Author: Ruby Sinreich

Operation Eden is the blog of professional photographer Clayton Cubitt from Slidell, LA, which is just across Lake Ponchartrain from New Orleans. He went down to help his mother recover after Hurricane Katrina and has taken some incredibly intense and beautiful pictures along the way, especially of the faces of the survivors there.

Tomorrow Brian and I will be attending the first of three weddings in as many weeks! (We are also attending at least three more weddings in the spring of 2006, not counting our own.) It’s a great thing to see so many of my friends falling in love with wonderful people.

First stop: Will and Shannon, who will get married at his family’s farm which hosts a corn maze! Will and Shannon are so cool that in their gift registry they included a suggestion to give to organizations promoting the freedom of same-sex couples to marry (which I did). This is such a good idea, we may have to borrow it for our wedding as well.

Continue reading “Wedding sprint” →

Today I’ll be keeping one ear tuned to the Duke Podcasting Symposium, billed as the first-ever academic symposium to address the topic.

Continue reading “Duke geeks out on podcasting” →

Here are some great photos of the anti-war march on Saturday by Philly blogger Albert Yee. Look for Brian and me in the there, next to the brilliant Dr. Cornel West!

Brian also took some good pictures including more Cackalack Thunder, and the shoulder of our friend Perry (a soldier) showing the “airborne” patch next to a “fuck empire” sticker on his fatigues. We also saw a Marine in full dress uniform with an anti-war sign. Hell yeah!

I estimated about 200,000 people were there. The police said 150,000, so we’re in the right ballpark. Interestingly, there are about 147,000 troops in Iraq right now.

North Carolinians marching for peace and justice in DC. Sept. 24, 2005.

SaveROE.com: Crawford Resigns

Dr. Lester Crawford has resigned his post as FDA Commissioner. Dr. Crawford ‘s tenure at the FDA had been plagued by controversy for a variety of reasons, including the handling of the Plan B emergency contraception application for over-the-counter status.

The place to be tomorrow is our nation’s capital for the “Massive March, Rally & Festival” to End the War on Iraq.

I can’t even count the number of these protests I’ve been to in DC, but I’m really looking forward to this one. We’re not only clearly losing the war at this point, now they’re losing the public relations battle too. First Cindy Sheehan, and then Hurricane Katrina. Americans are waking up to the fact that the Bush administration has been working hard to make us less safe in every way. They have given the world new reasons to hate us, at the same time they debilitate our ability to understand and solve national and global problems. They decimate the environment and spend fuel as fast as they can. I still wonder how I will explain this era in American history to my children, except to say that I objected fiercely and did everything I could to change it.

Continue reading “Meet me at the corner of Peace and Justice” →

OMG! Get Your War On does Katrina. Awesome. And sad.