RARE: Global conservation in Local hands... Or how to be a “ Glocal ” environmentalist

Rare, a U.S.-based conservation organization, works globally to equip people in the world’s most threatened natural areas with the tools and motivation they need to care for their natural resources. For the last 30 years, at more than 90 sites, and in more than 40 nations, Rare has focused as much on people as on science—addressing the underlying social and economic factors that create environmental threats.

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Video Volunteers - movin'ahead!

As some of you know, I spent almost half a year working with video volunteers in india in 2006, where i was producing short promotional videos about the Community Video Programs they have initiated there. The most recent in date was about "Hamari Awaaz" (Our voice), a community video unit based in Mumbai, and can be viewed on this blog in the previous post.
Aside from shooting video and accompanying the Community Producers in their work, I also took a lot of photographs - some of which were published in the october issue of Frontline, a leading journal covering socio-political issues and news in India.
I just took a tour on Video Volunteers website recently, and to my great surprise I discovered that many of my pics were used to illustrate the CVU programs !!! It has nothing to do with "amour propre" or pride, but just a joy marked by the fact that my adoptive indian family of social activits and filmmakers like my work! Take a tour onto their site NOW !! Participatory Media will soon swarm your neighborhoods!!!

The case for Video & Social Change

« La littérature a une forme de politique bien à elle »

Q&R avec Jacques Ranciere. Read! (french only)

Concerts a emporter !

A suivre: Les concerts a emporter de la blogotheque maintenu par Vincent Moon & friends! Des groupes improvisent leurs morceaux en milieu urbain. Le podcast vidéo hebdomadaire de la Blogothèque.

xml feed: ici, here, idhar

quote of the day

Arkansas GOP chief Dennis Milligan: “At the end of the day, I believe fully the president is doing the right thing, and I think all we need is some attacks on American soil like we had on September 11, and the naysayers will come around very quickly to appreciate not only the commitment for President Bush, but the sacrifice that has been made by men and women to protect this country.”

from Think Progress

Hail to Scroogle

Scroogle is a screen-scraping proxy for the Google search engine that circumvents Google's tracking of user activity via cookies and/or IP address. The site also allows users to perform Google searches without receiving Google advertisements. There is support for 28 languages, and Mozilla offers a Scroogle plugin for the Firefox search bar. Scroogle is owned and operated by Public Information Research, Inc., a nonprofit corporation run by Daniel Brandt, who also operates the Google Watch site critical of Google.
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Project For The New American Century

For the past 6 years, architects (not masons) of the Afghan & Iraq war have remained almost entirely left out of mediatic coverage in France. Here is a good place to start ! again .. The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) is powerful think tank based in D.C and headed by Bill Kristol. The PNAC has been lobbying for an action against Iraq since as early as 1996.


Project Directors

William Kristol, Chairman
Robert Kagan
Bruce P. Jackson
Mark Gerson
Randy Scheunemann




Signatories: Elliott Abrams, Gary Bauer, William J. Bennett, Jeb Bush, Dick Cheney, Eliot A. Cohen, Midge Decter, Paula Dobriansky, Steve Forbes, Aaron Friedberg, Francis Fukuyama, Frank Gaffney, Fred C. Ikle, Donald Kagan, Zalmay Khalilzad, I. Lewis Libby, Norman Podhoretz, Dan Quayle, Peter W. Rodman, Stephen P. Rosen, Henry S. Rowen, Donald Rumsfeld, Vin Weber, George Weigel, Paul Wolfowitz

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The New York Review of Books - " In Sarkoland "

By William Pfaff

The scenario for the 2007 French presidential election was written by the foreign press and embassies before it happened. France was said to be experiencing "malaise" and decline, mired in ineffectual resistance to market economics, low growth, and high youth unemployment because of its failure to integrate its African and North African immigrants. Its economy was said to be blocked by union power and an overmanned administrative apparatus hostile to initiative. Hiring was so costly as to discourage expansion; success in business was exorbitantly taxed, forcing the rich to leave for Brussels and the ambitious young for London.

France, moreover, practiced a protectionism out of touch with global realities and its businesses were uncompetitive, other than in luxury goods. It had lost its influence in Europe through a sterile foreign policy of "grandeur" and opposition to the United States.

The election would be won by Nicolas Sarkozy, the attractive, aggressively ambitious, and hyperactive young politician who favored both American market economics and affirmative action for immigrants.

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