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Nice little animation from Oxfam (US) introducing their campaign ‘Right to Know, Right to Decide‘ looking at the lack of transparency in extractive industries.
Filed under: Campaigning, Cartoons/Animation | Tagged: extractive industry, NGO | 1 Comment »
From much the same direction as Paul Close’s ‘Is there one thing that could make your life better?‘ comes ‘What makes you happy?‘ by Simon Sticker at Flow Media. Based on the ‘50 People 1 Question‘ project ‘What makes you happy?’ consists of a series of short video clips asking the question to young adults [...]
Filed under: Video | Tagged: Africa, Central Africa, representation, Rwanda | 1 Comment »
Between 21 January and 11 April Whitechapel Gallery in London is hosting the photographic exhibition ‘Where Three Dreams Cross‘. The exhibition present photographs documenting the three countries from 1860 to the present day, with 300 works by 70 photographers and artists.
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I’ll start by saying I didn’t really engage very much with the climate change meeting in Copenhagen. As such I am not sure how much it can be labelled as a failure? However, it hasn’t got much applause from the media and NGOs so I am going to work on the assumption that most people [...]
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WITNESS remains one of the stand out organisations working with and empowering people to use video for social activism. It seems only yesterday, but is apparently two years, since they launched their excellent Hub. Here, WITNESS staff and interns nominate the videos from 2009 that made the most impact with them. Included are ‘Choose a [...]
Filed under: Campaigning, Video | Tagged: Asia, Bangladesh, climate change, environment, human rights, NGO, South Asia | Leave a Comment »
