Another wall
Rio de Janeiro government decided to build walls around 11 favelas.
The minds behind the idea say the intention is to protect the rainforest. The residents say it is a way to segregate them from the rest of society.
I say it’s surreal that we are still building physical barriers to solve either social or environmental problems.
Wouldn’t those 40 million reais spent on the walls do better invested in Education?
Filed Under Environment, Human Rights, Modern Life, Politics
Get rid of your old cellphone
Here is the deal: you send these guys your old cellphone and they make sure it reaches migrants at the edge of the European Union.
The result is a media-art project that not only makes technology re-usable but gives Moroccan youth a chance to tell their stories, reach out for help and form a stronger community.
Filed Under Art, Creativity, Human Rights, Media & Society, New Media
New Portuguese
We are more than 230 million people spread around 8 countries. And since the beginning of this year, we are more united than ever, writing the exact same Portuguese.
The Portuguese Orthographic Reform will take a while to sink - after all, it’s not that easy to get used to Coreia when you spent your life writing Coréia - and therefore I’m glad to find some help out there.
Filed Under Modern Life
The crisis and I are friends on Facebook
Here is the deal: you come up with a slogan about the crisis and the french shop Collette puts it on a t-shirt.(And there are those who don’t believe that times of crisis are actually time of opportunities to the bright ones)
Filed Under Uncategorized
From Sderot
“No war makes sense when you look close”.
I’m not sure whether this is a famous quote (the great oracle didn’t find any results when I asked) but I know there is no other statement on war that I like better.
In case you agree with me, and would like to look closer, there are some people out there uploading videos from cities in the south of Israel.
Filed Under Human Rights, Media & Society
From Gaza
“No war makes sense when you look close”.
I’m not sure whether this is a famous quote (the great oracle didn’t find any results when I asked) but I know there is no other statement on war that I like better.
In case you agree with me, and would like to look closer, Stefano Savona, an italian director, has just got into Gaza strip (a remarkable doing in a time when journalists are being pushed away) and is feeding dagaza.org with videoreportages (unfortunately, the subtitles are only in Italian).
Filed Under Human Rights, Media & Society
Beard, nails and Dostoyevsky
Most stuff in life that are good for you are good just as long as you don’t overdo them. Reading is an exception.
Reading seems to be good at any time, any age and even with any sort of company. And the more you do it, the better.
So it’s not a surprise to learn that the government of Divandarreh (a city in Kordestan Province, in Iran) is investing to make its citizens more keen on books. The unusual (and rather clever) thing, though, is that they aimed at barbershops and hair salons as the right place for their new libraries.
It would be a piece of news deserving all my praising, if it weren’t for that specific quote by the governor where he mentions that books will be chosen to “guide the Iranian younger generation’s tendencies”. Oh, well. You really cannot have everything!
Filed Under Art, Politics, Uncategorized