2006/03/14

progressive events

a dedication this evening to progressive events...




8th March, marked International Women's Day. Churches, aid agencies and human rights activists joined the voice of all women across the world to fight for equality and protection. Yesterday, saw massive campaigns being held in both Western and Eastern countries.

Women’s rights have been, in fact improved a lot throughout the past few decades, proved by the increasing role of women in society. However, sexual abuse, violence, human trafficking and many other issues continue to exploit the rights of females in many developing countries or in times of war. ...


-- Christian Today


two sites devoted to revolutionary design community (both thanks to Inhabitat)...

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The Urban Voids competition, an idea generating process, is the second phase of Philadelphia LANDvisions. For this phase of the competition, entrants are free to suggest program elements that best express their idea and are in keeping with the competition aim (specific program elements will be developed in the next phase). ... -- Urban Voids
- The
Front Studio team is among five finalists. As a full-service architecture firm that always keeps at least one foot in the speculative and conceptual realm, they have both the technical credentials and the imaginitive wherewithal to pull this whole thing off. ... -- Inhabitat


and finally, a little more scientific demonstration of genetic diversity and geographical differentiation (though it still shouldn't go to say that race is anything much more than a sociopolitical instantiation -- also see "Gender and the Deconstruction of the Race Concept").


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