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Of Telly Tubbies, Panto Dames, and Youth Tubies
Wednesday, 5 March 2008, 12:12 am | Rosalea Barker
::In the night:: On learning this weekend of Missy Teka’s death in a car accident, I searched for and found a video filmed (perhaps) at the Westward Ho Tavern in Kelston back in 1982. It’s Prince Tui Teka singing E Ipo to Missy, and the pair of them ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea Barker: Train Wreck Ahoy!
Friday, 29 February 2008, 10:36 am | Rosalea Barker
Like a passenger in a car stalled on the railway tracks with a speeding train barreling down upon us, I was transfixed by the idiot in the drivers seat, who merely shouted louder that there are no railway tracks and there is no train. More >>
An Occasional Note on the 2008 Campaigns, No. 4
Wednesday, 20 February 2008, 9:45 am | Rosalea Barker
It’s grainy, it’s indistinct, it’s a worry. In this news video of Obama leaving John Edwards’ home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, does he stroke his chin or wipe his nose or mouth before he shakes hand with Edwards? Just asking because there’s ... More >>
An Occasional Note on the 2008 Campaigns, No. 3
Tuesday, 12 February 2008, 2:33 pm | Rosalea Barker
Clinton has a new campaign manager. I hope her first words of advice to the candidate are that she stops using the H word. Repeating over and over that this is an "historic" election is inviting ridicule. More >>
Rosalea: Santa Cruz Media Strategy Conf. Update
Monday, 11 February 2008, 11:11 pm | Rosalea Barker
"As a result of the conference," Phillips says, "over 50 people/activists have signed on to help plan a national independent media news sources on-line that would offer a full days news totally separate from the top-down corporate media system. More >>
Stateside With Rosalea Barker: My First Vote
Friday, 8 February 2008, 8:40 am | Rosalea Barker
Stevie Wonder called to say he loves me and would I please vote for Obama. Scarlett Johansson left a voice-mail urging the same candidate choice, as did Kevin Lewis, former NY Giants linebacker. My TV was pretty much wall-to-wall Hillary. More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: California Campaign 2
Tuesday, 5 February 2008, 10:52 am | Rosalea Barker
A guest commentator on This Week in Northern California pointed out that some African-Americans are participating in prayer circles for Obama, praying that he doesn't get assassinated. More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: California Campaign
Friday, 1 February 2008, 10:19 am | Rosalea Barker
Merritt College in Oakland, CA, was the starting point for a trip by a quartet of Democratic mayors putting their support behind Hillary Clinton’s campaign today. Ron Dellums (Oakland), Gavin Newsom (San Francisco), Sharon Quirk (Fullerton, Orange ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea Barker: California Campaign
Thursday, 31 January 2008, 4:34 pm | Rosalea Barker
Merritt College in Oakland, CA, was the starting point for a trip by a quartet of Democratic mayors putting their support behind Hillary Clinton's campaign today. The trip will end at the Clinton campaign's East Los Angeles field office this evening. More >>
Stateside: Santa Cruz Media Strategy Summit (3)
Wednesday, 30 January 2008, 10:49 am | Rosalea Barker
Over the course of Saturday and Sunday, the themed breakouts met three times and I followed the News Source Development theme. Resource people spoke briefly at the start of each breakout and then participants could ask questions or offer their own ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: State of the Union Day
Tuesday, 29 January 2008, 7:05 pm | Rosalea Barker
What a difference a year makes! For one thing, I was at home in time to watch the President’s State of the Union Address, and for another: “been there, done that!” By golly, I sat in that press gallery and watched another president—Sarkozy de ... More >>
Stateside: Santa Cruz Media Strategy Summit (2)
Tuesday, 29 January 2008, 3:50 pm | Rosalea Barker
"There has never been a unified civil society in this country. There are wounds that go right back to the Civil War." The allies of the independent media are the truth and the Internet, and "we are strong because we are diverse..." More >>
Stateside: Santa Cruz Media Strategy Summit (1)
Monday, 28 January 2008, 11:19 am | Rosalea Barker
Friday’s inclement weather did not dissuade about 200 supporters of the alternative media movement descending on California’s “people’s republic of Santa Cruz”, as it has been known since the Sixties, for the Publicizing Truths with Consequence ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Two Lovely Telly Days
Friday, 25 January 2008, 2:44 pm | Rosalea Barker
Last Sunday, tired of news and commentary about politics, I watched the second playoff match to decide which team would advance to the SuperBowl on February 3. (I have a theory that everything you need to know about US politics can be learned just by ... More >>
Occasional Note on the 2008 Campaigns, No. 2
Monday, 21 January 2008, 2:01 pm | Rosalea Barker
Apparently, a muscle in the small of my back heard my fervent wish that I could just pull the bedcovers up over my head and never hear the words “caucus” or “primary” again, because back pain laid me out for a week, scotching my plans to go to Reno, ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: New Hampshire Postscript
Thursday, 10 January 2008, 12:15 am | Rosalea Barker
Obama wasted no time in his concession speech launching an appeal for votes from unions and the Latino vote, currently going to rivals Edwards and McCain, by speaking of “the three words that will ring from sea to shining sea: Yes we can!” In Spanish, ... More >>
Stateside:New Hampshire Primary Results - Part 2
Wednesday, 9 January 2008, 11:10 pm | Rosalea Barker
It’s nearing 8pm here in California; 11pm in New Hampshire, and the Democratic primary race is still not being called for either Clinton or Obama because the results are so close. The NH Secretary of State’s website doesn’t post any results until ... More >>
Stateside: New Hampshire Primary Results - Part 1
Wednesday, 9 January 2008, 12:44 am | Rosalea Barker
In August 2007, I went to a small town in the North Country of New Hampshire to find out how NH primaries work, and interviewed some potential—though in one case not likely—voters. The story is here . At the end of the interviews is some background ... More >>
ABC-Facebook Primary Debates in New Hampshire
Monday, 7 January 2008, 2:41 pm | Rosalea Barker
On Saturday night, the ABC network held two back-to-back debates in Manchester, New Hampshire, in conjunction with Facebook, the social networking website that is often criticized for enabling data mining and use of its pages by law enforcement agencies ... More >>
An Occasional Note On The 2008 Campaigns
Thursday, 3 January 2008, 10:41 pm | Rosalea Barker
::A little help for our friends in Iowa:: So many undecided Iowans! So little time! What to do? Well, Iowans could go to this really simple page that makes their decision easy: More >>
