Research one of the TEDxTeen speakers. What are they doing? How did their talk relate to the infromation on the web?
Jeremy Hermiens, a speaker at TEDxTeen, is actually very similar to how he spoke to how he is on paper. His work includes, purpose.org, LIVESTRONG campaign, Avaaz.org and GetUp.org. He is from Australia, and talked mainly about creating a movement that is about the people, not a leader. He has sucessfully done this in his work. Through his campaigns and websites, he has given the people the means to create political revolutions and "get-up" in their own country. He has made a campaign about fighting cancer about a band, not a figurehead.
This week in class:
This week in class we did a few various activities--all of which I can relate back to my experience at TED. The first class Kari and I spent a lot of time talking to everyone about everything we learned and how excite we were about TED. I wish that the other students could imagine just how spectacular that conference was. We also watched a TED talk this week about a french artist who changed the world with huge photographed posters of people's faces in need. He was spreading the stories of the people of drug-ridden towns in Africa and poverty districts of Paris. It was an amazing project, and segwayed perfectly into our next documentary, "Promises," which is centered around the Isreali-Palestinian conflict.
My favorite part about what we did this week was relating what the French artist did in Palestine to the documentary, "Promises." Both have the same message. The French artists decided to take you posters of Israeli and Palestinian people and post them anywhere with high visibility. The project was called "Face to Face" because he would always post the a picture of an Israeli and a picture of a Palestinian--Face to Face. When he asked the citizens which was which, most could not tell. In Promises, the filmmaker is comparing the childhoods of several children who live within 20 mintues of each other, and yet lead different lives. Though we have not finished the documentary yet, it would be interesting of the documentary's main point was that the two chilhoods were relatively similar except for religion.
It is interesting to me that so many regions and countries where much of the culure is the same, is where fighting begins. The Mexican drug wars are a good example of this. Gangs, who share the same heritage, language, culture and country, are ravaging their homeland because of drugs. They are bringing their children, their future, into the conflict and not thinking twice about it. What would happen, if the Face to Face project compared two leaders of different factions of the drug war? They are so similar, they have the same goals, why does humanity always have to fight?
Question for next week:
Find another international peace-making operation that has worked in the past or is working in the present. What is it about?
Sources
Jeremy Heimans." TEDxTeen.com. Web. 12 Apr. 2011. http://www.tedxteen.com/jeremy-heimans.
"Avaaz - The World in Action." Web. 12 Apr. 2011. http://www.avaaz.org/en.
The Promises Film Project. Web. 12 Apr. 2011. <http://www.promisesproject.org/>.
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