Comstock served industrialists, Tartaria in CO?

(The Buried Archive) What they found in the Ludlow Coal Mine in 1914: They buried the camp the same day

• What does Wiki-History say about it? Ludlow Massacre

(Erased Century) The last librarian who kept the banned collection - what she was told to remove in 1873

• Comstock Act of 1873
• Anthony Comstock

Zen Roshi Joan Halifax at Google (video)

Talks at Google, March 27, 2019; Amber Larson, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Compassion deficit: So many worries about what might be that isn't (Angel City Zen Center)

Standing at The Edge | Joan Halifax

(Talks at Google) This talk is based on Joan Halifax’s book Standing at the Edge: Where Fear and Courage Meet.

Standing... (Joan Halifax, Rebecca Solnit)

The book weaves together scientific research and her own powerful personal experiences as a social activist and humanitarian in prison in New Mexico and high in the Himalayas to show how we can transform our biggest challenges with compassion and wisdom. Halifax’s teachings benefit Google as it takes on big challenges that respect the opportunities before us. Her talk demonstrates how to do this while still maintaining respect for each other through compassion.

• Joan Halifax live in LA at Against the Stream
• VIDEO: Joan Halifax comes to Los Angeles

ABOUT: Joan Halifax is an American Zen Buddhist teacher, anthropologist, ecologist, civil rights activist, hospice caregiver, and the author of several books on Buddhism and spirituality. She received her doctoral degree in medical anthropology and received a National Science Foundation Fellowship in visual anthropology, was an Honorary Research Fellow in Medical Ethnobotany at Harvard University, and was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Library of Congress. She is a thought leader with respect to well-being and compassion. She is a highly sought-after speaker widely known and respected in many communities. More info: upaya.org.

• Co-authoring a book with Rebecca Solnit (Men Explain Things to Me) who is unable to pronounce "women"?

US Poet Laureate in Los Angeles (CSULA)

Dhr. Seven, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; CalStateLA; Take Two, 1-22-16 (scpr.org)

The former California Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, a Mexican-American activist and professor at UC Riverside, has been promoted. He is now the US Poet Laureate (USPL). And he is coming to Cal State University Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Valley, next to the massive 10 Freeway.

This means the Los Angeles PL and San Francisco PL, and now the USPL are all Latinos from the Los Angeles area. They were once activists in the Chicano movement, at one time a very controversial thing.

Their voices are rising along with the largest ethnic minority in the country, although Asian-Americans are now the fastest growing group, and many Latinos are in fact exiting, contrary to what Don Trump would have his angry followers believe.

USPL Herrera will meet and greet well wishers at a free luncheon at 5:30 pm and speak at 6:30 pm on the CSULA campus.

Juan Felipe Herrera, recently named Poet Laureate of the United States, will read from his works at the 2016 Jean Burden Poetry Reading to be held on Thursday, January 28, 2016.

This event will be held in the Golden Eagle Ballroom at the California State University, Los Angeles. Doors will open at 5:30 pm for a buffet reception and the program will begin at 6:30 pm. This event is free and open to the public.There will be book sales and signing following the reading.
 
This event is made possible by the College of Arts and Letters, the Department of English, the CSULA Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, the Cross Cultural Centers, Statement Magazine, the Statement Unbound Literary Society, City Lights Press, and Poets & Writers, Inc.  More
 

Talk about poetry when we don't know the true identity of the legend we call "William Shakespeare"? He was not a simpleton from Stratford on Avon but the Earl of Oxford DeVere.

Poetry for learning (Take Two)
SCPR.org, Jan. 22, 2016

Poetry can be used for pre-college learning. English learners are flourishing, and high school kids from Muir in Pasadena are...More

• Is the Swede Human? Radical Individualism in the Land of Social Solidarity

George Bush, AmeriKKKan hero?

Wisdom Quarterly; RootsAction.org; NPR.org

War criminal G.W. Bush: "Give him an indictment, not a library" (act.rootsaction.org)

All the MIC's white men, and one half-white one (J. Scott Applewhite/AP/NPR.org)

   

The Decider mad at VP Dick the Dictator

When Dick "Milhouse" Nixon* shuffled off this mortal coil, the hagiographies began. Newspapers and quick-turnaround weekly news magazines were falling all over themselves to glorify and mis-remember a man who up until then had been America's worst president, so bad that he had been thrown out of office.

Macklemore agrees with Dinah Cancer (of 45 Grave fame) that Dick is not our friend, neither Milhouse nor Cheney, not any Bush, not even the third in the dynasty whom we lovingly refer to as "B.S. (Barry Soetoro) Obama."

• AUDIO: What's Al Gore up to? Wait-wait, don't tell me!
• G.W. Bush's approval ratings up -- now that he's left DC 
• Dubya, the Misunderstood Bathtub Artist
• US loses its head over "terror" but ignores daily gun deaths

Bury the Lies in My Lie-Bury

Lovely Michelle, hubby, Granny, Prescott the Nazi-abetter's boy, Dubya, Laura (npr.org)

  

*When losers rule the world (MBC)

(NPR) Four presidents praised another member of their exclusive club today at the dedication of the George W. Bush Memorial Library and Museum on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

 

It was a sometimes funny, sometimes poignant ceremony where partisan differences were set aside. For his part, the honoree said, "Elected officials must serve a cause greater than themselves, defined by the convictions they hold." His guiding principle, Bush said, was that "the United States of America must strive to expand the reach of freedom [defined not as civil liberties for citizens but as free trade for the military-industrial complex]."

 

"We stayed true to our convictions," Bush said of his administration [of course, those convictions not being anything at all what the voters had wanted them to be, but never mind what the people wanted; Bush was not running wars not a popularity contest]. He thanked his father, the nation's 41st commander in chief. He "taught me to be a president [and I was president, not Dick Cheney!]," Bush said. "Before that, he showed me how to be a man." More

  

New Nuremberg trials at the Hague for W., Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, et. al. (Vincent Bugliosi, ESQ) How? Here's how: The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder

Free "World Digital Library" launches today

Launching today, a new resource of the world's greatest treasures made available to all, introducing the WORLD DIGITAL LIBRARY:

www.wdl.org/en/

Still in its infancy yet soon to grow exponentially (along the lines of Wikipedia entries and Google searches, both of which it seems to combine), the WDL connections on Buddhism is diverse but sparse.

It works like this: Sponsored by UNESCO, the WDL seeks to put all the world's libraries at the tip of WWW users' fingers.

• Libraries put some of humanity's earliest written works online

What is it?

(October 2007) -- UNESCO and the US Library of Congress will join forces to build a World Digital Library, following the signing of an agreement by Abdul Waheed Khan, UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, and the Librarian of Congress James H. Billington, at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.

The World Digital Library initiative will digitize unique and rare materials from libraries and other cultural institutions around the world and make them available free of charge on the Internet. These materials include manuscripts, maps, books, musical scores, sound recordings, films, prints, and photographs....The prototype was developed by the Library of Congress and UNESCO with five other partner institutions: Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the National Library of Egypt, the National Library of Brazil, the National Library of Russia, and the Russian State Library.

The prototype functions in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish, the six official languages of the United Nations, as well as in Portuguese.

It features search and browse by place, time, topic, and contributing institution. The World Digital Library initiative has been designed to promote international and inter-cultural understanding, increase the quality and diversity of cultural content on the internet, and contribute to education and scholarship.

Individuals and institutions in more than 40 countries and the IFLA have participated in working groups and expert meetings to plan the World Digital Library.

“Libraries are key actors for ensuring universal access to information and building knowledge societies,” said UNESCO Director-General, Koïchiro Matsuura. “We are very pleased to build on the excellent partnership that we have long enjoyed with the Library of Congress to work in innovative ways to preserve and make accessible the memory of the world.”

FREE-ACCESS: Library materials from around the globe free online

Huexotzinco Codex, 1531, documenting in pictographic language part of the testimony in a legal case against representatives of the colonial government in Mexico, ten years after the Spanish conquest in 1521 (Photo: Library of Congress).

(Guardian.co.uk) -- Libraries and archives from around the world have come together in a project to share their collections of rare books, maps, films, manuscripts and recordings online for free.

Almost four years in the making, the World Digital Library will launch on 21 April, 2009. It will function in seven languages – Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. It will also include content in additional languages....

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The brainchild of James Billington, from the US's Library of Congress, the project has been developed by Unesco and the Library of Congress, along with 32 other partners from around the world, including national libraries from Iraq, Egypt, Russia, Brazil, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Uganda. More>>