Sept 22-26 Programs

BIG BANNER NEWS OF THE WEEK: HERE ON EARTH LAUNCHES BLOCKBUSTER NEW MEDIA SERIES: INSIDE ISLAM Starts this Thursday, Sept. 25!

Monday: You won't want to miss this one either: For this year’s Fall Equinox Poetry Circle of the Air Molly Peacock has chosen a really edgy poem written by the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam in 1918, on the heels of the Bolshevik Revolution. Very hard-hitting; has much to say about our own sense of sturm und drang in this highly pivotal political year. Check out the poem on our website: www.hereonearth.org.

Tuesday: We discovered a true Here-on-Earthian in Jon Miller, Executive Producer of the NPR series "Worlds of Difference," and "Think Global," the 2005 Public Radio Collaboration on globalization.

Wednesday: Daughters of India: A program that will make you reassess your impressions of Indian women, not as victims of repression, but as spirited and self-empowered professionals competing in a male society, entering the marketplace, and breaking with centuries-old traditions.

Thursday: You've heard tales of the Mujahababes, and the Girls of Riyadh on Here on Earth. Now get ready for Heavy Metal Islam! This premier program in our year-long new media series we’re producing with UW-Madison Global Studies, (and lots of help from our friends– check out our blog: insideislam.wisc.edu) features scholar/musician Mark Levine who jams with Moroccan bands, members of a heavy metal Bagdad band, and Allah only knows who else.

Food Friday: The Big Apple Family and what we all owe to the bears!

It wouldn't be worth doing any of this without you!

Please join us with your ears, minds, and hearts wide open.

Thanks so much,

Jean