Journal
Resist at a We20 meeting
This year, the leaders of the G20 countries
are making a plan to fix the economic crisis.
we20 helps you meet, in groups of up to 20 people,
to make your own plan. This year, anything can change. http://www.we20.org
Who’s coming to the meeting we’re attending?
Alnoor Ladha - Mother
Alnoor is a senior strategist at Mother Advertising Agency, and is currently developing a new arm of the business which relates very strongly to this we20! (That’s all we can say right now.)
Dan Biddle - Development Advisor in BBC Multiplatform
Dan’s main project is producing the social media elements of multiplatform open source documentary Digital Revolution. A BBC Two and online documentary about the web made by collaborating with…
Resist at South by South West, Austin, Texas
Jess and Lina who curate our Social Change page will be at the SXSW festival this year.
http://sxsw.com/interactive
http://sxsw.com/film
If you would like to discuss Resist with them in person, you can find them via twitter -
http://twitter.com/germination
http://twitter.com/lksriv
The big paradox of our times - humanity has never been so divided by so many inequalities, and yet so aware of its unity.
Some notes by Marc Auge from the exhibition ‘Native Land Stop Eject’ in Paris.
http://fondation.cartier.com/
‘For climatic reasons, for economic reasons, because of decolonisation, and because of tourism, people are moving. That leads to problems in terms of borders and the construction of walls. There are walls everywhere - between Mexico and America, Cuetta in Morocco, Israel and Palestine ... and across cities. Even in Padua, Italy, there is fencing to isolate the Gypsy neighbourhood. They are outfitted with complex systems that include ditches, trenches, barbed wire, electric wiring, electronic fences, concrete walls, around-the-clock security agents and surveillance vehicles that patrol the area beyond the walls ...
These people are connected because they are fleeing poverty, famine, tyranny, the violence…