Pause || Pres Play > at Columbia Kraft Center

Art, Film & Spoken Word Collaborative: a 9/11 Healing Arts Event Sept. 9th – 12th

OSR presents “Pause || Press Play>” an Art, Film & Spoken Word Collaborative at Columbia University | Barnard Hillel’s The Kraft Center, 606 W. 115th Street, NY 10025

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Opening night, September 9, at 8 pm, California filmmaker Penny Little will presented her new film “9/11 Dust: A Healing Journey”.  The film features US Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Daily News reporter Juan Gonzales, EPA whistleblower Cate Jenkins, Susanne Mattei, numerous doctors and 9/11 first responders including John Feal of the Feal Good Foundation.

Pause || Press Play is curated by L-M-N-T.com Gallery Miami, the art exhibition featured artists Gino Tozzi,  Ashley Cumberland, Billie Grace Lynn, Rachel Hughes, and Kevin Vancio.  A centerpiece of this exhibit was “The Pause Towers” – a plexiglass sculpture filled with medical packaging from ten years of prescription based treatments of a health survivor of the World Trade Center illness.

Pause Press Play contributor Rachel Hughes says, “It’s eleven years since the horrific events of 9/11 and our society has been on ‘pause’ too long. “It’s time to press ‘play’ and heal.   Our project focuses on healing through the arts to release the grief from 9/11 and heal our society.”

The schedule for the three day event included films, presentations and guest speakers who are experts in the fields of holistic health, healing, creativity, integrative arts and education. Notable guest presenters include Dr. Lee Vickers, AmaLia Wai Ching, Olga Meylakh, Jonathan Talat Philips and many others.

Good Times Fly

Total Knee Replacement Recovery

Mark Crispin Miller on the importance of voting

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This short clip gives another reason to get out and vote -- the larger the turnout the more difficult to disguise and perpetrate election fraud. This clip will be part of the re-release of Penny Little's Film Electile Dysfunction 2008, and part of the Unconventional Tour 2008, which includes music, film, audience participation. You can see the entire clip from Mark Crispin Miller on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvOjjvtMHGc

4th of July Street Fair

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The Los Padres Chapter of the Sierra Club displayed their "Green Block" as part of the Ventura Street Fair in Ventura on the 4th of July. The 30th annual street fair is mainly a shopping extraveganza, but the "Green Block" was selling ideas: how to Save the World for Kids, and how to Green the Home. The Ventura City Environmental Department showed kids how to recycle which items and how to win prizes with the correct answers to their quiz. Air Pollution Control District of Ventura had games for kids and prizes, as did the KidsVsGlobalWarming booth run by young teens. The MEChA Club from Oxnard College was requesting help to get rid of toxic waste in their community, and the younger kids painted pictures of what they do to Save The World!
For the adults as well as kids, there were prizes and more prizes for answering correctly the questions about how to save money, energy and reduce global warming - at center stage, hosted by 3 teenagers actively participating in the environment: Eric Fernandez, Shannon McComb and Alec Loorz.
Ladybugs and wonderful aromas brought many landscape enthusiasts to Nature by Design's booth. Free bike parking was provided for all fair goers. It was a great day for the saving energy, saving money and saving the environment!

Computers For Families has a new citizen

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Walter just got his naturalization papers. His co-workers introduce him to "american" foods and deserts, but he seems a little skeptical....

Surfliner to L.A.

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The Pacific Surfliner runs from Central California to points South. I took it from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles, with my bike, then took the subway with my bike, then a city bus with my bike, went to visit my friend, and returned home.
It sure as heck beats driving, and I got some exercise!

Dream Act - Santa Barbara

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Dream Act legislation for Callifornia was discussed in Santa Barbara at an event on the library grounds, downtown. A cheerful group of would be college students and supporters talked about the need for the legislation and what it means to all Californians. This law, if passed, would allow undocumented students who have attended schools here for 3 years or more, to apply for loans and scholarships when they go  on to college.

Halaco Educational Event

On the Ormond Beach in Oxnard, California sits the Halaco Company's toxic waste pile which is 4 stories high. It is filled with heavy metals and radioactive materials and many poisonous pollutants. This is what is left over from their metal recycling plant which they begun in the '50's. They were closed down because of their far too frequent safety violations. They have since moved their operation to Tennessee under the name of MagPro, but have left their mess here in Oxnard for the community to deal with. Here's where we are with it now.