If it wasn’t for the Gaza attacks, I could point to the Obama election as cause for hope and celebration this New Year. I’m not saying my personal involvement with what’s happening there now is so deep, but right now it eclipses whatever I would have otherwise remarked about the meaning of this New Year’s [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Eve’s Mixed Sentiments
Posted in Palestine, Personal, Political on December 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Appealing for the Release of Farouk’s Full FBI File
Posted in Immigration policy, tagged documentary, Farouk, FBI, FOIA on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last week, with some further coaching from Michael Kuzma (member of Leonard Peltier’s defense team), I wrote and faxed in my Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) appeal asking a judge to order the FBI to release the 893 pages of Farouk’s file it’s withholding.
As one might expect, many pages were withheld on the pretext of [...]
That Was a Dream?
Posted in dream, iPhone, wife on December 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Michelle dreamed last night that we were in the Jay Street Borough Hall station, she playing with her iPhone, I reading something. She got on the F train and realized I wasn’t with her. Then she met up with our friends Tony and Christine and told them she hoped I’d remember or figure out where [...]
Loving Big Brother
Posted in Immigrants rights, Personal, tagged FBI, FOIA on December 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The more interesting shit have to write about , the more impossible it is to get it in this blog. So here’s a scattered recap of November:
Canvassing for Destiny
On the spur of the moment Saturday morning, November 1, Michelle & I took a trip to Pennsylvania which like many of our excursions had at least [...]
ACCEPTED
Posted in Personal, tagged Brooklyn College, Geoffrey Blank, grad school, Graduate, Sociology on December 4, 2008 | 5 Comments »
It was amusing yesterday to see the ads for this movie just as I got the news I was accepted to the Masters in Sociology program at Brooklyn College.
I first got the idea from my friend Geoffrey Blank, who I was shooting a documentary on in 2006-7 as he was facing trumped-up charges for leading [...]
