Journal: Tweeting for Truth
Advanced Cyber/IO, Citizen-Centered, Civil Society, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Ethics, IO Sense-MakingWorth a Look: Citizens, Banks, and Coal Mining
05 Energy, Civil Society, Commerce, Earth Intelligence
Phi Beta Iota: We decided to post a long email about helping a major international bank decide not to fund mountaintop removal coal projects for the following reasons:
1) It illustrates the emergent power of focused citizen advocacy.
2) It documents the modified behavior of select major banks.
3) It highlights the complete fragmentation of citizen advocacy–all over the lot with no strategic analytic model, no information-sharing network, no ability to co-evolve and achieve multiplication effects.
Continue reading “Worth a Look: Citizens, Banks, and Coal Mining”
Journal: Children in Poverty in USA–More…And MORE
01 Poverty, Civil Society, Gift Intelligence, Government
Mark Shriver , 2010.09.29
According to the Census Bureau's new report, 46 states and the District of Columbia experienced increased childhood poverty rates over the last year, with an alarming national rate of 1 in 5 kids affected.
Phi Beta Iota: While the Bush and Obama Administrations bailed out Wall Street and enabled the continuation of $10 million dollar bonuses using taxpayer funds, poverty in America sky-rocketed–poverty of adults, and poverty of chidlren. This is a crime against humanity that goes unnoticed because no one is doing the job that the media is supposed to be doing: rendering the public service of public intelligence in the public interest.
Journal: 1.6 Million Homeless Children in USA
06 Family, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Gift Intelligence
Why Are There Over 1.6 Million Homeless Children Here in the United States of America?
EXTRACT: Here are some more sobering numbers:
- Over 50% of youth in shelters and on the streets report that their parents told them to leave or knew they were leaving and did not care.
- One IN four homeless youth come from the foster care system
- 33% of heterosexual homeless youth have been sexually abused
- Less than one in four homeless children will graduate from high school
- Every day 12 kids die on the streets of America
Why are there more than 1,600,000 homeless youth right here in our own backyard?
As I continued to study the issue I have found there are basically two camps out there. The main camp are the people, myself included at first, who simply have NO CLUE that this is such a huge problem. Most people I talk to have no idea that this is such a major epidemic.
The second camp is the people who feel the statistics are made up. There are a lot of people who don't want to believe this could be happening on the streets of our country. Sure there are homeless kids in Africa, India, Pakistan and a host of other third world countries, but not here!
We can no longer allow this epidemic to continue. The future of our great country is in the hands of our children. How can we comfortably sleep at night when so many of our children are alone, scared and living homeless on the streets?
For more info go to GenWhyMovie.com
Rich German is an author, speaker, business & life coach. He is also the creator of the film Generation Why? His website is www.richgerman.com.
How the “Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability” class launched several internationally known start-ups
01 Poverty, 03 Economy, 07 Health, 12 Water, Civil Society, Commerce, Cultural Intelligence, Gift Intelligence, International Aid, Methods & Process, Non-Governmental, Peace Intelligence, Strategy, Technologies
Working through partners, getting to market faster
The Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability class has launched several internationally known start-ups (including Embrace, Driptech and D.Light.) But main route for student teams to get their life-changing products into the hands of people in the developing world is by working with NGO partner organizations.
Working with partners is the quickest way to market: it eliminates the need to create a business model and distribution infrastructure, so that students can focus on getting the best possible product to people who need it.
Professor Jim Patel, who founded the class, and Erica Estrada, who teaches the class and directs our Social Entrepreneurship Lab, discuss why this is such a critical route-to-market for students in the class:
Journal: US Blows Off Haiti, No One Seems to Care…
08 Wild Cards, Civil Society, Gift Intelligence, Government, Non-Governmental, Peace Intelligence
Haiti Still Waiting For Pledged U.S. Aid
The Huffington Post
JONATHAN M. KATZ and MARTHA MENDOZA | 09/29/10
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Nearly nine months after the earthquake, more than a million Haitians still live on the streets between piles of rubble. One reason: Not a cent of the $1.15 billion the U.S. promised for rebuilding has arrived.
The money was pledged by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in March for use this year in rebuilding. The U.S. has already spent more than $1.1 billion on post-quake relief, but without long-term funds, the reconstruction of the wrecked capital cannot begin.
With just a week to go before fiscal 2010 ends, the money is still tied up in Washington. At fault: bureaucracy, disorganization and a lack of urgency, The Associated Press learned in interviews with officials in the State Department, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the White House and the U.N. Office of the Special Envoy. One senator has held up a key authorization bill because of a $5 million provision he says will be wasteful.
Meanwhile, deaths in Port-au-Prince are mounting, as quake survivors scramble to live without shelter or food.
“The Century of the Self”: Must-See Documentary on Psychology, Advertising, Consumerism and Control
03 Economy, 04 Education, 07 Health, Academia, Civil Society, Commerce, Corporations, Corruption, Ethics, Government, Media, Misinformation & Propaganda, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth, Power Behind-the-Scenes/Special Interests, True Cost, Videos/Movies/Documentaries
Century of the Self (ADAM CURTIS)
DOCUMENTARY DESCRIPTION
Episode 1: Happiness Machine
Episode 2: The Engineering of Consent
Episode 3: There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads: He Must Be Destroyed
Episode 4: Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering
CENTURY OF THE SELF asks the deep questions about the roots and methods of consumerism and representative democracy and the implications of the two. The foundation of this documentary is the idea that public relations and politicians have used the theories of Sigmund Freud to engineer a society of consent.
This series is about how those in power have used Freud s theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy. Adam Curtis
For more information about this series, visit its Wikipedia page.
Keywords from imdb.com: Propaganda, Public Relations, Consumerism, Capitalism, Media, Advertising
Related:
Documentary – “The Corporation” (full movie in 23 parts at YouTube)
