Empathy – The Secret Ingredient

Could Capital Controls Prevent Another Financial Crash?

Link Living 06.12.12

• Amnesty International’s ‘Trial By Timeline’ campaign. Would what you post on Facebook put you in jail in other countries? 
• Greenpeace brings in volunteers to help plan new campaigns. Greenpeace Mobilisation Lab.

Link Loving 06.12.12

• 3 things you need to know about today’s Autumn Statement. James Meadway
• Do we love ‘things’ not enough, rather than too much? Woodbrooke Good Lives Project.
• Totnes, in the UK’s southwest, takes its own route as austerity measures lead to high national unemployment. Laurence Lee.

   

Cracking The Code: The System Of Racial Inequity – Trailer

Link Loving 05.12.12

• Time to end corporate personhood. Jonathan Kent.
• So apparently I live in North America’s smartest city. Boyd Cohen.
• Why it’s hard to replace the ‘fiscal cliff’ metaphor. Suggestion: austerity bomb. George Lakoff.
• Calculating the impact of campaigning in the Philippines. Duncan Green.

Ira Glass On Storytelling

Iceland – Request For Contacts

Readers – a request for you.

Following all the amazing activism and impact from social pressure in Iceland over the last couple of years, I’m planning a trip to Iceland with dear friend Daniel Vockins.

We would love to meet with anyone who fits into the following categories:

• activists
• union organisers
• people involved with the rewriting of the constitution
• parliamentarians
• students
• civil servants
• faith groups
• media movers-and-shakers
• financial sector workers
• anyone who has a story to tell about the protests and what impact they had

If you know anyone, or know someone who might have a useful contact – I’d really appreciate to be linked up. Drop me a line – caspertk[at]gmail.com. Thank you so much!

Link Loving 03.12.12

• A really useful set of questions when making decisions (or, said otherwise – creating critical systems heuristics). Curtis Ogden.

The Field

“Beyond our ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’
…doesn’t make sense any more.”

Rumi