Passaport

"Valid for all peoples, and for all landscapes. For all citizens and villagers of flesh and blood, wherever they were born. Your worth is not proportional to the population of your country. Entry free of duty, no need for a stamp or visa, the doors are unscrewed from the jambs." http://passaport.info Background photograph by Milton Fernández.

[passaportproject-blog]

[culturestrike]

In solidarity with economic refugees!

Art work by @nicolaslampert.

“Media attention on immigration issues rarely, if ever, discusses with any sort of depth the economic, political, and social factors that propel people to risk their lives to travel north across the border,” Lampert said. “Instead, individuals are blamed and a complex issue is reduced to a few soundbites – national security, terrorism, illegal immigrants, etc.” Lampert’s image frames the discussion from the other side of the fence and looks at the systemic reasons for migration. The small text of the print reads, “Since the passing of NAFTA, U.S. subsidized corn has flooded Mexico resulting in the unemployment of 20 percent of Mexico’s small scale corn producers - many of whom head North in search of work.”

#art4 #artforchange #socialjustice #racialjustice #immigration #migration #refugees #refugeecrisis #refugeeart #refugeemonth #refugeeswelcome #refugee

[worldhistoryfacts]

The inscription reads in translation (by Morris Rossabi):

By the strength of Eternal Heaven, an edict of the Emperor [Khan]. He who has no respect shall be guilty.

Mongol passport from Yuan dynasty in China, 1200s.

[culturite]

Watch M.I.A.’s New Video for “Borders” 

[mapfail]

Whole of Turkey removed from Yandex Maps for a short time.

[nomestudiovalletta]

[angrywhistler]

Fernando Vicente

[low-country]

Benjamin Monti - untitled (2010)

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[mapsontheweb]

Lego map of Europe including landmarks, made with 53.000 bricks.

More Lego maps »

[worldmapswithoutnewzealand]

Humans never reached New Zealand, it’s uninhabited

[mapsontheweb]

Arabic world map, 1989

[maptitude1]

An incredible planisphere palindrome map by Giacomo Faiella that shows the world both right-side-up (top, blue=water) and upside-down (bottom, blue=land).

[limainbrussels]

ACTION in front of the EU commission, we stand with the Philippines! We demand more than sympathy, we want ambitious climate action from the EU NOW! 40% is not enough!

[rightsinexile]

Prepared by Cassidy Rappaport, intern with the Rights in Exile Programme of the International Refugee Rights Initiative (IRRI), formerly the Fahamu Refugee Programme.

‘What happens to a small plant when it is uprooted from its home to a new, harsh environment?’

The answer, to what might...

[browniequeen-blog]

globe cake

(made by my sister for her geography class. why geography requires cake i cannot fathom.)

[fyeahgeographyalligator]

Everyone loves cake, that’s why.

[geo-nerd]

Migration - Gravity Model

The Gravity Model of Migration shows how larger settlements have more to offer and are therefore more attractive to migrants. If two settlements are equidistant from an origin, more migrants are likely to travel to the larger settlement (B in the top diagram).

The model also shows that a greater distance between the origin and a possible destination equals more effort to get there. This results in fewer migrants being inclined to travel there. Therefore, despite settlement B in the second diagram being bigger, the origin is closer to A and therefore the migrants are equally distributed between the two settlements.

[fyeahgeographyalligator]

A non-map graphic for today.

[wildcat2030]

Geography graduate student Derek Watkins has some fun with population densities in an interactive version of William Bunge’s The Continents and Islands of Mankind. The above shows areas in the world where there are at least 15 people per square mile. In the interactive, a slider lets you shift that number up to 500 where only a few spots in the world remain. (via Interactive Islands of Mankind)