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Our daughter Lydia attends a public Waldorf school.

Michael Stipe 6-01-1994

R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe on political mockery.

Dwight Hopkins 6-01-1994

I hope we are vigilant to resist making careers out of the most fashionable terminology at hand. We must keep in mind why we are committed to a new humanity.

The reclamation of Chicano artistic life that came out of the movements of the 1960s has provided the images and symbols that fuel the Latino community's struggle to find itself.

Julie Polter 6-01-1994

God created and saw that it was good. But since then things have been more ambiguous.

Jim Wallis 6-01-1994

"The only game in town?" C’mon, Dave! You don’t really want to give all that away, do ya’? Didn’t that Palestinian peasant come saying, "A new game is at hand"?

Mozart's Enlightenment was for men; women minded the children and washed the socks. That offends and angers me, but it troubles me too.

What's faith got to do with it?
Dwight Hopkins 6-01-1994

"Postmodernism" is a weird term.

Many of my comrades regard Mozart as another dead white male who wrote dainty, high-priced irrelevancies. It's true that rural peasants had another music.

The most successful method of resistance among the Maya in Mexico and Central America from the time of the Spanish conquest in the 15th century has been the transmission of religious and cultural

Real culture is a form of resistance. It's the music or art of communities. It affirms a particular reality.

Karen Lattea 6-01-1994

Try to imagine civil rights marches without the spirituals or South African freedom without toi-toi.

I'm jealous of countries or regions that have a popular culture.

Dwight Hopkins 6-01-1994

"Multiculturalism" is a popular culture term used by certain people of color and white people.

Mark Lewis Taylor 6-01-1994

Under what conditions do pop culture images and icons hold a liberating function?

Two very distinct types of culture exist, and both are active forces in our society today.

Bishop Samuel Ruiz 5-01-1994

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Jeff Shriver 5-01-1994

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Juan Hernandez 5-01-1994
An interview with Juan Hernandez