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Somerville writer looks for answers in abandoned civil rights cases | Somerville | Your Town | Boston.com
Since he began investigating abandoned civil rights cases in 2004, Ben Greenberg of Somerville has assumed the role of detective, journalist, photographer, and technologist in an effort to expose perpetrators of southern racial violence in cases long dismissed by law enforcement.
For the past two years, he has collaborated with a team of reporters on the Civil Rights Cold Case Project, traveling south to interview surviving witnesses and searching for evidence from before he was born.
Greenberg tells the Globe how his fascination with civil rights cold cases began, and how modern technology could help him solve them.
I think this thing actually came out pretty well.
Stephin Merritt Writing Score to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Magnetic Fields mastermind Stephin Merritt is busy plotting a new synth-heavy record, prepping a documentary, and heading out on tour to support the release of Realism this week, but his calendar isn’t quite packed yet: “I’m working on a score for the 1917 silent film version of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” Merritt told Exclaim, adding later: “I’m going to try to musicalize it to be more or less in sync with the moving lips of the actors, who actually talk a great deal, considering it’s a silent film.”
Not only will Merritt write the score to Jules Verne’s classic science fiction tale of Captain Nemo’s hunt for an underwater monster, but he will also be singing and performing with a live band at the San Francisco Film Festival in May.
In other “musicians scoring silent films” news, Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and Steve Kimock wrote and performed music set to Charlie Chaplin’s silent films at the New York Guitar Festival’s Silent Films/Live Guitars series last week in NYC. Check out a nice review with pictures and a brief interview with Kimock here.
Want to know what’s on The Thin White Duke’s Ipod this week?
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“You freaky old bastard, you”. Flight of the Conchords got you summed up Dave. But excellent choice in Linton Kwesi Johnson!
Call for halt to Haiti adoptions over traffickers - Times Online
I can’t begin to express how disturbing this is.
Thousands of children unaccounted for since Haiti’s earthquake are at risk of falling prey to child traffickers, aid agencies have warned, as fears were raised over at least 15 children who have vanished from hospitals within the past few days.
Unicef, the UN children’s agency, warned that “traffickers fish in pools of vulnerability. We know from past experience that trafficking happens in the chaos that usually follows emergencies.” A Unicef adviser, Jean Luc Legrand, said he knew of at least 15 cases of children disappearing from hospitals.
Save the Children, World Vision and the British Red Cross have called for an immediate halt to adoptions of Haitian children not approved before the earthquake, warning that child traffickers could exploit the lack of regulation. There has been a surge in offers from well-meaning foreigners.
The scale of the problem is potentially enormous. Haiti is awash with children, with 45 per cent of its population younger than 15. One UN official estimated that between 40,000 and 60,000 children were killed, orphaned or separated from their families by the earthquake, which struck while most were still in school, and anecdotal evidence suggests many have been left to fend for themselves. A UN official spoke of people driving to the airport in expensive cars and putting children on outgoing flights without any documentation.
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