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23.11.2011
http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-the-killing-of-dogs-and-cats-for-the-european-football-championship#
"Why This Is Important
Dear President Viktor Yanukovych, dear Uefa President Michel Platini, dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
with deep sadness and horror I read about the planned and already started killing of dogs and cats in preparation for the UEFA European Football Championship 2012…
03.10.2011
It has been observed for some years, the emergence of an increasing number of NGOs that receive animals wandering the streets, giving them care and then making them available for adoption. People who create these organizations have a good heart, an ethical stance to worry about helpless, hostages and objectification of indifference provided by humans. But just as these NGOs proliferate, so does t…
02.10.2011
It is true that compared to the automotive market (as well as their needs and political games involved about these needs, such as paved roads, both for movement within a city and also for movement between cities and states), the cycling market, of bicycles, is much less profitable. There are no "sheikhs" of bikes in the international market. When I refer to "sheiks," I mean people with enormous p…
29.09.2011
Currently, or rather, there are about two decades, we have heard - and seen - increasingly, companies, industries and economic sectors of society to speak on "environmental responsibility" (beyond "social responsibility", which is not focus of this article). With the advent of increasing - though still not enough - society's awareness about the need for conservation and preservation of the enviro…
28.09.2011
Pets generally very pleasing to humans. It is very common that people like to stroke his hair, scratching their heads, get them on your lap, play with them and even live together more closely, even to the point accommodates them and they sleep in his bed. Just over a decade in Brazil emerged shops specializing in sales of accessories, medicines, shelter ("houses" / "path"), toiletries, baths, tri…
28.09.2011
During all the years of my work in advertising I always had very ambivalent feelings about it. Part of me loved it for endless possibilities of creative opportunities while bigger part of me hated it for having to act against my political and personal values.
I'm sure many co-workers also experienced similar feelings but decided to stay, as it appears this is one of those "take it or leave i…
09.06.2011
The week at Memefest Festival of Radical Communications on mapping socially responsive communications as provided a valuable opportunity to reflect on what it means to make communications that address societal problems. Oliver Vodeb described seven characteristics of socially responsive communications as a starting point from which the group assembled to build on the theory by creating new maps. …
09.06.2011
I was one who asked the male panel at Memefest's Festival of Radical Communications 'Inspiration day' why there were no women presenters. I think it's worth unpacking this topic a little with the intention of helping Memefest develop into an network with strong input from women and other marginalised voices. Diversity of representation should by now be standard practice in any international netw…
13.05.2011
11.05.2011
Case study: Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. Humanites in a self-imposed crisis
End of October 2010 this document :
http://www.memefest.org/shared/Faculty_of_Arts_web_design.pdf
was sent to the mailing list of the Board for the defense of Higher education and scientific work by a professor of the Faculty of Arts. The board is a loose civil initiative consisting of academic staff…
