Home | Books For Africa Official Store - TOMS Shoes - One for One - A Pair of New Shoes is Given to a Child in Need With Every Pair Purchased Joseph Kony 2012 Video: 'Stop Kony' Campaign Draws Criticism Just who is this Joseph Kony guy, anyway? If you learned his name from the viral video that rocketed the notorious leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) to fame this week, the film producers' campaign to make Kony a household name appears to have succeeded -- but not without a massive backlash. The half-hour video in question underscores the LRA's grisly atrocities, which include the murder, rape, and abduction of tens of thousands of people over the past two decades. According to Invisible Children, a San Diego-based NGO that launched the campaign, the purpose of the video was to make Joseph Kony famous. Celebrities were quick to chime in and voice their support using the hashtag 'STOPKONY,' but the tide soon changed. The campaign's newfound attention was quickly accompanied by criticisms of the Invisible Children organization, including its aid-spending practices, a controversial photo of the NGO's members posing with guns, and the project's neo-colonial undertones.
Training Courses Friday 15 March 2013, 7:00 PM Followed by a Q&A with Barbara Miller and Iranian blogger Farnaz Seifi On the Internet, their voices are skillfully shielded, but the famous bloggers Yoani Sánchez, Zeng Jinyan and Farnaz Seifi aren’t afraid of the dictatorial regimes in their respective home countries of Cuba, China and Iran. With indefatigable determination, they keep people around the world informed about the abuses taking place in their countries.
Andaman Islands tribe threatened by lure of mass tourism | World news | The Observer Andaman islanders 'made to dance' for tourists on 'human safari' Link to video: Andaman Islanders 'forced to dance' for tourists "Dance," the policeman instructed. The girls in front of him, naked from the waist up, obeyed. A tourist's camera panned round to another young woman, also naked and awkwardly holding a bag of grain in front of her. "Dance for me," the policeman commanded. The young woman giggled, looked shy and hopped from foot to foot. This kind of video is the trophy tourists dream of when they set off into the jungles of the Andaman Islands "on safari". The Jarawa tribe is 403-strong. The role of the police is to protect tribespeople from unwelcome and intrusive outsiders. Every day hundreds of tourist cars line up on the Andaman Trunk Road, which winds through the reserve. But, on the day the Observer visited, when the gates opened the cameras immediately started clicking. It gets light early in the Andamans. The car plunged on through the towering jungle.
Passion Flower - a multimedia performance celebrating creative recovery from breast cancer China censors ‘hit social media’ The Creative Shed Tech -- Culture -- Humour China censors ‘hit social media’ March 10, 2012 by David Holloway Leave a Comment Chinese censors are actively targeting social media to quash discussion of banned topics, suggests research.The US study gives the most in-depth look at the extent of China’s policing of discussions on microblogging sites.Analysis of almost 60 million messages from China’s equivalent of Twitter suggested which topics were banned.It also revealed that China tuned its censoring activity to be more aggressive in places where political unrest was high.Via www.bbc.co.uk Share this: Google+ David Holloway Related posts: Filed Under: General Tech, Quick snippets from the web Give us your 0.02c Get Updates Via Email Like Us On Facebook Recent Comments Top Posts & Pages Recent Posts Tags Previous Posts Return to top of page Copyright © 2014 · Magazine Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in
Caught on film and stored on database: how police keep tabs on activists | UK news Shocking footage shot by police, accompanied by their own critical commentary, shows how their officers monitored campaigners and the media – and demanded personal information – at last August's climate camp demonstration in Kent Link to video: Under surveillance: police target environmental protesters and journalists At 11:37am on August 8 last year, two police surveillance officers sat in a patrol car in Kent and switched on their Sony digital video camera. When the tape started to roll, they stated they were "evidence gatherer" surveillance officers and explained the purpose of the operation. What the pair did not know when, 20 minutes later, they stood on a grass verge at the entrance to the camp and started work, was that their surveillance footage would be obtained by the Guardian. This was no rogue operation. Videographer Jason Parkinson and photographer Jess Hurd describe to Paul Lewis how they have been followed by police while covering protests Link to this audio Privacy rights
Online Fundraising Pages | Personal Internet Fundraisers | Fund Raise Online for Charity | Crowdrise It will take anywhere from 3 seconds to 1 minute for your pic to upload, depending on how big it is. You're going to see this message every time you post a new pic. So, we're making the text really long so that it'll take you at least five picture uploads to read it all. Oedipus Rex: in Second Life The Creative Shed Tech -- Culture -- Humour Oedipus Rex: in Second Life September 24, 2010 by David Holloway Leave a Comment Virtual world Second Life has a vibrant arts community to say the least. Part of that community is the Avatar Repertory Theatre (ART). Their latest is Oedipus Rex (Oedipus The King) by Sophocles. Here’s a short promo to give you a taste: More information on the show over at the ART blog, or you can check out the theatre space itself in Second Life. via [Metaverse Journal] Share this: Google+ David Holloway Related posts: Filed Under: Art, Virtual Worlds, Virtuality Tagged With: avatar, second life, theatre Give us your 0.02c Get Updates Via Email Like Us On Facebook Recent Comments Top Posts & Pages Recent Posts Tags Previous Posts Return to top of page Copyright © 2014 · Magazine Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in
Doth I protest too much? | Mark Thomas I was sent the now notorious "police spotter card" through the post. It's an official laminated card for "police eyes only" and labelled as coming from "CO11 Public Order Intelligence Unit". The card contained the photographs of 24 anti-arms trade protesters, unnamed but lettered A to X. The Metropolitan police circulated the card specifically for the Docklands biannual arms fair in London to help its officers identify "people at specific events who may instigate offences or disorder". What exactly was I doing that was so awfully wrong as to merit this attention? Many of those targeted by the police have committed no crime and are guilty only of non-violent direct action. The very phrase "domestic extremist" defines protesters in the eyes of the police as the problem, the enemy. Protest is part of the democratic process. No police, secret or otherwise, should operate without proper accountability.
Ushahidi :: Home Global Times - Chinese students gradually evolving a perfect education Source: Global Times [21:08 January 06 2010] Comments By David Cahill We are now entering the second decade of the 21st century, and it's a good time to reflect on the pace of change and progress in China. As a university teacher in Beijing since the mid-1990s, I am in a position to assess some of the changes that have taken place in the university environment. To put it in a nutshell, students today have reaped the benefits of China's development and are in a far better situation than at any time in the past. The personal computer and the Internet have greatly aided in the acquisition of the English language. Instead of having to recite stuffy textbooks with stilted model sentences, students now have authentic English materials easily downloadable onto laptop computers – Friends, Sex and the City, and Desperate Housewives. These resources are so useful, in fact, that the need to speak with native English speakers can be dispensed with. Students today are much smarter.
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