Bobby Seale and Noam Chomsky and bing COWs
Quite a lot to write actually but i don't know where to start. To begin with, two weeks ago Bobby Seale, the co-founder of the black panther party, came to give a speech on saturday. The black panthers are the ones in the 60's who fought for civil right by carrying guns around to show their power. Mr. Seale put in this way: he said they found by law of california civilians are allowed to carry arms so they called for a bunch of people just to follow the police when they were on duty. This event soon horrified the United States and later the whole world. There has been records of japanese and indian black panther parties. People recognised the black civil movement by the power they are allowed to carry. Well, the story of how they started this organization is quite amazing as well. They began by two guys, Bobby Seale and Huey Newton who back then were students of university. Mr. Seale even gave some detail of how he became the president: "we flipped a coin and I won". So starting with such a small group then grew to internatinal recognition in a significantly short time. It is amazing and there's a lot of things to learn from them.
Ok then on the saturday evening just past, we had Noam Chomsky as the speaker. He is a well-known linguistist and an anti-war activist. mi amigos and I came to the theatre as early as 5:30 to wait for his 7:00 speech, and there's a friend of mine came all the way from Buffalo to see it, they had been waiting since like 4. Anyway due to my familiarity to the surrounding area we got the best spot to wait and later on the best seats. well, then people were kind of disappointed when he spoke. Well, we can't attribute all the failure to Chomsky he is afterall 77 years old. He carried this monotone and hypnosized half of the audience into sleep. His speech, in another hand, if you can keep awake and concentrate on which, is rather good and inspirational. About the current world situation and all the faultiness in the american foreign policy. Before his speech there was a period of time when people were waiting. I really had this urge to go up to the podium and deliver a speech about the club I am going to start, then eventually horror conquered my passion I didn't go.... and this thing happend to a friend of mine he wanted to go to speak as well.
Speaking about the club. We are to start a club called Citizens of The World (abbrevation: COW , moooo), promoting cultural understanding and the global identity in addition to the local culture each of us belongs to. Explaining this idea to the Student Association, when they questioned about us carrying similar agenda with the intercultural awareness committee, I said picture the difference of International and Global. There are a lot of International organization such a UN to solve the problems between nations, but we now want to creat a global culture which fits people who has this idea and we as a group is to inspire others who doesn't agree with us. There are a couple of successful programmes in bing that have some great social impact, for example the muslim student association and jewish hillel visited another's synagoge and mosque. Very very interesting. We are going to start programs like this as well, by cosponsoring with other cultural groups and our outreach programs to local schools. Let's see how big the impact is going to be.
What other things...hmm, oh movies. Saraband by Ingmar Berman, it's great, makes you think the isolation of individuals. Especially, I think, In scandinavian countries, everyone is kind of existential because of the environment, rthat they are too far away from others. We desire intimacy, everybody. and yea last weekend the dullest movie I ever see, called Goodbye Dragon Inn by a taiwan director. The whole movie can be described in two words: theater closing. A couple of long-shots of a crippled woman dragging herself upstair downstair and a scene of an empty theatre in its stillness for 5 minutes...and I checked on rottentomatoes they got good review! I don't think I am that much of a cinemagoer to enjoy this dullness, after all...
I'm going back to New York on Friday night, chill for one week, hopefully don't get bored.
Ok then on the saturday evening just past, we had Noam Chomsky as the speaker. He is a well-known linguistist and an anti-war activist. mi amigos and I came to the theatre as early as 5:30 to wait for his 7:00 speech, and there's a friend of mine came all the way from Buffalo to see it, they had been waiting since like 4. Anyway due to my familiarity to the surrounding area we got the best spot to wait and later on the best seats. well, then people were kind of disappointed when he spoke. Well, we can't attribute all the failure to Chomsky he is afterall 77 years old. He carried this monotone and hypnosized half of the audience into sleep. His speech, in another hand, if you can keep awake and concentrate on which, is rather good and inspirational. About the current world situation and all the faultiness in the american foreign policy. Before his speech there was a period of time when people were waiting. I really had this urge to go up to the podium and deliver a speech about the club I am going to start, then eventually horror conquered my passion I didn't go.... and this thing happend to a friend of mine he wanted to go to speak as well.
Speaking about the club. We are to start a club called Citizens of The World (abbrevation: COW , moooo), promoting cultural understanding and the global identity in addition to the local culture each of us belongs to. Explaining this idea to the Student Association, when they questioned about us carrying similar agenda with the intercultural awareness committee, I said picture the difference of International and Global. There are a lot of International organization such a UN to solve the problems between nations, but we now want to creat a global culture which fits people who has this idea and we as a group is to inspire others who doesn't agree with us. There are a couple of successful programmes in bing that have some great social impact, for example the muslim student association and jewish hillel visited another's synagoge and mosque. Very very interesting. We are going to start programs like this as well, by cosponsoring with other cultural groups and our outreach programs to local schools. Let's see how big the impact is going to be.
What other things...hmm, oh movies. Saraband by Ingmar Berman, it's great, makes you think the isolation of individuals. Especially, I think, In scandinavian countries, everyone is kind of existential because of the environment, rthat they are too far away from others. We desire intimacy, everybody. and yea last weekend the dullest movie I ever see, called Goodbye Dragon Inn by a taiwan director. The whole movie can be described in two words: theater closing. A couple of long-shots of a crippled woman dragging herself upstair downstair and a scene of an empty theatre in its stillness for 5 minutes...and I checked on rottentomatoes they got good review! I don't think I am that much of a cinemagoer to enjoy this dullness, after all...
I'm going back to New York on Friday night, chill for one week, hopefully don't get bored.
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