TEDxAmazonia - Diana Whitten | on abortion and hypocrisy - Nov.2010
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Diana Whitten is the director of the documentary "Vessel", which tells the story of a guerrilla group in favor of abortion rights, whose strategy is to moor a boat next to countries that prohibit abortion and offer the procedure in international waters. --- About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TE... Read more
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May 16, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Diana Whitten is the director of the documentary "Vessel", which tells the story of a guerrilla group in favor of abortion rights, whose strategy is to moor a boat next to countries that prohibit abortion and offer the procedure in international waters. --- About TEDx, x = independently organized...
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- -: TEDxAmazonia - Julio Chang | and the greatness of small things
May 17, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Julio Villanueva Chang, in 2002, Chang was a Peruvian journalist startup in a peripheral country,Peru, without money or important friends. He then decided to create a sophisticated, intelligent and independent magazine: the Etiqueta Negra (Black Label), today admired by writers worldwide. --- Abo...
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- -: TEDxAmazonia - Manoel Cunha | tells how he escaped slavery
May 20, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Manoel Cunha,was a teenager rubber tapper when he decided he no longer wanted to work in semi-slavery. He persuaded his colleagues to venture into the forest, for days by boat on the river in search of autonomy. Today, over the fifties, he is president of the National Council of Rubber Tappers. -...
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- -: TEDxAmazonia - Sergio Laus | and the longest wave in the world - Nov.2010
May 25, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Sergio Laus - Serginho is the leading expert on pororoca surfing - he get waves in the encounter between the waters of the Amazonian rivers and the sea. The pororoca is so violent that you can hear its noise one hour before it arrives. It is able to knock down trees, sink boats and change the riv...
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- -: TEDxAmazonia - Gordon Hempton | wants to save silence from extinction - Nov.2010
May 25, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)One day,Gordon Hempton , slept on the grass. A storm fell and he continued asleep in the rain. That was the day he became fascinated with the sounds of nature. For 25 years, his job is to record sounds that people have forgotten to hear. He warns us: silence is becoming extinct. --- About TEDx, x...
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- -: TEDxAmazonia - Nielsen Bastos pays attention to details - Nov.2010
May 25, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Nielsen Mury Bastos works at Oi as a Buildings Service Manager, a sort of trustee of all the buildings in the North, Northeast and Southeast. --- About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring peo...
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- -: TEDxAmazonia - Silvio Marchini wants a truce with the jaguars - Nov.2010
May 25, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Silvio Marchini is the creator of the Amazon School, in which he tries to improve the relationship between man and nature. --- About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to sha...
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- -: TEDxAmazonia - Enrique Leff wants us to take care of ourselves - Nov.2010
June 7, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Besides being an opera and bolero singer, Mexican Enrique Leff is one of the most influential environmental thinkers of Latin America, with his ideas on a new rationality. --- About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-...
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- -: TEDxAmazonia - Thiago de Mello | brings no new path, brings a new way of walking - Nov.2010
June 8, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Thiago de Mello -- we received the confirmation by email. That was the message: You can count on me. It is a duty towards Life. Saves a branch of light in the forest. Thiago de Mello is an 84 years old poet from the Amazon. Arrested by the military dictatorship, he went into exile in Chile and b...
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