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17.12.2014

Is our planet screwed? Well, maybe not…

If worries about our impending social and environmental apocalypse threaten to ruin your holidays, below are some thoughts from my upcoming book that might provide some hope. Season’s Greetings!

Is our planet screwed? Are we going to run our civilization into the ground, as many doomsayers claim?

When you look at the cold figures science provides us, they are certainly terrifying. The combi…

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03.12.2014

Memefest's Radical Intimacies, sneaks into a small town in rural NSW

In contemporary Australia the words ‘country’, ‘decolonisation’, ‘family’ and ‘law’ are loaded with meanings that differ greatly from person to person across this nation’s Aboriginal and migrant communities.

As part of Memefest's Radical Intimacies, a small group of us got together a few weeks ago and developed a work that explored this diversity while challenging our understanding of ourselv…

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25.09.2014

1000+ Coffees

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21.07.2014

Where has this world gone?

Here is a stamp from 1981 declaring India's solidarity with Palestinian people.

Where has this world gone?

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18.05.2014

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14.05.2014

The lump sum grant

https://www.academia.edu/7011665/The_lump_sum_grant

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23.10.2013

Brazil and its political prisoners, contemporary dictatorship and military police

RIO DE JANEIRO – On Tuesday, 15 October, 2013, more than 200 protestors were arrested by the Rio de Janeiro state Military Police, as part of the continuing criminalization of social movements in the city. Those arrested were sent in small groups to over 10 different police stations, with the clear objective of impeding their access to legal assistance.

On Monday, 21 October, the Brazilian Ju…

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26.05.2013

31.5.  ističe rok za predaju festivalskih radova!

Svi koji ste zainteresovani i do sad niste imeali vremena da sednete i otkucate svoje misli te prijavite svoj rad na MEMEFEST, to možete uraditi u narednih 5 dana. Zadnji dan za predaju festivalskih radova na temu DEMOKRATIJE HRANE je 31.5. do ponoći.

Dobra ispiracija - da u narednim danima napišete kritički tekst ili uradite vizuelni kritički rad - je jučerašnji PROTEST PROTI MONSANTU, koji …

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27.04.2013

The Flower / La Flor (2010) Haik Hoisington

si bien el video apunta específicamente al tratamiento de la flor de marihuana, es extensible a la producción y al consumo de productos derivados de la naturaleza en general

“The Flower” contrasta una sociedad utópica que libremente siembra y consume una flor que da placer con una sociedad donde la misma flor es ilegal y su consumo está prohibido. La animación es un ensayo sobre los costos s…

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16.04.2013

 FOOD DEMOCRACY / Rok za prijavu radova na MEMEFEST 2013 je 20. maj!

Vandana Shiva je indijska filozofkinja, ekološka aktivistica, ekofeministica i autorica koja nas sve može poučiti o odnosu kapitalizma do zemlje, hrane i semena. Njena maksima je seed & food democracy!

Pogledajte šta kaže o demokratiji hrane u predavanju sa nazivom: JUST FOOD!

Ove godine na Memefestovom festivalu čitamo The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply" (2000) - stariji tekst Vanda…