get a message of Respect of all of our differences and similarities, while honoring those who never got to be honored for paving the way. With the example of the Kendall Square area of Cambridge and moving along, now transforming into an exquisite Industrial city ; and also while slowly losing its grasps on that part of History, this constitute a sheer reminder and an alert for all to stay connected to our compassionate and humane values as opposed to our mundane desires alone.

P.S: People of all colorful backgrounds represented before and then this city and still do: one generation after another, and with greater populaces of new immigrants and old ones, lower middle or higher classes, all harmoniously and amicably co-existing as one.

Let's all keep that in mind. So not to lose ourselves, and in that, continue to be an example of Diversity and Progressiveness, the right ways, vis-a-vis of 1 world we can not help to be somewhat exemplary to.

Thank you
Peace

Koré

For starter, I have to say that i really don't know if it's become slowly a matter of brainwashing effort or aptitude, or for that matter one of sheer lack of information or misinformation. I doubt that half of the population of Cambridge even knows that their former city mayor for the last 5 to 8 years was a black man, gay man, and graduate of Harvard Law School, who also has some West-Indies background as it pertains to its family's origins in Jamaica. Wonder if they even knwo anything about anything besides their books' contents and the superficialities of anything and everything that comes to their eyes' peripherals. By the way, that former mayor's name is Kenneth Reeves, now one of our present city councillors. read more...

SOMETHING I JUST SUBMITTED TO THE SPARE CHANGE NEWS FOR PUBLICATION THE NEXT WEEKS POSSIBLY. IT IS A SHORT OUTLOOK AND PERSONAL ANALYSIS AS WELL AS CRITIC OF MY VIEW OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IN THE US, COMPARED TO OTHER PLACES IN THE WORLD.

EDUCATION IS THE INTRODUCTORY SUBJECT OF THIS PIECE, YET AS YOU READ ON, YOU'LL SEE HOW IT DEPICTS THE PHENOMENONS OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS WHOSE INVENTIONS WERE NEVER TRULY AND OPENLY RECOGNIZED BY THE GENERAL AMERICAN PUBLIC AND THE GOVERNMENT AS A WHOLE.

AS YOU GET DOWN THE LAST PAGES, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO VIEW A FRAGMENT OF A HUGE AND LONG LIST PUT TOGETHER BY MS. PATRICIA SLUNY CARTER, A FORMER US TRADEMARKS AND PATENTS EXAMINER; WHOSE EXTENSIVE WRITINGS ON THE SUBJECTS OF THOSE GENIUSES NEEDING TO BE RECOGNIZED AND PRAISED FOR MOST OF THOSE LITTLE ELEMENTS AND THINGS WE UTILIZE IN OUR DAILY LIVES.

GOES TO SHOW YOU ALSO, HOW INSTITUTIONALIZED ISMS CAN REALLY RUIN MINDS, DEFER DREAMS AND STILL UNRELUCTANTLY COVER UP SOME WONDERFUL FINDINGS AND LESSONS THAT CAN ACTUALLY SERVE TO MOTIVATE A PEOPLE.

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THE FORGOTTEN GREATS:
AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTORS: read more...

I/WAM Addresses Inequalities in Media Representations, Access
Global Wire, March 31, 2008

The Women, Action and the Media Conference (WAM) began five years ago with a mandate to improve news coverage of women, people of color and other marginalized groups through grassroots media reform. With the advent of popular social networks like My Space, Facebook, You Tube and a deluge of blogs, opportunities has been provided for traditionally shut out voices to get a spotlight.

Chicana blogger and media justice activist Brownfemipower, spoke on a panel discussing immigration as a feminist issue. She says her blog gives her an opportunity to have real debates about immigration with anti-immigration advocates online.

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In a workshop called “Media, Technology and Social Justice,” attendees had an interactive discussion about what needs to be done to make technology available to all.

What is Media Justice?
• Media that reflects cultural, civic and economic diversity and equally accessible to all

What are the key trends preventing Media Justice?
• Lack of diversity
• Equality in access to all mediums read more...

I have been listening and thinking through a lot of Samantha Power Social Political Thoughts, as well as Philosophy on Humanitarianism and Foreign Policies. I am hoping to share the inspiration and refreshing perspectives that she brings to me overall.

There are more videos on her, national and international, on being former advisor on Foreign Policies to the Barack Obama Campaign; teaching and lecturing at Harvard University amongst other places, globally. I am impressed and filled with anticipation at the thought of eventually going through the pages of her two books, especially the latest one "Chasing The Flames", also Obama's two books, and more articles and reports feeds to grasp from the likes and journals of Bill Moyer, Tavis Smiley, Amy Goodman, Dan Rather net thingy, Keith Olbermann.

"Because of the kind of campaign that Senator Obama has run ... it seemed appropriate for someone of my Irish temper to step aside, at least for a while. We will see what happens there."

-Samantha Power

K.V.B.

MLK'S MURDER EVE: HOW JAMES BROWN SAVED THE NIGHT IN BEANTOWN

A ORIGINAL PIECE BY JONATHAN STORM

ROCK DOCS: THE NIGHT JAMES BROWN SAVED BOSTON

By Jonathan Storm

Philadelphia Inquirer Television Critic
All the longhairs watching and listening to Boston public broadcasting, WGBH, 40 years ago tonight got quite a surprise:

"We invite you to stay tuned now for a live memorial concert from the Boston Garden," intoned the announcer with those mellifluous modulations that were de rigueur on stations like WGBH, "featuring Negro singer Jimmy Brown and his group."

Quite a departure from the Godfather of Soul's usual introduction: "the hardest-working man in show business . . . Mr. Dynamite . . . the amazing Mr. Please, Please."

And his show April 5, 1968, was a departure, too. There's not enough of it there on The Night James Brown Saved Boston, a rock doc telecast tonight at 9 on VH1, because you can never get enough James Brown. read more...

This video, directed by Max Lewontin, was produced at CCTV as part of the School Year Production Program. Want to see more student-produced vids? Check out our Youth Channel!

Dr. Irene Bosch's research interests are to understand pathogenesis by human RNA viruses, among them the flavivirus dengue and the West Nile virus. She graduated in 1993 from Harvard University, where she did her doctoral degree in cellular and molecular biology of parasites. She then took two consecutive post-doctoral training positions at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, in Boston, where she worked with Dr. James Croop on cancer research and Arthur Pardee on gene expression studies (differential display) as well as with the Department of Human Retrovirology studying cytokine chemokine responses to HIV.

All of that contributed to Dr. Bosch's interest in methodologies for studying gene expression in infected cells at her present position. This is linked to her interest in defining the patho-physiologic mechanisms of hemorrhagic viruses. In this context, she has devoted a lot of attention to vascular biology and has developed methods for studying viral pathogenesis in vitro. She participates and designs clinical studies on dengue fever in Venezuela, Caribbean and South America as well as on epidemiological studies of WNV in South America. She has established a student rotation abroad for the MD/PhD and PhD programs at the UMASS Medical School to increase the exposure of students in the United States to tropical diseases. She contributes to the programs which brings underrepresented students into scientific careers in the US. Currently, she participates in several NIH-NIAD grants as well as in the international cooperation projects on dengue research in the Americas. The recent ones are the Dengue Genome Project with the Broad Institute and diagnostic test for dengue with Iquum Inc, MA. Over a dozen graduate and undergraduate students, as well as post-doctoral fellows have worked in her laboratory for the last five years of her career at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Her educational contribution is shown on the website for the Cooperative Centers for Transnational Research on Human Immunology and Biodefense. She likes to think that the control of mosquito transmitted diseases are among the most challenging scientific problems to solve.

She will be participating in the Cambridge Science Festival.

Dr. Sucharita Gopal joined Boston University in 1989 and has taught Geographic Information Systems (GIS) since 1990. She has published in a number of areas including GIS and modeling, spatial accuracy and classification. She has published over 50 scientific papers as well as presented at a variety of national and international conferences. She has advised both graduate and undergraduate students in a variety of disciplines. She is primarily interested in spatial modeling in a variety of application area including public health, conservation, archeology, and environmental sciences. She has been funded by the National Science Foundation to conduct multi-disciplinary research in these areas.

She will be participating in the Cambridge Science Festival.

Dr. Magaly Koch is a geologist specialized in the application of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems to study groundwater resources and environmental change in arid lands. She graduated from the University of Cologne, Germany, in 1986 with a M.Sc. in Geology. Her PhD research, on the use of remote sensing in ground water studies, was undertaken at Boston University, USA, and completed in 1993. Subsequently she was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship by the European Union to undertake post-doctoral research at the Earth Science Institute, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain. Her current post is that of Research Associate Professor at the Remote Sensing Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

She will be participating in the Cambridge Science Festival.

A follow-up to the screening of Minority Women in Science, this live in-studio program will have the scientists talk about their work and expand on themes from Minority Women in Science. Learn about interesting science topics related to coastal and marine environments, the biosphere, earth observation from space and outer space. The audience is encouraged to ask questions and to engage in a dialog with the scientists.

Where: Big CCTV Studio

Video Screening

The Women Making Media group invited four women scientists, all from different countries of origin, to describe their experiences working in the United States, confronting issues such as gender and its impact on professional advancement, quality of research, and quality of life.

This event is part of the Cambridge Science Festival and is free and open to the public.

Where: Big CCTV Studio

The video screening of Minority Women in Science and the live studio shoot of Science Live at CCTV are coming up soon. So, let me introduce to you briefly one of the women scientists participating in both events: Dr. Saeqa Vrtilek.

She is a Astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, MA. She has an undergraduate degree in Physics from MIT and a PhD in Astronomy from Columbia University. She has been awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship by the American Association of University Women and a Science Fellowship by the Radcliffe Bunting Institute. Her areas of interest include the physics of accretion disks and jets, multi wavelength studies of X-ray binaries and planetary nebulae, science education, and public outreach.

For more information about the upcoming live shoot, please send email to interdocserv@yahoo.com or marissa@cctvcambridge.org and let us know whether or not you are interested and available for a crew position.

For more information about the Cambridge Science Festival, go to www.cambridgesciencefestival.org

Thanks!

Hello WMMers, how are you?

Unfortunately, this group has been basically defunct for a while now but I thought you would be interested to know that I'm planning to show the video we shot last year about Minority Women In Science as part of the Cambridge Science Festival. More info can be found at http://www.cambridgesciencefestival.org

There will be a screening of the video on April 28th at CCTV and we will supplement the video with a live cable cast studio discussion with the women scientists on the following day which should be pretty exciting.

So, if any of you is interested in being part of the crew for the live shoot, let me know. Marissa will be directing. I want to encourage especially all the women who participated in the original shoot! Don't you think this would be a good opportunity to revive the Women Making Media group?

The MIT Program in Women's Studies and New England Women in Film and Video present Chicks Make Flicks:

Short Documentaries by Carmen Oquendo Villar February 8, 7pm

Carmen Oquendo Villar (www.oquendovillar.com) is a visual artist and curator of Puerto Rican and Spanish descent whose work has been exhibited
in museums and galleries around the world. Screening will include the films
MIZERY and BOQUITA, from a series of film portraits about members of
the Boston Latino transgender community.

http://www.wifvne.org/programs.chicksmakeflicks.php

On the MIT campus
77 Mass. Ave.
Room 6-120
Free and open to the public.

The MIT Program in Women's Studies and New England Women in Film and Video present Chicks Make Flicks:

Short Documentaries by Carmen Oquendo Villar February 8, 7pm

Carmen Oquendo Villar (www.oquendovillar.com) is a visual artist and curator of Puerto Rican and Spanish descent whose work has been exhibited
in museums and galleries around the world. Screening will include the films
MIZERY and BOQUITA, from a series of film portraits about members of
the Boston Latino transgender community.

http://www.wifvne.org/programs.chicksmakeflicks.php

On the MIT campus
77 Mass. Ave.
Room 6-120
Free and open to the public.