Archive for the ‘Social Justice’ Category
Infographic: 2010 Internet Censorship Report
LINKS:
Woork Up
Cool Infographics
Palestinian Independent Video Journalism
Minimum Wage Machine
Revisioned ‘I Want You’ Poster
Detroit Hoop Dream: DIY Basketball Project
ARTICLE: Artist & Poet, Liao Yiwu, Detained by Chinese Government
FIRST 3 PARAGRAPHS:
BEIJING — Chinese security agents in Sichuan Province detained Liao Yiwu, a prominent author and critic of the government, as he prepared to fly on Monday to a literary festival in Germany, human rights activists said.
It was the 13th time Mr. Liao had been prevented from leaving the country. The Associated Press reported that he had been placed under house arrest after being questioned by security agents for four hours.
“How can this happen?” the news service quoted him as saying. “It’s a cultural event, nothing political. Such drama!”
LINKS:
NY Times: Asia Pacific
Wikipedia: Liao Yiwu
BBC Interview on YouTube (2008)
Telegraph
Washington Post
Huffington Post
Chinese Artists Protest Demolition of Beijing Studios
I had to pull this off Reuters: India because the American site doesn’t offer an embed function (see link below). Whatever… big thanks to India!
This video is from the New Tang Dynasty TV folks, who I’m pretty sure are financially and politically affiliated with the Falun Gong cult movement, but they none the less put together some fairly balanced journalism. In this piece, they apparently got footage from Reuters and then repackaged it with slightly more historical context (Tian’anmen reference), as well as adding stills from Ai Weiwei’s twitpic stream:
LINKS:
Guardian
Global Times
China Digital Times
Deisgn Boom
New York Times
Artists Village Gallery
Wall Street Journal
Reuters (No embed code)
New Tang Dynasty TV
Wikipedia: Ai Weiwei
Shanghaiist
Deutsche Welle
Congressman Anthony Weiner Calls ‘em Out
LINKS:
YouTube
Anthony Weiner
Huffington Post
Wikipedia: Anthony Weiner
NBC: New York
Think Progress
Politico
MoveOn, Heather Graham, & the Public Option
I’m dubious. I would think a bloody torso surrounded by severed appendages is a far more appropriate metaphor than the buxom Heather Graham. Let’s hope I’m wrong.
LINKS:
YouTube
Alternet
Huffington Post
ARTICLE: The Politics of Muhammad Yunis & Microcredit: A Curious Amalgam of Left and Right
FIRST 3 PARAGRAPHS:
Is Muhammad Yunis selling free-market neoliberalism under the guise of ending poverty?
Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi economist, godfather of microcredit and founder of the now-famous Grameen Bank, enchants many different types of people with his imaginings of a better future. A popular public speaker, Yunus is a relatively short man with a silver mane, a round beaming face, and a perpetually optimistic demeanor. At his talks, he regularly draws standing ovations from socially conscious progressives, business-oriented free-marketeers and numerous personalities in between.
What Yunus has to offer, his supporters would say, is a method for ending poverty. These supporters include the Norwegian committee that awarded Yunus and his Grameen Bank the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. This makes things all the more frustrating for Yunus’s detractors. Those to the left would argue that the economist is selling “free market” neoliberalism in the guise of liberal do-gooderism. Right-wing libertarians, in contrast, contend that he is peddling communitarian snake oil in a business-friendly container.
LINKS:
Wikipedia: Muhammad Yunis
Wikipedia: Microcredit
Grameen Bank
Democracy Uprising: Mark Engler
Amazon: How to Rule the World
