tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61623877589895650622024-03-05T10:06:59.646+01:00Goat tracksViews into other tracks, other perspectives, other truths...bwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-18456986177718601682010-01-04T15:07:00.001+01:002010-01-04T15:09:32.324+01:00Gaza Freedom MarchLinks:Gaza Freedom MarchGaza Freedom March on Youtubebwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-26619386820847355452009-11-15T01:08:00.001+01:002009-11-15T01:10:25.022+01:00Human Voices: a wake up call to climate change, by Oxfam Internationalbwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-53992626942215806972009-08-31T14:03:00.005+02:002009-08-31T14:09:19.108+02:00Music of Resistance: Finding dignity as an African immigrant in EuropeLinks:Music of Resistance, Al Jazeera Englishbwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-68398433689956124492009-07-01T15:31:00.006+02:002009-07-01T15:51:17.068+02:00UN Economic Crisis conference a 'missed opportunity' to help poorThe UN Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development was a missed opportunity to address the needs of poor countries, Oxfam said in a press-release on the last day of the conference.This outcome document agreed by member states recognized poor country concerns by highlighting the urgency of the current crisis, the need for structural reforms, and the bwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-47704278692007414972009-06-18T13:58:00.014+02:002009-06-18T14:19:14.000+02:00Mekong dolphins on the brink of extinctionAccording to a recent report by WWF, pollution in the Mekong River has driven the local population of Irrawaddy dolphins to the brink of extinction.The Mekong River Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris) population inhabits a 190km stretch of the Mekong River between Cambodia and Lao PDR. Since 2003, the population has suffered 88 deaths of which over 60 percent were calves under two weeks oldbwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-78637413157486643562009-06-10T18:51:00.008+02:002009-06-18T14:14:15.434+02:00Closed Zone, Gaza 2009The director of animation for "Waltz with Bashir", Yoni Goodman, created this animted film for the Human Rights NGO "Gisha - Legal Center for Freedom of Movement". While animation may seem an unusual medium for a human rights organization, the intention was to draw attention to the ongoing closure of the Gaza Strip and empathy for the 1.5 million human beings feeling its impact most acutely ulihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09946479586352641587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-3797035855273796222009-05-27T00:29:00.001+02:002009-06-11T13:36:51.609+02:00Escape capitalismulihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09946479586352641587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-7068310548089966732008-11-08T13:27:00.004+01:002008-11-11T23:39:49.498+01:00Heimlich Maneuver...bwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-50404293657628263662008-07-12T18:15:00.001+02:002008-07-12T18:21:06.967+02:00Cluster bombs: Hell from aboveLinks:Cluster bombs: Hell from above, The Real NewsDocuments on Cluster Bombs, Human Rights Watchbwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-89979131816189150362008-03-18T20:17:00.009+01:002008-03-26T17:06:09.351+01:00Sustainable family farming can feed the worldThe International Peasant Movement, La Via Campesina, has recently issued a press release entitled "A response to the Global Food Prices Crisis: Sustainable family farming can feed the world".On this document they refer to the recent dramatic increase of staple food around the world, with consequent aggravating difficulties for the poorest communities."Over a year, wheat has doubled in price, bwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-76655114599333040962008-03-16T18:11:00.003+01:002008-03-16T19:47:06.180+01:00When I grow upThis is a video piece from "enoughsenough" campaigning against the expansion of Heathrow Airport, one of the busiest airports in Europe, raising the issue of our responsibility towards the future generations.With the expansion of this airport it is expected that the number of flights using it will nearly double, with its consequent increase on greenhouse emissions.Even though most governments nowbwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-64569294283481038922008-03-08T11:46:00.011+01:002008-03-08T21:33:21.970+01:00Stop the violence against Women!!Today is the International Women's Day, a day dedicated to all Women in the world and celebrated since the early 1900s.Yet, according to UNIFEM, the United Nations Development Fund for Women, "one in three women will suffer some form of violence in her lifetime, becoming part of an epidemic that devastates lives, fractures communities and stalls development."This means over one billion people arebwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-10221811297994899542008-03-01T20:30:00.001+01:002008-03-01T20:45:15.600+01:00Blackwater, modern day mercenariesHere is a small video piece, done by Jeremy Scahill, a reporter of The Nation, on Blackwater activities in Iraq and elsewhere...Links:Blackwater, by Jeremy ScahillBush's Shadow Army, The NationOur Mercenaries in Iraq, Democracy Now!bwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-64639592669923717732008-02-29T11:23:00.014+01:002008-02-29T16:56:53.989+01:00EfficienCityGreenpeace has taken another step in promoting a sustainable use of our natural resources in a world of ever-growing consumption.In EfficienCity, a multimedia-packed interactive virtual town (with some good pioneering examples), they demonstrate how to lower greenhouse gas emissions and achieve more secure energy supply, with consequent cheaper electricity and heating bills.In this virtual model bwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-23527124259323352462008-02-19T15:14:00.006+01:002008-02-19T15:39:42.391+01:00Stamp Out Poverty campaignStamp Out Poverty is a network of more than 50 UK organisations, trade unions and faith groups, which campaigns for additional sources of finance to bridge the massive funding gap required to bring the world’s poorest people out of poverty."Without additional, sustainable and predictable finance, the Millennium Development Goals, agreed to at the United Nations in 2000 - which range from halving bwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-29977904395209076862008-02-14T21:20:00.010+01:002008-02-15T02:03:17.212+01:00Preserving paradise in Phoenix IslandsKiribati has recently established the world's largest marine protected area - the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA), in a total of 410,500-square-kilometer of one of the Earth's last intact oceanic coral archipelago ecosystems.After several years of joint scientific research between Kiribati and the New England Aquarium, with funding and technical assistance from Conservation International, bwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-39890153528143037932008-02-13T17:43:00.009+01:002008-02-15T02:01:17.637+01:00Voices from all around the GlobeGlobal Voices is a non-profit global citizens’ media project, which seeks to "aggregate, curate, and amplify the global conversation online - shining light on places and people other media often ignore."It is a co-operative effort of contributors from every continent and it's core values are expressed in a document called the "Global Voices Manifesto", drafted collectively by many bloggers aroundbwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-4251335491964548522008-02-06T14:53:00.000+01:002008-02-06T15:00:20.537+01:00Democracy charadeHuman Rights Watch has recently published their annual World Report, with extensive reviews on human rights practices around the globeOn this issue, and in an essay called "Despots Masquerading as Democrats", Kenneth Roth, executive director of the organization, focuses on the breach and disrespect for Democracy and Human Rights by Autocratic regimes, which are legitimised and supported by bwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-47943404616457882502008-02-02T00:09:00.000+01:002008-02-02T12:26:26.305+01:00The second largest forest...This is a small piece made by Christian Parenti, correspondent of The Nation, about Congo's tropical forest and its current days of extirpation.Links:The fight to save Congo's forests, The NationRainforest destruction in Africa, Greenpeace InternationalInternal Report slams World Bank for Congo deforestation, Making Waves Greenpeace Internationalbwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-37046259584108380812008-01-30T11:28:00.001+01:002008-01-30T12:56:46.927+01:00Gandhi's wisdom60 years after the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, and in a world of ever greater violence, it is worth reading some of the quotations of this wise man about peace and non-violence:"I object to violence because, when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.""Science of war leads one to dictatorship pure and simple. Science of non-violence can alone lead bwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-74315021926258516132008-01-23T12:35:00.000+01:002008-01-23T15:00:37.090+01:00Foreign policy in the way of Human RightsOn Friday the 18th, Canada's foreign ministry had placed the United States and Israel on a watch list of nations where prisoners risk being tortured, as part of a training course manual on torture awareness for Canadian diplomats.This manual also classified some interrogation methods used by the US as torture, including forced nudity, isolation, sleep deprivation and blindfolding prisoners. Otherbwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-12238520864102892202008-01-15T23:43:00.000+01:002008-01-17T00:28:28.230+01:00Act together for another world"The World Social Forum (WSF) is a plural, diverse, non-government and non-party oriented open space of encounters. Its decentralized structure stimulates organizations and social movements engaged in concrete actions, from local to international level, for the construction of a more solidary, democratic and fair world. In its seven years of history, the WSF has built its trajectory in different bwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-11136430496118859792008-01-10T12:02:00.000+01:002008-01-10T19:44:03.510+01:00100% renewable...A pilot project, in Germany, called KombiKraftwerk (or Combined Power Plant) is showing that "renewable energy can secure 100 per cent of energy supplies in accordance with demand."The initiative links 36 decentralised biogas plants, wind, solar and hydropower installations in a robust network to demonstrate that distributed power can replace both fossil fuels and nuclear power.The use of bwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-69910876410957665552008-01-07T12:55:00.000+01:002008-01-16T23:41:43.463+01:00Your signature is more powerful than you thinkLinks:Amnesty Internationalbwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-38548257453007477882008-01-05T21:23:00.000+01:002008-01-05T21:45:14.940+01:00International Year of the PotatoAmong many other things, 2008 is the International Year of the Potato (IYP), proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly, recalling resolution 4/2005 of the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), adopted on 25 November 2005.According to the IYP official website, "the celebration of the International Year of the Potato will raise awareness of the bwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.com2