Category Archives: politics

Free Burma: International Bloggers' Day for Burma


Free Burma!

I know that Free Burma, who’ve organized the “one blog post” campaign, want participants to post the graphic in lieu of a real post today, but I’m not very good at following directions so I’d like to direct you to the website of the [tag]U.S. Campaign for Burma[/tag], which I believe is one of the best informational site about the human rights situation in [tag]Burma[/tag].

(Disclaimer: Husband’s school-friend Jeremy runs this organization, but I’d be deeply impressed with their work even if we didn’t know them).

Future of Music

It’s time again for the [tag]Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit[/tag], an event I’ve been attending for many years and one I always enjoy.

I tend not to drag my laptop to these things so maybe I’ll blog from my Blackberry, maybe I won’t. In case I don’t, you can frolic in these comments while I’m gone or amuse yourself by following this link to a cornucopia of articles about the controversy in India over the Indian Governments pronouncement that the landbridge to Sri Lanka was not constructed by [tag]Lord Ram’s Monkey Army [/tag]but is in fact a natural land formation.

But back to the conference…

I’m so proud – the [tag]Spinto Band[/tag]’s own Nick Krill, a former student, is a panelist. They grow up so fast, don’t they?

Tomorrow I'll get back to The Silliness

Today, the options seem to be despair or hope. I’ll pick hope. Here’s a link to [tag]The People Speak[/tag], a program that developed out of the [tag]United Nations Foundation[/tag]. The initiative brings young people together to debate current events issues in a structured environment and the website strives to create “…a community of young people who are passionate about global issues.” By all accounts, it’s working.