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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...
August 15, 2010 11:06 AM |
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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...
July 4, 2010 10:20 AM |
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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...
June 7, 2010 3:35 PM |
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The Fall 2009 Action Speaks Panels on Flickr: ....
January 11, 2010 1:29 AM |
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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...
December 26, 2009 7:00 AM |
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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...
November 19, 2009 5:00 PM |
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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...
November 11, 2009 5:00 PM |
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Please become a fan of the new Facebook page for Action Speaks -- another great way to stay updated!...
September 16, 2009 5:38 PM |
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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...
June 29, 2009 1:02 PM |
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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...
June 18, 2009 5:27 PM |
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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...
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...
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...