Maybe it's just because they're my friends that I'm convinced of their objective geniuses. Now I'll have to post about my terrific musician friends, too. But first, I offer you two of my favorites, M. Cody White and A. Petersen:
From Cody's blog on his painting, Arrows to the Sun:
Originally published at http://groundswellcollective.com/2011/11/01/art-from-the-99/
Favianna Rodriguez writes at the Just Seeds blog, “The fact that its even acceptable for us to critique capitalism in mainstream conversations and in mainstream media, opens many doors for activists, artists, and for the entire social justice sector overall. I find it inspiring that this movement has at its core, a thriving arts and culture component.”
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Reporters Without Borders has begun a strong and creative campaign aimed at tourists to Mexico, Thailand, and Vietnam, three countries with severe human rights violations. The campaign urges consumers of vacation packages that drive these countries' tourism industries to "get the real low-down on your holiday destination."
You can now petition the White House directly:
Any petition successful enough to gather 25,000 signatures merely receives a response from Obama's administration and a promise to hand over the petition to the right folks in either Congress or the Senate.
The idea is cool. And some of the petitions are pretty great, like the most popular with 70,000 signatures to legalize pot. However,
Federated Media has just announced a partnership with WordPress.com. "The deal will include all of the blogs that are hosted under the company which comes to around 25 million." WordPress.com users will now be subjected to a big re-vamp of corporate-sponsored advertizing.
Perhaps it's time you considered taking more control over your blog?
It's very easy, and not expensive, to leave Wordpress.com's (Federated Media's) generally irresponsible Software as a Service practices to instead host your own website. After all, Wordpress is Free Software (unlike Blogger), so you're nearly there already! You just need to follow these steps*:
The Palestinian struggle for liberation is not only ideological and moral. Israel's occupation of Palestine violates numerous human rights, including food sovereignty.
"To exist is to resist," says one famous graffiti message written on the apartheid wall. For farmers, to farm is to resist. And for Palestinians who have joined in non-violent resistance such as the boycott against Israeli products, to buy local produce is to resist. Food sovereignty of the Palestinian people is one fundamental issue that is complicated, intentionally, by Israeli policy. On the other hand, food sovereignty is a pivotal point for a Free Palestine.
The Mesopotamia Social Forum in Kurdistan: A Report and Photo Gallery
The forum's message was “Freedom Will Prevail” and its program contained around 80 activities that gathered 2,000 participants from 170 organizations. (According to the local organizing committee). The opening march was met with strong state police presence, although the local governments were supportive of the forum. Also, a march against violence on women, highlighting that Kurdistan is a place where honor crimes are a reality, was also faced with control and confrontations by riot police. Both confrontations with the Turkish state enforcements were without incident. And these confrontations highlight the tension between the local Kurdish government, who were supportive of the forum events, and the Turkish state government, which regarded the forum with suspicion.
Many of the most significant threats to human rights today are due to the globalization of capital. Indirect, world-wide effects include lower wages and poverty, climate change, and forced migration, among others. Interventions by some corporations have directly caused the censorship and repression of popular movements that attempt to address the detrimental effects of globalization. Additionally, other corporations are complicit in military development, surveillance, destruction of land, and theft or control of popular knowledge.
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