Link Loving 17.12.11

• The student who stood up and spoke out at COP in Durban. ‘Why I did it’. Abigail Borah.
• The country’s top 100 social entrepreneurs.
• Two impressive wins for Greenpeace in the same week. Fridges and Facebook.
• A middle-aged wealthy white man tells poor black young people what to do. Seriously awkward. Gene Marks.
• The Chinese village that fought back and is now under siege. Malcolm Moore.
• Labour must be radical re-engineers. Kitty Usher.
• The funniest product descriptions on Amazon.
• The 29-year old who just got named on to the Starbucks board. Matt Rosoff.

Why I Love The Youth Climate Movement

I mean, how couldn’t you?

A Masterclass In Movement Building

Yes, it’s 2.5 hours long. Yes, it’s a panel with Q&A at the end. Yes, you’re a busy person.

But this is worth watching if you want to build a movement. Who’ll you’ll be learning from –

• Marianne Manilov, The Engage Network
• Jessica Shearer, Service Employees International Union and faith organiser
• Mark Meckler, Tea Party Patriots
• Clay Shirky, author Here Comes Everybody
• Ori Brafman, author The Starfish and the Spider
• Zeynep Tufekci, University of North Carolina
• Beka Economopolous, organizer, Occupy Wall Street
• Micah Sifry, Personal Democracy Media
• Andrew Rasiej, Personal Democracy Media

Zeynep Tufekci in mid-flow

Link Loving 16.12.11

• How corporations are destroying livelihoods and a vital nutrition source from the people who need it most. The great milk robbery.
• Young farmers in the States are leading legislative efforts to reform agriculture. Lindsey Lusher Shute.
• What organised labour could learn from Occupy Wall Street. Miranda Neubauer.
• The British people want renewable energy, poll says. Leo Hickman.
• Who are the occupiers? Tim Gee.
• Jon Stewart doing what he does best.
• One year on – what were the roots for success in Tunisia’s revolution. Mary Elizabeth King.
• How local policymakers can lead the transformation in how government values nature. Georgina Langdale and Benjamin Simmons.

Explaining The Concepts Of The Solidarity Economy

A fantastic series of six stop-animation shorts from Solidarity NYC. h/t Lucy Warin and Treehugger. Check below the break for more.

Shapes of exchange

Housing collectives

Singing For Social Change

I can’t help but love this. Some hilarious lyrics once it gets going.

My favourite? ‘Tax LoopHOOOOOLES!’

Link Loving 15.12.11

• A new Community Action Toolkit from the Young Foundation.
• Interesting conversation on tech and foreign policy between Steve Grove and Anne Marie Slaughter.
• All ain’t well at Monsanto. Tom Laskawy.
• Campaign win against Hamley’s gender stereotyping for Laura Nelson.
• A calendar of everyday revolution.
• The playwright Edward Bond reflects on the riots this summer.
• TIME magazine’s person of the year? The Protestor.
• Alter ego – portrait photos of gamers with their game avatar. Maria Popova.

Great Documentary – ‘A Minority Pastime’

A fantastic new documentary A Minority Pastime follows Cotswold resident Denise Ward as she discovers the violent and aggressive world of fox hunting. This fifteen-minute clip is engrossing and moving.

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/29375418]

• trusted voice narrating the film, Mr Patrick Stewart no less
• person-like-me unearthing the truth, no overblown hype
• clear focus on injustices committed – especially by powerful, privileged men to women

h/t New Internationalist

Link Loving 14.12.11

• Pay attention to nonviolence. Julia Bacha.
• Reviving the lost art of manliness.
• How music is good for your brain. Thorin Klosowski.
• Surprise yourself with this list of common misconceptions.
• Robert Peston tells us that The Party’s Over. He’s wrong. There was a party, but most of us weren’t invited. Our best days are ahead of us. Adam Ramsay.
• The Occupy movement and the women of Greenham Common. Rebecca Johnson.
• Occupy protests: a four step guide to bypassing high-street banks. Brett Scott.
• New democracies are possible – starting with Leeds University Students’ Union. Perry Walker.

Dear Art World

William Powhida‘s  Dear Art World (Derivatives), is an unfiltered and articulate critique of today’s paradoxes, including the economy, slacktivism, remix culture, war, the Occupy movement and the art world.

Here in readable format –