Anita, my friend and mentor, died Saturday Jan. 23
I will be speaking at her memorial so this will be my small space for remembering her.
LINKS
On Imogen Cunningham
TODAY
It’s Martin Luther King Day, a day of reflection and sadness.
Larry Sultan’s Memorial is today.
Kabul is getting blown up. videos on BBC
and Haiti
searching for an image of his father
How My Father Looked
By SULAIMAN ADDONIA
Heretics
The Heretics by Joan Braderman
read about the film – excellent project proposal
Vietnam’s Damage – NYT
40 years ago today
1 9 6 9
Links today in NYT, the 40th anniversary of the walk on the moon, about 1969
1969 timeline
Voices: Recalling July 20, 1969
Apollo 11 Mission to the Moon
first, second, third images in google images 1969 search:
Cadillac, however, is the 1969 Stonewall Car!
Walter
NASA officials and engineers celebrate the Apollo 11 landing as the CBS telecast featuring Walter Cronkite is broadcast on television screens in Mission Control.
He died July 17, 2009 at 92
good Frank Rich op ed piece july 26
Egypt mourns ‘headscarf martyr’
Monday July 6, 2009, who was stabbed by a German man in a courtroom in eastern Germany last week, during a protest in Cairo, Egypt. The woman was to testify against the man in court after he allegedly called her an Islamist and a terrorist in 2008. German prosecutors say a 28-year-old man who fatally stabbed Marwa was driven by a deep xenophobic hate of foreigners. Arabic read as ” the veil martyr”. Arabic read as ” the veil martyr”. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ahmed), more on BBC
Tiananmen 20 years later #3
more umbrella blocking of CNN corresponent
**video looking back from Guardian UK, article, and timeline of 6 weeks of protest
audio recollection on BBC
and links and photos on Huff Post
Bullets Over Beijing By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Twenty years after the events in Tiananmen Square, why is China frozen politically even as it has transformed economically?