Kena Cubed™

As I consider other topics for this news magazine/blog, I wanted to address another issue that might be on my readers’ minds. One of my readers recently told me that he/she used this website as a source for a class assignment (college level).  Though I was happy to hear that, he/she also told me that the professor asked what I believe to be a very good, intelligent question. “How do you know you can trust [...]

Volume 4, No.1 – By Ramón Bannister When the huge earthquake of 8.8 on the Richter scale took place in Chile near the city of Concepción, the media reported it having been 500 times more intense than the one in Haiti. There was ample video and photographic evidence, at least 1-2 days after the incident, of the destruction the earthquake caused. Journalists were quick to label this one of the biggest seismic events in recorded [...]

Volume 3, No.3 Robotech Movie In Production – By Ramón Bannister In mid-February, 2010, we published a story announcing the sudden end of a Robotech project being produced by U.E.G. Productions. Kena Cubed™ wanted to find out what happened between Harmony Gold USA and U.E.G. I was able to contact an official Robotech representative, Tommy Yune. Tommy Yune was the director of the newest feature-length animated Robotech film, Shadow Chronicles, which helps to revive the [...]

Volume 3, No.2 Promising Project Ends – By Ramón Bannister On February 1, 2010, Kena Cubed™ published a story about a promising, exciting fan-based project. It was to be a new Robotech series entitled, “Robotech Genesis.” U.E.G. Productions had almost finished the first episode when it abruptly stopped production. Recall (from the archived story) that the project was a non-profit production that would have been distributed for free online. I had asked whether U.E.G. Productions [...]

Volume 3, No.1 Editorial Note: The following story is about a project that is no longer in production, for reasons that will be explained in the 2nd and 3rd Robotech news stories. The purpose of re-posting these stories is to transfer them to the new website design. __________________________________________________________ Robotech Genesis: Project Looks Promising – By Ramón Bannister Disclaimer: The images used in this story were first published with the permission of U.E.G. Productions. U.E.G. Productions [...]

Volume 2, No.5 – By Ramón Bannister This is another interview of an immigrant, but the difference with this person is that she eventually acquired citizenship. She prefers to be unnamed, so I’ll call her María. She describes what it’s like to cross the border and the hardships she still experiences. I translated the interview from the original Spanish. All interviews were recorded and can be provided online as evidence that the interview took place. [...]

Volume 2, No.4 – By Ramón Bannister The previous stories in this series focused on the Minute Man Project. Now we will hear from an undocumented immigrant who is not shy about sharing her name. She is Angela Perez, a woman who has been in the United States for more than ten years. As we spoke, she prepared bags of food at the Tucson Soup kitchen run by Brian Flag – food that would go [...]

Volume 2, No.3 – By Ramón Bannister For Part Three of the immigration series, “Immigration across various U.S. states,” we’re staying in Arizona for now so that we can analyze two interviews of people from opposite sides of the political spectrum. Jim Gilchrist was the co-organizer of the Minute Man Project, and still operates it as a 501c(4) non-profit organization. Kat Rodriguez is the director for the Coalition of Human Rights in Tucson, Arizona, a [...]

Volume 2, No.2 – By Ramón Bannister In this story, Kena Cubed reveals the topic of the series for Volume 2, which is “Immigration across various U.S. states.” As an introduction to the topic, this Part 2 will be an in-depth look at the launch of the Minute Man Project (MMP), an event that garnered much national press. It began officially in April of 2004 in the heart of Tombstone, Arizona; unofficially various groups began [...]

Volume 2, No.1 – By Ramón Bannister The Southwest and the Northeast This is not a news story per se as much as it is a geographical comparison between two very different regions of the country. Below this long introduction are photographs where you’ll be able to compare the geography with your own eyes. By looking at Southern Arizona (Tucson/Phoenix area) and Eastern Massachusetts (Boston/Worcester area) side-by-side, I want to get you used to the [...]