tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65885232024-03-19T07:11:49.792-04:00Carmelo Ruiz. Blog de un periodista / A journalist's blogBlogueando desde marzo de 2004 / Blogging since March 2004. Creador también de The World According to Carmelo: carmeloruiz.tumblr.com. Contacto: ruiz@tutanota.com. Twitter: @carmeloruizCarmelo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227613655897100591noreply@blogger.comBlogger5708125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588523.post-17610774881928929592016-09-06T10:26:00.000-04:002016-09-06T10:26:49.493-04:00Anthony Michael Hall, one of my favorite actors ever, on Bullseye<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="s1">Anthony Michael Hall is most known for the films that he made with John Hughes in the 80’s such as <i>The Breakfast Club</i> and <i>Sixteen Candles</i>. Since then, he has worked on many projects, ranging from science fiction series <i>The Dead Zone</i> to indies like his newest film <i>Natural Selection</i>.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Here, Hall and Jesse talk about his time working as a teen actor and the celebrity he acquired at a young age, his relationship with John Hughes, and his later in life career.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">He can be seen in his new movie <i>Natural Selection</i>. More information can be found here <a href="http://www.naturalselectionthefilm.com/"><span class="s2">http://www.naturalselectionthefilm.com/</span></a></span></div>
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<br />Carmelo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227613655897100591noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588523.post-46353743173122335662016-09-06T00:18:00.000-04:002016-09-06T10:23:13.890-04:00(Incomplete) Chronology of Puerto Rico’s political ecology<a href="http://greensocialthought.org/content/incomplete-chronology-puerto-rico%E2%80%99s-political-ecology">http://greensocialthought.org/content/incomplete-chronology-</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>1959- Founding of the pro-independence organization Movimiento Pro Independencia (MPI) and its newspaper Claridad.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>1964-66- The local press informs that the government plans to approve strip mining projects. The MPI and the autonomist group Vanguardia Popular present environmental objections. The debate around mining marks the birth of the modern ecology movement in Puerto Rico.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>1969-79- A period of generalized violence against the independence movement, which included police brutality, mob violence, bombings of homes and businesses of prominent independentistas, arson attacks against Claridad and its printing press, abductions and assassinations. The evidence gathered from journalistic investigations and declassified documents of the Puerto Rico and US governments points that these attacks were the doing of corrupt agents of the Puerto Rico Police Intelligence Division, Cuban exile terrorists, the FBI and the CIA.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>1970- Founding of Misión Industrial, Puerto Rico’s leading environmental organization.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>1971- The MPI is transformed into the Puerto Rico Socialist Party (PSP).</b></span>Carmelo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227613655897100591noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588523.post-6714791289745699312016-09-05T21:30:00.001-04:002016-09-05T21:31:28.458-04:00Weinberg on the origins of ISIS<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kJ_pHdynbaQ" width="480"></iframe><br />
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<span class="s1"><b>¿Quién mató a Carlos Muñiz Varela?</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1">Encontrar respuesta a esta pregunta y que se condene a los culpables ha ocupado buena parte de la vida de sus familiares y compañeros durante casi cuarenta años.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Si aún nadie ha sido juzgado por el crimen, se debe a la impunidad que ha cobijado a sus autores. Describir su alcance y explicar las razones políticas que propiciaron el asesinato es el objetivo central de este libro.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">El asesinato de Carlos Muñiz Varela constituyó un acontecimiento que conmocionó a la sociedad puertorriqueña y tuvo connotaciones internacionales, sobre todo en los Estados Unidos y Cuba. La investigación del crimen y la lucha por esclarecerlo también han sido hechos políticos en sí mismos.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Si algo salta a la vista en el relato de este libro es el rigor y la tenacidad de los investigadores. El lector debe estar preparado para compartir la frustración presente a lo largo de este esfuerzo y admirar la voluntad que les permitió no dejarse vencer por las trampas puestas en el camino.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">También es admirable su valor. Se ha tratado de una investigación realizada bajo condiciones muy peligrosas. El propio ejemplo de Carlos indicaba que pisaban un terreno minado y nadie protegía sus vidas.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Difícilmente puede comprenderse lo acontecido si no se tiene en cuenta la historia común de Cuba y Puerto Rico, y en especial el papel que el gobierno norteamericano asignó a Puerto Rico en la lucha contra la Revolución. Este libro narra este proceso para enfatizar su contrasentido en un contexto histórico signado por las luchas comunes por la independencia.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Una de sus tesis fundamentales es que la función política asignada por los Estados Unidos a Puerto Rico en el caso de Cuba, condicionada por la dependencia, explica la sucesiva actitud de los gobiernos coloniales frente al proceso revolucionario y su complicidad con la contrarrevolución cubana, actuando contra los propios intereses de país.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">En Puerto Rico se asentaron grupos contrarrevolucionarios cubanos de todas las tendencias, desde socialdemócratas hasta fascistas. Amparados por la política oficial, tanto nativa como federal, el terrorismo adquirió proporciones inusitadas, con incidencias en todos los aspectos de la vida puertorriqueña.</span></div>
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Carmelo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227613655897100591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588523.post-40088049413222466402016-09-05T01:00:00.000-04:002016-09-05T09:18:16.633-04:00Carmelo Ruiz: Un informe que no pone fin al debate<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Carmelo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227613655897100591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588523.post-7699553326444087532016-09-04T22:21:00.003-04:002016-09-04T22:21:59.136-04:00Puerto Rico y los Panama Papers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Carmelo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227613655897100591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588523.post-91368257053794984452016-09-04T00:00:00.000-04:002016-09-04T00:09:41.417-04:00Honrando a Albizu en Salinas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Carmelo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227613655897100591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588523.post-5138188365672060532016-09-03T09:57:00.003-04:002016-09-03T09:57:55.928-04:0031 de agosto, cambiando el curso de la historia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Carmelo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227613655897100591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588523.post-73935038947990799652016-09-03T09:54:00.001-04:002016-09-03T09:58:41.415-04:00Bolivia: Guerras extractivistas<img alt="http://www.biodiversidadla.org/Principal/Secciones/Documentos/Guerras_extractivistas_en_Bolivia
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Carmelo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227613655897100591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588523.post-77440704261432135132016-09-03T01:00:00.000-04:002016-09-03T09:50:37.214-04:00A different perspective on organic standards<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 27pt;">
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<b><br />Airto Moreira is a Brazilian born Jazz percussionist and drummer. He has worked as a professional musician since the age of 13, moving to New York in the late 1960’s where he helped develop the “Jazz Fusion” genre of music.<br />He sits down with Jesse to talk about Brazilian percussion methods, his move to America, and his experience playing with Miles Davis and other great Jazz legends.</b></div>
Carmelo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227613655897100591noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588523.post-72960380777652780112016-09-01T12:23:00.003-04:002016-09-01T12:24:07.727-04:00Naomi Klein: The radical leap<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Political organizers are aware of “wedge issues” that divide us and “web issues” that bring us together. What could be more unifying than saving the planet? The Earth is heating up. Polar ice caps are melting. Sea levels are rising. April was the 12th consecutive hottest month on record. The December 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement, doesn’t rise to the challenge. Clearly, it is going to take mobilization from below to radically change the fossilized attitudes of the fossil fuel industry and the politicians that they bankroll. Broad coalitions of diverse groups seek to do just that. Climate activism engages a new intersectional politics. From Pope Francis to the Dalai Lama, workers and trade unionists, indigenous peoples, and many others are speaking with one voice on the issue like never before.</b></div>
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<b><i>Naomi Klein of Canada, an award-winning journalist, author and filmmaker, is in the forefront of environmental activism. Her articles appear in major newspapers and magazines all over the world. She is the author of the bestseller This Changes Everything.</i></b></div>
Carmelo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227613655897100591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588523.post-24449287634951781962016-09-01T12:08:00.000-04:002016-09-01T12:08:14.171-04:00Mesa<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>The Mesa Refuge is located near the Pacific Ocean in Point Reyes Station, California, an hour north of San Francisco. It sits beside the San Andreas Fault, literally on the edges between land and water, metropolis and wildness, busyness and quiet. Our residents are mostly focused on “ideas at the edge” of nature, human economy, and social equity. Here writers enjoy time and space to connect with their muses and a supportive community, before going back into the world.</b></div>
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<b>We welcome both experienced and emerging writers and creatives who are addressing the pressing issues of our time. It is our priority to support writers focusing on these areas we value: nature, the human economy and social equity.</b></div>
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<b>Through public conversations and events, Mesa Refuge connects our leading-edge alumni from around the nation with West Marin, contributing to a rich tapestry of conversation that is helping to change our world.</b></div>
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<b>The Mesa Refuge was founded in 1997 by writer and entrepreneur<a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fmesarefuge.org%2Fpeople%2Fpeter-barnes%2F&t=ZTkxZTdhYTY4ZmE0ODJlZDY3MmJjNzdlY2JiNmFiNTVlZTU1NDUyOCxTNTRDb0RaaQ%3D%3D" style="border: 0px; color: #7cc0b0; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Peter Barnes</a>.</b></div>
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<b>Peter wrote his first book while living on a ranch near Point Reyes Station in 1969. Later, he spent time at several writer’s retreats and saw, time and again, how a few weeks of “writing at the edge” could be transformational for emerging writers and rejuvenating for established ones.</b></div>
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<b>In 1995, after retiring as founder of Working Assets, Peter purchased the home and studio of renowned painter Sam Francis, which had been built by local architect Jon Fernandez. This property, with its beautiful gardens and breathtaking vistas, became the Mesa Refuge.</b></div>
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<b>Since 1997, more than 600 writers have lived and worked here. Our alumni include Michael Pollan, Terry Tempest Williams, Anna and Frances Moore Lappé, Krista Tippett, Natalie Goldberg, Raj Patel, Lewis Hyde, Daniel Ellsberg, Rebecca Solnit and Van Jones. Find out more about our alums <a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fmesarefuge.org%2Fresidencies%2Four-alumns%2F&t=NTQ5ODA1ZDQ2MjQ1MzYxNDI2YzU4MTkzYjBjODljNDUwMWVhNjQxMSxTNTRDb0RaaQ%3D%3D" style="border: 0px; color: #7cc0b0; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">here</a>.</b></div>
<br />Carmelo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227613655897100591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588523.post-33288691151779546432016-09-01T01:00:00.000-04:002016-09-01T12:09:01.831-04:00Carmelo Ruiz on Counterpunch Radio<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Carmelo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227613655897100591noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588523.post-119923404755193352016-08-30T06:32:00.002-04:002016-08-30T06:32:23.808-04:00Actividades esta semana<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Carmelo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227613655897100591noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588523.post-58161340527159668412016-08-27T21:29:00.001-04:002016-08-27T21:29:19.372-04:00Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon: Ted Rall, TRUMP & Ken Silverstein on the Clinton Foundation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies in for Terry Gross. Today we're going to listen to Terry's interview with Asali Solomon, whose novel's about a girl growing up in the '80s the daughter of black nationalist, Afrocentric parents. The book, "Disgruntled," is now out in paperback. Its main character, Kenya, feels like an outsider in her neighborhood school in West Philadelphia because she's such a dedicated student. But when she's sent to a private school, she's an outsider because she's one of the few African-American students. She feels guilty she's not measuring up to the model she thinks she's supposed to be portraying, the brilliant black girl, heir to those brave children in the South who'd shine their shoes each morning, only to get kicked and spat on in their fight for a good education. Many of the suburban white students assume everyone in Kenya's neighborhood is on welfare.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>The novel's rich with observations about race, class, the impact of divorce on a child and growing up with a father sometimes uses his politics to justify irresponsible behavior. "Disgruntled" is Asali Solomon's first novel. Her previous book, "Get Down," is a collection of short stories. In 2007, she was named one of the National Book Foundation's 5 under 35. She teaches English literature and creative writing at Haverford College. Terry spoke to her last year.</i></b></span>Carmelo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227613655897100591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588523.post-66447766331344286762016-08-23T12:41:00.003-04:002016-08-23T12:41:16.780-04:00The art of editing – Guardian books podcast<iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/278969511&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%"></iframe><br />
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The upheavals of the information age have transformed traditional publishing, a revolution that has arrived along with a rumble of complaint from critics over editorial standards. But is the art of editing in decline? And if editors are under pressure in the 21st century, if the quiet business of improving a manuscript is simply out of tune with our always-on world, then how does that affect the books on our shelves? What, indeed, do editors actually do all day?</div>
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Reading list<br />Stet by Diana Athill (Granta)<br />The Prose Factory by DJ Taylor (Chatto and Windus)</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Recorded in New York City for Pitchfork Radio & Sonos. Tracklist and more information available here: <a href="http://www.davidbyrne.com/">www.DavidByrne.com</a></span>Carmelo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15227613655897100591noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588523.post-5152296985949509172016-08-19T09:01:00.000-04:002016-08-19T22:52:05.527-04:00Desobediencia y dominó #NoalaJunta<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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