Re: [xmca] A magic moment

[Mark de Boer <mark@ias-group.com>]

Hello everyone,

I have a student, 8 years old, his English is not very good and he  
came for his lesson today. He turned to me in the lesson and said,  
"Yes, we can change." He caught me by surprise and I said 'pardon?'

He said in Japanese, "I saw it on the television in Obama's speech."

Seems that he saw the Japanese subtitles and heard the words and asked  
his mom what it meant.

Wow.

Mark



On Jan 21, 2009, at 5:45 PM, Leif Strandberg wrote:

> yes Mike and others
>
> it was/is a great moment also here in Sweden - to see what happens  
> when so many people (WE CAN!) participating in a joint activity.
> In my political life, I have not been this happy since May 1975  
> (Saigon) - A new world is possible! This world is my world this  
> world is your world! Our world!
>
> leif
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lois Holzman" <lholzman@eastsideinstitute.org 
> >
> To: <mcole@weber.ucsd.edu>; "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu 
> >
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 3:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [xmca] A magic moment
>
>
> > Thank you, Mike, for being so giving.
> > The Lincoln Memorial inaugural concert yesterday was a wonderfully  
> > new emotional experience, as has much of the last few months been,  
> > that continues tonight seeing the people in DC on TV.
> > And they didn't skip over the verse in This Land is Your Land about  
> > private property!
> > Lois
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jan 19, 2009, at 9:00 PM, Mike Cole wrote:
> >
> > > Dear Xmca-ers--
> > >
> > > Tonight is a magic moment. In the Los Angeles Times this morning   
> > > there was
> > > an
> > > editorial "cartoon" that had a picture of the Calendar with Martin  
> > > Luther
> > > King, on
> > > January 19th, pointing to the future-- of January 20th, when,  
> > > Humanity
> > > willing, when
> > > an African-American will become president of the United States.
> > >
> > > I feel unbelievably luck to be alive, present, and, in my small  
> > > peripheral
> > > way, a participant
> > > in such an event. The site of Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen   
> > > singing Arlo
> > > Guthrie's hymn
> > > to the promise of this troubled country with its checkered  
> > > history  in front
> > > of Lincoln's statue
> > > yesterday was a sight I NEVER expected to live to see. When I was  
> > > a child,
> > > my family's anti-
> > > racism and belief in social justice produced some very hard  
> > > times.  When I
> > > went to graduate
> > > school in Indiana and picketed Woolworth's literally dogged by the  
> > > police,
> > > my New York liberal
> > > friends thought it was so obvious and unnecessary they couldn't be  
> > > bothered.
> > > When I returned
> > > from the USSR in 1963 and did not know enough to turn south from  
> > > New York to
> > > be present in
> > > Washington for MLK's speech at the Lincoln memorial, but had to  
> > > hear  it
> > > while driving west on the
> > > Pennsylvania turnpike, we felt the lost opportunity sorely.
> > >
> > > All events, long past.
> > >
> > > LCHC holds this truth to be self evident: All persons are created   
> > > equal. We
> > > are rendered unequal
> > > by the environment into which we are born, an environment that, in  
> > > the
> > > general ideological-theoretical
> > > assumptions of xmca, is not forced upon human beings locked into  
> > > an  iron
> > > cage, but is, with proper
> > > respect and humility, constructed and (may our grand children hope)
> > > preserved by the actions we take
> > > now. today. tomorrow. and the days following.
> > >
> > > Gotta turn off the TV. The trivia level is almost more than I can   
> > > bear.
> > > Better to turn to friends coming to
> > > celebrate and pray for the future, and to listen to Pete Seeger   
> > > leading the
> > > nation in us thought that,
> > > just maybe, we can overcome.
> > >
> > > Bon nuit
> > > bueno noche
> > > spokoini nochi
> > > and lots of good luck. We all need it.
> > > mike
> > >
> > > (the 50's guy)
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