Août 1965 : Guy Debord analyse la révolte de Watts Si la Société du spectacle reste l’œuvre la plus citée et la plus connue de Guy Debord, elle tend à faire oublier que l’essayiste et écrivain a fait mûrir sa pensée et son engagement dans l’Internationale lettriste puis dans l’Internationale situationniste. Ce groupe révolutionnaire qui souhaitait mettre un terme à la dictature de la marchandise s’est exprimé en France dans les colonnes d’une revue dirigée par Debord dès 1957. Nous sommes en mars 1966 quand le penseur décide de réagir aux événements américains qui ont eu lieu entre le 13 et le 16 août de l’année précédente. Il livre dans cette chronique une pensée riche, déjà fondée sur la notion complexe de « spectacle », appuyant cette révolte des Noirs américains dans un quartier de Los Angeles sur la nécessaire et inexorable rébellion de l’homme « contre la vie inhumaine » et, plus particulièrement, contre les discriminations raciales. Entre le 13 et le 16 août 1965, la population noire de Los Angeles s’est soulevée. Benjamin Bruel
Peter Weyland at TED2023: I will change the world Peter Weyland has been a magnet for controversy since he announced his intent to build the first convincingly humanoid robotic system by the end of the decade. Whether challenging the ethical boundaries of medicine with nanotechnology or going toe to toe with the Vatican itself on the issue of gene-therapy sterilization, Sir Peter prides himself on his motto, “If we can, we must.” After a three year media blackout, Weyland has finally emerged to reveal where he’s heading next. Wherever that may be, we will most certainly want to follow. Conceived and designed by Ridley Scott and Damon Lindelof and directed by Luke Scott. Sir Peter Weyland was born in Mumbai, India at the turn of the Millennium. In less than a decade, Weyland Corporation became a worldwide leader in emerging technologies and launched the first privatized industrial mission to leave the planet Earth.
Retirement should be a right. But it’s in danger of becoming a privilege for ... If, like many people, you dread your daily commute and the early mornings associated with work, why do it for more years than you have to? But for a lot of older people, that prospect is fast becoming reality – more than twice as many people over 70 are working now than a decade ago. Some people will naturally want to remain in the workplace on a full- or part-time basis, and enjoy their job, keeping active and spending time with colleagues. For many others, however, it is a necessity rather than a choice. Like all of us, older people have been hit by the rise in living costs, and some are forced to keep working beyond the retirement age to avoid falling into poverty. There are benefits to working beyond the retirement age: the fact loneliness can be partially curbed by work is important – though it’s worth pointing out that many people in work feel deeply socially isolated – and keeping active is a boon to health. • Dawn Foster is a Guardian columnist
Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek | Season 2 | Resiliency | America ReFramed | World Channel Descendants of emancipated slaves who settled on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, the residents of Turkey Creek have been stewards of the creek's rich wetland habitat for generations. Today, the town is surrounded by an airport, big-box stores, highways and an industrial canal which threatens both the community and its wetlands. When the graves of Derrick Evans's ancestors are bulldozed for the sprawling city of Gulfport, the Boston teacher returns home to stand up to powerful corporate interests and politicians alongside his neighbors over the course of a decade. Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek follows Derrick's painful but inspiring journey. In 2001, Derrick travels to Mississippi with filmmaker Leah Mahan to record oral history but a visit to the community cemetery changes the course of his life. Derrick takes the fight to Congress and across the country, advocating for a sustainable future for the Gulf Coast.
40 Photo-Illustrated Questions to Refocus Your Mind Asking the right questions is the answer… It’s not the answers you get from others that will help you, but the questions you ask of yourself. Here are 40 thought-provoking questions to help you refresh and refocus your thinking: Please share your thoughts with us in the comments section below. Also, check out our sister site, Thought Questions, for more photo-illustrated questions like these; and check out The Book of Questions if you’re interested in reading even more inspiring, thought-provoking questions.Title photo by: Helga Weber For all other photo credits please refer to ThoughtQuestions.com Related 40 Questions Everyone is Afraid to Ask Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. April 13, 2012 In "Aspirations" 40 Questions that Will Quiet Your Mind Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers … because asking the right questions is the answer. August 5, 2015 In "Happiness" 25 Photo-Illustrated Reminders to Help You Find Happiness
The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World Last updated June 10th, 2020. Image: Otro Mundo Es Posible/ Another World is Possible by Beatriz Aurora Castedo, Mexico City Documentaries have an incredible power to raise awareness and create transformative changes in consciousness both at the personal and global levels. Over the last [14] years, we've watched hundreds of social change documentaries and cataloged the best of them on this website. All of the films have been selected because they are either free to watch online, or can be rented online. Did we miss anything really good? If you're a filmmaker and want to add your film to our library, you can add it here (if it's free). Fan suggestions: The Age of Stupid ($5) The True Cost ($4) Manufactured Landscapes The Biggest Little Farm ($4) The Ghosts In Our Machine ($3) The Salt of the Earth ($4) HyperNormalisation The Need to Grow ($13) Seeds Of Time ($4) Want to dive deeper?
« We want it now ». Quand fierté noire et Black Lives Matter montent sur le podium Sarah Macna Le monde des stars noires-américaines n’aura pas fini de nous étonner. Après la sortie remarquée du dernier album de Beyoncé, c’est ce week-end vers Jesse Williams, acteur de séries télévisées (notamment dans la série Grey’s Anatomy) que se sont tournées les caméras, au cours des BET Awards. Cette cérémonie, organisée par la chaîne Black Entertainement Television, récompense chaque année les Afro-américains dans divers domaines de divertissement. Jesse Williams y était récompensé cette année par le « prix de l’humanitaire » pour son implication dans le mouvement Black Lives Matter, à propos duquel il a produit un documentaire « Stay woke » pour la chaîne BET. Son discours, lors de sa remise de prix, a marqué la soirée, jusqu’à être publié dans sa totalité dans le journal Times. Nous reproduisons ci-dessous la vidéo sous-titrée de l’intervention, ainsi que le discours original. Version originale du discours « Now, this award – this is not for me.
How to run a successful research lab without having a lab At the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Atul Butte gave a talk entitled, "Translational Medical Discoveries Through Data Transparency and Reuse." It could just as easily been called "how to run a successful research lab without having a lab." Butte, who is faculty at Stanford, was part of a panel that discussed the open sharing of data, and he used his own experience to provide a compelling case study that showed that, when researchers share their data, it enables others to drive a field forward in new ways. Butte focused on a specific type of data, generated by what are called DNA or gene chips. A chip that can contain sequences from every single human gene can now be had for only about $250, and each one can survey the expression of all these genes in a single cell type—say a cancer cell, or nerve cells from a Parkinson's patient. The two major repositories now hold over 850,000 data sets between them.
How to be a 'culturally competent' social worker - what the research says People with learning disabilities or difficulties from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities were highlighted as a priority group in the Valuing People White Paper in 2001, yet many still need better access to good social care support. Research findings People who often have the greatest need for support – for example, one-parent families living in poverty, people from certain minority ethnic communities – have the greatest difficulty in accessing it, a recently published scoping review of prevention and social care for adults with learning disabilities noted (Emerson et al, 2011). Both practitioners and service commissioners may find the newly-revised version of a framework document indicating ways of assessing local circumstances useful in responding to these imperatives. Linked to the framework report is a major document by Poxton and his colleagues (2012) that uses a variety of data and consultation reports to describe current experiences and needs. Tips for professionals
[Vidéo] BET Awards 2016 : le discours puissant de Jesse Williams sur le racisme Jesse Williams a reçu ce dimanche un prix lors de la soirée des BET Awards 2016 pour son engagement humanitaire. Rendu célèbre par son rôle dans la série Grey’s Anatomy, l’acteur et activiste a pris position pour le mouvement Black Livres Matter, mouvement lancé par trois Afro-Américaines après le meurtre en 2012 de Trayvon Martin par George Zimmerman. Ce n’est que deux ans plus tard, en 2014, que le mouvement a été pour ainsi dire popularisé à la faveur des protestations et révoltes de Ferguson (Missouri), consécutives au meurtre de Michael Brown. Puissant et émouvant, le discours tenu par Williams aurait sans nul doute été critiqué et qualifié de « communautariste » en France, et son auteur peut-être poursuivi pour « incitation à la haine raciale ». Dans un pays où il est si difficile de parler de racisme et où évoquer la question de l’hégémonie blanche reste tabou, on imagine mal de tels mots prononcés lors d’une soirée grand public de remises de prix. Vous avez apprécié cet article?
Sex Diaries Editor Gets Personally Inspired by the Diarists It began with the hedge fund guy who crossed state lines for sex. When I read his sex diary, my expectations were low; they sunk to a nadir when I opened the e-mail introducing his submission: I am a loyal reader, and this diary combines a decent week sexually with an insight into a complex psyche, if I say so myself. A self-centered finance guy. Joy. His was the 150th diary I'd read; the other 110 or so were by women in my demographic: late twenties, child-free, with the time and inclination to respond to my ads seeking diarists, usually spending a week hanging off various Manhattan and Brooklyn chandeliers, often fueled by a combination of alcohol, cocaine, and breakup. The finance guys were also all the same: pre-dawn CNBC market check, job, home, porn, sexting with women, not enough sleep—all of which they found fascinating. Overnight bag packed. Well. My modus operandi is simple. When my egg timer dinged, I kept reading. I told my shrink that I think I am a misogynist.
Case study: Lambeth Living Well | Local Government Association The Lambeth Living Well Collaborative was established in 2010 and is a platform of partners aiming to radically improve the outcomes experienced by people with severe and enduring mental health problems. It involves citizens, mental health service users, peer supporters, commissioners, the voluntary sector, and health and social care staff. It was set up in response to challenges facing the borough including: poor outcomes experienced by people with serious mental health problems; concern that the system of care was overly medical and too dependent upon hospital beds; and signs that support was not being provided early enough to avoid crises. In response to this significant range of challenges, partners in Lambeth realised that they needed to transform from a crisis-dominated system and focus more on prevention and early intervention. The commissioners used methods such as asset mapping to build a more collaborative approach. Lambeth gave no new additional budget to the Collaborative.