Please donate to ongoing grassroots relief work in Java. You may know there has been another earthquake in the region, and a little goes a long way. The link from this site (spaz.org) is still not woking [edit - it is now working], but can be accessed at http://13c.com/aid/

Luckily enough I'm living on the Northern side of the city which has been relatively
unaffected by the quake. My own house suffered a little bit of damage, but in
the estimation of this literature student, it's still perfectly safe to live
in. My housemates, neighbors, friends and I live in an odd proximity to the
disaster – if we were another few kilometers to the north or so, the whole
thing would have taken place 'somewhere else'. A kilometer or so to the
south and we would be homeless. Many, many very good friends are just now –
though thank god few friends have been very seriously injured.

Here is the latest report from Rehane at ground zero during the May 27 earthquake, "It is taking time to fully comprehend what has happened to us. We have been in a hotel since Saturday. Our area of Bantul was worst affected. For those of you that have been to the house - No-e's house in the ricefields outside Jogja- the kitchen is completely collapsed, the walls are cracked, xhunks fell out of the roof...

 BLINK::student Digital Art and New Media Festival @ UC Santa Cruz

 Friday May 5th-Opening performance installation 5:30-7.30 pm by sunFlowrfish and special guests Sapto Raharjo from Geronimo FM (Java, Indonesia), and UC Riverside Gamelan Director, Prof. Rene Lysloff.