{"article":{"id":7664,"heading":"Drawing: Chaia Heller makes the connections","author":"sparckle","created":"2001-06-24 21:41:35","modified":"2005-08-15 00:35:11","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:35:11","article":"

Chaia Heller spoke at the Universalist Unitarian Church and laid it out. Avoiding the short-sided view that by

labeling, regulating or outlawing the particular technological industry known as Bio-Tech, we are not solving the

problem. She outlined the idea that through biotech, and other information -based economies that started up in the

US after WWII, we have created a world where corporations have found ways to profit from every aspect of

human life, turning us into consumers, not citizens. She called for not only the end of BioTech but a blossoming of

citizen based democracy movement in this country that takes the power back from the corporations and puts it into

every citizen and every communitites life. Shaping this vision further, she acknowledged that for this democracy to

flourish, it must have a global consciousness. Noting that there are small pockets of citizen dem,ocracy left in the

UUS, in town councils, meeting halls and social movements throughout the US, she sharpened this vision further.<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"www.socialecology.org","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"Chaia Heller of the Vermont Based Institute for Social Ecology","numcomment":3,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2001\/06\/chaiaheller.jpeg","filesize":"74.3 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2001\/06\/7664.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2001\/06\/chaiaheller.jpeg"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":7682,"heading":"thanks for the snippet","article":"These little snippets are not bad as a way of giving people\r\nthe gist of discussions like this, without us having to\r\nwade through the entire thing at once.\r\n\r\nOn a side note, a couple things really distracted me by\r\nthis article, one of which was no fault of the author,\r\nthe other of which could have been solved by just a bit\r\nof proofreading.\r\n\r\nFirst: typos. I'm not a nit-picker, and we all make 'em.\r\nBut many things make it painfully obvious that the piece\r\nwas written in excessive haste, driving me to distraction.\r\nConsider, for instance, the line,\r\n\r\n\"Avoiding the short-sided view that by labeling, regulating\r\nor outlawing the particular technological industry known as\r\nBio-Tech, we are not solving the problem. She outlined the\r\nidea that through biotech, and other information -based\r\neconomies that started up in the US after WWII, we have\r\ncreated a world where corporations have found ways to\r\nprofit from every aspect of human life, turning us into\r\nconsumers, not citizens.\"\r\n\r\nThe author fixed a run-on sentence, not by shortening it\r\ninto distinct, grammatically correct sentences, but by\r\ninserting a period into a sentence at a point that left it\r\nincomplete and ungrammatical. And in the course of writing\r\nit, the author failed to notice that with the accidental\r\ninclusion of one little \"not,\" (s)he actually was writing\r\nthe exact opposite of what she meant. (Also, she meant\r\n\"shortsighted,\" not \"short-sided.\")\r\n\r\nSecond, there's a problem caused here by the indymedia\r\nsoftware that is no fault of the author. Depending on\r\nbrowsers and settings, you often wind up with staircase\r\noutput on your screen that looks like this (because of \r\nthe vagaries of indymedia software, I don't know if this\r\nwill end up demonstrating the effect on your screen or\r\nnot)\r\n\r\n Example of a staircase effect that makes\r\n the resulting\r\n text much harder to read, possibly leading\r\n the reader to\r\n go on to the next article in frustration\r\n because the hard\r\n -to-read \r\n format gives them a headache and that's a\r\n shame \r\n because they may end up missing a real good \r\n article.\r\n\r\nIt's clearly a defect or limitation in the indymedia\r\nsoftware that's apparent to anyone who has spent much\r\ntime perusing indymedia websites. Hopefully, one of us\r\nmore tech-savvy types will get around soon to figuring\r\nout a solution to the problem if there is one.\r\n\r\nOn another side note, I'm curious why the author chose\r\nto draw pictures, as if in a courtroom, instead of taking\r\nsimple photos. Did someone in attendance object to photos\r\nbeing taken at the event?\r\n\r\n\r\n","author":"Guy Berliner","parent_id":7664,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-06-24 22:44:50","modified":"2001-06-24 22:59:20","fileurl":""},{"id":7692,"heading":"why drawings","article":"I chose to draw because I am interested in investigating other forms of reportage. Why do we priveledge photos, especially in a digigital age when photos can be manipulated with many different programs?\r\n\r\nAlso, as indymedia reporter, who are we reporting to? The uninitiated public, the learned activist community or both? Can we do things that speak in different formats besides the blood and guts photos? We can explore a wide range of news-like expression.\r\n\r\nCourt-reporter, maybe.\r\n\r\n","author":"sparckle","parent_id":7664,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-06-25 00:04:34","modified":"2001-06-25 01:00:02","fileurl":""},{"id":8307,"heading":"it's www.social-ecology.org","article":"that would be http:\/\/www.social-ecology.org.\r\n\r\n:)","author":"institute for social ecology","parent_id":7664,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-07-02 01:20:41","modified":"2001-07-02 01:34:32","fileurl":""}]}