Link Loving 13.04.12

 

• What is to be done about the advertising industry? Morgan Phillips.
• The keys to community togetherness. Jason Kehe.
• This is how the Republican right make attack dogs. Erin Gloria Ryan.
• Best ad stunt ever? h/t Rebs Newsom.

Occupy – Conflict, Dysfunction, Resolution?

If you’re signed up to Adbusters Magazine (culture-jamming, radical politics, the magazine that called for Occupy Wall Street last year) – you would have received an email with this text and image yesterday.

“Will you allow Occupy to become a project of the old left, the same cabal of old world thinkers who have blunted the possibility of revolution for decades? Will you allow MoveOn, The Nation and Ben & Jerry to put the brakes on our Spring Offensive and turn our struggle into a “99% Spring” reelection campaign for President Obama?”

Read the full story of the movement dysfunction here. A true masterclass in lack of trust, movement-strategy and collaboration.

Friends, please let’s never let this happen to us.

Link Loving 12.04.12

• Giving up on environmentalism. Painful but important reading. Dave Pollard. h/t Matthew Herbert.
• 50 Life Lessons. Amazing. h/t Rich Hawkins
• Be proud of your accomplishments, not your affiliations. Daniel Gulati.
• I love Matt Williams for showing us all how to do what you love.

The Devotion Project – Laura, Jamie and Simon

The latest video from the Devotion Project had me in tears again. Such beautiful and simple videos that shift attitudes and expectations elegantly and powerfully.

Link Loving 11.04.12

• PIRC has a beautiful new publication – The Climate Factsheets.
• Fantastic ideas and projects mapping site from Tessy, Laura and the gang at Social Spaces – The Civic Crowd.
• And one more mapping link – from the Global Transition. Mapping a green and fair world. h/t Kirsty Schneeberger.

The Enrich List

As a kid, I loved browsing the Sunday Times Rich List every year. A more extrinsic journalistic exercise I can’t imagine, so I was thrilled to see The En-Rich List – a top 100 list that celebrates the wealth of inspirational individuals whose contributions enrich paths to sustainable futures. Great work from the Post-Growth Institute!

h/t Gavin Thomson

What Music Can Mean

For The First Time In Human History

 “For the first time in human history, most of the stories about people, life and values are told not by parents, schools, churches, or others in the community who have something to tell, but by a group of distant conglomerates that have something to sell. ” George Gerbner

h/t Rich Hawkins

The Revolution Will Be Organised

This came into my inbox from a friend…

You will not be able to stay home brother,
You will not be able to login, sit down and doze off,
You will not be able to lose yourself in emailed exchanges,
Sending messages for their own sake,
Because the revolution will be organised

The revolution will be organised
The revolution will not be brought to you in multi-part mime format
In four parts with attachments
The revolution will not send you minutes of meetings you did not attend
And documents you have no intention of ever reading
Because the revolution knows you have better things to do
The revolution will be organised

The revolution will not be brought to you by the
alt.goldfish.preservation discussion groups email digest and will not require
You to fill in a read receipt
The revolution will not CC your boss
The revolution will not CC your friends
The revolution will not waste your time with unnecessary email
Because the revolution will be organised

There will be no need to repeat in emails
Things agreed in conversations
There will be no need to repeat in emails
things agreed in conversations
F.Y.I. There will be no need to reply to emails just
Because someone sent them F.Y.I.
There will be no need to phrase your emails
Using language straight from the gutter or to
Defend your opinion using a selection of flames and curses you have been saving
For just the proper occasion
Because the revolution will be polite

It will be OK to get up from your desk
And walk the fifteen meters to your co-worker in order
To arrange the meeting you are going to have in ten minutes time
The telephone you have been given will not be left to recharge
While downloading a new ring tone by Eminem,
Robbie Williams, Kylie Minogue or the Prodigy
Because you will be using it

The Revolution does not need to send everyone a message
About its opinion of snack machines, the temperature in the office or the next election
You will not have to worry or panic about messages labelled
Important or urgent, unless they really are
The revolution will not write without punctuation
The revolution will not feel the need to connect your spelling mistakes

The revolution will be organised, it will be organised
The revolution will not be virtual brothers;
The revolution will be live
Apologies to Gil Scott Heron.

Link Loving 06.04.12

• The 99 percent for the 100 percent: The case for deep patriotism. Van Jones.
• The use of food as a weapon during World War II. Richard Evans.
• Storytelling, evolved. GE tells a history of modern innovation by visualizing 6000 pages of its annual reports.
• Norway’s outdoor version of kindergarten.
• Questions to ask yourself when you debrief from an action. Nathan Schneider.