Yearly Archives: 2016


State of Public disobedience

Les Braves film version courte from Anilore Banon on Vimeo. [Photo: Waiting forĀ Anilore Banon permission on usingĀ Les Braves’s image ]   Hi public, start the disobedience! This message is short, but it carries the human history and the experiences we have all had up to this very moment experienced and learnt from. Learnt from comes with a question mark in behind of it. A question mark when typed is like this ‘?’. What do we […]


Social Media-Salvation

What was once a rather esoteric news item now has become a regular part of hourly news programs. We hear about it so often it has become white noise only gaining our attention when something particularly horrific becomes part of mainstream news. I write about it so often on my Facebook news feed no one looks anymore. I am speaking about the refugee crisis. Most of us give it only a passing glance unless it […]


Safe

Safe, what is safe? When are you perceived to be safe versus actually safe, is safe the same for everyone? Is it safe to jump into the maelstrom or is it safer to sit quietly and accept? Should the refugee have stayed and tried to create safety or is traveling to a new perceived safety the better choice? Recently, I was presented with the idea that this world is in the process of transitioning from […]


#VO app

#VO stands for Volunteer Organizer and is a mobile application which connects volunteers and organizers of activities from all over the world. Remember the early days of the mass movement of refugees towards Europe? When there was a huge need for international aid organizations on Greek Islands and on the Balkan route? Remember when governments and well-known international organizations were incapable of providing even the basic services to them? Remember how all of us felt […]