On behalf of my students in the Mixing and Remixing Information Spring 2007 class, I’d like to invite you to our Open House. Bring your friends along!
At the Open House, students will be presenting their semester-long projects, which all reuse or recombine information to create something new. We will be setting up the room for poster-style presentations. Please feel free to drop by anytime during the hour to see some demos [see entire entry...]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/arts/television/30morm.html
New York Times
April 30, 2007
TV Review | ‘The Mormons’
Modern-Day Look at History of the Latter-Day Saints
By NEIL GENZLINGER
A proposition: If your beliefs are any good, you needn’t be afraid to bring them out into the light. The proof: “The Mormons,” a thoughtful two-part series tonight and tomorrow on PBS. The tenets of the Mormon church may not be to everyone’s tastes, but the church members and leaders who speak in this program are admirably forthright [see entire entry...]

Wiccan War Widows Win Their Sacred Burial Markers
By Maya Dollarhide – WeNews correspondent
(WOMENSENEWS)–Even before she learned the good news earlier this week, the Rev. Selena Fox was upbeat.
“We’ll win,” Fox told Women’s eNews in an interview last month. “We have two goddesses on our side; we have Lady Liberty and Lady Justice.”
Fox is the leader of Veteran Pentacle Quest, a campaign based in Barneveld, Wis., that has been working since 1997 to persuade the Department [see entire entry...]

Cat and I crossed the bridge last month for BattleCry, the traveling evangelical youth stadium show. The event drew out plenty of kids (from as far away as Texas, we found), plus plenty of cameras and some counter-protesters. We wanted to ask young Christians what they thought about it all. We also wanted to know what religion stories they thought the media were missing. Here’s what we found.

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New York Times,December 3, 2005
Push to Loosen Abortion Laws in Latin America By JUAN FORERO
PAMPLONA, Colombia – In this tradition-bound Roman Catholic town one day in April, two young women did what many here consider unthinkable: pregnant and scared, they took a cheap ulcer medication known to induce abortions. When the drug left them bleeding, they were treated at a local emergency room – then promptly arrested.
Insisting that abortion was rare, Pamplona’s conservative leaders [see entire entry...]

From La Opinion, LA’s Spanish-language daily… Crece debate por aborto en México
A loose translation of the lead:
“The denouncements between the Catholic Church and the DF Legislative Assembly became accusations with first and last names when deputy Cirigo accused archdiocesan spokesman Valdemar of being the intellectual author of death threats for supporting depenalization.
“If something happens to us (the legislators), it’s the cleric’s fault,” said Cirigo, one of the sponsors of the legislative order that will [see entire entry...]

Are you kidding me? This is a total profile waiting to happen and no it’s not because it’s Guate!
Antichrist‘ to preach in Guatemala
2007/4
By JUAN CARLOS LLORCA, Associated Press Writer Fri Apr 20, 4:10 PM ET
GUATEMALA CITY – He calls himself the Antichrist, wears the number 666 tattooed on his arm and claims a following of 2 million people.
The Central American country has banned the leader of the Florida-based Growing in Grace church, arguing he [see entire entry...]

From BoingBoing.net:

People committing eternal sin on YouTube

The Blasphemy Challenge is a website that invites people to submit video testimonials denying the existence of the Holy Spirit. Those who do will get a free copy of the documentary, The God [see entire entry...]

Following the connection between these two bills will definitely make for a good story. I think we need to start thinking about how we would tell the story from the US side and draw a parallel with the Mexico side.
Post what you think. For link to WeNews story go here.
Abortion Ban Spurs ‘Free Choice’ Move in Congress
By Allison Stevens – WeNews correspondent
WASHINGTON (WOMENSENEWS)–The day after the Supreme Court upheld a controversial abortion ban, pro-choice [see entire entry...]