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Check out this post on Movements.org about an idea by video games designer Jane McGonigal. Inspired by leaflets handed out during recent protests in Egypt she pitched the idea of a video game on ‘surviving a peaceful revolution.’ Just goes to show its not all about Twitter and FB – in fact by the time [...]
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What is the difference between Tahrir and Tiananmen? Certainly not Twitter or Facebook. They are just organisational devises – without which the Chinese students and workers did just fine (remember, the protests spread across multiple cities in China). OK, it speeds up communication, including with the outside world, but the foreign press were at Tiananmen [...]
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Salwa is the image of the first campaign against sexual harassment in Lebanon. The League of Independent Activists – IndyACT has launched this campaign with the aim of combating ‘all forms of sexual harassment, physical and verbal abuse against children, girls, and women’. This is in particular a response to a drastic increase in such [...]
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I was at the British Embassy in Kathmandu a couple of weeks back to attend a gathering on enforced disappearances. The event marked the 6th anniversary of the killing a 15-year-old girl, Maina Sunuwar, in 2004 by the Nepal Army. The main draw was the première of a short film entitled, ‘Awaiting Justice‘ (presented as [...]
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Short animation by director of ‘Waltz with Bashir’, Yoni Goodman, on continued Israeli control over the Gaza strip. more about “New Short Film from the Animation Dir…“, posted with vodpod
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The human rights violation of ‘disappearances’ has attracted a great deal of photographic interest and work. To mark the International Day of the Disappeared (30 August) here is a small selection of photographic work on the issue. Marcelo Brodsky’s ‘Buena Memoria‘ – on returning to Argentina Brodsky organised a 25th anniversary reunion of his class [...]
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Article by Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh on participatory photo project with Palestinian refugees in Lebanon published on ARTEEAST.
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