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The ACLU grades the Virginia General Assembly

Kent Willis of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss the release of the ACLU’s review of the recently completed General Assembly session. The group sees the approval of the constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage as the low point of the session.

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Myo Sim Karate and Kendo turns 40


Rick Wellbeloved-Stone (left) and Christian DeBaun (right) spar while their master instructors look on…

Myo Sim Karate and Kendo celebrated its fortieth anniversary in Charlottesville this weekend with its annual black belt exams. Myo Sim was founded by Grand Master Sung Hong, a Korean immigrant who opened his first dojo near Galludet University in 1963. One of his students brought the practice to Charlottesville when he entered studies at the University of Virginia. Classes in both karate and kendo are now taught at ACAC. Sean Tubbs attended the celebrations, and spoke with Rick Wellbeloved-Stone and Christian DeBaun, two of Myo Sim’s instructors in Charlottesville.

Bryan MacKenzie wrote about Myo Sim last week in the Daily Progress.

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WNRN Sunday Morning Wakeup Call: U.Va professors examine the crisis in Lebanon

The crisis in Lebanon shows no signs of ending. Rick Moore took a look at the issues involved on the July 23rd edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call. His guests were Daniel Lefkowitz, a specialist on Mideast cultures from the Anthropology Dept, and David Waldner, a Middle East expert in the Department of Politics.

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Semester at Sea ready to set sail at U.Va

Even though Charlottesville does not have a port, the University of Virginia is now home to the Semester at Sea program. That’s where students take classes aboard a ship that travels around the world. U.Va Spanish professor David Gies will serve as the academic dean of the maiden voyage, and Dudley Doane is the director of summer and special academic programs at U.Va. David and Dudley join Coy Barefoot on the July 21st edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss how program.

David Gies kept a blog during a recent trip he took to get his sea legs.

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Graduates of the High School Leaders’ Program at the Sorensen Institute

The High School Leaders’ Program at the Sorensen Institute finished up its summer session this past weekend. Coy Barefoot speaks with Carlos Quintela and Ellen Marsteller, two of the program’s graduates. Sorensen’s Youth Programs Director Mark Johnson is also a guest.

CharlottesvilleGuv,!vDjnjRight Now is broadcast live Monday through Friday on NewsRadio 1070 WINA from 4 to 6pm. Best-selling author and historian Coy Barefoot is the host and producer. To participate in the program, you can call 434-977-1070. Coy can be reached at barefoot@wina.com.

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Blogger Sean McCord on the Weekend Without Echoes

Blogger Sean McCord joins Coy Barefoot on the July 20th edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to talk about how he started his weblog Semi Truths, and about this Saturday and Sunday’s Weekends Without Echoes, in which bloggers are challenged to write original articles rather than react to postings in the blogosphere.



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Kent Willis of the ACLU speaks at the Rutherford Institute

The Rutherford Institute is a non-profit legal organization “dedicated to the defense of civil liberties and human rights.” Rutherford lawyers represent people who feel their constitutional rights have been threatened. But, Rutherford also has an educational mission as well, and offers a speaker series. Kent Willis of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia gave a two-hour presentation talk this week.

John Whitehead is a frequent guest on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now. He was most recently a guest on June 29.

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The Virtuous Republic: A Civic Conversation

On Saturday, March 25, 2006, the online journal Archipelago sponsored a conversation at the Virginia Festival of the Book with the historians Barbara Clark Smith and Mark McGarvie. Katherine McNamara was moderator.

Mark McGarvie is the author of One Nation Under Law: America’s Early National Struggles to Separate Church and State (Cambridge University Press) and co-editor of Charity, Philanthropy, and Civility in American History. He received the J.D. and Ph.D. from Indiana University and is adjunct professor at University of Richmond. He specializes in early American intellectual and legal history.

Barbara Clark Smith is a curator at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, where she specializes in the history of politics and movements for reform. She has curated major exhibitions at the National Museum, and is working on a book on the topic of forms of liberty enjoyed by subjects of the British monarchy in 18th-century North America that became unavailable to citizens under the new United States in the 19th century, to be called The Freedomes We Lost: A History of Consent in Revolutionary America.

Katherine McNamara is Editor and Publisher of Archipelago.

The Virginia Festival of the Book is a program of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. For more podcasts from the 2006 festival, visit the U.Va Podcast site.