tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61623877589895650622012-02-18T11:06:52.796+01:00Views into other tracks, other perspectives, other truths...bwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.comBlogger431100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-18456986177718601682010-01-04T15:07:00.001+01:002010-01-04T15:09:32.324+01:00

Links:Gaza Freedom MarchGaza Freedom March on Youtube

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Links:Music of Resistance, Al Jazeera English

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The 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+02:00

According 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 old

bwbhttp://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+02:00

The 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+02:00

ulihttp://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+01:00

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+02:00

Links:Cluster bombs: Hell from above, The Real NewsDocuments on Cluster Bombs, Human Rights Watch

bwbhttp://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+01:00

The 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+01:00

This 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 now

bwbhttp://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+01:00

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 are

bwbhttp://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+01:00

Here 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!

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Greenpeace 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+01:00

Stamp 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+01:00

Kiribati 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,

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Global 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 around

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Human 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+01:00

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 International

bwbhttp://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+01:00

60 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+01:00

On 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. Other

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"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+01:00

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+01:00

Links:Amnesty International

bwbhttp://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+01:00

Among 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

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"I believe that to meet the challenge of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind. Universal responsi­bility is the real key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace, the equitable use of natural resources, and

bwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-62202850952329422602007-12-28T16:46:00.000+01:002007-12-28T21:24:47.578+01:00

The Real News network interview with the Canadian environmental activist David Suzuki, co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation.The David Suzuki Foundation works "to find ways for society to live in balance with the natural world that sustains us."It focuses on four program areas:sustainabilityoceans and sustainable fishingclimate change and clean energynature challenge"The Foundation uses

bwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-13722067432657962502007-12-26T19:17:00.000+01:002007-12-28T18:49:52.133+01:00

From the 13th to the 17th of December, took place the 1st International Colloquium In Memorian Andrés Aubry in Chiapas, Mexico, co-organised by the independent magazine Contrahistorias, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) and the Universidad de la Tierra.The theme of the Colloquium was "Planet Earth: Antisystemic movements" and it gathered many intelectuals in an exchange of ideas

bwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-9167378279913984252007-12-25T17:39:00.000+01:002007-12-28T19:56:51.633+01:00

And here is the closing press briefing...So was it all a success?It did indeed launch a two-year negotiation process (the "Bali roadmap") culminating in the 2009 UN Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, where an agreement on CO2 and other greenhouse gas reductions should be met, to take effect in 2012 (post-Kyoto).It tackled issues relating to emission reductions, forests (and deforestation),

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Just a few days before the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali ends, it is worth having another look at the expectations expressed by Ivo de Boer (the Executive Secretary of the UN Climate Change Secretariat) before it all started...LinksUnited Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, UN

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On the 27th of November, the UNDP (United Nations Development Program) has launched the 2007/2008 Human Development Report, under the title "Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world", thus highlighting the importance of the issue for human development.The report starts with a quote from Martin Luther King referring to the urgency of the problem, in a somewhat pessimistic

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Here are the last two episodes of the series "Walls of Shame" done by Al Jazeera English, this time covering the walls in the West Bank and Belfast.Two more stories of walls promoting the perpetuation of isolation and division, walls reflecting prejudice and mistrust, walls denying understanding and reconciliation...Episode Three - West Bank"There is nothing new about so-called 'protective' walls

bwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-36028735517038599802007-11-22T17:01:00.000+01:002007-11-22T23:38:40.753+01:00

Saudi Arabia is a country where gross human rights violations occur. Issues like prisoners of conscience and political prisoners, abolishment of freedom of expression and association, women's rights violations, abuses of migrant workers (by state authorities and by private employers), torture and ill-treatment, corporal punishments, body mutilations and the death penalty are common abuses.In

bwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-76917016710604822302007-11-19T20:33:00.000+01:002008-01-18T11:01:43.594+01:00

This photobook, a joint publication by New Internationalist and Greenpeace, gathers incredible photographs taken on a 477-day voyage around the globe, which constituted the single largest expedition that Greenpeace has ever undertaken.Three quarters of the planet is ocean and 80 per cent of all life lives here. They give us so much, yet we know relatively little about them. Planet Ocean is a

bwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-24467532657792044952007-11-14T12:46:00.000+01:002007-12-28T19:59:56.884+01:00

The television station Al Jazeera has recently broadcasted the first two episodes of a series called "Walls of Shame", which is worth watching..."It matters little what they are called – whether walls, barriers or fences - the intention is the same: to redefine human relations into 'us' and 'them'. This series is about division, and about the barriers that men erect, in calculation or desperation

bwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-66967627492315066092007-11-07T17:39:00.000+01:002007-11-14T13:25:04.556+01:00

When in 2001 the International Olympic Committee awarded the 2008 Olympic Games to Beijing, it did so as the Beijing bidding committee pledged that the hosting of the Games “will help the development of human rights” and most notably, “there will be no restrictions on media reporting and movement of journalists up to and including the Olympic Games”.Nevertheless, the Chinese government has shown

bwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-35087903634593929212007-11-01T19:56:00.000+01:002008-01-24T17:47:24.045+01:00

With the approach of the oil peak, an increasing demand for energy and fuel and pressures to tackle climate change, biofuels were seen as the ultimate solution for the future.In fact, in 2005 the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) presented a paper on a meeting of its Committee of Agriculture, where it advocated biofuels to help the diversification of agricultural and forestry

bwbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312830824971778951noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162387758989565062.post-23811386991371662292007-10-25T19:29:00.000+02:002007-11-14T13:28:25.875+01:00

Did you know that around 70 per cent of the 1.3 billion people who live in extreme poverty (on less than one dollar a day) are women and girls?Did you know that women work two-thirds of the world’s working hours, and produce half of the world’s food, yet earn only ten per cent of the world’s income, and own less than one per cent of the world’s property?Did you know that two-thirds of children

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Short film by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein.Links:NaomiKlein.orgThe Shock Doctrine

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James D. Watson, born in 1928 in Chicago Illinois (USA), is a molecular biologist renown for the discovery of the structure of DNA (together with his colleagues Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, based on the work by Rosalind Franklin), which revolutionised modern biology and genetics.In 1953, they published their work in the journal Nature, revealing the double helix structure of the DNA. In

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The concept of Guerrilla Gardening was first used in the 1970's by the activist group Green Guerillas based in New York, USA.It refers to a form of non-violent direct action, which consists on making use of public urban spaces, many times squandered (like vacant lots, edges of alleys and walks next to buildings, edges of parking lots, etc.), and turning them into community gardens by there

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"On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind - the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic. Our aim is to get everyone talking towards a better future."Links:Blog Action Day

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Another blog is created, which is nothing new. The same way as this one blog is not supposed to bring anything new. It is simply aimed at sharing existing views of the world.It is based on the belief that there is not only one truth, one way, one perspective. That there is not just right or wrong, good or evil... That the world has many truths, as many as there are living beings, and

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