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"I Met the Walrus" was nominated for Best Animated Short at the 2008 Oscars. Loren Lankford of Paste Magazine writes: "In 1969, 14-year-old Beatles fan Jerry Levitan tracked his idol, John Lennon, from a Toronto airport to his room at the King Edward Hotel. Inside, he convinced Lennon to do an impromptu interview. Thirty-eight years later, Levitan teamed with director Josh Raskin to create and edit a five-minute short film entitled 'I Met the Walrus' based on the interview.


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Spike Lee wants boycott of New York Post over chimpanzee cartoon
BY Caitlin Millat and Tracy Connor
DAILY NEWS WRITERS Updated Friday, February 20th 2009, 7:53 PM

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Filmmaker Spike Lee led the call for celebrities to join a boycott of the New York Post Friday during a raucous protest of a racially charged cartoon.Joined by his 11-year-old son, Lee told a crowd of about 300 people that he has bought the tabloid in the past - but no more.And he suggested athletes and entertainers shun the paper's writers because of Wednesday's cartoon, which compared President Obama with a crazed chimp by some interpretations."This is not the end," Lee told the demonstrators, who marched in front of the Post's offices near Rockefeller Center shouting, "Shut it down.""It's not just black folks. It's an insult to everybody."He was joined by the Rev. Al Sharpton, who called the paper "a racist rag sheet" and…

A grassroots campaign to reform food policy in America is underway. To this effort an activist coalition, called Food Democracy Now, has mobilized a growing base -- a movement -- and is seeking to further there position with an online petition; thus far having gained over 85,000 signatures. The petition, written a few months back as an open letter to then President-Elect Obama, reads:Dear President-Elect Obama,
We congratulate you on your historic victory and welcome the change that your election promises to usher in for our nation. As leaders in the sustainable agriculture and rural advocacy community we supported you in record numbers during the caucus, primary and general election because of the family farm-friendly policies that you advocated during your campaign.As our nation’s future president, we hope that you will take our concerns under advisement when nominating our next Secretary of Agriculture because of the crucial role this Secretary will play in revitalizing our rural …

After much clamoring by energy hawks, who knows what it was that finally brought high-speed rail to the stimulus -- perhaps a little nudge from ol' Amtrak Joe? -- but it got in, to the tune of $8 billion. And now the question is, where will the expansion be? Matthew Yglesias reports on possible new high speed rail expansion: Read More

I Now See to: Martin & CorettaI NOW SEE THAT I HAVE THE POWER
AS I OPEN MY EYES TO ALL THAT IS
I SEE THAT I AM CONNECTED TO ALL THAT I LOVE
THAT I CAN TRANSCEND ALL THAT I LOATHE

SO, I NOW EMBRACE ALL THAT COMES MY WAY
THOUGH I MAY NOT CONDONE
I MAY NOT CONDEMN
INSTEAD, I NURTURE MY BODY IN WELLNESS
AS I FILL MY MIND WITH WISDOM AND PEACE

AND IN JUSTICE,
I USE MY VOICE TO SPEAK MY INNERMOST TRUTH
ON THIS DAY, IN THIS HOUR
I NOW SEE THAT I HAVE THE POWER _______________

Max Eternity

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Common Dreams - Hundreds of people gathered outside the New York University student center early Friday in support of protesters who had been barricaded in the building's cafeteria for more than 24 hours and who had ignored the university's 1 a.m. deadline to end the demonstration.The students vowed to continue the occupation of the cafeteria until they were able to present a list of demands to school administrators. The demands included thorough annual reporting of the university's operating budget, expenditures and endowment. They also want the university to provide 13 scholarships a year to students from the Gaza Strip and to give surplus supplies to Hundreds of people gathered outside the New York University student center early Friday in support of protesters who had been barricaded in the building's cafeteria for more than 24 hours and who had ignored the university's 1 a.m. deadline to end the demonstration.the Islamic University of Gaza.The students also ca…

February 18, 2009 - International design magazine -- art and architecture journal -- Metropolis Mag, has publish in its February issue, a featured piece about Atlanta's Downtown Library. The building, The Atlanta-Fulton Central Public Library -- designed by legendary architect Marcel Breuer -- is at risk of being demolished under the auspices of Robb Pitts, a notorious Atlanta politician. Nonetheless, with both a local and national preservation effort gathering steam, the table may soon turn and Mr. Pitts will have to find himself another architectural site to pick on.

Written by renowned journalist Jonathan Lerner, those interviewed for the magazine article consists of a veritable roll call of who's who in the art and design world, including Dr. Isabelle Hyman, Barry Bergdoll, Jon Buono and Max Eternity.

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FEBRUARY 2009 • METROPOLIS OBSERVEDOverdue!Atlanta’s urge for a trendy new central library may mean that …