SOLIDARITY, SUSTAINABILITY, AND NON-VIOLENCE ~ V3 N12 DECEMBER 2007

Newsletter This newsletter is an exceptional work and this issue one of the best. It is an exhaustive review of the UN 2007 State of the Future Report with its 15 summary concerns. Further, Gutierrez integrates this report with the progress towards the 2015 Millenium Development Goals. It rather efficiently presents summarys and links to as much more information as you have time to read. An excellent view of the present and future state of the world - of where we are winning and where losing.

redhat.com | One Laptop Per Child

redhat.com | One Laptop Per Child
This imaginative project is now delivering. It has transformed from a charitable idea of helping the poor where the technology proposed was minimal. Now the technology is at the leading edge. How remarkable that the children will get the best, and not hand-me-downs! Do check in with the project and see how it will change the world for the better. It is as they say, an educational, not merely a technical project.

Pop!Casts

Martin Marty
Pop!Tech presents some marvellous talks from a wide variety of disciplines. This first link is Martin Marty, the well respected theologian who led the famous in-depth study on fundamentalism in the world religions some years back. Here he speaks on the need for more creative connections between technology and religion since neither is going away.

Among their many presentations at popcasts, here is one that will astound you.

Eloma Simpson Barnes

With a voice that could move a mountain, orator Eloma Simpson Barnes practically channels Martin Luther King, Jr., as she performs one of his speeches. She emulates King’s cadence, intonation and enunciation in this inspirational reminder to stand up for what you believe in.

It Can Happen Here, Too

Thou shall not plaigerize. This is absolutely and convolutedly delightful. It is an example of "mishrah" - a most ancient rabbinic argument as presented in a modern Jewish college. The consideration is deception and it starts with Abraham and ends up in a New York college. There isn't the tiniest aspect unconsidered. It's meaningful for the people in this place. And it's a fun look into this most particular form of reasoning.