This is a great TED talk by Clay Shirky, who takes about how social media is transforming the way that we consume and create information about international events.
One of the most amazing things is the way twitter is transforming news coverage. Shirky notes that the BBC first learned about the earthquake through [...]
Street Papers: A Unique Platform for Marginalized Voices
One of the cool things I discovered this past Saturday at Media Democracy Day is Megaphone, a Vancouver street paper sold by low-income and homeless vendors that provides a voice for people on the Downtown Eastside.
Street papers are a growing movement. According to Sean Condon, Editor-in Chief of Megaphone, there are over 100 street papers worldwide. The first was created in New York in 1989 when someone came up with the idea of printing a paper to be sold by homeless people as a means of employment. It worked and now there are a number of street papers all over the world in both developed and developing countries that not only provide employment to low-income and homeless individuals, but also frequently provide them with a voice.
The New York Times had a neat article today on buses that run like subways. These buses are fast, can efficiently manage hundreds of commuters at a time, and decrease carbon emissions.
Bus rapid transit systems that are designed more like subway systems than like bus systems are being built in cities around the [...]
Yay! It’s election day! And while you’re thinking about who to vote for (because you are voting, right?) and whether to support BC-STV, I urge you to consider BC’s old-growth forest and forestry jobs. The Western Canada Wilderness Committee has put together a petition calling on all political parties to commit to the [...]
In honour of the 60th international women’s day, one woman is refusing to eat dinner for 60 days to protest the subtle ways in which gender inequality is visible all around us. Here is the beginning of her MANifesto - it’s written with style and well-worth the read.
Why am I refusing to eat dinner for 60 days? Allow me to present a small menu of reasons.
The Appetizer:
At a formal dinner at my college last month, a large male-only party sat next to my husband and me. During the course of their lighthearted discussions, this amusing little anecdote came up:
“Haha, yeah I stayed in a guest house in that town, and it was sketchy, man, just sketchy”, one gentleman said, shaking his head and laughing.
“Oh yeah?” his friend replied.
“Yeah. Like, someone got raped in the room next door. That’s how bad it was.”, he continued, still smiling.
“Oh man!” his friend groaned with laughter.
“Yeah and I didn’t hear anything, because I had my earplugs in and was asleep, and she called the police and everything-I woke up when the police came into my room!”
This little gem of an anecdote was met with boisterous laughter from everyone within earshot. The young man added, as an afterthought: “Yeah, that’s actually pretty serious. It’s pretty bad”.
Conveniently for the dude, this woman’s horrendous experience served as both a cute story, demonstrating his comic abilities, and also a moment of serious reflection, proving what a ‘nice guy’ he is! My, how safe I feel in a world where gentlemen like my colleague admit that sexual assault, which is inflicted upon an estimated 1/3rd of women worldwide, is ‘pretty bad’ in addition to being a great punchline!
I thought this was cool and fascinating…
The person who posted this on youtube explains:
Dolphins have been observed to create bubble rings by exhaling air carefully in the middle of the vortices caused by the motion of their fins through the water, among other techniques.
Besides being nice to look at (and a [...]
Tonight at 8:30pm you can join millions of people around the world by turning of your lights for one hour to call for a more sustainable future. Earth Hour is aiming to get 1 billion people to vote with their light switch and send a powerful message to global political leaders, who [...]
I was just at an event that had some team-building activities, one of which involved people surveying each other in partners and making up questions. One of my favorites was the title of this post. So, if you could see the future, would you? And if the answer is affirmative, what place and/or person and/or [...]
The sad destination of a lot of plastic water bottles….
I just saw an interesting and quite terrifying video on TED about where our garbage often ends up – with detrimental consequences for animals and ocean life (not to mention ourselves in the long run). Among those impacted are dead baby albatrosses, whose parents mistake bottle caps floating in the Pacific Ocean for bits of [...]
Are you hungry for change?
923 million people across the world are hungry.
Almost 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes everyday. That’s one child every five seconds. Or about 1/3 of the undergraduate student body at UBC.
Please join me, February 10th 2009 at Performance Works on Granville Island, for Hungry4Change [...]
Would you be willing to give away all of the income you spend on luxuries to fight global poverty?
This might mean giving up 50% of what you earn or not going out to that club/restaurant/movie this weekend with your friends. Or not buying a new pair of shoes or the latest videogame or [...]
The Africa Canada Accountability Coalition, which was recently founded by UBC students, is planning a day of action on November 27, 2008.
The goal is to raise awareness about the conflict in the DRC and to ask the Canadian government to act and alleviate human suffering in the region.
Here’s the lowdown on why [...]
Next Tuesday, Oxfam UBC is hosting Chai for a Cause, an open-mic night, in honour of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. It sounds like its going to be a great event.
Here are the details (also check it out on facebook):
What?: Open-mic night
Where?: Chai Gallery, [...]
I love bananas. I eat at least 1 every day. They’re easy to carry, easy to eat without making a mess, easy to grab when I’m running late to class … They’re so common place, it hardly strikes me to think of them as a tropical fruit, but they are tropical and they have to [...]
Invisible Children, an organization “motivated by the unseen war in Northern Uganda”, is coming to Canada for the first time ever in their fall 2008 road tour. The organization was created by 3 young filmmakers “to use the power of stories to change lives around the world.” An inspiring looking documentary is being shown at [...]
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STAND for Housing
Are you concerned about the increasing levels of homelessness in Vancouver? What about the fact that the government is not keeping the social housing promise it made when it accepted the 2010 Olympic bid?
This Saturday, there is a big STAND for housing at the Vancouver City Hall. Here`s the link to the facebook event, [...]