Los Abuelos Se Rebelan: TV from Cuba, Island in Goliath’s Sea

The Stone’s Throw Series was made in response to Tele Marti in 1989. We transmitted one hour of the compilations on the Deep Dish satellite, in our counter programming to what the US was sending to Cuba-- illegally according to international telecommunications regulations. In addition to the satellite transmission we put together 4 programs that were installed and/or screened in a variety of art/film places-- Artists Space, Wexner Center, ICA Boston, etc.

I always loved this telenovela.

One of the best written (and shot) programs we saw when Monica and I screened some 200 hours (sometimes in fast forward) of Cuban dramas, comedies, concerts, kids shows and news programs.

This is a comedic and rather subversive look at the Cuban housing crisis during the “special period".

Now that I am a grandmother I wince at some of the heretofore humorous tensions.

I hope Sol Maria looks at this and remembers that it was sometimes hard but also sometimes fun when I used to have to sleep on her “canapé” for my housing while I was teaching at UCSD.

Trying to intimidate Wellesley Students!

These Babson College frat bros messed with the wrong Wellesley women of color – because we fought back

After a night that can only be described as a horrific emotional roller coaster, Wellesley students awoke to the first day of Trump. This is what went down.

By Jalena Keane-Lee on November 11, 2016 / @jalenakl /  Like the Tempest

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After a night that can only be described as a horrific emotional roller coaster, Wellesley College students awoke to the first day of Trump. At approximately 1pm a large truck drove slowly through campus with a Trump flag flying off its back, harassing students. The two men in the truck went to the house for students of African descent, rode around campus yelling at students, and spit towards a student when asked to leave. The two men turned out to be Edward Tomasso and Parker Rander-Riccardi, students at Babson College, a neighboring college. 

How were we able to ID them? Well, that's the key to surviving in Trump's America. CLICK TO TWEET

These men have been called out on social media, in a post by a Wellesley student that has gone viral. How were we able to identify them? Well, that’s the golden question and the key to surviving in Trump’s America. Wellesley students, current and former, mobilized around the country. Students looked up their license plate and found one identity, which led to finding the other. 

They tried to make us feel unsafe. CLICK TO TWEET

These men came to our campus. They sought us out. They came to our space in a purposeful effort to make us feel unsafe. But we found them.

We found their gloating snapchat.

We found them and made it public. Made them public. We called their employers, the national board of their frat, their class dean. We made it clear that this is unacceptable behavior. Their college, their peers made it clear that they do not stand for racism.

Related:  The best of #BadHombres

We’ve seen stories from around the country of women being beaten and their hijabs being torn off, of students yelling racial slurs at each other across the nation, and people literally heiling Hitler. But here’s what’s important to remember – this is not Trump’s America, this is our America. The majority of our country did not vote for Trump. The majority of our country is not white supremacist (but far too many are). 

Damien Escobar’s Jazz Violin

Sol Maria did some jazz improvisations in George Lewis’s class at UCSD. She was really
very good. I wonder if she is still playing violin....