Monday 15 August 2011
Quis custodiet...
An excellent article on the Garda Ombudsman's interim report on the Rossport rape recordings can be found here. A brief but telling commentary on GSOC's abysmal record in actually tackling problems with the Gardai is at this site.
Saturday 13 August 2011
Weekend at City Arts campaign, Dublin
Weekend at City Arts....
Friday the 19th and Saturday the 20th of August will see a two-day event looking at issues around property, space and education and how to fight back against the narrow economic imperatives dominating all of these today. The discussions and workshops are part of the Campaign for the Old City Arts Building and will take place outside the building, 23-25 Moss St, Dublin 2. (Map available here).
Friday will kick off at 7pm with an introduction to the weekend and a discussion on public space as well as dinner. Saturday's events begin at 3pm with a discussion "University in crisis" (speakers Provisional University and Naomi Milner), a break at 5 and a discussion at 6 "Challenging NAMA", followed by the Happy City Samba band at 8.
Rebellious media conference
London, 8-9 October 2011
Co-organised by Peace News, Ceasefire, New Internationalist, Red Pepper, Undercurrents and visionOntv.
More details here.
Co-organised by Peace News, Ceasefire, New Internationalist, Red Pepper, Undercurrents and visionOntv.
More details here.
Friday 12 August 2011
Sustaining resistance: empowering renewal
29th October to 6th November 2011
Tools for effective and sustainable activism
Week long workshop in the Catalan Pyrenees
This workshop, hosted in a wild part of the Catalan Pyrenees, offers personal and collective tools to make our activism more effective. They can help us stay in it for the long haul, creating personal sustainability and adding continuity to our movement building. They can also ensure the collective dimensions of our activism exemplify the values we struggle for. They can help us stay inspired, nourished, empowered and strategically creative.
The workshop applies ecological and systems thinking, radical analysis and holistic participatory learning to the practice of activism and the building of social movements. It offers practical methods for engaging in the inner work that underpins effective social engagement. It will also bring together activists from across europe to share practice and strengthen networks. Funding is available to some participants, but places are limited. For information or application form e mail: info@ecodharma.com
More details on www.ecodharma.com
Tools for effective and sustainable activism
Week long workshop in the Catalan Pyrenees
This workshop, hosted in a wild part of the Catalan Pyrenees, offers personal and collective tools to make our activism more effective. They can help us stay in it for the long haul, creating personal sustainability and adding continuity to our movement building. They can also ensure the collective dimensions of our activism exemplify the values we struggle for. They can help us stay inspired, nourished, empowered and strategically creative.
The workshop applies ecological and systems thinking, radical analysis and holistic participatory learning to the practice of activism and the building of social movements. It offers practical methods for engaging in the inner work that underpins effective social engagement. It will also bring together activists from across europe to share practice and strengthen networks. Funding is available to some participants, but places are limited. For information or application form e mail: info@ecodharma.com
More details on www.ecodharma.com
Thursday 11 August 2011
What is education?
A lovely little animated video about mainstream education here. Once this kind of comment was the preserve of people like Ivan Illich - now it's said very widely (of course without making any real difference to the practice of schooling).
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