From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V8 #21 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Thursday, March 19 2009 Volume 08 : Number 021 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [chakram-refugees] Battlestar Galactica panel at UN ["KTL" Subject: [chakram-refugees] Battlestar Galactica panel at UN I tuned the radio to NPR in the truck this morning and THOUGHT that I heard the tail end of a report that the UN would be hosting a panel on Battlestar Galactica today. I figured I MUST have misheard it, or that maybe it was some Paddy's Day joke. But I just googled it and found a number of links about it. All the links were about how it was scheduled, but I didn't find any that said it did occur, so no word on how it went. David Eick, Ron Moore, Mary McDonnell and Edward James Olmos were to be on the panel which was moderated by Whoopi Goldberg. (Which I thought was REALLY fine-I think Whoopi is one of the world's coolest people.) Here's a link to a piece in the Chicago Tribune about it: http://tinyurl.com/cp7hwl Here's a quote from that piece: "On March 17, there will be a "Battlestar" retrospective at the U.N. in New York and a panel discussion of how the show examined issues such as "human rights, children and armed conflict, terrorism, human rights and reconciliation and dialogue among civilizations and faith," according to Sci Fi." This is fascinating to me-I've never heard of the UN hosting a panel on a television show and inviting the writers and actors to join them. (Hmmmm-does this beat out having real, live astronomers try to name a new planet after you?) Close. . . KT ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ End of chakram-refugees-digest V8 #21 *************************************