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Oren Moverman Shot The Messenger

  • Posted by: Patrick James
  • on November 19, 2009 at 6:00 am

Oren Moverman Shot <i>The Messenger</i>

A conversation with the director of a powerful new film about notifying families of our war dead.

The Messenger tells the tale of a young soldier, played by Ben Foster (Six Feet Under, 3:10 to Yuma), who has just returned from a brutal tour of duty in Iraq. After he is charged with the task of notifying families when their sons and daughters die overseas, Foster’s character finds himself strangely connected to one of the widows he…

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  • Tags: Culture , film , military , Oren Moverman , The Messenger
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Action, In Words and Pictures

  • Posted by: Joe Ippolito
  • on November 16, 2009 at 5:00 am

Action, In Words and Pictures

A new book looks at the surprising and inspiring ways people of all stripes can affect social change.

With his new book Actions Speak Loudest, Bob McKinnon has brought together some disparate names to explain how change is fueled by action—not just talk. From Newt Gingrich to Donovan McNabb, Jeffrey Sachs to Jimmy Carter, the book illustrates the many ways in which changemakers leave their mark. McKinnon also heads up Yellowbrickroad, a communications and marketing company…

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  • Categories: Business , Culture , Environment
  • Tags: books , social change
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The Kids Are All Right

  • Posted by: Siobhan O'Connor
  • on November 13, 2009 at 11:28 am

The Kids Are All Right

Ten9Eight, a new documentary by Mary Mazzio, looks at how turning kids into budding businesspeople may be the antidote to the dropout crisis.

When President Obama delivered his stay-in-school speech, reminding students for the umpteenth time that they can’t all grow up to be rappers and basketball players, he caused a stir. It sparked overblown controversy, but it also brought into the national conversation the fact that every year, 1.2 million kids drop out of school—or, one…

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  • Categories: Business , Culture , Education
  • Tags: Dropouts , schools
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Digital World Explorer

  • Posted by: Andrew Price
  • on November 5, 2009 at 6:00 am

Digital World Explorer

The digital ethnographer Michael Wesch on the dark side of social media, what we learned from Iran, and why the future of the web depends on human interests—not market interests.

As a graduate student in Papua New Guinea, Michael Wesch studied how the introduction of books and literacy changed government and society. Now, as a professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University, Wesch examines how digital media is changing human interaction. His YouTube video “Web 2.0…

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  • Categories: Technology
  • Tags: 4chan , Anonymous , Michael Wesch , social media , web 2.0
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AYM ’09: Moldova’s “Twitter Revolution”

  • Posted by: Erin Mazursky
  • on November 3, 2009 at 7:00 am

AYM ’09: Moldova’s “Twitter Revolution”

Interviews from the Alliance of Youth Movements summit: Natalia Morari.

On the 6th of April of this year, 15,000 Moldovans rallied in the streets the day after their national election to protest the Communist Party’s rigged victory. It might have looked like any post-election protest in an emerging democracy but there was an important difference: This protest was organized entirely through new media—Twitter, email and text messages, and social networking sites. The number of peaceful protesters continued…

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  • Tags: AYM2009 , facebook , social media , Technology , Twitter
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Philanthrocapital Gains

  • Posted by: Patrick James
  • on November 2, 2009 at 10:30 am

Philanthrocapital Gains

The Economist’s Matthew Bishop weighs in on Bill Clinton, Dambisa Moyo, microfinance, and the state of philanthropy.

The first edition of Matthew Bishop and Michael Green’s Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World was released, as Bishop puts it, on the morning of the global economic collapse. The book, which outlines the changing landscape of philanthropy and offers a prescription for effective giving through business acumen, was received well by critics but its timing was less than opportune.…

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  • Categories: Business , Politics
  • Tags: Bill Clinton , Dambisa Moyo , Matthew Bishop , Philanthrocapitalism , philanthropy
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AYM ’09: A STAND Against Genocide

  • Posted by: Erin Mazursky
  • on October 28, 2009 at 5:00 am

AYM ’09: A STAND Against Genocide

Interviews from the Alliance of Youth Movements summit: Daniel Teweles.

STAND, the student-led arm of the Genocide Intervention Network, began in 2004 as an effort to end the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. Now STAND works not just to end mass atrocities in places like Sudan, Burma, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but to prevent them, and has grown to include 800 active chapters in high schools and colleges nationwide, making it one of the largest…

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  • Categories: People
  • Tags: AYM2009 , darfur , genocide
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Three Years of Silent Retreat

  • Posted by: Patrick James
  • on October 22, 2009 at 5:03 pm

Three Years of Silent Retreat

A conversation with one of the West’s only female lamas, Christie McNally.

In late 2010, in the sun scorched highlands of Arizona’s Chirakawa Mountains, some 50 Buddhist students will embark on a retreat. For three years, three months, and three days, they will have no contact with the outside world, and they will not speak a word. The retreat will be lead by Lama Christie McNally, one of the only women in the world to carry…

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  • Tags: Arizona , buddhism , Culture , Living
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AYM ’09: Fighting the FARC with Facebook

  • Posted by: Erin Mazursky
  • on October 21, 2009 at 6:43 pm

AYM ’09: Fighting the FARC with Facebook

Interviews from the Alliance of Youth Movements summit: Oscar Morales.

From Obama’s campaign fundraising to the election protests in Iran, we’ve all heard that Twitter and Facebook are rewriting the rules of public engagement. Guest blogger Erin Mazursky talked to participants at the Alliance of Youth Movements summit in Mexico City to find out how the nonprofit leaders of tomorrow are using technology.

Oscar Morales is one such leader. In January of 2008, he created a Facebook group…

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  • Tags: AYM2009 , facebook , FARC , Oscar Morales
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AYM ’09: Getting Cuba Connected

  • Posted by: Erin Mazursky
  • on October 20, 2009 at 10:00 am

AYM ’09: Getting Cuba Connected

Interviews from the Alliance of Youth Movements summit: Roots of Hope.

From Obama’s campaign fundraising to the election protests in Iran, we’ve all heard that Twitter and Facebook are rewriting the rules of public engagement. Guest blogger Erin Mazursky talked to participants at the Alliance of Youth Movements summit in Mexico City to find out how the nonprofit leaders of tomorrow are using technology.

Verónica Nur Valdéz and Felice Gorordo, ages 25 and 26 respectively, are the co-founders…

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  • Tags: AYM2009 , cuba , social media , Technology
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