Growing Up With H.I.V.
Interviews by Pam Belluck, Video by Tony Cenicola, Produced by Lisa Iaboni
The first generation of children born with H.I.V. are now entering adulthood. What is it like to be a child with H.I.V.? How does it affect your relationships and your outlook? Four young adults speak about a their lives with H.I.V.
South Africa: Portrait of the Prisoner as a Young Man
Above - May of 1961, a 42-year-old Mandela giving his first-ever interview to ITN reporter Brian Widlake as part of a longer ITN Roving Report program about Apartheid. Maria Popova writes over at Open Culture, ..."at that point, the police are already hunting for Mandela, but Widlake pulls some strings and arranges to meet him in his hideout." Fastfoward... Nov of 2010 - author Peter Godwin reviews Mandela's lastest bio Conversations with Myself for the Guardian:
By going to his most personal of jottings, we finally get a glimpse of the man behind the mask. Luckily, it turns out that Mandela has always been something of a hoarder, as well as a copious note-maker, though many of his notes were seized by the police over the years, so there are inevitable holes... One is reminded, too, of how steeped in history and the classics Mandela is. He read catholically, quoted liberally from War and Peace, and when preparing to launch "the struggle" consulted texts as diverse as Machiavelli, Clausewitz, Mao Zedong, and Menachem Begin. He studied the Anglo-Boer war in detail, and was later to use the Afrikaner arguments against his own jailers. But the Mandela we see here can also be abrasively self-critical. In a letter to Winnie, his wife, he quotes from As You Like It, "Sweet are the uses of adversity ... ", then says he has been looking over some of his earlier speeches and is "appalled by their pedantry, artificiality and lack of originality. The urge to impress and advertise is clearly noticeable."
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Hurricane swamps camps of Haitian quake refugees
Posted by: lisaparavisini | November 6, 2010
Storm lashes city on coast that was already in ruins, the Associate Press reports.
Hurricane Tomas flooded camps of earthquake refugees yesterday, turning some into squalid islands as it battered Haiti’s rural western tip.
The storm largely spared the vast homeless encampments in the shattered capital.
Driving 85 mph winds and a lashing storm surge battered Leogane, a seaside town west of Port-au-Prince that was 90 percent destroyed in the Jan. 12 earthquake.
“We got flooded out, and we’re just waiting for the storm to pass. There’s nothing we can do,” said Johnny Joseph, a 20-year-old resident of one refugee camp.
Four deaths were confirmed by Haitian officials, all people attempting to cross rivers by car or on foot in the mountainous region near Leogane, on Haiti’s far southwestern tip. Two more people were missing in Leogane. Earlier, Tomas killed at least 14 people in the eastern Caribbean.
The storm came ashore yesterday as a Category 1 hurricane, pummeling Haiti’s southern peninsula, before moving on to the rest of the country, eastern Cuba and the Bahamas.
It could be days before the storm’s impact on Haiti is known as reports filter in from isolated mountain towns cut off by the flooding.
“We have two catastrophes that we are managing. The first is the hurricane, and the second is cholera,” President Rene Preval told the nation in a television and radio address.
Aid workers are concerned that the storm will worsen Haiti’s cholera epidemic, which has killed more than 440 people and sent more than 6,700 others to hospitals. Haitian authorities had urged the 1.3 million Haitians left homeless by the earthquake to leave the camps and go to the homes of friends and family. Buses were sent to take those who wanted to evacuate to shelters.
But many chose to stay, fearing they would come back to find that they had been evicted from the private land where they have been camped out since the quake in donated plastic tarps, or that their few possessions would be stolen before they returned.
A near-riot broke out amid a poorly coordinated relocation effort at the government’s flagship camp at Corail-Cesselesse when residents began overturning tables and throwing bottles to protest what they saw as a forced removal.
About a third of the camp’s nearly 8,000 residents ultimately went to shelters in a nearby school, church and hospital, American Refugee Committee camp manager Bryant Castro said.
In Leogane, protesters took to the streets in the pouring rain, beating drums and blasting horns as they lambasted officials for failing to build a canal along a river that has overflowed repeatedly in the past. Floodwaters filled people’s homes, swirling around the furniture and framed pictures.
“When it rains, the water rises and causes so much damage. We want them to dig a canal to move the water,” said Frantz Hilair, a 28-year-old motorcycle taxi driver. “We have a mayor and the deputy, but they don’t do anything.”
Farther north in Gonaives, a coastal city twice inundated by recent tropical storms, police evacuated more than 200 inmates from one prison to another.
U.S. Marines were standing by on the USS Iwo Jima off the coast with relief supplies.
For more go to http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/national_world/stories/2010/11/06/hurricane-swamps-camps-of-haitian-quake-refugees.html?sid=101
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Hurricane Tomas finally losing steam
Hurricane Tomas was finally fizzling out on Saturday after a week-long Caribbean rampage that killed at least 21 people and left coastal communities in Haiti underwater.
People wade through a flooded street during the passing of Hurricane Tomas in Leogane, HaitiPhoto: APA man is helped on a flooded street in Leogane Photo: GETTYA man carries a child while wading across a flooded street in Leogane Photo: APThe National Hurricane Centre in Miami said that the storm was losing steam over the open Atlantic after passing the British territory of the Turks and Caicos Islands with winds of up to 70mph, heavy rain and tornadoes.
In Haiti, parts of which endured a 24-hour beating, residents who lost homes and loved ones in January's earthquake faced disaster once again as their encampments in the seaside town of Leogane were deluged when a local river burst its banks, washing away their few possessions.
Some took to the streets in the middle of the storm to protest the government's failure to fix the infrastructure in Leogane, which was 90 per cent destroyed in the earthquake.
In the capital, Port au Prince, situated 20 miles further east, several of the tented camps and shantytowns, which house the majority of the 1.3 million earthquake refugees, were awash with mud and water, which President René Préval warned could be breeding a bigger threat.
An outbreak of cholera, transmitted through contaminated food and water, has already killed 442 people and infected nearly 7,000 in the last three weeks.
"We have two catastrophes that we are managing; the first is the hurricane and the second is cholera," said President Preval in a radio address from the presidential palace.
"Now that, relatively speaking, Haiti has escaped the danger, we have to continue to be vigilant. You can end up surviving the storms, but dying of cholera," he added.
But aid officials said that while the overall picture was still being assessed – and that some communities in the south-west had yet to be reached after floods and mudslides blocked access and bridges were rendered unusable – Haiti appeared to have avoided the wholesale disaster that many had feared.
"We prepared for the worst and we have been lucky that that scenario hasn't materialised," said Alistair Burnett, recovery operations manager for the British Red Cross, speaking from Port au Prince.
"In the perspective of what could have happened, then we have been fortunate. But with everything Haiti already has on its hands, the challenge is how we move forward over the next 12 months to get people into a better situation. And we can't be complacent with cholera at our door."
Poverty, corruption, political instability and a series of disasters have frustrated attempts to improve Haiti's prospects over many decades and less than 38 per cent of the money pledged by the international community to help post-earthquake reconstruction has yet been handed over.
Public frustration over the slow recovery is likely to be a strong influence at parliamentary and presidential elections due later this month.
In St Lucia, which suffered widespread damage and 14 deaths when Hurricane Tomas tore through earlier in the week, the prime minister appealed for $500 million (£312.5 million) in aid to get his country back on its feet.
Among the priorities was the restoration of fresh water supply, after St Lucia's main dam – which pumps eight million gallons a day – was put out of action.
It was the worst storm in St Lucia's history and wiped out its entire banana crop, which along with tourism is the island's main economic driver.
Prime Minister Stephenson King said that he had increased his earlier estimate of $100 million in damage after touring the island by helicopter.
The scale of the destruction, he said, "really and truly devastated my own psyche."
>via: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/haiti...
Former cop Johannes Mehserle was sentenced Friday to two years in jail for the death of Oscar Grant – much less than he would have incurred had the judge applied California’s “gun enhancement” law that normally mandates heavy sentences when firearms are used in a crime…The jury found, however, that there was sufficient evidence to suggest that Mr. Mehserle, a former BART police officer, believed the weapon he was using to subdue Grant was a taser, not a gun…Mehserle had been called to the Fruitvale station of the BART system in the early hours of New Years Day last year with four other officers to look into reports of a fight on a train. Mehserle tried to arrest Grant but reported that Grant was not cooperating. Grant was on his stomach when Mehserle shot him in the back.
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Mehserle verdict: Johannes Mehserle sentencing stuns Oscar Grant supporters, sparks riots in Oakland
Oscar Grant supporters cry foul and take to the streets after Mehserle verdict. The Johannes Mehserle sentencing of two years was shorter than it would have been if the gun enhancement law had been applied.
Demonstrator Eden Jequinto covers his face during a demonstration after the sentencing in Oakland, Calif., Friday, of former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle. Mehserle was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the fatal shooting of Oscar Grant at a BART station on Jan. 1, 2009. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Perry sentenced Mehserle to two years in prison.
(Paul Sakuma/AP)
New York —Former cop Johannes Mehserle was sentenced Friday to two years in jail for the death of Oscar Grant – much less than he would have incurred had the judge applied California’s “gun enhancement” law that normally mandates heavy sentences when firearms are used in a crime.
The jury found, however, that there was sufficient evidence to suggest that Mr. Mehserle, a former BART police officer, believed the weapon he was using to subdue Grant was a taser, not a gun.
Mehserle had been called to the Fruitvale station of the BART system in the early hours of New Years Day last year with four other officers to look into reports of a fight on a train. Mehserle tried to arrest Grant but reported that Grant was not cooperating. Grant was on his stomach when Mehserle shot him in the back. The shooting was caught on video by another BART passenger and quickly went viral on Youtube.
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The jury deliberated Friday on whether Mehserle had intended to kill Grant. They acquitted him on second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter, but convicted him on charges of involuntary manslaughter.
Though involuntary manslaughter usually carries a four-year prison sentence, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Robert Perry sentenced Mehserle to two years in state prison with 292 days of credit for time already served. The trial had been moved to Los Angeles because of concerns over media coverage in the Bay Area.
The case focused largely on whether or not to instate the gun enhancement law, which could have increased Mehserle’s sentence to 14 years.
The gun enhancement law automatically increases a sentence if a firearm is used in commission of a crime. The jury decided Friday, however, that Mehserle may have mistaken his gun for a taser, and therefore did not intend to fire a gun. Because the jury believed this to be the case, Judge Perry chose not to enact the gun enhancement law.
That decision stunned Oscar Grant supporters. A rally to honor Oscar Grant drew hundreds outside Oakland City Hall Friday, and banks, businesses, and City Hall boarded up windows and doors in anticipation of possible riots. UC Oakland evacuated buildings and courts closed early.
Outraged by the Mehserle verdict, Grant's uncle compared the sentencing to Michael Vick's conviction when he said Friday, "if a man goes to prison for killing a dog and he gets four years, then of course two years is not enough."
Mehserle will be able to apply his 292 days of credit to the two year prison sentence and could be released from custody in as little as seven months.
As night fell in the city, protests against the light sentence turned violent. The Oakland PD reported that an officer had been hit by a car, another officer's firearm holster had been taken from him, and numerous windows had been broken. More than 50 people were arrested after police subdued the crowds.
DVD and 35mm
57 minutes, 2002,
Producer/Director: Joel Katz
Strange Fruit is the first documentary exploring the history and legacy of the Billie Holiday classic. The song's evolution tells a dramatic story of America's radical past using one of the most influential protest songs ever written as its epicenter. The saga brings viewers face- to- face with the terror of lynching even as it spotlights the courage and heroism of those who fought for racial justice when to do so was to risk ostracism and livelihood if white - and death if Black. It examines the history of lynching, and the interplay of race, labor and the left, and popular culture as forces that would give rise to the Civil Rights Movement.
DVD and 35mm
57 minutes, 2002,
Producer/Director: Joel Katz
ABOUT THE FILM Winner! 2004 American Library Association
Notable Video AwardA free online preview is available for this title through November. Strange Fruit is the first documentary exploring the history and legacy of the Billie Holiday classic. The song's evolution tells a dramatic story of America's radical past using one of the most influential protest songs ever written as its epicenter. The saga brings viewers face- to- face with the terror of lynching even as it spotlights the courage and heroism of those who fought for racial justice when to do so was to risk ostracism and livelihood if white - and death if Black. It examines the history of lynching, and the interplay of race, labor and the left, and popular culture as forces that would give rise to the Civil Rights Movement.While many people assume Strange Fruit was written by Billie Holiday herself, it actually began as a poem by a Jewish schoolteacher and union activist from the Bronx who later set it to music. Disturbed by a photograph of a lynching, the teacher wrote the stark verse and brooding melody about the horror of lynching under the pseudonym Lewis Allan in 1938. It was first performed at a New York teachers' union rally and was brought to the attention of the manager of Cafe Society, a popular Greenwich Village nightclub, who introduced Billy Holiday to the writer. Holiday's record label refused to record the song. Holiday persisted and recorded it on a specialty label instead. The song was quickly adopted as the anthem for the anti-lynching movement. According to the Center for Constitutional Rights, between 1882 and 1968, mobs lynched 4,743 persons in the United States, over 70 percent of them African-Americans. The haunting lyric and melody made it impossible for white Americans and politicians to ignore any longer the Southern campaign of racist terror. The documentary includes a moving recitation of the lyric by Abbey Lincoln and a powerful musical performance by Cassandra Wilson. But it's the footage of Lady Day herself performing her bitter and heart-wrenching signature song that stands at the center of the film. Holiday sang it until her death in 1959. Folk singer Pete Seeger, playwright and critic Amiri Baraka, veteran Civil Rights activist Rev. Dr. C.T. Vivian, and Milt Gabler of Commodore Records, which first recorded Strange Fruit with Billie Holiday in 1939, add their voices to the story. The schoolteacher who penned Strange Fruit under the pseudonym Lewis Allan was named Abel Meeropol, the same Abe Meeropol who adopted the two sons of "atom bomb spies" Julius and Ethel Rosenberg after their 1953 execution. The boys, now middle-aged, help relate the tale, illuminating the fevered world of art and politics in which they grew up. Educators in American History, Black Studies, American Studies, Social History, Jewish American History, Radicalism, Popular Culture, Social Movements, and Ethnomusicology will find Strange Fruit and its multi-level themes an exciting teaching tool. The film concludes with a montage of recent hate crimes indicating that Strange Fruit remains all-too-relevant today. STRANGE FRUIT
Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black body swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
Pastoral scene of the gallant south
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh
And the sudden smell of burning flesh!
Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for a tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop.
-- Music and lyrics by Lewis Allan, copyright 1940An independent NY filmmaker, producer, director, and editor Joel Katz's filmreel includes His Corporation with a Movie Camera (1992), and Dear Carry (1997). Katz also serves as an associate professor of Media Arts at New Jersey City University and is on the board of directors of NY's Third World Newsreel, a NY-based advocacy and distribution organization for filmmakers of color.For Screenings on 35mm Film, please contact the Producer, Joel Katz by email at jkatz@igc.org.For more information about Strange Fruit visitwww.pbs.org.
Pricing:
$195.00 for colleges, corporations and government agencies
$49.95 for high schools, public libraries, HBCUs and community organizations
Alan Algee
LoversFemme FataleDirected By - Alan Algee
Edited By - Alan Algee
Photography by - Alan Algee, Oji Singletary, Kahlil Joseph, Matthew J. Lloyd, Ryan Kuhlman
Produced by - Omid Fatemi for What Matters Most
Styled by - Davia and Earl Hunter for Style Via Davia
Music by - Aloe Blacc from "Good Things" album
Executive Production - Havana Joe and Paul Chang
Artist-Aloe Blacc
Femme Fatale- Lezlie Williams
Female Love- Jamila CookseyMain Attractiona race of angeles music video directed by alan algee
Directed by Alan Algee
Cinematography & Production by The Singletary's
Producer... Sonny Coates
Gold Dancer... Dana Moore
Desert Messenger... Briana Michelle
Diamond Dancer... Tiasha
Flute player... Anjoy Nkiruka
Drummer... Te Amir
Styling and Makeup by
Stephanie Disla, Devin Joplin, and Anjoy Nkiruka
1stAD... Jamaal 'Future' Mashack
P A's...Jason Sias, Chance CarterReel
ANNOUNCING THE 2010 AMANDA DAVIS HIGHWIRE FICTION AWARD.
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When Amanda was writing the stories that would become her first collection, Circling the Drain, she worked a number of ridiculous jobs to make ends meet. (At one point she was writing copy for television ads for newspaper tabloids.) Her second published story, "Fat Ladies Floated in the Sky Like Balloons," appeared in the second issue of McSweeney's and was everything we were looking for in fiction—it was bold, funny, experimental, lyrical, and ended without any conventional sort of resolution. She was at her best when she was at her most brave. Her first novel, Wonder When You'll Miss Me, concerned a teenage girl who leaves high school under cloudy circumstances and joins the circus.
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This memorial award is intended to aid a young woman writer of 32 years or younger who both embodies Amanda's personal strengths—warmth, generosity, a passion for community—and who needs some time to finish a book in progress. The book in progress needn't be thematically or stylistically close to Amanda's work, but we would be lying if we said we weren't looking to support another writer of Amanda's outrageous lyricism and heart.
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Applicants should send a work in progress, between 5,000 and 40,000 words, and a statement of their financial situation. You may list any and all ridiculous jobs performed to facilitate your writing, and you may include two other short pieces, published or otherwise, which will be read if you feel they would help in the understanding of your work generally. The reading group will consist of McSweeney's editors and a handful of writers and readers close to Amanda.
The award of $2,500 will be given in one lump-sum grant, with no strings attached. The deadline is December 1, 2010. Winners will be notified by March 1, 2011. Send materials, with SASE, to:
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2008 Winner: Shivani Manghnani
2006 Winner: Hannah Pittard
2004 Winner: Jessica Anthony
The first winner, Jessica Anthony, had her novel, The Convalescent, published by McSweeney's in 2009; the second winner, Hannah Pittard, will publish her novel, The Fates Will Find Their Way, with Ecco next spring.
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Short Short Story CompetitionThe Writer's Digest Short Short Story Competition
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The Writer's Digest 11th Annual Short Short Story Competition
We're looking for fiction that's bold, brilliant...but brief. Send us your best in 1,500 words or fewer.
But don't be too long about it—the deadline is Thursday, December 1, 2010.PRIZES
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Short Story Contest
First Prize receives $1,000 and publication. Second Prize receives $500.
Final Judge: Wells Tower
The contest is open from September 15, 2010, to December 1, 2010. Entries must be submitted by December 1, 2010. All entries will be considered for publication. Please note: This page is for our Short Story Contest. Regular submission guidelines are here.
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Judge Bio
Wells Tower’s short stories and journalism have appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, McSweeney’s, The Paris Review, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, The Washington Post Magazine, and elsewhere. He has received two Pushcart Prizes, the Plimpton Prize from The Paris Review, and New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. His fiction collection Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned was selected by the New York Times as one of the ten best books of 2009. Tower was named one of the "20 under 40" luminary fiction writers by the New Yorker in June 2010.
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