October 2009508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Gabe Rollins.
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We talk about Gabe’s attempts to send his own survey to the City Council candidates; the “performance oval” behind City Hall; the Worcester energy barnraising; and the pros and cons of voting.
To celebrate the International Day of Climate Action, dozens of Worcesterites joined in an energy barnraising, weatherizing Genesis Club. It was a wonderful chance to reduce energy use, save a great organization some money, and learn how to seal a building against the cold.
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Aria DiSalvo and Brendan Melican.
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Aria DiSalvo tells us about the “Stop Spewing Carbon” anti-biomass incinerator campaign.
Election molehills: Mayor Lukes’s husband has cars registered outside Worcester! Candidate O’Brien linked to his boss!
Brendan talks about the police department’s latest feud with the newspaper. Mike talks about the Center for Nonviolent Solutions kickoff.
As the centerpiece of the show, we come up with reasons to vote for every challenger in the upcoming election.
Mike contrasts Worcester Magazine’s search for an “edgy” writer with their past claims to be “non-dowdy.”
Worcesterites will be celebrating the October 24 International Day of Climate Action with a weatherization “barnraising” and tree planting.
貨惡其棄於地也，不必藏於己；力惡其不出於身也，不必為己。 – ‘Lǐ Yùn’ in The Classic of Rites, attributed to Confucius. Translation by James Legge: ‘(When the Grand course was pursued, they accumulated) articles (of value), disliking that they should be thrown away upon the ground, but not wishing to keep them for their own gratification. (They laboured) with their strength, disliking that it should not be exerted, but not exerting it (only) with a view to their own advantage.’
Whoever destroys anything that could be useful to others breaks the law of bal tashchit, “Do not waste.” – Babylonian Talmud, Kodashim 32a (second or third century), quoted in ‘Teachings on Creation through the Ages’, edited by J. Matthew Sleeth M.D., in The Green Bible (2008) San Francisco: HarperOne. ISBN 978-0-06-162799-6.
Great turnout for today’s kickoff event for Worcester’s Center for Nonviolent Solutions. Standing room only!
Catholic Worker Claire Schaeffer-Duffy was emcee; Nate Pickens of Mosaic talked about his own experiences with violence in Worcester; Michael True explained the purpose of the Center; Congressman Jim McGovern shared some stories from his life and introduced keynote speaker Colman McCarthy, journalist and educator, who gave a wide-ranging talk on nonviolence and the people who practice it.
Nice to see a lot of people I haven’t seen in months; especially nice to see Bishop McManus in attendance.
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Brendan Melican and Drew Wilson.
This week, we are snowed upon.
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Fresh injera is available at Fresh Farm Deli, 560 Lincoln St, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Big Y is carrying conspicuous amounts of locally-sourced food.
The McDonald’s vegan “feed-in” was popular; there’s a bike ride to a local farm sanctuary picnic this weekend.
We revisit the idea of local bloggers filling a small part of the gap the T&G is leaving. At some point Mike will try to define numbers for this thing.
Brendan talks about the recent City Council and School Committee debates and explains why you might want to attend one.
Mike shares how much time and money it takes to do a weekly show on WCCA TV13–not that much!
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel includes Drew Wilson and Brendan Melican.
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Brendan describes the recent city election debates. Drew talks about Worcester residents opposing cruelty to circus animals, another Buddha Hut buffet, and an upcoming event outside McDonald’s on Main Street; see also Futuristic Brunch. Annie loaned us a Worcester Bicentennial coloring book. You can reportedly get injera on Lincoln Street; we will follow up.
Update: WCCA has posted videos of the mayoral debate
Huge amounts of viewer feedback!
This Covenant was signed in Kuala Lumpur today around 17:00 local time.
Council for World Mission – Mission Education School IV
All Creation Groans: The Eco-Crisis and Sustainable Living – Understanding the Implications for Mission
We the participants, representing the 31 member churches of CWM, have:
But we hold onto an absurd hope for the redemption of all creation, despite the increasing groaning (Romans 8:24–25).
As a covenant people, we therefore commit ourselves to:
Kuala Lumpur, October 2009
This afternoon, an estimated 82 61 people Americans were arrested outside the White House while protesting the Obama administration’s continuation of Bush-era policies of war and indefinite detention.
Video of the demonstrations, including incorrect arrest estimate:
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that neither he nor the president were aware of the protest until it was mentioned in the daily briefing to the press, adding: “I think the president has long believed that whether your opinion is on one side of this issue or the other, that this is the greatness of our country, is that you get to amplify that opinion.”
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Update: Why the inaccurate early arrest estimate? It seems that 20-odd people, the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance affinity group, approached one of the White House gates, seeking to meet with someone and discuss a letter they’d sent Obama. Nobody came out to meet them, so they had a die-in. After many minutes, it seemed they would finally be arrested, so some of them stood and sang. Members of law enforcement then shoved the group out of the area; none was arrested, though some of the organizers had assumed they would be.
Brief for Council of World Mission’s Mission Education School IV ‘All Creation Groans: The Eco-crisis and Sustainable Living – Understanding the Implications for Mission’
Kaihsu Tai, United Reformed Church, United Kingdom, 2009-06-05/21
The following sketch is written from my personal impression, based on several years of non-professional but serious study, observation, and discussion of the issues. Due to time constraints, I am not supplying references to the statements I make, but with modern resources it is not difficult to verify (or disprove as the case may be) most of them. I try to be frank and fair at the same time, but some might take this account to be polemical.
1 Identify the major climate change concerns and challenges for your region.
Primarily, for the United Kingdom (UK), climate change is less a physical hazard than a moral one. The UK is usually categorized as a ‘developed’ country, as measured in indices such as gross domestic product per capita. For the next decade or so, it is not difficult for those well-off (perhaps around half of the population) to adapt to the physical effects of climate change. However, the moral implications are more dire: as the first country to spark off the fossil-fueled Industrial Revolution in the 18th century, and one of the first to have the scientific and political capacity to realize the consequences of climate change since the 1980s (during the premiership of Margaret Thatcher), it cannot escape the moral responsibility about climate change. To complicate the matter, the intention to protect the competitiveness of London’s status as a major financial centre in a globalized world – the rump of an imperial past – hinders the political will to face down this moral hazard. Read the rest of this entry »
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