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Amelia Bryne

Amelia is a visual anthropologist (filmmaker & researcher) and is inspired to vision alternative futures, as well as to document the cultural shifts of our time. Currently the director of a research organization that investigates the relationship between people, the planet, and information and communications technologies she hopes to inspire people to assess technology in terms of its true impacts, including side-effects and shortcomings. She is active in solidarity economy work, which celebrates and aims to strengthen ecologically and socially just businesses and economic relationships. She is also a maker of nettle tea, wild berry jam, and divides her time between New York City and a farm near Stockholm.

Occupy – A Cultural Strike

by Amelia Bryne and Sharon Ede on 13th November 2011

It’s time to let go of both the blind faith that economic growth will fix things, and of the fear of what alternatives to growth-based economies could look like.

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Occupy Eyewitness – New York

by Amelia Bryne on 9th November 2011

This is the first in a series of articles from the Post Growth Institute reporting on-the-ground impressions of Occupy events around the world. How did you first hear about Occupy? I live part of the year in New York and part in Sweden. The first news I heard of Occupy were whisperings in emails from [...]

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