China, beyond cliché, is a big country

Just woke up, and found an amazing/hilarious/informative video on China in the Internet Archive (where, btw, anyone can upload their videos or audio FOR FREE!).

It’s was created by someone named Kee Yung and is on his website at: http://www.paris-hongkong.com
“China – Ancient and Refined: In this series of lectures at the Chinese University of Darkness (Beijing), Professor Kee, dean of the Department of Refinement and Ancestrality, demonstrates to an energised audience that, in the globalisation era, China, beyond cliché, is a big country. ”

Here are the direct video links: Quicktime/MP4, Windows Media

Remembering Marla

Marla Ruzicka, a model for us all, died from a suicide bomb attack, in Baghdad on April 16, 2005. Faiz Ali Salim, CIVIC’s Iraq Country Director, was also killed.

I will let others who knew her better say more. From Kevin Danaher and Medea Benjamin:
“One of the things we can do to honor Marla Ruzicka is to carry on her heartfelt work to build a world without hunger, war and needless suffering. And every time we start to get depressed about the state of the world, we should take inspiration from Marla’s boundless energy and throw ourselves back into the work of global justice with the same kind of passion that was Marla’s most endearing quality.”

CLICK HERE to see a journalist’s video remembrance of Marla in Iraq just before the war. Turn up the sound to hear the poignant soundtrack by Emmylou Harris.

Donate to continue her work: http://www.marlafund.org

http://www.globalexchange.org/update/press/marla.html

http://www.civicworldwide.org/
http://alternet.org/waroniraq/21799/

Tibetan Disco Party!

Well, with all the ART4TIBET hoopla out at JUICE, you think we in New York would stay quiet…but we didn’t! We had our own fundraiser party, in honor of the departure of dual former grassroots coordinators Thupten and Alma. They are moving to San Francisco soon, and their friends and family gathered in Manhattan to say farewell and tashi delek!

ART4TIBET is comin’ together

Tibet Justice Center’s Chris McKenna came over to say hi and have a beer and stayed on to help hang the whole damn show last night! Chris was the right height to help make it all happen… thanks dude. The silent auction will go like this: there’s a little card next to each piece, with the value, minimum bid (mostly $35, $50, like that!) and then a “buy now” price. The work looks great on the wall, and the furious debates have begun about which pieces are gonna inspire the masses the most. No losers here though, it all looks TIGHT. Here’s a little preview… see you this evening at JUICE, 16th St. & Albion (entrance on Albion), San Francisco. The show opens at 6pm.

Han & David Audioblog from da Brothel, SF

Dueling laptops – geekin’ out with David Taylor helpin’ figure out new and better tech tools with which we will drive the Chinese government mad (bwaaa haa ha ha ha!)…