ecopolis

Climate change is the symptoms of suffering on the planet. The plants, animals and human beings suffers because every day the balance of nature is sacrificed on the altars of the god of profit. Giuseppe Serravezza and Patrizio Mazza, coordinated by Tonino Girau, will lead us in the adventure of complex prevention and treatment of cancer, but also on the prospects opened up by the new local law. The talk is broadcast live on the Internet Wednesday, 11 March 2009 at 21, at www.oistros.it/lunapiena web – it is advisable to book the activities at lunapiena@oistros.it or email to skype contact casaoistros.

The ciberpunk author Bruce Sterling presents his look on the beautiful italian city of Matera. Directed by Ksenija Livada.

What’s EuroMayDay?
A transnational demonstration of precarious and migrant people held the First of May in more than a dozen European cities. The first MayDay Parade was held in Milan in 2001 (it now attracts 100,000 people). EuroMayday is a process by which actions and demands are put forward to fight the widespread precarization of youth and the discrimination of migrants in Europe and beyond: no borders, no workfare, no precarity!

Who organizes EuroMayDay and what for?
The EuroMayDay network, a web of media activists, labor organizers, migrant collectives convening each year in a different European city.
Last mayday assembly was in Berlin, where it was agreed that these would be the demands for EuroMayDay 008:
• full legalization for all persecuted migrants
• self-organizing and unionizing rights freed from state repression
• unconditional basic income
• a european living wage
• free access to culture, knowledge, and skills
• the right to cheap housing

Where will EuroMayDay 008 occur?
In Aachen – Berlin – Copenhagen – Hanau – Hamburg – Helsinki – Lisboa – Madrid – Malaga – Maribor – Milano – Napoli – Palermo – Terrassa -Tokyo – Wien.

This year, there is a focal point in Aachen/Aix-la-Chapelle, where Nicolas Sarkozy will present Angela Merkel with the EU Oscar, the Prix Charlemagne. Irony of the calendar, in 2008 syndicalist MayDay coincides with catholic Ascension Day, when the Karlspreis is handed out. This year for MayDay in Aachen, two worlds will clash together

What kind of people participate in EuroMayDay Parades?
Activists, artists, hackers, unionists, migrant associations, precarious2precarious networks, queer collectives, leftist radicals of all stripes: red, black, green, pink, purple, silver.
They are coming to Aachen and other EuroMayDay Parades to join the fight against a EU dominated by police security and financial privilege, by Barroso’s neoliberalism, Trichet’s monetarism, Solana’s militarism…

MAYDAY! MAYDAY! no borders, no precarity, let’s defeat the new inequality!

INFO LINX
www.euromayday.org
http://euromayday.karlspreis.info
www.euromayday.be

According to statistics provided by Google Inc, on Google search engines each nation look for this words:

sex – Egypt, India, Turkey

Hitler – Germany, Mexico, Austria

Nazi – Chile, Australia, United Kingdom

gay – Chile, Mexico, Colombia

Jihad - Morocco, Indonesia, Pakistan

Terrorism – Pakistan, Philippines, Australia

Hangover - Ireland, United Kingdom, United States

Burrito – United States, Argentina, Canada

Iraq – United States, Australia, Canada

Taliban – Pakistan, Australia, Canada

Tom Cruise - Canada, United States, Australia

Britney Spears – Mexico, Venezuela, Canada

Homosexual – Philippines, Chile, Venezuela

Love – Philippines, Australia, United States

Botox – Australia, United States, United Kingdom

Viagra – Italy, United Kingdom, Germany

David Beckham – Venezuela, United Kingdom, Mexico

Kate Moss - Ireland, United Kingdom, Sweden

Dolly Buster – Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia

Car bomb – Australia, United States, Canada

Marijuana – Canada, United States, Australia

IAEA – Austria, Pakistan, Iran

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with Vladimir Putin

Putin and an entourage arrived in Teheran for a summit of the leaders of the five states bordering the energy-rich but ecologically threatened Caspian Sea. His visit is the first to Iran by a Russian head of state since 1943, when Josef Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt met in Tehran, to map World War II strategy.

Russia plays a crucial role in this moment as the main interlocutor of the Islamic Republic as to the nuclear issue is concerned and as the major obstacle to the adoption of a military resolution against Teheran which Washington and the neo-cons try to impose if diplomacy fails resolve the issue.

The Tehran Conference (codenamed EUREKA) was the first World War II conference among the Big Three (the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom) in which Stalin was present. It succeeded the Cairo Conference and was followed by the Yalta Conference and Potsdam Conference. The chief discussion was centered on the opening of a second front in Western Europe. At the same time a separate protocol pledged the three countries to recognize Iran’s independence:

“The Three Governments realize that the war has caused special economic difficulties for Iran, and they are agreed that they will continue to make available to the Government of Iran such economic assistance as may be possible, having regard to the heavy demands made upon them by their world-wide military operations, and to the world-wide shortage of transport, raw materials, and supplies for civilian consumption.” (Declaration of the Three Powers Regarding Iran—December 1, 1943)

Prince of Persia(PC9801)

Prince of Persia is a platform game, originally developed by Jordan Mechner in 1989 for the Apple II, that was widely seen as a great leap forward in the quality of animation seen in computer games. Mechner used a process called rotoscoping, in which he studied many hours of film of his younger brother David running and jumping in white clothes, to ensure that all the movements looked just right.

More than 150 countries around the world will observe World Food Day this year, organizing special events, conferences, contests, sports activities and a global candlelight vigil on “The Right to Food”.

FAO celebrates World Food Day each year on 16 October, the day the Organization was founded in 1945 in Quebec City, Canada. This year’s World Food Day theme is “The Right to Food.”

Go to : Interactive Hunger Map

This year’s World Food Day theme, “The Right to Food,” highlights a basic human right that is often ignored as severe food insecurity continues to afflict more than 850 million people.

The right to food, according to international law, is the right of every person to have regular access to sufficient, nutritionally adequate and culturally acceptable food for an active, healthy life. It is the right to feed oneself in dignity, rather than the right to be fed.

Since the 1996 World Food Summit, FAO has worked with governments and communities worldwide to gain recognition for this basic human right.

Au Hasard Balthazar is a film by Robert Bresson.

Jaques Ranciere in his new book “The Future of the Image” refers to this Bresson’s movie to explain the importance of alterity for the composition of the image. Criticizing the technological deteministic approach of Regis Debray in his book Vie et mort de l’image, the author says that “the technical properties of the cathode tube are one thing and the aesthetic properties of the image we see on screen are other”. And it refers to this great movie to say that the images of this film are not “primarly manifestations of the properties of a certain medium, but operations.” He explains that the image is made of relations between elements and functions, and the image become art trough separating and compressing. And he continues saying that it works trough “the operation of the power which separats cinema from the platic arts and makes it approximate to literature: the power of anticipating an effect the better to displace or contradict it“.

Presented in its first version at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis at the end of the nineties, nocinema.org is an ever-evolving streaming application developed by Jérôme Joy: French artist and composer. This project is a net-based documentary/fiction of web interludes that appear differently each time. Nocinema.org can be interpreted as an improbable cinema or a movie in which both actors and action appear to have wandered out of shot, having no beginning and no end, no participants and no storyboard, except perhaps subjective interpretations born of an impulse to impose purpose and meaning upon random stimuli.

Nocinema.org is an automatic process, drawing upon strings of live streaming webcams across the world, transmitting live scenes collected from different locations with added panoramic movements and temporized on-line editing, into which some black shots are inserted (listening without visual). The sound, each time offering a different sequenced overlay, comes from a shared soundfiles database which is fed and updated by a team of sound artists/partners, including Magali Babin, DinahBird, Christophe Charles, Yannick Dauby, Chantal Dumas, Jérôme Joy, Luc Kerléo, Alain Michon and Jocelyn Robert.