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Can Technology throw a party and save the whole Universe?
I went down to the city of New Orleans about a month ago in a quest to continue to explore how what I do for a living can make a difference for the world.
Don't worry, it wasn't all so serious.
New Orleans is a playground, and I definitely played with my little collection of familiar places and good heart connections. I love New Orleans because it's the kind of city that goes un-phased seeing someone riding down the street in a bicycle and covered entirely in silver paint, but screeches to a halt, mouths universally agape, when they see me going for my run in the morning. Granted, my running form is probably a sight to behold, but this city has an uncanny ability to simultaneously not grok me, and invite me into it's celebrations and ceremonies, anyhow.
Rent our Technology: making the technology ROOTs has developed available to the system.
So this is a hunch, but it's an educated one. The technology that was recently created for ROOTS (integrated website, membership, registration, directory and development systems) might be something that could potentially be very valuable to other organizations. If this is true for you, read on.
It would be in the best interests of an organization with a mission like ROOTS to facilitate that technology becoming available cost effectively to ROOTS organizations.
There are a couple of different scenarios and business models that would support something like that.
Facebook and ROOTS
ROOTers get ready, cause this might make your head spin: You can now share AlternateROOTS with your facebook world, simply by clicking the blue facebook 'share' link at the bottom of the page/s you want to publish and share with your facebook friends.
In addition, when you write a BLOG or a FORUM on the ROOTS site, it will automatically publish to the ROOTs facebook page (hint: lots more people will read it).
And thirdly, people can now become facebook fans of ROOTS from the ROOTs homepage.
Can I get an AMEN?
On November 16, 1989, six Jesuit priests, their co-worker and her teenage daughter were massacred in El Salvador. A U.S. Congressional Task Force reported that those responsible were trained at the 
I would first like introduce myself by sharing that I have been a practicing Buddhist since I was 11 years old. I grew up believing in and witnessing the phenomenal universal powers of chanting October 9, 2009
Jo Carson, a founding member of Alternate ROOTS, is in the midst of a pitched battle with colon cancer.
Jo has been a self-supporting artist for more than 30 years. Since quality, affordable health insurance is extremely difficult for independent artists to obtain, the insurance coverage Jo has is utterly insufficient to her current need – her policy will cover her surgery, but not the extensive chemotherapy and radiation she is currently under-going.
You can help by making a donation through ROOTS to Jo's Medical Expenses Campaign. Please click here to make that important contribution.
Presenting 101
Alternate ROOTS and the Southern Arts Federation collaborated to bring Nick Slie and Hope Clark together to lead two workshops on Presenting 101; one at the ROOTS Annual Meeting in August, and another in September at the Performing Arts Exchange (PAE) Conference in Norfolk, VA.
What did you say your name was???
by Sarah dAngelo
Columbus Day, Indians and public protests. The thrill of a modern day uprising. It’s the only day of the year when we can gather in droves in front of state and federal municipalities and release the voice of the grandfather drum without fear of tear gas, bullets or arrest. It’s a public performance that puts the best of Boal to shame. At the end of the day, everyone goes home in one piece, happy there were no scalps lost or taken, no arrows or bullets fired, no wagons burned. It is a true non-violent, intercultural exchange. Times have changed.
