Archive for January 2009
Barack Obama speech 20th January 2009
Martin L. King prediction
The BBC has an interview of Martin Luther King making a prediction about the US having a black president “in 25 years or less”.
And this is a speech by Obama the day before the Dr Martin Luther King holiday.
US history, segregation and thinking beyond races
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/7831637.stm
This is a video I wanted to embed in this post but I can’t. Anyway I think this is a great story by the BBC. It shows how race relations have changed in the US, or so it seems. Moreover this video reports the words of one of the students of Arkansas segregated high school escorted by the US Army into the building.
He says that if the US wants to move on and progress, it should think beyond races. For now it’s too early, but maybe it will be the case in the near future.
A change is gonna come … in the US
No to US missile defence – saturday 31 January in London
No to US missile defence
I’ve got this message in my email recently. I think it’s a good cause and that it deserves some form of support. I believe this post is this kind of support.
What follows is the message I received.
The start of my 2009
2009 starts with an american flavour for me.
With my friends we had the visit of Patrick. He’s american. One of those american you rarely knew of in the news. First of all he doesn’t have an astonishing american accent when he speaks. Maybe it’s because his mom is from Brazil. What makes Patrick quite unique to me, is the fact that he is in Italy to walk. He has walked from the north of Italy, actually from Swiss Alpes to Reggio Calabria and Sicily. Now he’s heading himself towards Trapani trying to reach the southern tip of Italy. You can follow his travel on his blog
I want to share this video Pat showed me and my friends during this new year’s celebrations
![cippo in the night [from the other side]](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2658/4186894005_32d1abb731_t.jpg "cippo in the night [from the other side]")
