Sunday, October 23, 2011

فن عاري

حاكموا الموديلز العراة الذين عملوا في كلية الفنون الجميلة حتي أوائل السبعينات و اخفوا كتب الفن و كسروا التماثيل العارية الأثرية, ثم اخلعوا ملابسكم و انظروا إلي أنفسكم في المرآة و احرقوا أجسادكم التي تحتقروها لتتخلصوا من عقدكم الجنسية إلي
الأبد قبل أن توجهوا لي إهاناتكم العنصرية أو تنكروا حريتي في التعبير

Put on trial the artists' models who posed nude for art schools until the early 70s, hide the art books and destroy the nude statues of antiquity, then undress and stand before a mirror and burn your bodies that you despise to forever rid yourselves of your sexual hangups before you direct your humiliation and chauvinism and dare
to try to deny me my freedom of expression

"Aliaa al-Mahadi (ou Magda Elmahdy) est étudiante à l'université américaine du Caire. Elle a participé activement aux mouvements révolutionnaire de 2011 notamment sur internet. Elle a publié sur son blog, entre autres photos : cet autoportrait nu avec des rectangles jaunes devant les yeux, la bouche et le sexe. Ils représentent "la censure de notre savoir, de notre expression et de notre sexualité", commente t-elle dans le blog qu'elle a intitulé "Journal d'une rebelle". Elle dénonce une "société de violence, de racisme, de sexisme, de harcèlement sexuel et d'hypocrisie".
En ce début de siècle l'art engagé devient l'un des modes d'expression les plus en vogue.
Le 1er novembre, Aliaa al- Mahdi avait déjà créé la sensation en demandant aux hommes de se voiler. Plusieurs hommes avaient posté leur photo, avec un voile, sur sa page personnelle, en signe de solidarité."
(Texte via http://www.lankaart.org/article-nus-aliaa-al-mahdi-92063876.html)

Occupy Wall Street is a people-powered movement that began on September 17, 2011 in Liberty Square in Manhattan’s Financial District, and has spread to over 100 cities in the United States and actions in over 1,500 cities globally. #OWS is fighting back against the corrosive power of major banks and multinational corporations over the democratic process, and the role of Wall Street in creating an economic collapse that has caused the greatest recession in generations. The movement is inspired by popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, and aims to expose how the richest 1% of people are writing the rules of an unfair global economy that is foreclosing on our future.

Occupy Wall Street is a horizontally organized resistance movement employing the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to restore democracy in America. We use a tool known as a "people's assembly" to facilitate collective decision making in an open, participatory and non-binding manner. We call ours the NYC General Assembly and we welcome people from all colors, genders and beliefs to attend our daily assemblies. To learn more about how you can start a people's assembly to organize your local community to fight back against social injustice, please read this quick guide on group dynamics in people's assemblies.

Occupy Wall Street demonstrators at Zuccotti Park in downtown New York City this week.

The occupiers are actually forging a robust micro-society of working groups, each one developing new approaches -- or reviving old approaches -- to long-running problems. In just one example, Occupy's General Assembly is a new, highly flexible approach to group discussion and consensus building. Unlike parliamentary rules that promote debate, difference and decision, the General Assembly forges consensus by "stacking" ideas and objections much in the fashion that computer programmers "stack" features. The whole thing is orchestrated through simple hand gestures (think commodities exchange). Elements in the stack are prioritized, and everyone gets a chance to speak. Even after votes, exceptions and objections are incorporated as amendments.

This is just one reason why occupiers seem incompatible with current ideas about policy demands or right vs. left. They are not interested in debate (or what Enlightenment philosophers called "dialectic") but consensus. They are working to upgrade that binary, winner-takes-all, 13th century political operating system. And like any software developer, they are learning to "release early and release often."

It's the new style.
It's no revolution.
It's 'learning by doing'.

Let's start with this.

There are at least 27 million slaves worldwide. That’s roughly the combined population of Australia and New Zealand. Crikey!

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Sparked is the world's first Microvolunteering network.

"Easy, social, online volunteering for busy people."

WHY MICROVOLUNTEERING?

Most of us live incredibly busy lives. With 60 hour work-weeks, kids, running errands, and the stress of everything else, it's difficult to take an entire day off to volunteer. And yet, we do have spare time. But it comes in moments throughout our day. In fact, every single day, we spend nearly 400 million hours on Facebook and we watch over two billion Youtube videos. At Sparked, it's our goal to offer *convenient* online volunteerism to you. We're driven to fit volunteerism into the same kind of time that you might normally spend on Facebook, Farmville, or Twitter. It's volunteerism for the digital age. We call it microvolunteering.

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Sparked is created and offered by The Extraordinaries, Inc., which was founded in July of 2008 as a for-profit social enterprise (and a certified B-Corp) with headquarters in San Francisco, CA. Through the tools built by The Extraordinaries, nearly 300,000 people have microvolunteered their time for nonprofits all over the world.

The investment team

Kapor Capital - Stephen DeBerry, Mitch Kapor, and Freada Kapor Klein
True Ventures - Puneet Agarwal
Alan Webber
James Currier
Stan Chudnovsky
Ariel Poler
Esther Dyson

Social enterprise support

Echoing Green
Knight Foundation
Ashoka Changemakers
WeMedia
Rolex Awards for Enterprise, Young Laureates Program
NetSquared
FACT
United Nations WYSA

 

 

Mission:

The Meta-Activism Project (MAP) is a non-traditional think tank that leverages the affordances of the digital network to better understand its effects on social power.

We pursue our mission by building human and informational infrastructure for the study of digital activism, which means weaving human networks of activists and scholars and creating informational resources. Our motivating question is: “How are we creating knowledge about digital activism and how can we do so more effectively?”

The ultimate goal of these activities is to make digital activism a more effective means of achieving a transparent, democratic, and participatory global society.

Brave Ugandan LGBT activists and millions of people around the world have stood together and faced down this horrendous anti-homosexuality bill.The support from the Avaaz global community has tipped the scales to prevent this Bill going forward. Global solidarity has made a huge difference

After spending nearly two full days interviewing human rights defenders I have admired for years, I have come away with this observation: These people who dedicate their lives to fight seemingly insurmountable odds share in common a luminous sense of purpose that comes from the surrender of the individual to the collective. This connection with a larger purpose has sustained them through unspeakable hardships most of us cannot imagine. And while most of us may not be cut out for the kind of danger or hardship they face on a daily basis, each and every one of us can offer an act of solidarity that may, at that critical moment, tip the scales in favor of life over death.