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)]
Month: April 2007
Daniel Dick on Worcester’s water supply
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.
TV interview with Claire Schaeffer-Duffy
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.
Grace Ross is running for Worcester City Council
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.
Saint Kermit #50: Grace Ross
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.
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.
April 16 photos from CST conference
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
Grace Ross on Saint Kermit, April 17, 8pm
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.
Fr Bernie Gilgun’s homily, April 13, 2007
This is a recording of a homily by Father Bernie Gilgun, from his weekly Mass at the Mustard Seed in Worcester, Massachusetts. You can download the mp3 (3.2MB) or see other formats. You can also subscribe (RSS) to the podcast.
New work from Mike True and Dan Berrigan
Last night I got to listen to some of Father Daniel Berrigan’s new poetry CD, The Trouble with Our State. Listening to the readings helped me make sense of the poems (there was one line about Graham Greene that made no sense until I heard it), and the booklet is packed with beautiful artwork from the likes of Brian Kavanagh and Tom Lewis. The release party is April 27 at the Sixth Street Community Center (East Village, NYC).
Also, I am told that the new book from Mike True (or, as I like to call him, Emeritus Professor Michael D. True, Ph.D. and Doctor of Humane Letters (honoris causa)) is out. It’s called People Power: Fifty Peacemakers and Their Communities. If I get my hands on a copy I’ll review it on Pie and Coffee.
Disclosure
In the interest of full disclosure, I’m no longer an employee of the mighty cable access station WCCA TV13.
I am, however, a devoted volunteer, so my bias in such matters is unchanged.
I spent part of today, my last day of “work,” teaching a class at a distingushed local non-profit organization that’s only 1/10 of a mile from my house. I had no idea there was such great stuff going on there. That’s what I like about city living—the harder you look for treasures, the more you find.
In an ironic twist, today I got a real office!
“Danger networking” with Justin Duffy
People gathered on the street last February for the first airing of “Democracy Now”
Cool PSA the youth program completed this week:
