Rev. Danny Fisher

While looking at the latest issue of Buddhadharma: The Pracititoner’s Quarterly, I noticed an ad informing readers that Michael Henry Wilson’s 1998 documentary À la recherche de Kundun avec Martin Scorsese (In Search of Kundun with Martin Scorsese) will finally be released on video this fall by Festival Media, the distribution service of the International Buddhist Film Festival, Inc. The film details the production of Scorsese’s 1997 Dalai Lama biopic Kundun (which I recently named one of my top five movies about Buddhism), and includes interviews with Scorsese, screenwriter Melissa Mathison, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. There are no order details online yet, but while trolling the internet for more information, I came across the below episode of Charlie Rose’s PBS television program featuring an hour-long interview with Scorsese about Kundun, spirituality, and filmmaking. It’s well worth a look, especially if you’re a fan of Kundun. Take a look–and when I get more information about Wilson’s film on DVD, so will you.

This from the AFL-CIO Working Families E-Activist Network:

According to The Wall Street Journal, Wal-Mart is so intimidated by the very possibility of a unionized workforce that its supervisors have been holding mandatory meetings essentially telling employees to vote against Democrats and Sen. Barack Obama this November. Wal-Mart is taking this outrageous step because the Democrats and Sen. Obama have committed to pass the Employee Free Choice Act to restore workers’ freedom to form unions and bargain for fair wages, health care, decent working conditions and a real voice on the job.

Send a message to Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott here.

After interviewing victims and aid workers, flying over the Irrawaddy delta, and analyzing various data, the Associated Press has concluded that conditions in Burma are “far starker than reflected in the assessments from [the junta] and even in the recent optimism of some U.N. officials.” The report comes a day after the Washington Post offered an editorial challenging the U.N.’s assessment.

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