The lávvu served for centuries as portable housing for SAMI reindeer herders. Its practical, efficient design and cultural heritage are attracting new users across Scandinavia. https://worksthatwork.com/4/an-ancient-design-in-a-modern-a… [Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons.]
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Photo: Niillas áddjá Grandfather Nils N. Eira via ELLE MÁRJÁ Govva: Paul S. Amundsen, via Niillas Holmberg
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Structural violence and French control over New Caledonia’s infrastructure and internal affairs are just some of the markers of the ongoing colonization of the indigenous Kanaky people there. Nevertheless, they…
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The fierce desert people of WESTERN SAHARA, struggling for more than 40 years, for self determination and freedom from MOROCCAN occupation!
by adminTonight, Monday Oct 22, we screen LIFE IS WAITING: referendum and resistance in Western Sahara here in TENERIFE!!! Visita de la Directora Iara Lee y Proyección de Life is Waiting…
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A bold piece of art from Máret Ánne Sara, an indigenous Sámi artist from the Sápmi, in Northern Norway!
by adminSara is part of a new generation of Sámi artists working to uphold the rights of their community. Curtain made from reindeer skulls and metal wire, porcelain necklace made from…
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GEORGIA/ TBILISI — after the amazing volunteers set up the screening last night in Georgia, our friends in the area came for a cozy rooftop screening of the film!! despite…
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To greet the audience and discuss food activism in Burkina Faso and beyond: lets all fight for clean, healthy, fair food: POST TERRA MADRE – notizie dal Burkina Faso The…
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As part of his ongoing effort to transform weapons into musical instruments, artist Pedro Reyes constructed a fully mechanized orchestra.
by adminTitled “Disarm,” the collection of eight new instruments were built through a collaboration with several musicians and Cocolab, a media studio in Mexico City. https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/09/disarm-pedro-reyes/ [Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons.]
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“This system of industrial agriculture promoted by the criminal trio of the WTO, the World Bank and the IMF, has led to the consolidation and control of the global food…
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Just done screening our film BURKINABÈ BOUNTY on agroecology in BURKINA FASO. glorious to reunite with AFRICAN friends and collaborators and people from all over the world fighting for the…