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Angola: No to Guillermo Habacuc and the starving dog.

Posted by Daniel Duende on 11/04/2008

Admario Lindo, who writes Angola Haria (and many other blogs in Portuguese), shares his shock[pt] about a Guillermo Habacuc Vargas‘[en] art instalation staged last year, in which a dog was bound to a wall and starved to death in front of the Costa Rica Visual Arts Biennial attendants. Admario ...

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It’s not a ‘conspiracy’, it’s policy

Posted by Jim on 10/04/2008

David Leonhardt: In 2000, at the end of the previous economic expansion, the median American family made about $61,000, according to the Census Bureaus inflation-adjusted numbers. In 2007, in what looks to have been the final year of the most recent expansion, the median family, amazingly, seems to ...

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Egypt: The Story of Sounilla

Posted by Lasto Adri on 10/04/2008

Little did American student Sounilla know what he was walking into when he saw two students from his university standing in the middle of a Cairo Square and decided to walk towards them, pointing his camera in their direction. Out of nowhere, the security forces pounces on them, snatching them from ...

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Video on Flickr: An apple of dischord

Posted by Juliana Rincón Parra on 09/04/2008

Seventeen hours after its creation, the Flickr group "NO VIDEO ON FLICKR!!!" already has more than 5475 members and 670 items. What is even more amazing is that another group, "We Say NO to Videos on Flickr", created 2 hours later, has more than double the number of members of the previously mention ...

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Bolivia: Poor Service by Hipermaxi

Posted by Eduardo Avila on 09/04/2008

Andrés Pucci [es] and Renzo Colanzi [es] have started an online campaign against poor service by the supermarket Hipermaxi in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Colanzi writes that the supermarket has begun the habit of giving out candy instead of coins, of which they claim they are out. He makes the calculatio ...

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