Us hucksters at CitizenShift are spread over three of Canada’s major cities: Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto. One of the tech tricks we use to bridge this divide is sharing a wiki. We’ve been using a wiki to simplify communication and organization for a while now, and every now and then we’re asked why, and how, we do it. To answer these questions we threw together a short video. Part case study, part rockin’ soundtrack, this two-minute movie will explain how we use a wiki at CitizenShift.
I’m going to check out Mark Lieren-Young’s film, The Green Chain, tonight at its final showing at the Montreal World Film Festival. Showing at 530pm at the Quartier Latin cinema (Theatre number 10).
The film is, “a powerful, funny and thought-provoking film about the conflicts between people on both sides of the battle who love trees — and are willing to risk anything to protect their personal visions of the forest.”
Mark was the producer of last week’s podcast, where he interviewed Severn Cullis-Suzuki about her new book and the new generation of environmental activists advocates.
You may have noticed that more and more our podcasts are featuring video. As much as we all love the classic audio documentary (I’ve been guilty of dabbling in the genre a bit myself), we’ve decided to spice things up a bit by through video into the mix more often. And with Paul Aflalo videoblogging from the Montreal World Film Festival, it’s a perfect time to subscribe to CitizenShift’s new Miro channel.
Formerly known as Democracy Player, open source internet tv and video player that will persuade you to stop watching videos in iTunes or Windows Media Player forever. By subscribing to CitizenShift’s channel in Miro, you won’t miss a single piece of video or audio we publish. There is oh so much more to Miro (including an interesting story on how an American aversion to democracy compelled them to change their name), but I’ll let you figure it all out yourself at the Miro website.
In the meanwhile, click on the big red Miro button in the right column to subscribe to CitizenShift’s channel—it will automatically download the software if you don’t already have it. Enjoy!
Severn Cullis-Suzuki has been speaking out on social justice and environmental issues since she was small. She founded the Environmental Children’s Organization at age nine and attended the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 and several UN summits since. She is a commissioner for the Earth Charter and spearheaded the “Recognition of Responsibility,” taking it to the Johannesburg Summit in 2002 and on tour in Japan. She has a B.Sc. in biology from Yale and is currently studying ethnoecology at the University of Victoria with traditional Kwakwaka’wakw elders on the West Coast where she grew up. She’s an editor of and writer for Notes From Canada’s Young Activists: A Generation Stands Up for Change
Mark Leiren-Young is the writer and director of The Green Chain, a movie about people who love trees and are willing to do anything to protect their vision of the forests. To subscribe to The Green Chain blog, click here or join us at MySpace and Facebook. For more on Mark, visit his website www.leiren-young.ca.
This documentary follows a group of students aged 10 to 13 as they create their own rhymes, record their first tracks, and sharpen their literacy skills. This two-part video documentary is brought to you by Alex Redgrave, a journalist from Montreal.
Literacy Through Hip Hop is a program that began in Toronto and expanded to Montreal in September 2006. A pilot project was coordinated by Munira Ravji, along with Lynn Worrell, Neil Botelho, and Andrew Gold, in partnership with the Digital Literacy Project at Atwater Library and thanks to a dedicated volunteer team. It was hosted as an after school program by the Tyndale St-Georges Community Centre in Little Burgundy, Montreal, between January and May 2007.
Since the successful conclusion of the Literacy Through Hip Hop Montreal pilot project, the program will continue under its own name: WORD (a.k.a Writing Our Rhymes Down). For more information, email wordmontreal-AT-gmail-DOT-com.
