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okay. it may be embarrassing but that’s why it’s so funny. noam came home with some obscurely patriotic in-class assignment. they were supposed to write letters to prospective immigrants to the U.S. in order to convince them to become citizens. and noam’s letter had a line in it like “illegal immigrants don’t pay taxes.” so i kinda freaked, got pissed and wrote the teacher an email which probably reads like a nutty letter to the editor.

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Here are some photos from my trip to San Francisco:

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

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GDC – Day 4, sort of.
It’s day four of the GDC, more or less.  The first two days of the GDC were only open to pass holders who paid for the summits – which included the Serious Games Summit, which I was interested in attending.  However, upgrading to the two day pre-main conference pass provided [...]

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I suppose all things considered, it doesn’t matter that I haven’t posted since November.  Been lots of things going on.  Most importantly at the moment is that I’m in San Francisco at the Game Developers Conference, which is apparently 16,000 strong.  I was fortunate to receive a scholarship through the International Game Developers Association.  Otherwise [...]

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Today I read the EZLN / Zapatista’s book “The Other Campaign” about the organization’s Sixth Declaration and La Otra Campaña. Essentially the Sixth Declaration is literally the Zapatista’s sixth major outward manifesto. And La Otra is their movement to form a grassroots movement of the anti-neoliberal Left. I picked up the book [...]

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Yesterday I worked with Gabriel Berrios and volunteer Laura Deutch on the third training in a series of workshops with South Philly organization Juntos. The trainings are being run by Media Mobilizing Project. The participants have already learned about every thing from framing a shot to writing a shooting script. Yesterday they [...]

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I went to an interesting talk with Mohamad Bazzi at Hunter College today.  According to thenation.com he “was Newsday’s Middle East bureau chief for four years” and ‘is currently the Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.”He’s won some pretty impressive awards, including: a 2003 Silver Medal from the UN Correspondents [...]

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[ ESC ] is Electronic Social Club: a network of NYC graduate students connected by the practice of creating social dialogue through projects in media, art and design.
next event:
Mixer & Presentations
Thursday / / 11.15.07 / / 7 – 10p
Hunter College Black Box
695 Park Ave. / / Room 543 HN
6 train to 68th St [...]

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Now that my bubbie, my grandmother, is ill, my mother has to become her advocate, more than ever.  She feels a significant responsibility in this regard because my bubbie’s other children are out of the picture.
Her son abandoned his wife and four children a long time ago.  His children, now grown and with kids of [...]

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