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The Armenian Genocide – 97 Years On

April 24, 2012 by
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An article that addresses Turkish state denial of the Armenian Genocide on the 97th anniversary. …

Poetry, Politics and Experience

April 15, 2012 by
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The poet is one who captures Heaven and Earth in the cage of form – Lu Chi   On Saturday 24th March I was formally invited to speak at Nowruz …

[Video] Metropolitan Lice

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The Vacuum Cleaner is an artist/activist collective of one. Some people take half an hour out to do yoga everyday – he modifies police logos. Usually a solitary creature, he’s …

Gay Marriage in Australia: Are we really still discussing this?

March 22, 2012 by
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I feel that our look upon gay marriage in fifty years will resemble that of the racial issues of Australia (the white Australia policy, for one) and the civil rights …

[Video] Eyes on Syria: One year on

March 21, 2012 by
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A film by Leah Borromeo for Amnesty International on the one year anniversary of the Syrian uprising. For more information: http://www.eyesonsyria.org …

Behind Kony 2012: A look at Invisible Children Inc.

March 12, 2012 by
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By Joseph Power I awoke on Wednesday morning, with a fresh Tanqueray martini hangover, to find that my Facebook news feed had been flooded with the sharing of a film …

An Eye from History and Reality: Woeser and the Story of Tibet

March 7, 2012 by
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Dechen Pemba, Editor of High Peaks Pure Earth, interviews Tibet's foremost poet Woeser. Woeser is currently under house arrest in Beijing. …

[Video] Reverend Billy and the Church of Earthalujah

March 5, 2012 by
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What do you get when you cross an Elvis impersonator with an evangelical preacher and throw in a protest against corporate sponsorship of the arts? Reverend Billy, his choir and …

German street artist Evol on fighting the corporate takeover of public space

March 4, 2012 by
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People have to define themselves somehow, and this is too anonymous. Mostly those areas are pushed aside at the city borders. So for me, this is also quite …

New York artist Swoon on bringing social transformation through creativity

March 3, 2012 by
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I think for me, I’m really interested in how art is a thought process, which also is something that affects change, that through enacting that thought process, you also are …