Derrick Jensen
I already posted something on him, but I thought you might just enjoy a talk…
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8649250863235826256Call the problem ‘Civilization’
Do you believe that this culture is going to undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of living?
What if you live in the most destructive culture ever to exist?
What if that culture refuses to change?
What do you do about it?
‘When he was on trial for his life in Jerusalem part of Adolf Eichmanns defense was that nobody had ever told him that what he was doing is wrong…’
These are questions and a statement by Derrick Jensen, author of Endgame, The Culture of Make Believe, and A Language Older than Words.
Personally I suggest: Read Endgame II – it will clarify your point of view or make you realize that you had none.
http://www.derrickjensen.org – info, his books…
http://www.endgame.org – great research site
for the german readers who made it up to here:
Sein letztes Buch (Endgame II) heisst: Das Ökomanifest und ihr findet es hier.
Water as Common Good – Water as means of Control and Profitmaximization
Water is a right, not a privilege -
Petition to UN for 31st article of The Declaration of Human Rights:
‘Everyone has the right to clean and accessible water, adequate for the health and well-being of the individual and family, and no one shall be deprived of such access or quality of water due to individual economic circumstance.’
Go to the petition
Wasser ist ein Recht, kein Privileg -
Petition an UN für einen 31. Artikel der Erklärung der Menschenrechte:
‘Alle Menschen haben ein Recht auf sauberes und zugängliches Wasser, das adequat für die Gesundheit und Wohlsein des Individuums und der Familie ist. Niemandem soll solcher Zugang und solche Wasserqualität wegen individueller ökonomischer Umstände verweigert werden.’
Zur Petition
EU fördert Großkonzerne statt kleine Bauern
Nochmal ein paar Fakten aus dem ‘Real Life’…Heute in der Süddeutschen:
‘…Die Agrarsubventionen fließen an Zucker-, Fleisch- und Stärkefabriken, aber auch an Firmen wie RWE und Lufthansa.
Nach monatelangem Streit haben die Bundesländer am Dienstag die Empfänger der EU-Agrarsubventionen in Deutschland veröffentlicht – nur Bayern hält seine Daten weiter zurück. Mehr als sechs Milliarden Euro an Steuergeld überweist die Europäische Union jährlich an deutsche Betriebe. Profiteure sind aber nicht die kleinen Bauern….Aus den Listen im Internet geht hervor, dass Nahrungsmittelkonzerne und große agrarindustrielle Betriebe die Hauptprofiteure der EU-Zahlungen sind…
Laut den Zahlen auf www.agrar-fischerei-zahlungen.de profitieren auch Unternehmen, die keine Landwirtschaft betreiben. Für die Rekultivierung stillgelegter Braunkohlegruben erhielt der Energieversorger RWE Power 590.000 Euro. Eine Tochterfirma der Lufthansa bekam 106.000 Euro für das Servieren von Agrarprodukten auf Flügen über die EU-Grenzen hinaus. Subventionsempfänger sind auch mehrere Golf- oder Reitklubs…’
More than 70 per cent of the Peruvian Amazon is now up for grabs for giant Oil and Gas Companies
Just received this through avaaz.org:
The Peruvian government has pushed through legislation that could allow extractive and large-scale farming companies to rapidly destroy their Amazon rainforest.
Indigenous peoples have peacefully protested for two months demanding their lawful say in decrees that will contribute to the devastation of the Amazon’s ecology and peoples, and be disastrous for the global climate. But last weekend President Garcia responded: sending in special forces to suppress protests in violent clashes, and labelling the protesters as terrorists.
These indigenous groups are on the frontline of the struggle to protect our earth — Let’s stand with them and call on President Alan Garcia (who is widely known to be sensitive to his international reputation) to immediately stop the violence and open up dialogue. Click below to sign the urgent global petition and a prominent and well-respected Latin-American politician will deliver it to the government on our behalf.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/peru_stop_violence/?cl=250252519&v=3461
The Invisible Man
Street promotion for Düsseldorf (Germany) based homeless-magazine “Fifty Fifty”. Nice!
Ugly New Buildings
Most of the so called “street-art” pieces are so boring and overused, but sometimes some guys like Dan Witz from NYC hit it so perfectly that we can’t get arround…
About his gentrification-critical series “Ugly New Buildings” he says:
“This year’s series, “Ugly New Buildings”, addresses how in the past few years much of my neighborhood in Brooklyn has been torn down to make way for luxury housing. Personally, I can’t say I like the new modern architecture very much. For the most part it’s sterile and alienating and so arrogantly disconnected with its surroundings sometimes it seems like giant alien space ships have landed in the night. But resenting gentrification in New York City is futile, like complaining about the weather or other forces of (urban) nature. For this year’s project I decided to work with it.
These are photo-based, heavily re-painted stickers, mounted on plastic and glued to the walls of the Ugly New Buildings. In May I put up around 30 and about half are still there.”
Please refer also to The Wall
Design for the other 90%
…is an Exhibition at Walker Art Centers again.
“An estimated 90% of the worlds population is without access to what many of us takefor granted. Clean water, adequate shelter, affordable transportation. Design For the Other 90% at Minneapolis Walker Arts Center showcases 30 products from designers and social activists hoping to create low cost options to everyday products. Some are as complex as the one laptop for every child program, others are as simple aswater filters. Shown here is the Global Village Shelter from Ferrara Design made from corrugated cardboard.
The exhibition is on view, free, until September”
For those who can’t visit Minneapolis – check out the online gallery!
via Selectism