

An excerpt from “To Abbie With Love.” (The gent at the beginning is Abbie’s brother, Jack.)
Mike Benedetti talks with Nicholas Reville of the Participatory Culture Foundation. They discuss the Democracy media player, free culture, and Worcester.
Uncut interviews with attendees at the 2006 Catholic Worker gathering in Worcester, Massachusetts. Some glitches in the source tape.
Mike Benedetti, Bruce Russell, Kevin Ksen, and Ken Hannaford-Ricardi discuss Worcester coffee, heavy metal, and needle exchange.
Desiree Bassett, a 13 year old girl in Worcester, MA, totally rules on guitar. Amazing tapping solos, hard rock covers, etc. She is so f*cking fast!
Michael True shares his frustration about the Iraq War while vigiling outside Worcester's Broadway Diner, where Senator John Kerry was meeting local politicians. June 12, 2006.
Nicole Belanger and Mike Benedetti document Worcester's newest visionary junk shop.
Mike Benedetti invited me over a few weeks ago to sample a durian he had brought back from California.
Worcester's Real Solutions group kicks off a lawn sign campaign to "change the climate of hostility towards the poor." Video by Nicole Belanger.
For this video, the artist practiced 3 months in a row to learn to sing Led Zeppelin's most famous song--entirely backwards. "The Stairway at St.Paul's" is based on the hysteria that surrounded certain music recordings of the 60s and 70s. Some rock bands like the Beatles, Judas Priest and Led Zeppelin were supposed to have put hidden messages in their records that could only be heard when played backwards. These messages though, would subconsciously be picked up by the listener who would then react in response to them. In this way the band Judas Priest ended up in a court case because their records had "induced" children to commit suicide. Also, the Beatles were supposed to suggest through their records that Paul McCartney, one of their main band members, had died in a car crash and was replaced by a look-a-like. The most famous example though, is Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven," a song about a woman buying herself a way in to heaven. The mystic lyrics seem to urge us to follow the right path in life. But as one line in the song already says, "sometimes words have two meanings," and so, when played backwards, this song is supposed to urge us to worship evil. It's time to dive in to your record-collection and find out if it was all true. But first let us watch this video. So turn up the volume and remember the first time you smoked a cigarette
lawrence lessig's (founder of the creative commons) brilliant talk about copyright and what needs to be changed and why - highly recommended for anyone interested in (remix) culture. 20' 05'', via google video.
April 23, Father Matos spoke about Worcester's May 1 immigration rallies after mass at St. Paul's Cathedral. In Spanish.
A brief clip from Jeroen Offerman's incredible tribute to Stairway To Heaven. He performed Stairway backwards, then reveresed the tape.
NECN covers the April 13 demo demanding that Abbott Labs make one of its AIDS drugs available world-wide.
Trailer for the upcoming documentary about the increasing global warming crisis. Important. Release dates: May 24 - New York and Los Angeles June 2 - Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Philly, SF, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver, Washington D.C. June 9 - Atlanta, Detroit, Houston, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Denver, Sacramento, St. Louis, San Diego, Miami, Baltimore, Portland June 16 - Everywhere
4-13-06: College kids go to Abbott Labs, ask them to make AIDS drug available, dressed as bunnies and carrying 4,000 black plastic eggs.
Gerard played Matthew in the passion play at Blessed Sacrament Church in Worcester.
William, like many young Americans, feels that joining the military is his only way out of a dead-end job and a rough life.
Eight Central Massachusetts residents were arrested March 29, 2006, in a protest against the Darfur genocide. This news clip is from "Community Vision," a cable access news show in Worcester, Massachusetts.