Uneven Development: Listening to the 'South', Listening to Vancouver

This documentary video starts with a young woman’s narration of a legend through what looks like a shadow puppet show. The video goes on to ask, “How has the spirituality of young women changed?” It features women sharing their thoughts and experiences to do with spirituality and their encounters with traditional indigenous knowledge. The women talk, among other things, about the gap between traditional knowledge of spirituality and […]

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You are welcome to keep posting, but please keep it related to the themes of this class. You are especially encouraged to post brief summaries of your NGO analysis.  Go public with it!

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So a few months ago I discovered this plush Hasbro elephant named “Zambi”. I almost used the video “See what inspired project Zambi”  on the the site for my blog post… but couldn’t detach myself from it enough emotionally to be coherent about it (Click Zambi to follow a link to the page). The drawings […]

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This video is a new story titled “Demolition Dissidents.” Reported by Patrick Brown (CBC’s correspondent in Beijing), it tells the story of a group of neighbours who gather together to combat the demolitions that the Chinese government has ordered for their neighbourhood. The story places itself in the broader context of Beijing’s modernizing processes and […]

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November 25th is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and through videos, many people and organizations around the world are expressing their need to end the violence as well as the efforts they are undertaking to ensure that women have a safer world to live in. UNIFEM, in the Say No […]

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The growing movement of Vertical Farming in large cities, this trend is slowly growing and becoming realized as a potential eliminator of dependency on fossil fuels for food transport into world urban centres. By being able to produce viable food growth networks in cities, we lesser the dependency on large use fields that are both […]

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Participatory Filmmaking YouTube Video The video above features PV Sateesh, a professional filmmaker and advocate for participatory filmmaking. He describes his journey towards his involvement in this form of participation, and work with the Deccan Development Agency. His acknowledgement of the wide audience base that film can provide in India lead him to become so […]

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***NOTE: this is posted on behalf of Lucinda Yeung since she’s been having problems with UBC Blogs At the risk of infringing copyright laws, here is the full video to the documentary.  Interestingly enough I was only able to find the full feature in English as opposed to short segments.  You do not need to […]

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  Information on Wael Abbas: The speaker in the video is Wael Abbas. He is an Egyptian blogger who actively promotes human rights in Egypt by exposing citizen media from around the world in the form of blogs, facebook sites, youtube videos, etc. He gained international acclaim when his online videos exposed the torture of […]

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Summary: This video introduces what Excellent Development aims to do. It’s still a newer organization that believes in aiding the people in Kenya with the knowledge not just helping them to ensure long term sustainability methods and growth. Here is a short blurb from their website on what they do: “Excellent Development supports farmers in Africa […]

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