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Digital Activism and Climate Justice
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Description
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As climate change continues to grow and impact our world, so does the response from activists across the world. Climate justice activists take many forms and employ many strategies to effect change in policy of or public opinion on greenhouse gas emissions. Through York University's Academic Innovation Fund dedicated to creating open source, publicly available course content, we've created 6 video segments interviewing grassroots climate justice activists from Toronto, a city with many climate justice organizations and efforts. Here we interview digital educators Lindura Sappong and Toni Sappong, two sisters who run the environmental justice Instagram blog @PlasticFreeTO. We'll discuss what it's like to be a digital activist, the efficacy of social media as a tool for social change, and the pitfalls of living virtually. You can watch the live-recorded video interviews or read the transcripts recorded in Summer 2020.
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video file
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Date
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27 October 2020
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Identifier
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http://hdl.handle.net/10315/38023
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1153664
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Title
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Indigenous Perspectives on Climate Justice
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Description
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As climate change continues to grow and impact our world, so does the response from activists across the world. Climate justice activists take many forms and employ many strategies to effect change in policy of or public opinion on greenhouse gas emissions. Through York University's Academic Innovation Fund dedicated to creating open source, publicly available course content, we've created 6 video segments interviewing grassroots climate justice activists from Toronto, a city with many climate justice organizations and efforts. Here we interview land defenders and organizers Cricket Guest (Instagram: @cricket.guest) and Sam Wong (Instagram: @luvthemutt). We'll discuss the importance of recognizing colonial violence, traditional knowledge, land stewardship, and Indigenous leadership for effective climate justice and action. You can watch the live-recorded Zoom video interviews or read the transcripts recorded in Summer 2020.
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video file
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Date
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2 November 2020
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Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13146716.v2
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1153665
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Title
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Ati-atihan: Mother of Philippine Festivals, by Patrick Alcedo
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Description
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Every January, thousands of people from far and near dance, play music, and pray for three days in the streets of Kalibo, a town in the province of Aklan in the central Philippines. They are celebrating the Ati-atihan, an annual festival in honor of the Santo Ni–o, the Holy Child Jesus, and in remembrance of the indigenous Atis—commonly known as the Negritos—who are the putative ancestors of the Filipinos. The day before the third Sunday when the Ati-atihan reaches its climax with a grand procession, the local government of Kalibo holds a street dancing competition that tourists and residents await with much anticipation. In January 2009 I collaborated with photographer Nana Buxani, videographer Fruto Corre, and editor Florencito Fernandez to document the Ati-atihan and produce the present multimedia project. As a way of calling additional attention to the idea of social constructivism deeply embedded in the Ati-atihan performance—an artificial construction reiterated by the editing and selection of photos and ambient sounds, I asked my brother Peter Alcedo, Jr., who has played music for the Ati-atihan, to compose an original score for the project. In Ati-atihan: Mother of Philippine Festivals, I focus on five participants to illustrate the Ati-atihan’s ever-changing synthesis of sacred and secular, traditional and modern, local and global, serious and playful. This is part of a collaborative project. As a combination of photos, sounds, narration, and music, this multimedia project offers one model for articulating Ati-atihan’s cultural and historical complexity brought about by colonialism and the porosity of Philippine borders. Like any embodied performance, one could immediately conclude that to experience Ati-atihan one has to go to Kalibo during the festival season. But this multimedia project does not push solely for that kind of travel and experience. Rather, its images and the way they have been arranged to move across the screen challenge the limits of the viewer’s location. To experience a festival such as the Ati-atihan, it has become necessary in the contemporary world to also encounter a cultural phenomenon outside of its physical locale and in the virtual realm, an encounter that adds to and re-affirms the hybrid discourse implicit in the performances of this particular festival.
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Type
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Moving image
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Date
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Fall 2010
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Identifier
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intensions4-patrickalcedo
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1155999
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Title
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Sointula
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Description
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Consists of a video recording (no audio) of scenes of the island community of Sointula in British Columbia. Annotations on tape include: "Erasure Date: Perpetuity" "Series: Western Profiles" and "Library Number: V1343."
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Type
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videotapes
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Fonds
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Varpu Lindström fonds (F0558)
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Accession / Box
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2009-025 / 018 (22)
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Date
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[before 1990?]
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Identifier
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ASC41385
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1125048
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Title
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Alain Badiou on the death of Che Guevara and the sameness of the world
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Description
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Short film published in Journal of Narrative Politics Volume 5 Number 1 (2018). Director summary follows: "This is our submission to the async International Short Film Competition (sitesakamoto.com/contest/). It is a sequence from our upcoming documentary about French philosopher Alain Badiou, set to the composition "disintegration," by Ryuichi Sakamoto from his album async."
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Type
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digital video
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Date
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2017
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Identifier
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jnp-5-1-2018
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1150243
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Title
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Stock footage of Keele campus : aerial shots, student life, construction sites, bookstore
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Description
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Consists of stock film footage York University, including aerial shots of Keele campus, student life, students in classrooms, campus bookstore, street views of Toronto, construction sites. Some film is reversed or upside down.
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Type
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16mm film
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Fonds
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York University (Toronto, Ont.). Department of Instructional Aid Resources fonds (F0050)
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Accession / Box
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1999-029 / xxx
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Date
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[before 1970?]
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Identifier
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ASC41258
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1122884
