The HONK! Festival is a revolutionary street spectacle of never-before-seen proportions that converged on Davis Square in Somerville, MA on October 10-12, 2008!
Yesterday, Another Limited Rebellion took us for a trip down (Bad) Memory Lane, sharing Sticker Guy’s commemorative Flickr collection of sticker art protesting Bush.
Are there others?
The Canary Project produces visual media, events, and artwork that builds public understanding of human-induced climate change and energize commitment to solutions. Their strategy includes a mix of education and action, as they work to:
Greg Cook captured the HONK! Festival parade in photographs. Above, Rude Mechanical Orchestra, below, Boston’s chapter of Bikes Not Bombs. Much more to come!
Found on Fubiz: From TBWA Agency in Paris, France comes a striking series of designs with the phrase, “After the Olympic Games, the fight for human rights must go on.” This is a good way to keep China’s controversial human rights issues in focus.
The Amnesty International-produced site The China Debate has this to say about China’s Olympic hosting privileges:
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) granted Beijing the 2008 Olympic Games on 13 July 2001. During the bidding process and afterwards, Chinese and Olympic officials made assurances that human rights in China would improve as a result of hosting the Games.
Liu Jingmin, Vice-President of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Bid Committee said in April 2001: “By allowing Beijing to host the Games you will help the development of human rights.”
Released late last year as a coffee table book, Blue Planet Run - The Race to Provide Safe Drinking Water to the World is now a free pdf download from Amazon.com.
From the Editorial Review:
Blue Planet Run is a visually stunning tour de force by some of the world’s top photojournalists, backed up by thought-provoking essays and profound commentaries on the many ways humanity is confronting the growing lack of a clean and plentiful water supply. The book’s collection of more than 250 photographs are at once beautiful and haunting, enlightening and disturbing, inspiring and even, at times, amusing.
The review doesn’t do the book justice; the pictures and essays really are amazing. Plus, giving the book away for free is a great way to raise awareness. You can still buy the book, and 100% of the royalties will be used to provide clean water to those who need it.
You can also get the pdf from the Blue Planet Run website.