The Manifesto Turns 33

On the eve of my 33rd year of life I have nothing profound to say other than I think that this is going to be a good year. Or, to embrace the wisdom of my cousin Sunita, all is good now.
I have come through some sort of trial by fire in the [...]

Thank you for dinner, Mr. Terry

Reclaiming True Grits
by Bryant Terry
Feb. 29, 2008–Mention “soul food” and you will hear scores of health and medical professionals claim that it is the downfall of the health and well-being of African Americans. It is true that African Americans have some of the highest rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and some cancers of [...]

Pick from this list of resolutions for 2008

New Year’s Day wasn’t the most fantastic for my spirit, but I reclaimed it yesterday and today and I will again tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow. My friend sent me these resolutions (that he received from someone else). Some of them are ringing loud in my head. It’s always interesting to see which [...]

More on Pakistan

One of the emails that I posted in my last entry was from my friend, Sheena Hadi, in Pakistan. She’s quoted below in today’s New York Times article. (I shortened Sheena’s name to S but since the girl is hot in the international press, I suppose I can reveal who she is).

Sheena was [...]

December rememberings

I am in the UN and I’m writing this. See, our lives are not easily boxed and packaged and delivered. I am here to do some negotiations and it’s an extraordinary time, but I must pause and remember people I love who left me in Decembers past. And as the years have rolled by and [...]

broadway had to stop to address puerto rico’s aids crisis…

BIG UPS GINA AND EDDIE!!!
Acting Up on Broadway
 
By: PAUL SCHINDLER
11/15/2007
With roughly 75 activists and a larger lunchtime crowd looking on, a dozen demonstrators protesting what they say is the federal government’s “neglect” in stepping in to end a crisis in the delivery of AIDS services in Puerto Rico laid down across Lower [...]

Pakistan: Musharaf is losing his marbles…

I got this email today from my friend, Rahal Saeed, at Aahung. I have worked with Asma Jahangir but have yet to meet the fabulous woman. Here is an inside account of what’s happening with detentions of human rights activists…

Subject: FROM ASMA JAHANGIR

Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 10:56:39 +0500

Dear Friends,

The situation in [...]

Kohlapur Awakening

I was blessed to spend several days last week with my friend, my hero, my colleague and fellow comrade, Meena Seshu in her home in Kohlapur, surrounded by glorious family by blood or by love. The drive from Pune to Kohlapur through the Deccan Plateau was kissed with a tea time sunset.

For more on the [...]

The blogging phoenix rises again

Super 8 and the may13manifesto have been reincarnated, yet again.
She began many years ago… maybe, um, 3 years ago. She had returned to the US after living away for many a year and she was smacked in the face with a deeply uncritical analysis of this country by the public media and business men she [...]