Showing posts with label Global Voices. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Global Voices. Show all posts

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Films for Action - American Holocaust: When It’s All Over I’ll Still Be Indian

Films for Action - American Holocaust: When It’s All Over I’ll Still Be Indian: "The powerful and hard-hitting documentary, American Holocaust, is quite possibly the only film that reveals the link between the Nazi holocaust, which claimed at least 6 million Jews, and the American Holocaust which claimed, according to conservative estimates, 19 million Indigenous People.

It is seldom noted anywhere in fact, be it in textbooks or on the internet, that Hitler studied America’s “Indian policy”, and used it as a model for what he termed “the final solution.”"

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story | Video on TED.com

Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story | Video on TED.com: "Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding."

Elif Shafak: The politics of fiction | Video on TED.com

Elif Shafak: The politics of fiction | Video on TED.com: "Listening to stories widens the imagination; telling them lets us leap over cultural walls, embrace different experiences, feel what others feel. Elif Shafak builds on this simple idea to argue that fiction can overcome identity politics"

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Ethan Zuckerman: Listening to global voices | Video on TED.com

Ethan Zuckerman: Listening to global voices | Video on TED.com: "Sure, the web connects the whole world, but most of us end up hearing mainly from people just like ourselves. Blogger and geek Ethan Zuckerman wants to connect the whole of the wider world -- via some smart strategies to open up your Twitter world and read news in different languages."