Link Loving 02.04.12

• Books to support building the movement. A great list.
• Great list of examples of successful violent and non-violent movement tactics. Carwil Bjork-James.
• The government will be able to monitor the calls, emails, texts and website visits of everyone in the UK under new legislation set to be announced soon. BBC News.
• Charts: Here’s what Occupy is so angry about. Business Insider.
• Is Silicon Valley the new Wall Street?

The Listening Project

After the wonderful project in the US, ‘All There Is‘, documenting conversations between loved ones, The British Library and Radio 4 have put together The Listening Project.

I hope they end up doing a couple of animations like this one – showing a conversation between mother and daughter.

Imagine taking the Time To Change campaign – and adding the cartoon-style animation. Might even be more powerful.

h/t Gavin Thomson

New Series From Aaron Sorkin, Writer Of The West Wing

Oh my goodness. The joy is immeasurable.

Link Loving 01.04.12

• Live in Scotland? Interested in a new economic paradigm? Just Banking Conference.
• The fate of Spain’s economy may lie in a couple dozen savings banks called cajas de ahorros. How the small can jeapordise the big. NPR Planet Money. h/t Richard Williamson
• If you love London, you will love this project. Jason Gots.
• Noam Chomsky on Nixon, art and bees.
• Fantastic wiki resource on community orgainising.

Seven Biggest Lies About The Economy

Charity Is Dead

How come there were hardly any NGOs attending the Skoll World Forum?

Some classic lines from the event included – “I have a suggestion for a new name for the developing world. Let’s call it the world.” Hans Rosling

The Guardian picks up the conversation, asking ‘Is charity dead?’.

Link Loving 31.03.12

• Londoners On Bikes – could this campaign shift Mayoral-candidate positions?

Link Loving 30.03.12

• Five ways modern men are trained to hate women. David Wong.
• Google’s lab of wildest dreams. Claire Cain Miller and Nick Bilton.
• A short history of privatisation in the UK: 1979-2012. Richard Seymor.
• Coolest infographic of 2012 so far – The Carbon Map. Duncan Clark and Robin Houston.
• Burma: ‘the people aren’t scared anymore’. William Lloyd George.

It Could Have Been Me

Another one to add to the list of social change songs we should learn…

Link Loving 29.03.12

• Explore Nelson Mandela’s archives online. Mark Yoshitake.
• On the civil rights trail with Bob Fitch. Rachel Signer.
• What young people should do with their lives. Kurt Vonnegut.
• Turns out that by treating people as consumers, you boost materialistic values. Guy Shrubsole.
• It’s not a job search, it’s a permanent campaign. Dorie Clark.
• Mass distribution and mass disobedience in Spain. Ter Garcia.