Great Campaign Video – Time To Change

I met up with some of the campaigns team at MIND last week who told me about the Time To Change campaign, which seeks to end mental health discrimination.

• stories, stories, stories
• skillful use of celebrities
• faces from across society’s spectrum – change is for everyone

Link Loving 20.02.12

• Want to speak at TED? Audition!
• Occupy the food system. Willie Nelson.
• Africa Unsound – fund and follow the new African sound.
• Britain’s 50 new radical ideas.
• Babies’ innate sense of justice. Science Daily.
• If you wanted to save capitalism, this is what you should do. Martin Wolf.

How Do You Get From Silos To The Promised Land Of Integration?

More great work from the Greenpeace Mobilisation Lab – read the full story here.

Link Loving 19.02.12

• Climate change and justice – Amy Mount shares what she’s learning at Yale.
• Learning facilitation from Delia Smith. Perry Walker.
• Taking the scare out of scarcity. Phil Auerswald.
• Alternatives emerging in Greece – communities taking matters into their own hands. Andrew Simms.
• Towards a theory of co-op capitalism. Noreena Hertz.
• If John Lewis is so great, why aren’t there more businesses like it? Tim Finch.

What If We Solved Inequality?

‘If the question of the distribution of wealth was solved for all society and all lived in relative comfort and without urgent anxiety, the question would still be how many would be at peace with their own souls and have that joy and contentment which alone can make the outward things fair and sweet and rise victorious over change.’

Walter Rauschenbusch

h/t Occupying the Gospel – On Being

Link Loving 18.02.12

• John Harris questions the use of consensus at Occupy LSX.
• What is Avaaz doing in Syria? Emma Ruby-Sachs.
• Follow the Daily Torygraph for continued amusement.
• Chilean students make a strategic retreat. Luisa Trujillo.
• What makes some ads go viral, and others fail? Thales Teixeira.
• The Parisian network of hacker-artists. Fascinating. Jon Lackman.
• Do we have time to shift values? Tom Crompton.

Link Loving 17.02.12

• The greening of Guantanamo Prison is not, nor ever will be, sustainable. Natalya Sverjensky.
• Amy Mount on windfarms. Someone get that woman a column.
• Voices of SNCC – hear Ella Baker and Julian Bond discussing its founding and legacy. h/t Gavin Thomson.
• The artist vandalising advertising with poetry. Matilda Battersby.
• Russian viral video showing Putin being arrested. Smart framing. Joshua Keating.
• Apparently we missed out on celebrating World Radio Day. And I really love radio. Amy O’Donnell.
• Rules for the social era. Nilofer Merchant.

Everything Is A Remix: System Failure

Link Loving 16.02.12

• Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman talks systemic change within Apple’s supply chain on Keith Olbermann.
• How not to communicate your values – the PETA Valentine’s Day advert. Anna North.
• All There Is – voices of ordinary Americans talking about love. Really beautiful. Thanks Gavin Thomson.
• A beautiful message of solidarity from anti-coal activists in Borneo to Kosovo.
• Is twitter today’s newswire? Chloe Sladden.
• Great piece on Oxfam’s report on inequality from George Monbiot.

An American Spring

Thought Occupy Wall Street was disappearing?

Wrong. Say hello to The99Spring.com.

And what comes after April? May Day. And a May Day General Strike.