Are you from the Adirondacks or have you ever spent time there? Do you have an Adirondack memory? Watch the show tonight at 9:00 p.m. and then share your story here.
 Join WPBT - Channel 2 and uVu at Generation Engage’s Affordable Health Care Forum. This free event is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, May 14 at Jackson Memorial Hospital Room 259. Florida State Representative and long time healthcare reform advocate, René Garcia, will be speaking on issues surrounding affordable healthcare. Affordable Healthcare Forum
In this National election year, the goal of this event is for people to gain a better understanding of how to take charge of their health and how the healthcare system really works in Florida.
Come Join us to learn what steps the state is taking to reform the healthcare system to make it more affordable! This is your chance to have access to decision and policy makers and highlights from this event will be posted on our website, uVu.
Invited speakers include: Rene Garcia, FL State Legislator who is passionate about reforming the healthcare syetem in Florida and
a member of the Public Health Trust from Jackson Memorial
When: May 14th at 5:30 p.m.
Where: Jackson Memorial Hospital
RSVP or to become a GenerationEngage Member contact:
Ali.Ingersoll@GenerationEngage.org or call (954) 303-5585
This May is the third annual Jewish American Heritage month and we in South Florida can thank one of our own elected officials for helping to make this recent addition to American Heritage celebrations a reality. Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz was instrumental in getting this month designated and she spoke about that effort at the kickoff for the month of celebrations at the Jewish Museum of Florida. You can hear from the Congresswoman as well as Keynote Speaker Ed Shapiro and Sr. VP for the Miami Dolphins, Harvey Greene, who addressed the question "Where Have all the Jewish Athletes Gone?" by visiting our video site, uVu. You can also hear from David Grubin, producer of The Jewish Americans series for PBS, who visited also visited Miami last week.
Joe Sachs, a holocaust survivor, addressed the students who rallied against genocide at the Holocaust memorial in Miami Beach on April 17, 2008.
reACT attendees had a unique chance to listen to Survivors from two Genocides. Distinguished by age and background, Jacqueline Murekatete, Rwandan Survivor, and Joe Sachs, Holocaust Survivor, shared a common history of trauma and loss due to the hate of some and the indifference of many. South Florida students from eight different Miami colleges, high schools and community groups from across the city joined together to raise their voices against the world's indifference toward past and present Genocides.
You can see Mr. Sachs' speech on uVu.
Four time Olympic Gold Medal winning swimmer, Lenny Krayzelburg talked about his life as an athlete, to the audience of a Swim Clinic held at the Soref JCC in Plantationon, on April 13, 2008.
Watch the video here on uVu
Little River Bend Carrfour project provides supportive services and housing for the formerly homeless. A new project called The Garden Project gives an opportunity to residents to learn gardening techniques while meeting volunteers. Linda McGlathery talks about the therapeutic effect of the project.
Watch a clip on uVu
Jacqueline Murekatete is internationally recognized for her work as a Human Rights Activist and genocide survivors’ advocate, speaking out for victims and survivors of genocide. Born in Rwanda in 1984, Jacqueline was not yet ten when she lost her entire immediate and extended family to the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi genocide.
Jacqueline told us her story and you can hear it in her own words on our website uVu.
At age 23, Jacqueline has already conducted more than 300 presentations in U.S-based schools, universities, faith-based communities, at international forums in Germany, Israel, Bosnia, and Belgium, and the United Nations General Assembly. Independently and with other Holocaust and genocide survivors, Jacqueline challenges people around the world to remember, to fight indifference, and to peacefully coexist.
Jacqueline’s story has been featured in the New York Times, the U.N Chronicle, the Washington Times, Newsday, People, Glamour, Teen Vogue, NPR, Voice of America, CNN, PBS, NBC, ABC, MTV-U, Polo Ralph Lauren GIVE campaign, and other leading media outlets worldwide.
For her work, Jacqueline has received a number of prestigious awards, including the Global Peace and Tolerance award from the United Nations, the Scandinavian Sprit award from the American Jewish Committee, a humanitarian award from the Anti-Defamation League; an honorary award from New York University at the 175th commencement ceremony, and most recently the United Nations International Peace Ambassadors’ outstanding humanitarian award.
Jacqueline is the founder and program director of Jacqueline’s Human Rights corner, a genocide prevention education program founded in April 2007, under the umbrella of Miracle Corners of the World (MCW), an internationally recognized non-profit organization based in New York City.
In Partnership with MCW, Jacqueline’s Human Rights Corner is currently working to develop genocide prevention education curriculums for young people, and to build a community center in Rwanda which will aim to empower genocide survivors to rebuild their lives, and to become agents of positive change in their country and in the world at large.
To Learn more about Jacqueline and her work visit here.
With 86-year-old twin sisters Peppy Barer and Rosie Groman narrating, THE GEFILTE FISH CHRONICLES tells the story of how a family embraces the Passover holiday: not only to celebrate a religious event, but to stay spiritually and physically connected through traditional meal preparations. Although this is a tale about one family, it crosses cultural and religious lines, to remind us of how many families develop rituals as they celebrate holidays. A celebration of spring and Jewish freedom, Passover brings the whole Dubroff family together. The holiday begins with the "Seder," a meal where the story of the Jewish exodus from Egypt, a journey out of slavery, is recounted in prose, song, and prayer. The film opens six weeks before Passover with the making of a perfect horseradish, and concludes with sunny goodbyes following a matzoh brie breakfast the morning after the Seder. Family recipes that appear on screen during closing credits add an extra special touch to the program. THE GEFILTE FISH CHRONICLES is filled with joy and love, family films and photographs.
THE GEFILTE FISH CHRONICLES airs Sunday, April 20 at 6:00 p.m.
 The red Carpet was short but it was for a big cause. It was a unique chance for uVu to attended a red carpet event which was not about the latest cds, promotional videos or personal life of celebrities. It was about the children at the Art for Life Miami Beach hosted at the Bath Club. The under privileged youths that need art in their life as a form of expression, an escape from everyday struggle or simply a way to interact with other children and adults.
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Take a former NFL football player, put him on front of a middle school audience, and watch the reactions as he speaks about healthy food habits and lifestyle.
James McKnight, who played for the Seattle Seahawks, the Dallas Cowboys and the Miami Dolphins, paid a visit to students at Edison Middle School.
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The Human Services Coalition (HSC) is an organization we have worked with often over the last few months. We share a common mission to connect Miami's divergent communities with educational resources and empower and inform our citizenry. The HSC has recently published a book, Punto de Partida: Stories of Truth and Hope, a passionate and poetic collection of newspaper columns by award-winning journalist Daniel Shoer Roth that seeks to spur readers to speak up and take action in their community.
Punto de Partida features 16 columns by Shoer Roth as originally published in Spanish in El Nuevo Herald and translated into English.
Paired with insightful essays from local leaders and photographs taken by Herald photographers, Shoer Roth's work illuminates South Florida's social challenges through the eyes of the under served and overlooked.
"Punto de Partida takes aim at the issues affecting how we live in South Florida and gives voice to the people overcoming all odds to build a better life," said Daniella Levine, president and CEO of HSC. "We want to inspire readers to make a difference in our community."
Recently, we had a chance to listen as Mr. Shoer Roth read an excerpt from the book and introduced us to the subject of his story, 104 year old Morris Rosen. You can see and hear Mr. Shoer Roth reading "100 years of happiness: the story of friendship" on uVu, by clicking here.
You can find out more about Punto de Partida, which is the first book published by HSC, by visiting their site
Yesterday, the Miami Coalition for the Homeless announced the winners of the 2008 Student Short Film Competition. The announce came at a screening held at the Tower Theater and was part of this years' Miami International Film Festival. The winning entry will be shown on March 9th at one of the closing Film Festival events, but yesterday was a day for celebrating the talents of these young filmmakers and also for drawing attention to the circumstances which cause people to become homeless. Once the Film Festival events are concluded, WPBT will be proud to showcase the good work of these students on our video site uVu.
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About the only thing I remember from High School Physics is Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, in fact, I try and make a point of dropping this reference as often as possible because I'm so proud of it. Simply put (and with apologies to Heisenberg) while it is possible to determine the momentum or the position of an atomic particle it is impossible to know the momentum and the position of an atomic particle at the same time.
So why the Heisenberg reference?
Let me begin to answer by explaining where I've been the past week, which was a very exciting time to be involved with the idea of connecting communities through digital technology. This weekend I was at the Imagine Miami Summit on Arts, Culture & Civic Engagement, which I mentioned in an earlier post (see the videos here). I then had a chance to spend a few days at The Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy, which was a Media Learning Seminar sponsored jointly by the Knight Foundation and the Council on Foundations. Once again, much of that conference can be found on our website uVu. Still to come in February will be We Media 2008 on the campus at U.M. Run by iFocos, the self described summit will be "the global festival and forum for innovators and creators of the connected society" and on the heels of that comes WebWise 2008, hosted by the Wolfsonian - FIU, the theme this year is "WebWise 2.0: The Power of Community."
So as you can see it is an exciting time to be doing work in the real Miami and its digital communties as well. We created uVu with the idea of making this information available to more people than could possibly attend these conferences and hopefully we are living up to that promise, visit the site as it grows and let us know what you think.
Which brings me back to Heisenberg. As I attend these meetings and hear the discussions, it is clear that anyone who believes they know where the digital frontier is taking us, how great will be its impact on connecting communities or how fast we are going is either crazy or lying or probably both, at least Hesienberg had it half right.
In February, WPBT honors the contributions of African Americans with a line up of documentary and performance programs which highlight a long list of achievements, but history as we know is written and rewritten everyday. At WPBT, through our website uVu, we've had a chance to witness history and preserve it, in the name of Barrington Irving. If you aren't familiar with Mr. Irving, watch the news tonight as he is being presented with a Congressional Resolution today. This note comes from the Black PR Wire:
Barrington Irving, the 24-year-old pilot who set two world records in June, 2007 to become the youngest pilot and the first person of African descent to fly solo around the globe, will be presented with a Congressional Resolution at a briefing at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 12th in Room HC-5 in the U.S. Capitol building.
The Resolution (H. Res. 661), passed unanimously by the U.S. House of Representatives on December 11, 2007, was introduced by U.S. Representatives Alcee L. Hastings (D-Miramar) and Kendrick B. Meek (D-Miami), and encourages the pursuit of more initiatives like Irving’s nonprofit organization, Experience Aviation, Inc., which encourages youth and underrepresented groups to pursue careers in aviation.
“Barrington Irving is one of the greatest young heroes of our time,” remarked Representative Hastings. “His triumph demonstrates that if you reach for the sky, you truly can make it, and in turn, make history. The passage of this resolution is one of many initiatives to come that will reprioritize opportunities in aviation for our youth.”
“When the younger generation is looking for a role model and hero, they need to look no further than Barrington Irving,” said Representative Meek.“This young pilot proved that when you dream big dreams and work hard, the extraordinary is possible. I am honored to call Barrington Irving a constituent.”
However, if you'd like to relive, or see for the first time, Barrington make his record breaking flight, watch these clips on uVu.
The first videos in a series of conversations with Key West residents have been posted to our video sharing site, uVu, and the hope is that it will spur some continuing discussion about issues on the minds of local islanders.
The perception to most outsiders is that life in paradise is, well, paradise. And to a large extent it is. On one hand, many of the people we spoke with thought that even with a hint of the problems felt throughout the rest of the country, the climate and the community more than compensates. But there were concerns that seemed unique to the Southernmost point as well.
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