USA-based, but worldwide info on artist (in the wide sense of the word) residency programmes.
The site states: “Your one-stop guide to residencies for visual artists, writers, composers, choreographers, scholars, filmmakers, community artists, architects, and more - around the world and in your backyard. Hundreds of residencies, endless possibilities!”
German/World Festivals like Fusion, astounding street art, street people and amazing spaces. Worlds less visited and known.
A useful hub site you can you use to discover and learn more about Berlin’s remarkably creative underbelly...it’s a business offering tours of the city…but a positive and dynamic one.
A google link to Tony Kelbrat’s alternative schools’ worldwide listings from the book, ‘People Power: Education Superbook 12’. Some fairly strong opinions on what constitutes ‘education’.
Amnesty International is a major mover and shaker in a world that grows weary of conflicts.
They say: “Through our detailed research and determined campaigning, we help fight abuses of human rights worldwide. We bring torturers to justice. Change oppressive laws. And free people jailed just for voicing their opinion.”
The Anarchist Library. Lots of ‘stuff’, but a bit messy. Includes link to the wiki-bookshelf.
Andy Worthington. An investigative journalist and author and activist. Books include Stonehenge and battle of the Beanfield. An expert on Guantanamo Bay.
From Germany and now a communard in the USA.
Lots of writings…..and links
On her site, it says:
“As a born-again Christian minister Annika Mongan was sent out to convert Pagans. But through years of traveling and studying she became alienated from fundamentalism and found a new home in Witchcraft. Today she celebrates being born again and again, a lifelong cycle of transformation.
Annika is the founder of an intentional Pagan community in California, an avid mushroom hunter and devotional musician.”
Anonymous Official facebook and youtube sites for the many activists across the world who use this umbrella faceless non-organisation. They want to change the world!
Fracking – extraction of gas using ‘unconventional’ drilling methods. Now widespread in the United States and Canada and spreading around the world, as new energy sources are sought by governments. Has lead to widespread protests and opposition around the world.
Links to:
Global Frackdown – international action group. And…
Frack-Off: Extreme Energy Action Network. UK-based group opposed to fracking.
Counter-culture central. US-style managed by volunteers from the Archive Corps.
Web hub site containing a fascinating collection of mostly US-originated books, zines, podcasts, radio broadcasts and e-zines and much more. Includes collaborations like ‘High Frontier’, which linked up luminaries from the LSD, hacker and music communities. Lots of Burroughs, Leary, McKenna and more.
Some literally mind-blowing ‘stuff’. Enter in, with care!