Monday, March 7, 2005
Regarding the conference I posted about in the entry below...I was out most of the day but managed to capture most of the web feed to disk. There are some gaps where I was futsing with figuring out my stream capture software, and where the feed timed-out but I didn't notice to re-start it for what may have been...well, I don't know how long. I think I missed Brigitte Gabriel completely, for instance, and that's a real shame because she's a great speaker. Since the video probably totals about 700 megabytes, posting it may be problematic.
If there's one thing I like more than a good essay, it's a good speech, and this conference was an embarrassment of riches in that regard. I've not watched back most of the first...oh, about 4 hours, yet, but the final couple (yes, it was a long conference) were chock-full of good performances. If you were worried that you were alone out there as a voice for truth, don't worry, there are many people standing with you.
LKrutt emails:
First, several hundred turned out and it was a crowd who was intently listening. NOT 1 member of Columbia's "investigative committee" showed nor Pres Bollinger, all were invited to hear another viewpoint.
It was very well organized and put together and the speakers were excellent. I sat next to 3 African American kids my own age. They knew more about the conflict and had pamphlets as well about Mauritania and Sudan than most people there.
There were even 5-10 organized protestors, American kids, who went in and tried to disrupt Phyllis Chesler's speech. They tried to shout down her classifying Israeli soldiers as extremely moral citing the sham film "Jenin Jenin" which Phyllis ably and very politely (I might add) countered to a thunderous applause.
2 hours later they quietly got up with taped stickeys over their mouths and made sure to pose for a reporter's pictures.
Some of the excellent speakers were Phyllis Chesler, Brigitte Gabrielle, Charles Jacobs, people from Sudan and Mauritania, Rachel Fish who took on Harvard and Zayed Centre virtually single-handedly and won... Ironically Dan Rather did a great expose on her which they showed for CBS Evening News.
I may do some editing and see if I can extract some of the better speeches from what I have. We'll have to see.
As a side note, sorry for the lack of updates which may remain light (but not non-existent) for the next couple days. I was busy yesterday and then watching video, next I've got the Carnival of the Vanities to get together, and finally, between work and some of the quality emails with pointers that I've been receiving, sometimes my brain is being pulled in a dozen directions but somehow very little ends up hitting the page.
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PS I attended the whole thing but haven't posted anything on it yet.
Interesting. I'll have to link her posts up later. Thanks. The webcast I have starts part of the way through Laurie Zoloth's speech (I think that's she). Will be interested to read your impressions.
What did Efraim Karash say? He is one of the best out there. He has some very informative essays.