Filed under: children, intelligence | Tags: arts, children, creativity, culture, education, human ecology, humanity, imagination, intelligence, schools, ted
Filed under: feminism, film, women | Tags: culture, feminism, films, hollywood, oscars, scripts, women
Movies seem increasingly preoccupied with men and their problems, leaving female actors on the sidelines, writes Tim Robey
Casting your eyes over this year’s roster of film award contenders, you’d be forgiven for wondering why women, more than ever, have been relegated to the margins. The stories Hollywood wanted to tell last year were about fathers and sons, the American west, and machismo run amok…
Filed under: ethical consumerism | Tags: branded products, culture, ethical consumerism, HIV, transparency
Author: Dated: 06 Feb 2008
…[C]onsumers have generated more than $22 million to fight H.I.V. and AIDS in Rwanda by buying iPods [made by Apple], T-shirts, watches, cologne and…laptops, with all of them branded “(Product)RED.”… Yet detractors say Red has fallen short. They criticize a lack of transparency at the company and its partners over how much they make from Red products, and whether they spend more money on Africa or advertising… Over all, more than $59 million has been contributed by Red and its corporate partners to the Global Fund. [also refers to American Express, Dell, Gap, Giorgio Armani, Hallmark, Motorola]
Filed under: democracy, digital revolution, documentary, music, open source | Tags: culture, democracy, documentary, film, music, open source
Filed under: film, music, open source | Tags: copyleft, copyright, culture, mashup, music, open source, public domain
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Filed under: animation, documentary, film, music, open source | Tags: animation, culture, film, music, open source, rotoscope
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Filed under: documentary, ethical, film, funny, music | Tags: culture, hip hop, music, rap
Filed under: animation, ethical, ethical consumerism | Tags: animation, consciousness, culture, factory, free_range, production, stuff
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Filed under: digital revolution | Tags: activism, culture, inspirational, usa, youth
top 10 youth activism victories in 2007
Anyone who laments that American young people are apathetic, uninvolved or not sufficiently outraged clearly isn’t up on the news.Luckily, though, we are. The past 12 months have been filled with many great youth organizing successes; some were covered extensively by mainstream media, and some went — sadly — unnoticed. From these extraordinary stories, Wiretap has culled a list of our favorite 10 youth victories of the year. They’re not just the events you’ve heard about, like the hunger strikes at Harvard and Stanford, because the less-attended actions of low-income, low-profile youth groups can be equally triumphant. And they’re not just acts of campus activism, either — because half of Americans between the ages of 18 and 25 are not enrolled in college. And though there are countless other examples of protest, cooperation, and informed dissent that went on and are still continuing around the country, here are 10 especially inspirational stories that went down this year. Congratulations to these and all other young people who took responsibility and took charge in 2007 to work hard both with their peers and with other groups, who put their energies into action for their communities, and for the world.
