How Companies Learn Your Secrets. Wab Kinew: Idle No More Is Not Just an "Indian Thing" What is "Idle No More"? It is a loosely knit political movement encompassing rallies drawing thousands of people across dozens of cities, road blocks, a shoving match on Parliament Hill between chiefs and mounties and one high profile hunger strike. It is also a meme tweeted and shared about thousands of times a day, for messages about indigenous rights, indigenous culture and cheap indigenous jokes ("Turn off your ignition #idlenomore").
The name Idle No More comes from a recent meeting in Saskatchewan. Sylvia McAdam and three others were mad about Bill C-45, the omnibus budget bill. Their biggest frustration was that nobody seemed to be talking about it. #IdleNoMore struck a nerve. To me this conversation is more than just an "Indian Thing. " 5. When Grand Chief Derek Nepinak went on national television after he and some other leaders got into that shoving match outside the chamber, he acknowledged the Chiefs were responding to young people calling for action via social media. 4. 3. 2. The Death of Sunny Sheu. The cover-up of the death of an anti-corruption whistleblower by numerous agencies and the mainstream media.
In the months following the February killing of Trayvon Martin, that story dominated headlines across the nation and around the world. Mainstream media venues have dedicated thousands of hours and countless pages to every conceivable angle of the story - including baseless speculation about unverified facts and even the imagined motivations of the victim and killer. Why has this story generated such intense attention and passion? While a racially charged debate continues among people speculating about the as-yet-unknown circumstances of the killing, the substantive story here is one of national importance: the fact that an American police department utterly failed to investigate a killing and released the killer solely on the basis of his own word. Protection by law enforcement and a criminal justice system is the most fundamental contract between a people and their government. The Definitive Guide to Enlightening Information.
Radio Tanzania: A Disappearing History On Tape. Hide caption Radio Tanzania archivist Bruno Nanguka stands with just a few of the 15,000 reel-to-reel tapes stored in the station's archives.
Jonathan Kalan Hide caption Radio Tanzania was the country's only station from its birth in 1951 until the mid-1990s; its tape archives hold poetry, drama and speeches in addition to music. Courtesy of the Tanzania Heritage Project Hide caption Rebecca Corey, a 25-year-old music lover from Athens, Ga., fell in love with Tanzania when she was 18 and visited the country to volunteer at an orphanage. Today, she leads the effort to save the Radio Tanzania tapes. Courtesy of the Tanzania Heritage Project Hide caption "During the '60s, '70s and '80s, Tanzania had one of the most lively musical scenes in East Africa," Corey says.
The music of that era is now referred to as zilipendwa — literally, "the ones that were loved. " Hide caption As Tanzania's one-party system collapsed in the 1980s, the state media monopoly ended. Jonathan Kalan.