Moving Planet is a worldwide rally on 24 September 2011 to demand solutions to the climate crisis. Come on bike, on skates, on a board, or just on foot.
Moving Planet and 350.org
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Free universitat
Ive just been reading an article in an old edition of The Purple Journal (a french literary magazine) about The University of Buenos Aires; in 2006 there was 310, 000 students and 29, 000 professors. Entry is unrestricted. Everybody can study there: its public and its free.
Reading this re-incited something in me I think about periodically: free and equal knowledge exchange - Making things together that neither could have thought of on his or her own:
Education as collaboration, as making, as creation, as well as learning new and ancient information it is having the opportunity to find and remember that which is uniquely wound around in our insides.
The genius that comes through us. The wonder that each of us has to share.
Imagine making a tiny free university here in australia, or anywhere in your own hometown, where everyone could be a professor and a student. Where we could garden and eat together and people could take classes and share studios. It could be organically and well organised, permanent culture, useful, integrated, conceptual, physical, quantum.
Something to think about.
"37% of the professors of UBA are ad-honorem professors - this means that they dont get a salary for their work, just the honor... It is a modal of social exchange that is mot merely based on economic resources or academic prestige. In a certain way the UBA is a collective social experiment, a complex organism made of mutliple parts and players that stick together in many different ways. The internal structures work together at different levels of the instituation, divded into things that are planned and things that are related more to the process of doing."
page 41, text by Florencia Alvarez, The Purple Journal, Number 9, Fall-Winter 06/07
Reading this re-incited something in me I think about periodically: free and equal knowledge exchange - Making things together that neither could have thought of on his or her own:
Education as collaboration, as making, as creation, as well as learning new and ancient information it is having the opportunity to find and remember that which is uniquely wound around in our insides.
The genius that comes through us. The wonder that each of us has to share.
Imagine making a tiny free university here in australia, or anywhere in your own hometown, where everyone could be a professor and a student. Where we could garden and eat together and people could take classes and share studios. It could be organically and well organised, permanent culture, useful, integrated, conceptual, physical, quantum.
Something to think about.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Monday, September 12, 2011
The Decade of Magical Thinking
Article on 9/11
"Say you took the long view of September 11, 2001, the view from the heavens, the view of a compassionate celestial being. From up there, you’d see that approximately 150,000 earthlings died that day. Most of these deaths were caused by malnutrition and age-related illnesses..."
"One of the duties of the artist – not the only duty, but a central one – is to impel people to imagine the complexity of thought and feeling inside another person. Art complicates moral action, because we have to accept that other people matter, that their hardship and suffering, even their rage and sorrow, are, to some extent, our responsibility.
Propaganda has the opposite aim: it is intended to simplify moral action. People get to disregard the humanity of others. This makes them easier to ignore, deport, imprison, torture, enslave, and kill."
Article on 9/11
"Say you took the long view of September 11, 2001, the view from the heavens, the view of a compassionate celestial being. From up there, you’d see that approximately 150,000 earthlings died that day. Most of these deaths were caused by malnutrition and age-related illnesses..."
"One of the duties of the artist – not the only duty, but a central one – is to impel people to imagine the complexity of thought and feeling inside another person. Art complicates moral action, because we have to accept that other people matter, that their hardship and suffering, even their rage and sorrow, are, to some extent, our responsibility.
Propaganda has the opposite aim: it is intended to simplify moral action. People get to disregard the humanity of others. This makes them easier to ignore, deport, imprison, torture, enslave, and kill."
Friday, September 9, 2011
Everybody wants to rush through transition like it’s a bad root canal. But transition is a threshold. It’s a sacred appointment—the crossing from one world to another. There are promises, insights, revelations, and messages during this time. You will not escape yourself here. You will not escape your deepest questions. This is a blessing.
-- Tama J. Kieves, via Irma Kaye Sawyer published here
Monday, August 29, 2011
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Sunday, August 21, 2011
“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the ‘Universe’ —a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and feelings, as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
-- Albert Einstein
-- Albert Einstein
Saturday, August 20, 2011
The Kimberley: Strong Spirit Country that needs our support
This is a powerful call to action. Incredibly moving and gut wrenching and inspiring. We need to support this. This is really important. Now.
Produced by Paul Bell (feral films) this video is a must see for anyone who wants to understand the community effort to stop the proposed Gas Hub at James Price Point in the Kimberley, West Australia.
"I feel a moral obligation as a woman, or a man, to exercise my revolutionary potential and make the world a better place"
-- from Lady Gaga's speech at Europride
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