Citizens Climate Lobby Takes Campaign to Capitol Hill

Between June 21 and 25, Citizens Climate Lobby took its message to Capitol Hill, meeting with 52 different members of Congress, or their energy and climate staff, in both the House and the Senate. The first CCL national conference was fortuitously timed, as the ongoing disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has brought into stark relief the nature of the carbon-fuel problem and the urgent need for action to achieve a civilization-wide overhaul of energy infrastructure, and the climate bill pending in the Senate may not have the votes to override a filibuster.

‘Texto sobre texto’: la poesía de Carlos Trujillo

Carlos Trujillo es poeta chilote, nacido en Chiloé, gran isla chilena que ocupa la frontera entre el continente y el turbulento Pacífico, isla donde, según me dicen, tres días sin lluvia ya constituyen una sequía inexplicable y mantener en colores floridos las iglesias de madera autóctona, frente al océano y las lluvias, es un desafío constante.

‘Poesía en español: In their Own Words’, Villanova University [video]

Vídeo completo de la presentación de cuatro poetas, incluido yo, ya disponible a través de iTunes U. El vídeo dura 80 minutos y se descarga a la librería iTunes, después de que se haya seleccionado “Get Episode” de la lista de items disponsibles en iTunes U.

Inauguration Diary: a Politics of Inclusion & of Civic Intelligence (photo essay)

Millions of people are expected to gather on the National Mall, between the west face of the Capitol Building and the Lincoln Memorial; security is expected to be without any known precedent, and temperatures are not likely to rise above freezing… should we go? Should we go, and if we do, should we go as citizens, or as journalists? If millions of people can brave the crowds, the security and the cold, to witness an historic moment of such sweeping resonance, then why can’t we?