Fwd: Immigrants For Sale - 2 min video
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <[email protected]> Date: Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:13 PM Subject: Immigrants For Sale - 2 min video To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Immigrants For Sale http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuGE1VxVsYo Uploaded by bravenewfoundation<http://www.youtube.com/user/bravenewfoundation> on May 12, 2011 Find out more: http://immigrantsforsale.org Discuss: http://facebook.com/cuentame En Español: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pIy06BN4hk Immigrants are for sale in this country. Sold to private prison corporations who are locking them up for obscene profits! Here are the top 3 things YOU need to know about the Private Prison money scheme: The victims: Private prisons don't care about who they lock up. At a rate of $200 per immigrant a night at their prisons, this is a money making scheme that destroys families and lives. The players: CCA (Corrections Corporation of America), The Geo Group and Management and Training corporations—combined these private prisons currently profit more than $5 billion a year. The money: These private prisons have spent over $20 million lobbying state legislators to make sure they get state anti-immigrant laws approved and ensure access to more immigrant inmates. Be a part of the movement to follow the players, the money and the victims of this money making scheme @ immigrantsforsale.org -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens
Internet Interventions: Imperica magazine interviews Ruth Catlow of Furtherfield. Networks are disrupting our society. They offer new opportunities, while bringing age-old issues into sharper focus. If networks offer us a chance to engage and connect with others in order to crystallise thinking, the devices that provide a connection to them can be ecologically unpleasant. According to Ruth Catlow, we are nowhere near a harmonious resolution to these problems – even though we can almost feel them within our grasp. Catlow is the co-founder and co-director of Furtherfield, a digital community of co-creators that are interested in the intersection between art and technology, complimented by the Furtherfield Gallery in north London, a space dedicated to the exhibition and performance of work. Underpinning the organisation is a creative approach which is inspired by the metaphors and material media of networks within art. http://www.imperica.com/features/ruth-catlow-internet-interventions/ Furtherfield continues to offer new angles on received and perceived thinking. As arts funding starts to put digital creativity at risk, Catlow is adamant that, as digital media becomes more sophisticated and more connected, this is a space that should build, not shrink. "What gets missed out is how much value there is in a much more networked, lateral, thinking approach that isn't just about markets, but is pumping value into the communities that are engaged with it - that doesn't fit into the existing model of metrics. The value of this approach is missed." Ruth Catlow is co-founder and co-director of Furtherfield. Re-rooting Digital Culture takes place on Friday 13 May at the University of Westminster. Chair: John Hartley Speakers: - Michel Bauwens - On how Peer to Peer thought and technology point towards alternative production methods and a sustainable future. Catherine Bottrill - On working with producers and consumers to consider the environmental long-tail of digital culture. Ruth Catlow - On ecological approaches to tools, networks and behaviours in a digital art community. http://www.furtherfield.org/event/re-rooting-digital-culture-media-art-ecolo...
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Michel Bauwens