April 2007

This seems to be an obvious good idea: Getting Paul Wolfowitz out of the World Bank and getting Muhammad Yunus to head it instead. I can’t be the first person to think of this? Perhaps I should write Hilary Benn about this?

Worcester Activist is down
In fact, more than a dozen local websites are down. The shared account got cancelled. Somebody is moving them today, and they should be back soon.

Giant flag looms over Worcester
I’ve seen them run studio photos of candidates in the T&G, but never one so photoshopped.

Read the rest of this entry »

USGS hydrologist Peter Weiskel lectures on “Massachusetts water resources.” From a conference on Catholic Social Teaching at Anna Maria College, April 16, 2007. Download the mp4 (73MB) or see other formats.

Flash Video [ 0:01 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In this week’s newsreel from Worcester Indymedia, there are some video clips of Fr. Fred Enman and Brayton Shanley, from the Catholic Social Teaching conference. I’m not going to post them elsewhere, so check them out here. [Download the mp4 (14MB)]

Flash Video [ 0:01 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Daniel Dick, past president of the Tatnuck Brook Watershed Association and creator of the Energy Studies curriculum at Worcester State College, talks about Worcester’s water supply. From the 2007 conference on Catholic Social Teaching at Anna Maria College, April 16, 2007.

More formats.

Flash Video [ 0:01 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Here’s a cable access interview with Catholic Worker Claire Schaeffer-Duffy, of Worcester’s Saints Francis & Therese community. You can watch it at the Archive, or download an mp3.

Standard Podcast [ 28:23 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Flash Video [ 28:23 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This morning Grace Ross announced she’ll be running for an At-Large seat on Worcester’s City Council.

Ms. Ross is best known as the Green-Rainbow Party candidate in the 2006 Massachusetts governor’s race. She lives in Worcester’s Piedmont neighborhood.

In our first podcast using the live TalkShoe service, the Saint Kermit team talks about the Virginia Tech shooting and Massachusetts politics with former Green-Rainbow gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross.

[Download the mp3]

It was great to have Charlie call in and ask Grace some questions. This kind of interaction more than makes up for the sound problems we had with TalkShoe. I’m sorta bummed, though, that Saint Kermit will no longer be heavily edited to make me sound smart and quick on my feet.

Standard Podcast [ 0:01 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Here’s some photos from the Catholic Social Teaching conference at Anna Maria. I used a videocamera in a dark room, so they’re not the best.

Michael Boover

We’ll be interviewing Grace Ross, former Massachusetts Green-Rainbow Party candidate for governor and Worcester resident, Tuesday night for the Saint Kermit podcast.

We’re recording the podcast with the TalkShoe service, which means you can listen to it as we record it, and phone in with your own questions. See the Saint Kermit website for details.

Grace is making “an important announcement” Wednesday morning, and we’ll be asking her about that.

We always pick the topics for Saint Kermit a few minutes before recording it, so I’m not sure what else we’ll be talking about. Probably sports and taxes. The regular team of Jim Henderson, Tony Lorenzen, Janine Duffy, and myself will be hosting.