The Rise And Fall Of Poverty Porn
Alex’s YouTube clip is a case study in a dramatic shift in the way nonprofits represent themselves and their constituencies in an era of social media and information overload. From the ashes of poverty porn, a new era of media—one which shows the poor as fundamentally full of potential and opportunity—is being born.
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(Source: fashionistazapatista, via jsmooth995)
“girl on globe 2”
yinka shonibare, mbe [portfolio]
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“Tilt-Shift, Stop-Motion, Squatting in Hillside Haiti”
A few miles outside Port-au-Prince is a government-established camp for displaced people — Camp Corail, the only “official” camp in Haiti. Rows and rows of neatly spaced tents provide shelter for thousands of people. But just past Corail, a more “organic” community has sprouted. Nearly 100,000 squatters have taken things into their own hands and taken to the hills.
My takeaway from this inspiring story is the key phrase “organic community”
this work bring a tear to my eye every time i see it. the power of public art to stir emotion and to really tap into the connectivity of humanity is HUGE! god dammit if there is nothing in the world more beautiful than a genuinely carefree expression of joy.
JR - EXTRAIT “WOMEN ARE HEROES”, Kibera, Kenya
robyn + jenny wilson | “list of demands” (saul williams cover)
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isaac cordal [portfolio]
(Source: designyoutrust.com, via seeyoulaterguys-deactivated2011)
Chocolate Slavery
This Project was created within the 247-group project “Telephone”. To see the entire project, please visit www.myorangebox.com and go to the workshop section. (via)
There is a surprising association between chocolate and child labor in the Cote d’Ivoire. Young boys whose ages range from 12 to 16 have been sold into slave labor and are forced to work in cocoa farms in order to harvest the beans, from which chocolate is made, under inhumane conditions and extreme abuse. This West African country is the leading exporter of cocoa beans to the world market. Thus, the existence of slave labor is relevant to the entire international economic community. Through trade relations, many actors are inevitably implicated in this problem, whether it is the Ivorian government, the farmers, the American or European chocolate manufacturers, or consumers who unknowingly buy chocolate. (via)
Angela Davis
photo by Michelle Vignes
(via babylonfalling:waxandmilk)
LITTLE ACTUALLY occurred at the lunch counter on that first day. The waitress predictably told the four youths, “We don’t serve colored here.” “I beg to disagree with you,” responded Ezell Blair, pointing out that they had already been served when they purchased school supplies moments earlier. Management instructed the waitress to ignore them. An older white woman patted the students on the back. “Ah, you should have done it 10 years ago,” she told them. “It’s a good thing I think you’re doing.” Other whites were not so encouraging; they hurled familiar insults: “nasty, dirty niggers,” “you don’t belong here.” A Black dishwasher behind the counter opposed the action. “That’s why we can’t get anyplace today,” she told the four, “because of people like you, rabble-rousers, troublemakers…This counter is reserved for white people, it always has been, and you are well aware of that. So why don’t you go on and stop making trouble?” The four remained seated until the store closed, but they returned to Woolworth’s the next day with 23 students. The day after that, they brought 63 students, occupying nearly every seat at the lunch counter.
(via charredcoal:The sit-ins that ignited the movement | SocialistWorker.org)
