Friends Without Borders, Reruns

Friends Without Borders's videos online, free! Yeah!

You loved the book, now see the movies.

As we embark on the Phase II of the Friends Without Borders Project, delivering letters of friendship from kids all over India to kids in Pakistan, I want to put our video and presentations at everyone’s easy disposal. I should have done this long ago.

Listed below are links to: our Public Service Announcement Television Commercial, which aired last year throughout India and Pakistan; a short history of Phase I of the project, made by Rahul Brown just before we crossed into Pakistan last year; and two slide presentations introducing our project and the World’s Largest Love Letter events.

All this is old news, you say. Fair enough. But how many times have you seen “The Empire Strikes Back” without tiring of it?

And here’s the best news: Rahul Brown is traveling with us this year to capture all the magic on video for this year’s film. But for now, it’s nothing but reruns.

You Tube:

Google Videos:

Slide Presentations

* Our Campaign: an introduction to Friends Without Borders

* The World’s Largest Love Letter: from India to Pakistan with love

Blasts from the Past

Man Up!

... because the idiocy of manliness is an evergreen topic.

Talking Turkey

... because Canada and the US will celebrate their Thanksgiving holidays and, regrettably and preventably, not 1-cook-in-10 will serve a decent turkey.

Filial Piety Awareness Day

... because everyday is Mother's Day.

America Dreaming Small

... because the American Dream seems but a distant memory, given the country's dominant ethos of small-mindedness.

Serenity and Gratitude to Bring in the New Year

... to remind us that not every mix of Tibetans and Western spiritual seekers has to be nauseating.

Incredible Vision

... to celebrate the new edition of Infinite Vision published in India.

Expelliarmus! Harry Potter and the Path to Gandhian Nonviolence

... reprised because military strategy seems more cruel and less effective than ever -- and certainly there is a better way.

India Going Nowhere Fast

... because cars are ruining Pondicherry, where I live. How badly are they fucking up your Indian town?

Understanding the Gift Economy

... reprinted because more-and-more people seem want to understand the gift economy. (Yeah!)

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