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Short video teaser on how critical the role of farm workers are and how little attention is payed to the very people who help produce the food we eat on a daily basis.

Full article:
http://www.good.is/posts/enjoying-that-tomato-on-your-sandwich-don-t-forget-to-thank-a-farmworker#good_comments_container

Brandon_Normoyle

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DEBT was our theme of interest for almost a year. The importance of critically researching DEBT can hardly be exaggerated. DEBT has become a major instrument of social control. Millions are victims of DEBT, and indebted life has become naturalised. DEBT has become the primary mechanism that takes power from the people and gives it on to the hands of the rich and powerful. But DEBT is rarely quest…

oliver

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First Memefest/Queensland College of Art extradisciplinary workshop/seminar/intervention, here in Brisbane, happened in late November. We invited a diverse international group to research DEBT further, to learn about it's relation to Brisbane and to intervene.

The collaborators, participants, mentors and conspirators were Ashlea Gleeson, Jack Loel, Darcy Mangan, Belinda Li, John Nicholson, E…

oliver

communication activism education community

Dear all Memefest/QCA DEBT Workshop/Seminar participants- two more days and we start. See you soon.

DAY one 15 November 15th:

9 am- @ Queensland College of Art
Welcome and Introduction to the Workshop/Seminar (Oliver Vodeb), introduction of participants.

Presentation of Memefest/QCA Awardees:

10.00 Vladimir Turner: Wonderland series
10.40 Soren Rosenbak: Surplus Debt
11.20 Ivan …

oliver

communication activism education community

Dear all, a bit more than two weeks and we will all meet in beautiful Brisbane!
We will have enough time to collaboratively reflect on the many issues of DEBT at the workshop. However as announced we will collaboratively investigate some sources that will be of help for our work before the actual meeting.

Here are three documentaries, necessary to watch, as they relate directly to our work a…

oliver

communication activism education community

We are happy to announce the framework for this years special Memefest workshop. A few more weeks to go and we will meet in Brisbane.
Bellow you can find information regarding the event. More will follow soon.

GOALS: The workshop/seminar aims to research DEBT and its hidden effects in current Brisbane. It seeks to create a process that will help us to develop knowledge necessary to understand…

oliver

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From 20th of October to 1st of December Cultural days of Palestinian culture will take place in Maribor and Ljubljana (Slovenia).

Cultural embassy consist of exhibitions, palestinian poetry, documentaries, talks, etc.

For detailed programme visit the FB event site (just in slovenian language):
http://www.facebook.com/events/116124775210525/

I was involved in project as a designer of th…

rok

culture education design

I came along a realy great project - a set of deck playing cards made with the help of 28 illustrator all over the world.

They visualised Wall Street executives and politicians who were (and still are) the master of (financial) distaster.

http://52shadesofgreed.com/

The cards are on sale through ROCKETHUB – crowfunding engine.
Another goal of the group is to print up a 1000 ecks of c…

rok

illustration society activism education

Debts are an agreement between old and young generations.

assarmoth

art culture education

► http://vimeo.com/45164852

Entrevista a Eduardo Galeano en la que nos habla de la lucha necesaria en momentos en los que el mundo se tambalea frente a los ataques de los mercados neoliberales. Galeano nos confiesa su admiración por el movimiento 15M, al que dedica uno de sus días, nos habla de las mujeres de su América Latina.

“Ese mundo al revés administrado por los banqueros y los …

SanFrancisco

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