audio 508_worcester 508 is a show about Worcester. This week's panel is Jesse Pack, Cha-Cha Connor, and <a href="http://www.radioball.net">Brendan Melican</a>. City Councilor <a href="http://katetoomey.com/">Kate Toomey</a> sent Mike birthday greetings on Facebook! Jesse is starting a "support fund" for area transsexuals facing homelessness and other difficulties. The homelessness rate among transsexuals is very high. Cha-Cha talks about her performance in the US premiere of “A Journey to Kreisau,” a dramatic presentation about Nazi resister <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmuth_James_Graf_von_Moltke">Helmuth James Graf von Moltke</a>, written by Worcester theater icon Marc P. Smith. She connects the performance to both immigration issues and Worcester's "Canal District." Brendan mentions a <a href="http://www.telegram.com/article/20080218/NEWS/802180584">police harassment settlement</a> involving "disturbingly graphic photographs showing severe facial swelling and bruising." Dan Kelley calls in complaining about Mike's use of the word "complicit." (Anthony Hmura complains, at greater length, <a href="http://anthonyhmura.blogspot.com/2008/02/zionist-911-evidence-exceeds-blessings.html">here</a>.) Brendan comments on this photo of Bruce: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike_benedetti/2277523728/" title="Do you have your tickets to the gun show? by mike.benedetti, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2374/2277523728_1587268aeb_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Do you have your tickets to the gun show?" /></a> Mike criticizes <em>Worcester Magazine</em> for <a href="http://www.worcestermagazine.com/content/view/2465/16/">publishing</a> Kate Toomey's Facebook updates; he defends them against the <em>InCity Times</em>' claim that they got <a href="http://www.worcestermagazine.com/content/view/2424/">this story</a> "wrong." Jesse talks about a <a href="http://worcester.indymedia.org/node/21483">press event</a> he held with Cha-Cha to ask the CDC to release some HIV stats. Mike briefly dropped by the <a href="http://www.worcesterlocalfirst.org/">Worcester Local First</a> kickoff event. Mike mentions a <a href="http://www.boston.com/jobs/news/articles/2008/02/17/youth_movement/"><em>Boston Globe</em></a> article about how the number of 25-34 year-old residents of Massachusetts is in decline. The <em>New York Times</em> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/nyregion/21bowery.html?_r=3&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin">reported</a> on a former Worcester resident living in a box on the Lower East Side. 508 508_023 mike.benedetti@gmail.com 2008-02-22 17:11:07 2008-02-22 17:33:40