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24.10.2011
I have been pointed to Chris Hedges through Brian Holmes, who writes on his blog:
"Chris Hedges, the former NY Times war correspondent who took a stand against the war in Iraq, knows more about what’s wrong with this country and is more articulate about it than any other person alive. "
When speaking about "this country" Holmes means America and is referring to the Occupy Wall street protes…
04.10.2011
Check out this new web page and app that seems to serve as an awareness raising tool about slavery by indexing your 'slavery footprint'.
http://slaveryfootprint.org/
I'm happy to see that it manages to break out of the usual visual language of slavery campaigns featuring guilt inducing images of downtrodden people and distressed fonts with excessive use of black, red, and orange.
Instea…
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…
30.09.2011
Dear Memefest comrades,
We're going to have a Digital Culture festival here in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in December. And we applied for the open call for projects. We want to heat up the discussion towards socially responsive communication in a local sphere, in contact with people from all over the world, and the sky is the limit...
So, today is the last day of the voting process (that's no…
30.09.2011
Há mapas para publicar aqui, produzidos no encontro em Nijmegen, Holanda, em junho. Um deles ganhará uma versão digital interativa, os outros foram impressos em camisetas. São maneiras experimentais de visualizar conflitos.
Outras visualidades e pesquisas cartográficas, à maneira situacionista, têm ganhado espaços de experimentação e vivências pelo Rio: o Laboratório de Cartografias Insurgente…
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…
28.09.2011
I have come across this video yesterday and looked at it several times. I was astonished by the directness of this trader who told the whole world through the BBC that he dreams every night about a global economic crisis, because this situation will allow him to make big profits.
I had a conversation about it with Vida and she said that the trader did this on purpose, launching this controver…