Drive - Matt Costa
Starting off Sunday with this tune.
If you’re young, try not to get involved with the “too cool” crowd. That quickly becomes the crowd that’s too cool to work hard, too cool to take chances, and too cool to succeed.
—(via humansofnewyork)
YouTube Launches Human Rights Channel
Via the YouTube blog:
Activists around the world use YouTube to document causes they care about and make them known to the world. In the case of human rights, video plays a particularly important role in illuminating what occurs when governments and individuals in power abuse their positions. We’ve seen this play out on a global stage during the Arab Spring, for example: during the height of the activity, 100,000 videos were uploaded from Egypt, a 70% increase on the preceding three months. And we’ve seen it play out in specific, local cases with issues like police brutality, discrimination, elder abuse, gender-based violence, socio-economic justice, access to basic resources, and bullying.
That’s why our non-profit partner WITNESS, a global leader in the use of video for human rights, and Storyful, a social newsgathering operation, are joining forces to launch a new Human Rights channel on YouTube, dedicated to curating hours of raw citizen-video documenting human rights stories that are uploaded daily and distributing that to audiences hungry to learn and take action. The channel, which will also feature content from a slate of human rights organizations already sharing their work on YouTube, aims to shed light on and contextualize under-reported stories, to record otherwise undocumented abuses, and to amplify previously unheard voices. The project was announced today at the Internet at Liberty conference, and will live at youtube.com/humanrights. Storyful will source and verify the videos, and WITNESS will ensure the channel features a balanced breadth of issues with the context viewers need to understand the rights issue involved.
We hope this project can not only be a catalyst to awareness, but offer people new avenues for action and impact. The channel is committed to providing new citizen creators as well as viewers with the tools and information necessary so that every citizen can become a more effective human rights defender. It will also be available on Google+, where the broader human rights community can take part in discussions, share material, and find collaborators.
Image: Screenshot the Human Rights YouTube channel.
Nice! Another Youtube channel to subscribe to.
This scene makes events in the British parliament seem somewhat sedate in comparison, with Ukrainian deputies scuffling in the Kiev chamber. What were they fighting about? The basics of language policy, reportedly Photograph: ReutersOk.This. THEN Corona.
And I was just talking with my former boss earlier on Twitter on how things like this happen very often in Korea and Taiwan. To our Congress’ credit though, at least they don’t do stuff like this. In our case, it’s more about wheelchairs and tears.
Asean talks on South China Sea begin
The meeting was chaired by Nong Sakol, deputy secretary general of the ASEAN General Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
“The meeting was held to end internal discussions between ASEAN countries on significant components of the code of conduct for the South China Sea,” he said.
“We will present a draft to senior ASEAN officials for consideration before taking it to discuss with China.”
The code aims to expand cooperation while building and maintaining peace and stability in the South China Sea and not referring to dispute resolution.
“The dispute in the South China Sea has to be resolved under international law and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea,” Nong Sakol said.
Finally, the ASEAN is trying to put its act together. I hope our neighbors would stand firm on their ground (or reefs?) in this dispute. Beijing needs to see that those rice stalks in the ASEAN logo are not just bound together there but also in this issue.
Today is World Turtle Day! Respect the turtle.
Well, waddayaknow, a day for my favorite reptiles! I didn’t know there was such a thing as this. Happy Turtle Day everyone!
