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Category Archives: technology/new media
aerobicide
let’s all evolve past this
fwd from the AGITATE list:
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Von: Gloria W
/etc interested | international
Hi everyone,
I was asked by several sources to write an article about how to make tech environments more female friendly. The finished product even shocked me, I had no idea all of the info was stored in the recesses of my brain. I was also asked to talk about it in Linz [@ next /etc]. …
“Let’s All Evolve Past This: The Barriers Women Face in Tech Communities”
I’d like to hear your experiences from other countries …
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wikipedia, women, feminism links
biblio for workshop:
- Wikipedia vs. Women (AlterNet)
- WikiChix:
- feminist history, wikipedia @badgerbag (Wikipedia Talk page on “Women’s rights”)
- “Ladies, Wikipedia is Ours” and “Pedia Again” @Burningbird
- commentary on “Ladies…”: “The Politics of Knowledge Production (or, How Wikipedia Landed in Hot Water)” @BlogHer and “Wikipedia Needs Women” @Workbench
- “tell me another one” and “m. speaks” @scribble pad. (update on “man”/”woman” on Wikipedia: “terms of it all” @Death Ends Fun)
- “Equality, gender, and speech in open communities” @Re-public
- “‘Madame Wikipedia’ runs web giant from village HQ” (AFP article)
- “I, Editor – The Wikipedia Experiment” (CBC News article)
zine symposium in warsaw
– announcement via chaosXgrrlz zine –
Grrrlz and boyz!
On 19th of May we organize first zine symposium in Warsaw, and we wanna invite you for that event.
Basically, a zine (pronounced “zeen”) is a publication that is created by someone – or a group of like-minded people – who wants to express themselves in a cheap, personal, DIY format. As a zine editor (or “zinester”), you have complete control over the production, design, and content of your zine. It’s pretty fun. It may surprise you, but in Poland zine culture is quite strong, and the symposium will be a great chance to get know about it a little bit more.
On the whole world there are regular meetings of zine makers and zine lovers. Our zine symposium will be a party by which we wanna present the zine culture, independent book and comic publishings, distributions and zine makers and other paper-art creators. Also it which be a chance to get to know lots of independent initiatives and political, non commercial ideas.
We plan a whole day, free entrance party, during which there will be some workshops, lectures, presentations, as well as exhibitions, film presentations, freeshop, zine reading room and, last but maybe most important, zine and book fair
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festivalul underground timisoara
lf-ro va fi la ugtm cu biblioteca ambulanta! check it.
din pacate, dintr-un motiv necunoscut (mie cel putin) site-ul ugtm listeaza la link-uri minunatele cit si underground-urile stiletto.ro si menreport.ro.
Take Back the Blog! Blogswarm
Take Back the Blog! Blogswarm in support of the rights of women to participate fully in all aspects of our society, including specifically online in the world of blogging but indeed everywhere and at all times, day and night, without fear of harassment, intimidation, sexual harassment, online stalking and slander, predation or violence of any sort.
…and what exactly is a BLOGSWARM?
A “blogswarm” is when a bunch of people blog about the same crap ON PURPOSE! It is a premeditated thing, as opposed to the usual randomness that tends to rule the Internet. Order from chaos. Entropy. Call it whatever you want.
blogs, activism and the media
“BLOGS: THE STATE OF WOMEN, ACTIVISM AND THE MEDIA”
By Beth Schwartzapfel
http://www.wiretapmag.org/blogs/wiretap/43064/
This year’s Women, Action and the Media conference focused on the links between human rights and access to the media, and the need for more solidarity among journalists, not competition.
Stop the Clash: 90 seconds to change the world
From New York to Baghdad, Madrid to Beirut, talk is rising of a ‘clash of civilizations’ between the West and Islam — no end in sight to the catastrophe in Iraq, war brewing between the US and Iran, Lebanon torn apart again, and still no real Israeli-Palestinian talks. But we know this clash is not about religion or culture. The real cause is politics – the politics of divide-and-rule, on all sides.
This is not the world we want. But it’s the world we’ll end up with, unless we act now. It’s time for the peaceful majority – us – to make a stand. So watch our new ‘Stop the Clash’ video now for a fresh, empowering take on these conflicts, and a concrete first step we can all take today:
According to the UN among others, the Palestinian- Israeli conflict is the driving symbol of this “clash” between Islam and the West. But opinion polls show most people around the world agree that policy is the problem – big majorities everywhere want peace in the Middle East, as do most Israelis and Palestinians. If progress toward peace is made there, it will spread.
So let’s take the first step, and call for REAL Middle East peace talks now.
Tens of thousands of people have already signed the petition and supported an ad that ran on the front page of the Financial Times worldwide and in major Palestinian and Israeli newspapers.
Now we need to raise the pressure, ratcheting up to a major international day of action on June 5th – the 40th anniversary of the
1967 war that began the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. We want to hit every international summit and decision moment from now till then with the same demand. Can you help get us to 50,000 new voices for peace in the next 24 hours?
We agree on what matters most. We all oppose war, tyranny, terror and the killing of innocent civilians. We know these conflicts are caused not by some inevitable culture clash, but by bad politics. The ‘Stop the Clash’ video is a good way to remind friends, family and colleagues of the big picture of all we share – and signing the Real Talks petition is a step every one of us can take.
