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Creative Commons is in the midst of its 2008
fundraising campaign. Find out how you can support
Creative Commons at our support site.
To celebrate the campaign, Creative Commons has
released “A Shared Culture,” a short
video by renowned filmmaker Jesse Dylan. Known for
helming a variety of films, music videos, and the
Emmy Award-winning “Yes We Can” Barack
Obama campaign video collaboration with rapper
will.i.am, Dylan created “A Shared
Culture” to help spread the word about the
Creative Commons mission.
In the video, some of the leading thinkers behind
Creative Commons describe how the organization is
helping “save the world from failed
sharing” through free tools that enable
creators to easily make their work available to
the public for legal sharing and remix. Dylan puts
the Creative Commons system into action by
punctuating the interview footage with dozens of
photos that have been offered to the public for
use under CC licenses. Similarly, he used two
CC-licensed instrumental pieces by Nine Inch Nails
as the video’s soundtrack music. These
tracks, “17 Ghosts II” and “21
Ghosts III,” come from the Nine Inch Nails
album Ghosts I-IV, which was released earlier this
year under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.
(See attribution details below.)
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| Flash Mob - visionontv |
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Over 50 Manchester students staged a flash mob
demonstration at the RBS and E.On Recruitments
stalls on Thursday 23rd October 2008. The group
were protesting against the banks funding of
climate chaos and against E.On’s plans to build
a new coal power station at Kingsnorth.
At precisely 1pm, loose coal was dumped on the
Royal Bank of Scotland and E-On recruitment
stalls. Meanwhile, around 50 demonstrators
stripped off their jackets to reveal bright yellow
t-shirts with the words, “LEAVE IT IN THE
GROUND” emblazoned across their chests.
A list of RBS’ environmental crimes was then
read out to prospective employees attending the
recruitment fair at Manchester Central (GMEX)
convention centre. [4]
Some of the group were then forcibly ejected by
security guards whilst others moved on to pay a
visit to the E-On recruitment stall. E-On were
questioned as to how their plans for a new coal
fired power station squared with our commitment to
reduce CO2 levels.
Toby Brett, 19, physics student at the University
of Manchester says, “RBS, formerly priding
itself on being “the oil and gas bank”, vastly
outstrips all other UK banks in terms of funding
climate change. In fact RBS investments emit more
carbon dioxide per year than the whole of
Scotland.”[6]
“Whilst I commend them for investing in
renewable forms of energy as well as fossil fuels
the two simply do not cancel out.”
“We are calling for an immediate halt to highly
destructive investment such as in tar sands
extraction and a swift switch to renewables. Quite
frankly the world cannot wait.”
Marina Gerner, 20, Politics, Philosophy and
Economics student and campaigns secretary at the
University of Manchester’s Students Union says,
“Coal is the dirtiest, most emissions intensive
of fossil fuels and it is outrageous to see how
our banks invest in it.”
This action is part of a series of actions by
students from the campaigning groups People and
Planet and Campaigns Collective against RBS and
E-On. [5]
It formed part of Climate Action Week at the
University of Manchester Students’ Union.
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