Noam Chomsky discusses the purpose of
education, impact of technology, whether education should be perceived
as a cost or an investment and the value of standardised assessment.
Presented at the Learning Without Frontiers Conference - Jan 25th 2012- London (LWF 12)
El dinero está presente en casi todos los aspectos de la vida moderna. La mayoría de nosotros damos el sistema monetario por sentado, pero tiene una profunda e incomprendida influencia en nuestras vidas. La solución al dinero es un largometraje documental que explora la relación de nuestra sociedad con el todopoderoso dólar. En él se examinan los patrones económicos, tanto en el mundo humano como el natural y documenta tres tipos de sistemas monetarios alternativos que pueden ayudar a resolver los problemas económicos de las comunidades en las que operen. Duración: 1 hora, 19 minutos y 5 segundos País: USA Idioma: Inglés (con subtítulos en Español) Licencia: CC - Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives Género: Documental Productor: Alan Rosenblith Director: Alan Rosenblith
"Documentário exibido pela TVE espanhola, que aborda a visão de dois grandes humanistas contemporâneos sobre o mundo atual: Eduardo Galeano e Jean Ziegler. Pode se dizer que há algo de profético em seus depoimentos, pois o documentário foi feito antes da crise que assolou os países periféricos da Europa, como a Espanha. A Ordem Criminal do Mundo, o cinismo assassino que a cada dia enriquece uma pequena oligarquia mundial em detrimento da miséria de cada vez mais pessoas pelo mundo. O poder se concentrando cada vez mais nas mãos de poucos, os direitos das pessoas cada vez mais restritos. As corporações controlando os governos de quase todo o planeta, dispondo também de instituições como FMI, OMC e Banco Mundial para defender seus interesses. Hoje 500 empresas detém mais de 50% do PIB Mundial, muitas delas pertencentes a um mesmo grupo." (Docverdade)
AFTER A CENTURY OF CRUDE, IT'S TIME TO
REFINE OUR VISION: The 20th Century can be viewed through any of the
three great trends of our time — economic growth, social progress, and
environmental damage. But a fourth trend — growing energy use —underlies
each of these, literally fueling the incredible journey we've been on
in the last 100 years. And changes in the landscape of energy may well
trigger a whole new journey for humanity. The legendary actor and
narrator Peter Coyote tells the story of our oil journey.
This is
a customizable presentation *you* can use to tell your own journey and
to invite new people to join the larger conversation.
Bill Moyers talks with former Citigroup chairman John Reed and former
Senator Byron Dorgan to explore how our political and financial class
shift economic benefits to the very top.
Entrevista com o filósofo polonês Zygmunt Bauman para o Fronteiras do Pensamento, apresentada na ocasião do encontro com o pensador francês Edgar Morin.
A typical Jensen event is multidimensional and feels a bit like traveling beneath the earth among tree roots, as they twist their way into soil, rock, river beds and accompany fish, insects, discarded tires, cellophane wrappers, animal minds, history, and human instinct on strange and interlocking journey.
Speaking in an almost improvisational style, Jensen explores the nature of injustice, of what civilizations do to the natural world and how, in the face of the resulting horror that is one of the all too apparent consequences of grave injustice, civilized human beings create intricate systems of denial, silence, abnegation, deception and self-hatred to keep it at bay.
He also reaches back to our collective childhoods, to the reality of magic in life, to discuss how nature has spoken to us and to how we must remember all the conversations we’ve had with her and renew them. It’s his antidote to cynicism and apocalypse. That there is a language much older than the lying language we use daily, without being aware, to dispel the horrors of modern living and dying.
If there is a connection between Tiger Woods, newspaper journalism, the bad moods of trees, child abuse, amnesia, school, language, and salmon, Jensen finds those connections in a most personal way and exploits them so that the listener can actually experience the intricacies of Jensen’s point of view.
It is indeed a heart rending, mind expanding, and ultimately healing exercise to explore Jensen’s root system, with him not so much as a guide, but an experienced fellow traveler
Eduardo Galeano: "El mundo se divide en indignos e indignados"
The Crime of Ecocide
http://www.pollyhiggins.com/
"... move away from property laws to trusteeship laws, so rather than I own, to I owe. I owe a duty of care to this planet."
12-year old Victoria Grant explains why Canada (her homeland) and most of the world, is in debt.
"How the Media Frames Political Issues" by Scott London
In The Emergence of American Political Issues (1977) McCombs and Shaw state that the most important effect of the mass media is "its ability to mentally order and organize our world for us. In short, the mass media may not be successful in telling us what to think, but they are stunningly successful in telling us what to think about."[13] The presidential observer Theodore White corroborates this conclusion in The Making of a President (1972):
The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained by any law. It determines what people will talk and think about - an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins.[14]
McCombs and Shaw also note that the media's tendency to structure voters' perceptions of political reality in effect constitutes a bias: "to a considerable degree the art of politics in a democracy is the art of determining which issue dimensions are of major interest to the public or can be made salient in order to win public support."[15] http://www.scottlondon.com/reports/frames.html
I am just an anonymous citizen who firmly believes that we are the ones we are always waiting for. No saviors, heroes, leaders, gurus, or superior or inferior, we are all equals, and we need to think and behave as if it matters.
