[cma-l] Upstream Journal issue on Communication for Social Change

[Salvatore Scifo]

---Apologies for cross-posting---

The latest Upstream Journal is now available, with a special focus on 
the role of communication for social change.

36 pages of "Canadian perspectives on global justice."

Voices of dissent - Amy Goodman and independent media
The role of community radio as an alternative source of information

Grafitti as social protest
Street art challenges social and political structures when other options 
are limited

“Talking strongly” - Indigenous media in Australia
Protecting culture and language through media technology

Media poetics and cattle - Colombia community radio, language and power
Challenging cultural assumptions in cowboy country

Container tech - Jamaican community retrofits shipping container into 
creative computing centre
Technology is made local and becomes a tool of empowerment

Le grand saut technologique et la “nouvelle économie” - au secours des 
pays en développement?
La expansion technologique - est-elle adaptée à la situation fragile 
dans ces pays?

The World Bank doesn’t have - and doesn’t want - human rights standards 
in its projects
Despite changing opinion on their importance in development, the world’s 
largest development institution has no policy on human rights

The financial crisis and the future for Canada’s foreign aid
Will cuts join high food prices, falling remittances and low export 
earnings in reversing development gains?

To download the issue:
http://tinyurl.com/upstream-com-media


Subscription only $5!

For more information:

http://www.upstreamjournal.org/

http://www.s-j-c.net