Regarding Your Gap Year

Link Loving 28.04.12

• Hosting is not The Next Big Thing. Debbie Frieze.
• Civil disobedience, hard work and time. Jo Melzack.
• Debt and the Tar Sands. Charles Eisenstein.

To BP Or Not To BP?

Bloody brave and brilliantly creativity.

Link Loving 27.04.12

• Rupert Murdoch – a portrait of Satan. Adam Curtis.
• Great training advice: 10 reasons to love hassle lines. Nadine Bloch.
• Marriage equality progress in Colorado. Pink News.
• Anna Rose on talking to Australia about climate change.

How To Start The Day

Link Loving 26.04.12

• Should Oxfam be collecting a million bras from the public and selling them? Time to cast your vote. Duncan Green.
• Inside Mexico’s climate revolution. Richard Black.
• The ‘how’ of social capital. Thomas Sander.
• If you/loved one works in finance – don’t let this happen. Barry Petchesky.
• You don’t need this ‘recovery’. Umair Haque.

Cause And Effect: How The Media You Consume Can Change Your Life

Brilliant.

Link Loving 25.04.12

• Academics found free university. BBC News.
• Deny the British empire’s crimes? No, we ignore them. George Monbiot.
• Progressive protectionism – is this possible? Coline Hines. h/t Joe Cox.
• Who said it: Rupert Murdoch or Montgomery Burns? The Quiz.
• Great framing example – ‘job-killing regulations’. Michael Livermore.

Quote From 1685

Richard Rumbold, a Republican executed in June 1685 at the Gallows Market Cross in Edinburgh – hanged, drawn and quartered after the Monmouth Rebellion, said this on the scaffold:

“I am sure there was no man born marked of God above another; for none comes into the world with a saddle on his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him.’

h/t Pete Yeo and Tony Benn

From Charity To Justice

Check out this awesome campaign video from Action Against Hunger.

Notice how it reframes a couple of vital ideas:

• Helping people who live in poverty out is not about ‘charity’, it is about justice.
• It isn’t that you are giving money that is yours, it is about sharing money that is ours.
• Doing the above is morally right, is simply the fair thing to do. And our inner selves (represented by the kids) know that this is what we want to do.