Talk:Liberation Factbook

I can across a quote about "Bowling Alone" which brought my thinking into sharp relief. Zadcat left a comment on my FLICKR image of the bookcover of Putnam's book here

Coffee shops, bars, hair salons, beer gardens, pool halls, clubs, and other hangouts are as vital as factories, schools and apartments "The Great Good Place", 1989. But capitalist society has been eroding those third places, and society is left impoverished.

From Building Communities with Software by Joel Spolsky Monday, March 03, 2003

So count me in!

Gordo 17:45, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Film
***1900 (This you may find in the foreign film section. I strongly recommend this)

Who is the director? Gordo 18:24, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Bernardo Bertolucci made Novecento (aka 1900) in 1976 starring Robert de Niro Szczels


 * Thanks! Gordo 22:07, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

response
I was heartened by your comments and spurred on to do more intro editing and formating. The Bowling Alone book sounds very interesting. I will print out and read

Building Communities with Software by Joel Spolsky when I get back to work.

Must think about these re the generic structure.. I think it goes well into

How maintained (Bowling alone analysis)

Liberation strategies and tools (Spolsky etc)

Szczels 13:31, 26 December 2006 (UTC)


 * The article on Building Communities... talks about third spaces, like (dead) cafes and (dead) pubs... Gordo 22:10, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

People with learning difficulties
I looked at this link and thought it was wonderful and perhaps something which could be part of the Liberation thing you sent me, including Colin's comment (not currently included - permission saught). Colin is someone who is labelled as having autism and is fighting a one man war against the world. He collects amazing stuff from loads of websites. Declaration on the Role of Gay Men in the World by Andrew Ramer.... I have looked at the sense-think-act site and created an account so I can go in and out of it. It looks like a very exciting project and I would like to engage my brain upon it. One ommission so far is the oppression of people with learning difficulties, which is different to able-bodiedism. It will be very interesting to think about how to link everything up rather than see them as loads of separate and different issues. You say for example that it will be necessary to end all oppressions before we can truly end any oppression. Can you have a stab at saying why? Love, Micheline

Link & quote?
Perhaps we could make the links and book list pages more interesting if the guideline was to quote and link (at least). This owuld make reading the link pages much more interesting and inherently informative...

Szczels 21:40, 1 January 2007 (UTC)