Link Loving 31.12.11

• Sick of terrible press coverage? Alex Randall has put together this lovely little website.

The Lady – The Story Of Aung San Suu Kyi

If you’ve been losing the fire in your belly – watch the recently-released film about the life of Aung San Suu Kyi.

Like me, you may only know bits and bobs about her life and Burma’s struggle. Her Reith Lectures earlier this year made an impression – as will this wonderful film.

The Burma Campaign.

Link Loving 30.12.11

• The new law that makes activists terrorists. Wendy Kaminer.
• Will we be all right in the end? David Runciman. (£)
• The story of the rise of a new elite. Chrystia Freeland.
• How two films released this year have shifted the debate on immigration in the USA. Alyssa Rosenberg.
• Two roads intersect, and now we confront an unavoidable choice. Do we carry on as we always have—or do we, with courage and imagination and verve, make a dramatic course correction? Ken Butigan.
• If A Tree Falls – the story of the Earth Liberation Front. Looks like this will provoke some discussion in the activist world…

Only In Berlin

A brilliant project – ‘Laughing Connects‘.

Marketing Rules 101 – Look To Galatians 5:19-21

Remember the Seven Deadly Sins? Aren’t they basically today’s marketing rulebook?

Evidence –

1. Lust
2. Gluttony
3. Greed
4. Sloth
5. Wrath
6. Envy
7. Pride

Link Loving 29.12.11

• After this terrifyingly bad piece of journalism, a more accurate list of ‘women of the year’ – and this time, no pandas. Reni Eddo-Lodge.
• Strategic frames for the Occupy movement. Joe Brewer. Fantastic analysis.
• 48% of the movies released over the last twelve months fail the Bechdel test. Daniel Elton.
• How do you find future leaders? Claudio Fernández-Aráoz.
• Umair Haque is on-point as usual.
• Small food operators employ more people than large corporations. Tell me something I don’t know. Stacy Finz.
• Remember the Slow Food movement? Now we’ve got Slow Money too. Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss.

Wisdom To Share

After watching series 4 of The Wire back to back over the last couple of days – these words by Angel Kyodo Williams seem to be apt,

“Without inner change there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.”

Wonderful interview with her below – I especially appreciated someone who can speak so well on social justice and social change strategy with such strong spiritual wisdom.

Link Loving 28.12.11

• McDonald’s closes all their restaurants in Bolivia. John Johnson.
• 2011: A year filming protests.. John Domokos.
• 30 things to stop doing to yourself. Marc and Angel.
• Occupy geeks are building a Facebook for the 99%. Sean Captain.
• The story of Ginger Miller, a once-homeless Navy veteran, who has now set up a group that helps other vets with problems that leave to homelessness. Erica Morrison.
• The case against born-again carnivorism. Marc Bekoff.

Julianne Moore As Sarah Palin

How have I only just heard about this?

If You’re Going To Use Celebrities – This Is How You Do It

• Powerful personal stories – the issue relates clearly to them (all of these celebrities are famous LGBT faces)
• Illustrating story rather than explaining it to you
• Doing what they do (performers performing), not lecturing