June 2012
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Brooklyn open studio artist registration open... →
Did you know Brooklyn is home to more artists than anywhere else in the United States, making it one of the world’s capitals of creativity? Are you a Brooklyn artist or do you know someone who is? Artist registration for GO is open now, but closes in just two days; the deadline for artist registration is this Friday, June 29, 2012. GO: a community-curated open studio project is an...
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“Due to police violence against protesters for social justice, and other violent...”
– Etgar Keret, Alex Epstein, Orly Castel-Bloom, Dov Alfon and Yaheli Sobol on boycotting the White Nights festival in Israel
Artists boycott TA’s ‘White Night’ events - Israel Culture, Ynetnews
(via penamerican)
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“We are dismayed at the conviction of Eskinder Nega. The evidence presented in...”
– PEN President Peter Godwin on Ethiopian Journalist Eskinder Nega’s conviction (via penamerican)
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Airport Life: Learning things →
airportlife:
It’s summertime, so naturally, I’ve been clocking an insane amount of internet time. But also, since I have no concrete plans of returning to school, I figured I might as well do something productive every once in a while so my brain doesn’t start decaying. I’ve started compiling a list of…
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Doug Liman on Reckoning with Torture →
penamerican:
Today is the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
The Bourne Identity director Doug Liman talks to ABC News about why he needs the voices of everyday American for his new documentary film project, Reckoning with Torture.
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“For me, coding is a form of self-expression. The company controls the most...”
– Justin Frankel, co-creator of the Winamp MP3 player, in his 2004 resignation letter to AOL
Winamp’s woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself | Ars Technica
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Russian court refuses to free Pussy Riot members
penamerican:
PEN International is shocked by Russian court’s decision to keep the members of Russian punk group Pussy Riot in jail at least until late July. A court in the city said that they should stay in custody while an investigation is carried out. According to press reports the court reasoned that the defendants could “destroy evidence” if they were freed.
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“Whether you call them hackers, makers, tinkerers, or information security...”
– Electronic Frontier Foundation
“Hacking” Strikes Fear in the Heart of Texas Bureau of Prisons | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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: PEN Poetry Roundup →
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Wild man and guest poetry editor Ben Mirov tells you all about the best cattle in poetry on The Daily PEN American. You have to imagine “Rawhide” playing in the background as it happens.
Canarium Books, one of my favorite small presses, is posting cover images of its 2013 roster of…
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: Fascism may succeed in oppressing, for a while,... →
penamerican:
Fascism may succeed in oppressing, for a while, the free spirit in those countries where dictatorship is established. The tyrant can forbid the publication of books he dislikes; he can even make it impossible, or at least utterly dangerous, for authors to write down anything opposed to the…
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“Defenders of Google’s position have argued that since humans programmed the...”
– Tim Wu, on granting free expression rights to automated programs
Free Speech for Computers? - NYTimes.com
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In honor of World Refugee Day,...
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“It’s been understood for centuries that no one-to-one correspondence between...”
– Susan Bernofsky, on the challenges of translation
Click here to read more
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“We believe that a mere apology in this case is clearly not enough. It does not...”
– Russian PEN, on why an apology from Alexander Bastrykin, who allegedly threatened to kill journalist Sergey Sokolov, is not sufficient. The letter to President Putin calls for Bastrykin to be prosecuted.
Click here to read the full letter.
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U.S. Department of State: “Center Stage” Brings... →
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About the Author: Ann Stock serves as Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
Earlier this month, the Washington Post profiled Center Stage, one of the newest and most dynamic programs run by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural…
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India's proposed role on a UN internet governance... →
A critical post on India’s role on the proposed UN internet governing body, CIRP.
Research shows that India`s effort as part of the government advisory council to the current internet governance process has been dismal. It is ill-represented and made no effort to strengthen and improve the existing process before an attempt to destroy it through a bazooka called the CIRP. The government...
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penamerican:
From the PEN vault: Russia in Two Acts: A world champion chess player, now journalist, unravels the complexities of Russia’s cultural and geopolitical landscape. (2011).
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“It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so...”
– Anne Frank (via disharmonious), born today 1925 (via penamerican)
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“Great scream of poetry, / my books are going straight / toward you… // For you, / you who can afford / to be healthy, / I’ve had to sing / with the big blue tongue / of death.” —Vladimir Mayakovsky
It’s Russia Day.
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“Tuesday is a very key day… The planned protest in Moscow is the first big...”
– Chris Weafer, chief strategist at Troika Dialog in Moscow, on the impact of the protests in Moscow on investment
Russian ADRs Drop in U.S. Ahead of Protests: Russia Overnight - Businessweek
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“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and...”
– Thomas Jefferson (via amandaonwriting)
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“Spend a week reading Haiti news sources and look for the overuse of the future...”
– Carla Murphy
Haiti news coverage after the world has gone away | Develop Haiti
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Social Entrepreneurship in South African... →
In this piece, Shuttleworth Fellow Arthur Attwell describes his lessons from trying to bring a new publishing model to South Africa with a social impact.
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Letter to OAS supports Special Rapporteur for... →
A group of 16 organizations that belong to the Global Network for Free Expression (IFEX) sent a letter to the Organization of American States (OAS) calling for the strengthening of the regional human rights system, which includes the Inter American Commission on Human Rights, the Inter American Human Rights Court, and the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression.
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