Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

This was fun to write, and this Davos was incredible. It was a quintessential Davos moment that drives home the accessibility of world and corporate leaders to each other and to social entrepreneurs, religious figures, artists, and the leaders of non-governmental organisations and trade unions. They say hi and shake hands.

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MARCH 4, 2006

Last Sunday each of us wrote a post to answer the question, “Who is your favorite artist (visual, dancer, performer, writer or musician) and why?” For every submission the Getty gets, they will donate $10 to Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, TB and Malaria. Here is Beth's post and here is mine.

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JANUARY 16, 2009

I think about how hesitant I was to become an artist, because I didn't see role models, and even to this day how hard it is for me sometimes to find peers who are women of color, because of how systematically they are pushed out. I'm an artist and an institution builder. The kind of art I do is art that gets engaged into the public.

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MARCH 16, 2017

Along with her work as an aquatic biologist, her book, Silent Spring , is largely credited for advancing the global environmental movement worldwide , inspiring the rise of ecofeminism and many feminist scientists. Gentileschi is remembered, however, as an accomplished Baroque artist whose trials did not define her art. Dorothy Arzner.

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JUNE 29, 2017

It’s kind of alarming but they found that trust, when they globally interviews folks, trust in all four institutions were at an all-time low. JEANETTE: And if you’re active on social media, you want something that’s fun to share, too. Our featured artist is Bernardus. And they’ve been doing this for awhile now.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Nest is a nonprofit organization that empowers female artists and artisans around the world. We partner with existing NGOs, or international organizations that are already working with women artists. How do you have fun and do good in your work ? My work is definitely fun. How do you choose the countries that you work in?

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Your way may be starting an organic catering company, or painting about issues that are important to you, or getting out on the streets and protesting, or maybe working with policy; there are all kinds of different work. BB: Your whole book, Loyal to the Sk y, is a memoir, and it's your entire path to becoming an activist and an artist.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

The arts are a wonderful way to make a difference in the world because they are fun, engaging, and oftentimes help you to tell stories, all key elements to attracting and keeping people involved in a cause. Our mission is to strengthen the voice of activist artists - 'Artivists' - while raising public awareness for social global causes."

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MAY 4, 2010

Melinda Kramer: Women's Earth Alliance is a global organization and we work around the world uniting women who are on the front lines of environmental causes. MK: One of the highlights for me was the Global Peers program. The Global Peers will be reporting out on the successes of the women in communities throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.

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JUNE 7, 2006

We also work with groups like Oxfam and their Make Trade Fair Campaign , Doctors without Borders , the ACLU , Global Exchange and this summer will be collaborating with Witness , Greenpeace , the NRDC and others. I’m responsible for the building and maintenance of relationship with artists, artist management and tour production crews.

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OCTOBER 19, 2006

The 3rd Annual Artivist Film Festival & Awards ' mission is to strengthen the voice of international activist artists and raise public awareness of global issues. Barbra Streisand. This year's festival is November 9-12, 2006 at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, California.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Listen: Big Vision Podcast interview (April 20, 2010) Read: Transcript on Have Fun, Do Good 3. Listen: Big Vision Podcast interview (May 18, 2010) Read: Transcript on Have Fun, Do Good 4. Cristi Hegranes Executive Director and Founder, Global Press Institute. Favianna Rodriguez Activist printmaker and digital artist.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

Founded by Susan Crawford, who now advises President Obama on science, technology, and innovation policy, OneWebDay is a global event that is celebrated every September 22 since 2006. Because the Web shifts the balance of power in our global society and local communities, even those who never go online live in a constantly changing world.

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OCTOBER 12, 2007

If we do not deal with the water problems on a global scale, I believe we will see conflict on a global scale.-- She believes in making films that spark positive social change and recently completed a short film about water rights issues, A Drop of Life. Water is something that sort of shook me out of my seat.

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APRIL 29, 2009

The idea is now that we're getting stronger and more flexible, more conscious, more patient, and more aware, we need to take those very qualities that we're learning in the yoga room, and begin to truly apply them in our families, in our local community, and into our global family as well. It was so fun. We had fun, we played.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2007

She is donating 100 percent of the royalties from the book to the Global Fund for Women. BB: Can you talk a little bit about the relationship between the Global Fund for Women and this book? By 2005, I had my eye on a little handful of organizations that I knew were grantees of the Global Fund for Women.

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OCTOBER 1, 2006

Louis is a traditional artist and I was in the journalism field. We got about 75 applications and one of them came from Global Resource Action Center for the Environment, which is called GRACE. Maybe the hardcore people who are into this issue would be interested, but no one else would.

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JUNE 30, 2007

it doesn't have to be completely narrow, but you're going to get more of an audience if it's about a particular issue, rather than just everything. You don't want to write about everything, because then people won't find you in the same way as when they search on Google about "homelessness issues", or "the environment." Can I just see?

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JUNE 29, 2006

In addition to being an artist, performer and dancer, Alli is also a writer whose most recent piece can be found in the Code Pink anthology, Stop the Next War Now. So it's been a ten year awakening and sort of linking the issues, experience how do we think broader and vision bigger and play bigger in our movement?

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