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International Women's Day shines light on human trafficking 'in our backyard'
This Thursday, March 15, Point Park University will host a panel discussion on human trafficking. One of the featured speakers is Dr. Mary Burke of Carlow University, the founder of The Project to End Human Trafficking, and the panel will address the local face of an international injustice:
“People think it happens all around the globe,” Tupper says, “but that it wouldn’t happen here in a developed country. This is something we need to be vigilant about in our own community … It’s not just about sex, it’s also about labor. There are many faces to this problem.”
Indeed, she points to several recent cases across the state, including Pittsburgh-area massage parlor arrests, a Philadelphia prostitution ring in 2010 involving illegal aliens, and a 2007 case against an Armstrong County farm involving 20 male workers from overseas.
Posted on March 14, 2012 via Uncle Sisyphus with 3 notes
Source: zatopa
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If you’ve heard about the “Invisible Children” of Uganda but never heard the whole story, this video is a good one to watch. It’s memorable and personal. (This video has been everywhere I look online today; it’s amazing how quickly an idea can take off sometimes. )
In the interest of exercising our critical facilities, once you’ve watched the Kony 2012 film, it would be worth considering the additional perspective offered at Visible Children.
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From Wired, see a range of iconic images, along with the photographers who captured them. Each photographer gives a few words about what happened that day, or what the photograph has come to mean. How many do you recognize?
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kind of a nice tribute.
(via Steve Jobs Tribute Art: Artists Pay Homage to the Late Tech Visionary)
Posted on October 7, 2011 with 1 note
Source: The Huffington Post
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The Aftermath Project | Documentary Photography Grants for Photographers
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The Edupunks' Guide: How to Do Research Online - Education - GOOD
A collection of resources here, useful mainly for non-specialists and people outside “the University.”
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PS: I should explain why I’m calling Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue a “heroic failure.”
It seems to me that Richards felt that the very power of his images would prompt Americans to rethink the social calamity that we call the “War on Drugs.” As I said in answer to Banos’ response…
…You’re probably right that [Richards] intentions were honorable — that he believed his photos would lead to change. After all, photos do sometimes contribute mightily to social change. But they don’t do so in a political vacuum.
The strongest examples of photography contributing to progressive social change all come from situations in which photography was directly or indirectly allied with political movements — the Civil Rights movement, in the United States; the anti-Vietnam-War movement, worldwide; the liberation struggle, in South Africa.
As we know, Richards’ book was released into a very different atmosphere, one in which debates were dominated by a frankly reactionary “war on drugs,” in which the poor and racial and ethnic minorities were cast as the enemy.
Richards was certainly not responsible for the political climate of the day. But he did have an obligation to think more deeply about the impact his photos might have.
Posted on May 14, 2011 with 1 note
Source: johnedwinmason.typepad.com
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Annie Leonard on Life After Stuff by Annie Leonard — YES! Magazine
Annie Leonard reveals what gives her strength, even as she and her popular film, The Story of Stuff, are attacked as un-American.
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(via CRYSTAL OF RESISTANCE - STUDIO PICTURES)
“We demand for all the right not to be understood”
… part of a work in progress by Thomas Hirschhorn to be exhibited at the Venice Biennale this year. Food for thought.
This is the umbrella course blog for Art History 285: Social Justice and Visual Culture, Spring 2011, at Duquesne University. Your host is Christine Lorenz.
