Action Speaks! Blog Entries

If you attended our October 12 panel on the birth of Pong and video games, you may remember our panelists recommending some games. Here are more suggestions from Mary Flanagan and Randall Nichols...

Marc Joel Levitt continues to QB Action Speaks 10/02/2011 01:00 AM EDT By Rick Massimo For the 16th year, the Action Speaks discussion series, which begins on Wednesday and runs weekly through October at AS220, will bring expert commentary and...

I am thrilled to announce the launch of my new blog/website, www.Bollier.org. It will be the primary showcase for my latest discoveries, adventures and reflections about the commons as I step off in some new directions. I invite you to...

John Dower, a former panelist speaking about the American occupation of Japan has just written a new book. It's called 'Culture's of War', published by W.W. Norton and according to reviews looks at the nature of modern warfare and how...

Still digesting last night's incredible Action Speaks with Lawrence Lessig, Shepard Fairey, Bert Crenca and Brandon Edens. I'd like to say that the standing room crowd that spilled out onto the street to watch the proceedings on TV, set up...

Check out the images from Friday, August 13th 2010: Artist Shepard Fairey, Political Activist & Author Lawrence Lessig, Computer Scientist & Engineer Brandon Edens and AS220 Artistic Director Umberto Crenca in a discussion of the 1998 The Sonny Bono...

Recorded at WGBH on June 30th 2010 Marc Levitt interviews Chez Panisse's founder and chef, Alice Waters on June 30th, 2010. In the interview, Ms. Waters discusses how and why she started this award wining, Berkeley, California restaurant, her...

Bert Crenca and I traveled up to WGBH on June 30th to use their studios to interview Alice Waters, the founder of Chez Panisse for the web site. I had heard how charismatic she was supposed to be, but my...

Action Speaks is pleased to announce that Dr. Michael Siegel will be our new Producer taking over from the wonderful stewardship of Cheryl Kaminsky. Those of you who worked with Cheryl can attest to her competence, diligence and dedication. She...

Previous Panelist and the Artistic Director of AS 220, Umberto Crenca received a Pell Award from Providence's Trinity Repertory Theater. On the choice for this year's local award recipient, Curt Columbus, Artistic Director of Trinity Repertory states, "Rhode Island Pell...

We live in anxious times. Perhaps that's why we decided to name this fall's Action Speaks 'What's Eating Us'? Our topics for this fall are the following: October 6: 1926 Father Coughlin 'On the Air' and the rise of right...

The Fall 2009 Action Speaks Panels on Flickr: ....

Dennis Brutus was a guest of our series in its tenth anniversary year, 2005. He contributed his profound depth of insight and experience to the fourth Action Speaks panel of the season with the leaping off point: Seattle's anti-globalization march...

From London.... I've been spending some time with my wife's family in the 14th C. walled small city of Trnava in Slovakia, thirty miles outside of Bratislava. Coincidentally, it is the 20th anniversary of the 'Velvet Revolution', when forty years...

Another year of Action Speaks is over, but our topics live on. Health care reform is still beating, bless its heart, even as the House seemed to throw 'the women' overboard in the rough seas of negotiation. Suburban commuting seems...

Please become a fan of the new Facebook page for Action Speaks -- another great way to stay updated!...

I'm having trouble deciding how to 'look' at the Highlander Center. This community-based adult education center in the Appalachians was also influential in the Civil Rights movement of the 40's 50's and 60's. I know that I want to connect...

I'm at a stage in my preparations for Action Speaks that I return to every year; too many ideas about where to take each discussion. Each topic stares at me like a Maurice Sendak monster, daring me to pull it...

Our Advisory Board meeting to finalize our fall '09 topics the other night was like a spicy Thai dinner, it burns your tongue, but you want it to continue. We develop our season mostly through consensus. I come up with...