In loving, living memory, John Melançon 1928 – 2007
John C. Melançon, born circa 1928, lived a full life – of work, of solidarity, of travel, of love, of learning, but his death May 29 came too soon. He leaves his former wife Evelyn; three sons, Jakob Alfred, Benjamin Maurice, and Daniel Eugene; Daniel's wife Eva Marie, and two grandchildren by Eva and Daniel, Cassidy James and Xavier Elijah.
An orphan, John made his own living starting from a young age in New Orleans. He never went to school, let alone graduated high school or college. A lifelong student of life by reading and direct experience, his intelligence and depth and breadth of historical knowledge far surpassed that from any university education.
Before his marriage, John traveled and worked in other parts of the world, including Latin America, England, Europe, and Israel. With his wife and sons he traveled and camped through 47 of our 50 states.
He helped support his family as assistant manager of the Weston Golf Club, as owner of J&F Variety in downtown Natick, delivering pizza at Pizza Plus, and working receiving at Sears. Seriously physically compromised by emphysema in his last years, he kept a sharp eye on politics, and world affairs, and the Boston Celtics and Red Sox.
He considered the most meaningful part of his life, prior to his family, the time he spent in an intentional community in Georgia that supported the Southern civil rights movement as well as directly working with, and providing work for, the local poor white community.
A radical his entire life, he never accepted the inequality, racism, or unfairness of society, and never quite lost his belief in our ability to change the world.
Sometimes hidden, he had a deep and abiding love of humanity.
These are links to the original content of this site. It will be slowly incorporated into the excellent open source free software content management system known as Drupal.
Note in particular that the "beMWeb makes web sites" link has been utterly superseded by the Agaric Design Collective (web development and graphic design).
Links: my best bookmarks.
beMWeb makes web sites.
CATSUP: Corporation for the Advancement of Totally Stupid and Useless Projects.
Library: books and knowledge at the Maurice Institute.
Publishing: BMM Publishing Company publishes original material.
Information about how to do things.
Issues: making the world better to live in.
Résumé: Im ready for many things. Hire me.
Enterprises: divisions of Melançon Enterprises from BMM Labs to Obi-Wan Productions.
Benjamin Maurice Melançon am I, and vice versa
About this site: steal my style sheets and insult my design
I am not a gamer, this is not the perspective that i'm coming from at all, but key parts of Jane McGonigal's vision unites well with the aims of Visions Unite.
Specifically:
All of those mean connecting people (both into smaller dream teams of compatible, complementary talents and into a large number of supporters).
I'm more interested in bringing what makes games satisfying to self-organizing to make things better, than to making games a vehicle to saving the world, which is the direction she goes in, but please, watch:
I feel left out of a lot of this food chain talk. I'm vegan, it's more of a food cufflink.
Helen Thomas is more than politically savvy enough to know that resigning now and letting Israel's right-wing lobby take credit for forcing the end to her career does far more damage to their cause of Uncriticizable Israel than anything else she could do.
You ain't gonna learn what you don't want to know.
Drupal is an absurdly chaotic system that produces bizarrely functional results...just like nature.
I am trying to find exactly when Paralympic recap coverage is today, and if it is possible to watch online to share the link with people, and a site-wide search for paralympics turns up nothing and your schedule lists nothing before 8pm!
Very disappointed with NBC.com.
Fortunately you can read that the time that the Paralympics recap is being shown today is 3pm EST (yes, on NBC) at
http://usparalympics.org/news/2010/03/09/nbc-sports-and-universal-sports...
See http://narconews.com/Issue65/article4104.html
http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/
Submitted the note under "I have a comment" and "Foreign affairs"
Investigate and demand the Colombian government drop support for threats and acts of violence against farmers in Tolima and Arauca, in particular the targeted Association of Campesinos in Arauca, of whom 15 people were murdered by members of paramilitaries and the Colombian military.
Funding to the Colombian government must be stopped and the state must protect its people not attack them.