~ Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sánchez and her brave comrades have managed, despite open intimidation by the regime, to institute a clandestine bloggers’ “knowledge workshop.” Says Sánchez: “We ended up finding the cracks between the fingers of the censors, between which the fine sand of information and knowledge has managed to slip through.” Sean Penn, writing prominently for The Nation, bent over backwards in sympathy with the dictatorship that is trying to shut Sánchez down.
~ Patricia Nicholson Parker and colleagues are trying to get a Center for Innovative Arts built and sustained on the Lower East Side. Big fundraiser on December 15, Salman Rushdie on the Host Committee. (Here at Lerterland we endorse Salman Rushdie.)
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