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 –

Link Loving 13.12.11

• The next Wangari Maathai? Winnie Asiti’s story. Heather Box.
• How secretive thinktanks are crushing our democracy. George Monbiot.
• Interested in organising and work in healthcare? This training looks amazing.
• The British Social Attitudes claims that Britain is becoming more sceptic about climate change is false. Alice Bell.
• How Syrian activists are creative resisting the regime in the face of death. Rafif Jouejati.
• If you goes, freedom is in danger. A wonderful pamphlet by the Citizen Ethics Network.
• The end of internal emails. Thierry Breton.

What Happens When An NGO Admits Failure

• Sponsor an African spreadsheet
• admittingfailure.com

Clarity On UNFCCC

Clarity on the beast that is the UN climate talks from John Broder in the New York Times.

“Effectively addressing climate change will require over the coming decades a fundamental remaking of energy production, transportation and agriculture around the world — the sinews of modern life. It is simply too big a job for those who have gathered for these talks under the 1992 United Nations treaty that began this grinding process.”

“…the question of ‘climate equity’ — the obligations of rich nations to help poor countries cope with a problem they had no part in creating — is more than an “environmental” issue.”

h/t Natalya Sverjensky