The Swiss department of Amnesty International has a new campaign, taking a different approach to spread awareness of the extreme violence and poverty around the globe. They definitely got our attention. You can find more pictures here.

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Word on the street of San Paulo is that The Pixadores are about to go to war with the street artists.  These are pictures takin from an attack on  Galeria Choque Cultural (Cultural Shock Gallery) in protest of the marketing and institutionalization of street art.  There was said to be about 10,000 to 15,000 worth of damage to the space and the art work being displayed.  Peep Wooster Collective for more pics.  And for more on this topic click here

Documentary Filmmaker, Christian Poveda sheds light on a subject, that is filled with dark circumstances, and is surrounded by violence.  His newest documentary, La Vida Loca, focuses on the daily life in a cell of one of the biggest cliques of M-18 in San Salvador, El Salvador.
20 years after a revolutionary war that devastated the nation, a new civil war has begun. This social unrest could have been contained within the U.S., but in 1996, the Illegal Immigrant Reform and the Immigrant Responsibility Act was put into affect, and it allowed the U.S.A. to deport more than 100,000 gang members, originally detained on U.S. soil, back to where they came from.Take a look at the trailer here.

The eternal battle rages on.

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“The War had left a population bereft of resources in the UK while America ruminated on the birth of consumerism. Rumblings of discontent were heard the world over, but it was perhaps in Great Britain that the most visually beguiling teenage cult of all time was to be born: The Teddy Boy.”

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Snoop has been taking on Hollywood for a while, credited in such movies as Training day, Half Baked, Soul Plane, Bones and more. Now he’s set to take on Bollywood, by rapping in the theme song to “Singh is Kinng,” the Bollywood film that opens Friday. Quite a jump for Snoop’s career.

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Adbusters #79 is just hitting newstands, and it features the essay - “Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilazation” - an insightful analysis of Hipster culture.

Each successive decade of the post-war era has seen it smash social standards, riot and fight to revolutionize every aspect of music, art, government and civil society.

But after punk was plasticized and hip hop lost its impetus for social change, all of the formerly dominant streams of “counter-culture” have merged together. Now, one mutating, trans-Atlantic melting pot of styles, tastes and behavior has come to define the generally indefinable idea of the “Hipster.”

An artificial appropriation of different styles from different eras, the hipster represents the end of Western civilization – a culture lost in the superficiality of its past and unable to create any new meaning. Not only is it unsustainable, it is suicidal. While previous youth movements have challenged the dysfunction and decadence of their elders, today we have the “hipster” – a youth subculture that mirrors the doomed shallowness of mainstream society.

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