A fine film. If the Internet had been around in the time of David and Goliath, the former would have clicked here. This site comes out of the San Francisco-based Transnational Resources and Action Centre a bona fide, uncompromised outfit. This award-winning alternative media site from Bangladesh demonstrates the tremendous political benefits of the internet. Its on-line news magazine Meghbarta is invaluable in a country where press freedom is constantly under threat, as are those who try and exercise it.
Coverage is thoughtful, useful, radical and progressive and the photos are truly outstanding.
One person dies from hunger every 3.6 seconds. A mouse-click on this rather ingenious site sends a free donation of food which the sites sponsors pay for. Forty years ago, novelist and scientist CP Snow propounded the notion that Western society is fundamentally split between two cultures, the arts and the sciences, neither side listening to the other. Snow triggered a heated debate that rages still, encompassing everything from academic exchanges to partisan abuse. The beginnings of a division originate with the Industrial Revolution and the advent of a mechanical society.