slow motion on a 250 000 souls crowd both arms up, pointing towards the sky besides you, a young woman screams with anger marching ahead of you; your friends that you lost an ecstatic moment of wholeness made you stop to contemplate by the window of an old apartment a 90 years old woman waves, looking down
I've been feeling a bit discouraged lately, with the sheer amount of stuff that it seems to me that so many people just don't care about...even when it directly or indirectly affects them! So I'm interested in ways of inspiring activism. What do you think?
Some short thoughts on recent push by animal activists to make polar bears "uplisted". These are not the ONLY thoughts I have on this subject and are not at all comprehensive -- but mostly I was just thinking about how divorcing animal rights activism from human rights activism is actually a specious concept.
I had a solo protest in solidarity with the Nunavut (and Ottawa...and anywhere else that was doing it) protestors. My sign isn't particularly funny or snappy, but it is true, and it did get a lot of people asking me questions, or at least frowning and reading it. One lady who was getting signatures on a petition for women's rights shouted, "Wooooo! Right on!"
The protests on food prices that happened on June 9 were a revolutionary step towards bringing awareness of what's going on in Nunavut to people in the South. And the most common resopnse I heard was, "Well if you don't like it, you should move!" So I just wanted to share a few thoughts about that...and how stupid it is.
This video was shot on April 25, 2012 in Montreal, Quebec, CA. This video was taken by Zack Kunuk at his hotel room on Rene-Lavesque Est. Blvd. Music By Northern Haze from Igloolik, NU, CA.
Baffinland Witness is a collection of my impressions and experiences surrounding Canada’s largest-ever resource development proposal—Baffinland Iron Mines’ Mary River project—in the context of mining in general in Nunavut and Canada, both present and historic.… Uqalimakkanirit
In the beginning, when the world was soft, Creation beings lifted the earth out of the sea. Then the world became hard — Colonisation, slavery, mining booms. This is the story of the Aboriginal people of Roebourne — their Law, their tribal voice, their survival.
Madeline Ivalu, Susan Avingaq, CArol Kunnuk , filmmakers from Igloolik, meet Alberto Cortes, Mexican filmaker in Mexico City. They discuss the process of filmaking. Alberto's film Corazon del Tiempo, is taking place in a native community of Chiapas. Also contributing to the discussion are Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Nancy Wachowich.
Arsene Ivalu: "I completely disagree because it will affect me, my culture and everything else around, ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ " 3:49 Inuktitut by Arnait Video Productions, Show Me on the Map, 2009.
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Il a été décidé dans le cadre de l'ANRU de détruire la cité des Créneaux à Marseille. Mais en même temps que les tours c'est la communauté qui est démolie, la "grande famille". Les derniers habitants présents nous font part de leurs sentiments sur le rouleau compresseur des politiques urbaines.
Les tours de la cité des Créneaux à Marseille passent sous les rouleaux compresseurs de l'ANRU, en même temps c'est la communauté, "une grande famille" qu'on démolit.
Les habitants encore présents nous font part de leurs états d'âmes sur ce processus politique qui ne leur a pas laissé de place.
