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Thursday, October 6, 2011

WEBCAST: Truth Behind War on Afghanistan

On the 10th Anniversary of the US war, an underground activist tells the real story of the Occupation and Afghan Resistance

Reena, a member of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), will address American audiences via live video stream.

AWM Co-Director and KPFK’s Uprising radio show host Sonali Kolhatkar will lead the conversation with Reena via video streaming in front of a live audience. The event will be webcast live on AWM’s website. Questions will be drawn from the in-person audience and the online audience via Facebook.

WHEN: Friday, Oct. 7, 2011 7:00 pm PST/10:00 pm EST
WHERE: Creveling Lounge (CC Bldg., 2nd floor) Pasadena City College campus, Pasadena, California or afghanwomensmission.org.
WHAT: Open to the public. Entrance is free.

If you are unable to attend this event, you can watch a live webcast of the entire event on this website! Click here to find out the time of the webcast in your city.

Organized in collaboration with PCC’s Students for Social Justice. KPFK is a media sponsor. More

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Caught in The Web ("Connected" film)

Wisdom Quarterly

(thefilminformantt, Now Playing, Sept., 2011)

Buddhist cosmology speaks of devolutions and evolutions and epochs of quiescence and chaos, after Earthlings descended from space (Aganna Sutra), genetic manipulation (usually by nagas in a kind of creationism or celestial intervention), and always more revolutions through the aeons (kalpas in an Indian context of yugas).

US teachings about Evolution vs. Creationism

How things turn and have turned may only seem comprehensible as envisioned in the Wheel of Samsara, the "continued wandering on" or cycling through rebirths (due to our skillful and unskillful karma) in countless worlds within 31 Planes [broad categories] of Existence.

But for all that, we still get excited that our mobile device (cell phone) connects us to the Web and lets us tune in and drop out by feeling "connected." Tiffany Shlain is onto something: We are interdependent.