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Come out to the movie

July 8, 2010 – 1:29 am
Posted in Action, Check It, El Salvador, Film, Reflections, To Do
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Return to El Salvador tomorrow night at the Gala Hispanic Theater.

Hope to see you there.

**ORDER TICKETS ONLINE: http://tickets.returntoelsalvador.com/

About four years ago I came across a powerful photography display at the Smithsonian. It was a picture of Latin@ migrant workers. There was one shot of a migrant worker’s hands. The woman’s hands were framed in the picture. That is all you saw. Her finger joints and the tips of her fingers were covered in duct tape to protect from the work she did. The Smithsonian Latino Center helps promote Latino culture and if you are in DC check out some of their activities or exhibits.

Ordinary Radicals

Jamie Moffett shares a little about Ordinary Radicals on MikeyPod.

Good Article

Brian Walsh has a good article on the recent election of President Barak Obama.

Here is a small clip:

Let’s take the memory of racism. Here Obama and his supporters clearly tap into the memory of the civil rights movement. This election is a momentous vindication, four decades after King’s assassination, of that movement. That history, those memories, those sacrifices come to an important and liberating moment of fulfillment and fruition in the historic election of November 4, 2008. Praise God! An Obama presidency is not a post-racial presidency, but, we hope and pray, a post-racism presidency. The original sin of America was slavery. Today is a day of redemption. Today is a day of Jubilee. Praise God!

But we must remember that slavery and racism have always been part of a larger imperial narrative. If vision for the future is rooted in memory, then just as a post-racist presidency must tap into the roots of the civil rights movement, so also must a post-imperial presidency revisit some of the foundational memories of America.

Animated Hebrew

If you are interested in learning Biblical Hebrew check out Animated Hebrew.

Charles Grebe is an excellent prof. He is committed to free learning and I think his classes are worth lots of money. So if you are interested in learning Hebrew this is a great place to start.

Wells Fargo

Go and Vote for a Some Day Story and help out a non-profit organization: Habitat for Humanity, Boys and Girls Club or Junior Achievement. If you live in Northern VA and you want to vote for Habitat, put in Habitat’s zip code 22204 when you register and our local Habitat can win some funds.