£1 Hello QEWB

£2 Poverty

£3 Fair Trade

£4 Junior Fellowship

£5 Toms Shoes/Oliberte

£6 Advocacy

£7 Surveillance and Countermeasures

£8 Global Markets

£9 Power of Symbolism

£10 Failure Report Debate

£11 Carla Moore: Gender in the Caribbean

#12 Celebration

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Week 1: Hello QEWB


 ....we said hello


Week 2: Poverty


  • Lack of ____
    • education, security, health, control....
  • Not necessarily a lack of happiness!
  • In Canada: hunger, uncertainty, dependency

  • System Maps!



Week 3: Fair Trade


Scavenger Hunt!!

Icecream n stuff!!


Also, trying to make Queen's a FT Campus, etc.


Week 4: Junior Fellowship



  • Amanda was in Kenya w/ AVC

  • Researched P3s for rural privatized water

  • Addressed issues around management


Week 5: Toms Shoes


  • Critical look at Toms Shoes' Marketing

  • Comparison to Oliberte

  • Systems Mapped Stakeholders


Week 6: Advocacy £FIXIAID


  • The ££££FIXAID Campaign
    • Portfolio of Innovative Approaches
    • Increase ODA to 2010 Levels
    • Commitments n stuff

  • MP Phone-in Discussion
    • Hacking metrics/protocols
    • How can we advocate more effectively


Week 7: Surveillance and countermeasures


  • Anonymity: hiding who you are, not what you say

  • Privacy: hiding what you say, not who you are

  • Know your adversary!


Week 8: Global Markets

  • The current global market can put poor people at a disadvantage

  • Fair Trade is one alternative that tries to fix this


WEek 9: Power of Symbolism


  • Symbolism is important, even for Augustus

  • We create the meanings of symbols

  • All marketing imagery is biased


Week 10: Failure Report Debate


Be it resolved that EWB's annual Failure Report should be discontinued.

  • Yay said yeah and relaunched,
  • Nay said no! just improved! ...

  • So it's cool, but we have critiques.


Week 11: Carla Moore on

Gender in the CARIBBEAN

  • Dancehall portrayal of extreme masculinity should be taken in context

  • Colonial past and identity in Caribbean is complex!
    • Well-intentioned western initiatives to promote gender equality can create issues and division.



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#12 Celebration

By Phil Schleihauf