Migrations and territories
19 February 2009
A talk by Virtual Migrants about their arts work exploring refugee, deportation and immigration issues since they began ten years ago, with screenings and discussion.
Thursday 19 February 2009, 6-7.30pm
Central Library, St Peters Square, Manchester M2 5PD
Led by Kooj Chuhan with contributions from Aidan Jolly and other members this talk will include screenings of selected examples of their work and is an opportunity to discuss their approach to engaging artistic processes with life-and-death inequalities.
Admission is free.
UGANDA WATCH
A Ugandan Housewife’s Homemade Mobile Phone Charger
Posted: 12 Feb 2009 01:10 PM CST
From AfriGadget by Erik Hersman 12 Feb 2009:
A Ugandan Housewife’s Homemade Mobile Phone Charger
She uses ordinary size D batteries that are readily available in the village to power radios and torches. She wraped five (5) batteries together, then removed the plug from the phone charger and attached the bare wires to the + and – terminals of the batteries.Mrs. Muyonjo is a housewife in a remote village of Ivukula in Iganga district, Eastern Uganda. She had a bad experience with a local mobile phone charger, so decided to hack her own solution in response. Read the full story on the Women of Uganda Network’s site.
WHAT: Washington Foreign Press Center On-The-Record Briefing
BRIEFER: Fred Wertheimer, President and CEO, Democracy 21
TOPIC: “Ethics in the Obama Administration – Are the Rules Changing?”
WHEN: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.
WHERE: 800 National Press Building, 529 14th Street, NW
Candidate Barack Obama made governmental ethics reform a staple of his election campaign. President Obama launched his Administration with hard-hitting rules to close ethical loopholes. Yet, challenges to some of his early, high-profile choices for senior government positions have led critics to question the new President’s commitment to real ethical reform.
Fred Wertheimer, President and CEO of good government advocacy group Democracy 21, which he founded in 1997, has spent more than 30 years working on the issues of money in politics, government accountability, and reform of the political system, and is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading authorities on these issues. Wertheimer has been described by The New York Times as "the country's leading proponent of campaign finance reform" and as "the lobbyist most closely associated with pressing to change the system." The Wall Street Journal has called him "perhaps the capital's longest-toiling advocate of reducing the role of money in politics.” President of Common Cause from 1981 to 1995, Wertheimer also has served as a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University; as the J. Skelly Wright Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School; and as a political analyst and consultant for CBS News, ABC News and ABC's Nightline.
