Comments on: Rundown 10/22 http://www.hereandnow.org/2009/10/rundown-1022/ National and international news analysis, film, theater, music and more, from WBUR and PRI Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:38:03 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jane Grant http://www.hereandnow.org/2009/10/rundown-1022/comment-page-1/#comment-3404 Jane Grant Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:50:20 +0000 http://www.hereandnow.org/?p=3617#comment-3404 How can I view a pice shown Oct.22 re a woman with macular degeneration How can I view a pice shown Oct.22 re a woman with macular degeneration

]]> By: Jay Vos http://www.hereandnow.org/2009/10/rundown-1022/comment-page-1/#comment-3401 Jay Vos Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:17:40 +0000 http://www.hereandnow.org/?p=3617#comment-3401 Listened to your report about Nick Griffin's appearance on Question Time. Ron Broomby may have got there early - for the protests. He says about a 100 protesters. Your listeners may want to read Richard Seymour in London. He owns a blog "Lenin's Tomb" and wrote a report on the protests. He was there: "By the time I arrived, the protest had swelled to several thousand people congregated on the road outside Wood Lane tube station. It was quite noisy and rebellious, and there was an inordinate number of young people there. I hear there was some rumours of violence outside the gates or something. I didn't see any violence on the part of protesters whatsoever, but the police did pepper spray a couple of kids, a few people were assaulted by coppers not wearing their numbers on their shoulders, one guy was throttled and another fellow did get his head cracked open by a truncheon. Aside from the usual police brutality, it was a straightforwardly militant, multiracial protest in the mainstream antifascist tradition." http://leninology.blogspot.com/2009/10/protest-outside-bbc.html BTW, I'm not much of a fan of my NPR station in Vermont, but I do so much enjoy Robin Young and Here and Now! A vast improvement over the dreadful Day to Day from the west coast! Cheers. Listened to your report about Nick Griffin’s appearance on Question Time. Ron Broomby may have got there early – for the protests. He says about a 100 protesters. Your listeners may want to read Richard Seymour in London. He owns a blog “Lenin’s Tomb” and wrote a report on the protests. He was there: “By the time I arrived, the protest had swelled to several thousand people congregated on the road outside Wood Lane tube station. It was quite noisy and rebellious, and there was an inordinate number of young people there. I hear there was some rumours of violence outside the gates or something. I didn’t see any violence on the part of protesters whatsoever, but the police did pepper spray a couple of kids, a few people were assaulted by coppers not wearing their numbers on their shoulders, one guy was throttled and another fellow did get his head cracked open by a truncheon. Aside from the usual police brutality, it was a straightforwardly militant, multiracial protest in the mainstream antifascist tradition.”

http://leninology.blogspot.com/2009/10/protest-outside-bbc.html

BTW, I’m not much of a fan of my NPR station in Vermont, but I do so much enjoy Robin Young and Here and Now! A vast improvement over the dreadful Day to Day from the west coast! Cheers.

]]> By: Jessica Munns http://www.hereandnow.org/2009/10/rundown-1022/comment-page-1/#comment-3398 Jessica Munns Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:03:22 +0000 http://www.hereandnow.org/?p=3617#comment-3398 I was so happy to hear the myth of unlucky black cat's dispelled. Three years ago, shortly after loosing our beloved cats to old age, we moved to CA. We longed to have pets again, but resisted since it could make finding a rental house more difficult. We were so excited when we rented a home in the country and discovered it came with a resident stray black cat. We named him Bien Suerte (good luck in spanish), for the obvious play against being a black cat, but also because we took him as a sign of good luck and fortune to have found this particular rental. He unfortunately was diagnosed with a tumor a year after he become our good luck charm, but out lived the vets projections to give us yet another year and half of love and good luck. Black cats will forever be Bien Suerte in my book. I was so happy to hear the myth of unlucky black cat’s dispelled. Three years ago, shortly after loosing our beloved cats to old age, we moved to CA. We longed to have pets again, but resisted since it could make finding a rental house more difficult. We were so excited when we rented a home in the country and discovered it came with a resident stray black cat. We named him Bien Suerte (good luck in spanish), for the obvious play against being a black cat, but also because we took him as a sign of good luck and fortune to have found this particular rental. He unfortunately was diagnosed with a tumor a year after he become our good luck charm, but out lived the vets projections to give us yet another year and half of love and good luck. Black cats will forever be Bien Suerte in my book.

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