I read an interesting article in Sojourner’s magazine the other night called “The Story of Your Life: What fiction teaches us about what’s real“. The essence of the article questions what our lives would be like if at the end of each year or the end of our life we had that same sense of… Continue reading The Story of Your Life
While reading through some of my email over lunch, I came across a link to text of a sermon given recently by Jim Winkler, General Secretary, General Board for Church and Society, United Methodist Church. An early statement: I began thinking of the truth about poverty and a couple of things occurred to me. First,… Continue reading The Truth About Poverty
Yesterday I saw a recent interview of Jim Wallis by Chris Matthews about the oil spill in the Gulf. It was in response to Rand Paul’s claim that the Obama Administration is being un-American when they state they will continue to keep their heel on the throat of BP to hold them accountable. The take… Continue reading My Addiction: How I Contributed to the Oil Catastrophe in the Gulf
Yesterday I traveled with students in the summer course Community Informatics Studio to Chicago to look at three public computing facilities. The Mac lab at the Puerto Rican Cultural Center is a more traditional looking lab with eight to ten computers lined up on either side of a table in the center of the room. … Continue reading Equipping Computer Labs vs. Equipping Collaborative Spaces
A May 2010 report by the Institute on Assets and Social Policy at Brandeis University indicates that the wealth disparity between whites and blacks continue to grow. Especially noteworthy is that the growth cannot be explained by income alone, as high-income blacks have seen steady or declining wealth, while both middle- and especially upper-income whites… Continue reading Racial Wealth Gap Increases Four-Fold
