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MUSICIANS UNITED FOR SAFE ENERGY
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If you can’t make it to the M.U.S.E. concert on August 7th don’t worry. You can watch the whole show live thanks to StageIt. For a $5 minimum donation you can pre-register at http:/musebenefit to watch the concert. Livestreaming of concert begins at 2 pm Pacific time, August 7, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, California.
Your donations make our monitoring of the situation in Japan and our work for a nuclear-free carbon-free future possible. http://www.nirs.org/fukushima/crisis.htm Nuclear Information & Resource Center.
www.looktothestars.org/ – 2653 celebrities and the 1722 charities/causes they support, including Annie Lennox, Elton John, Bono, and Brad Pitt.
Welcome to our Walk for a Nuclear Free Future http://www.nuclearfreefuture.com/ Campaign.
Footprints for Peace – August 21st – October 30th 2011 – Join us on an amazing journey to create a Nuclear Free Future. A ten week walk from Wiluna to Perth, Western Australia for a Nuclear-Free Future. Footprints for Peace has recently launched an exciting new campaign that will join together with people and organizations from around the world to build and strengthen the global movement for a nuclear free future.
The campaign – Walk for a Nuclear Free Future – is an awareness raising and non-violent action based campaign involving a series of walks throughout Australia, Canada, United States & Japan. The walks will follow the deadly nuclear fuel path from uranium mines to nuclear reactors, waste dumps and nuclear weapons sites.
Walk for a Nuclear Free Future aims to bring people together to walk from community to community as an effective way to educate our selves and the public about the danger, destruction and waste that is threatening all life at every stage of the nuclear process. Our purpose is to inspire, empower and mobilise people to take action not only through walking but also through creative campaigning in street theatre, music, art, public meetings, petitioning, letter writing and non-violent direct actions.
The Walk for a Nuclear Free Future will promote positive social, environmental and economical solutions for the development of renewable energy technologies including solar, wind, wave and geothermal to create a sustainable future.
Walk for a Nuclear Free Future calls for:
- respect and solidarity for Indigenous Peoples Rights
- a global ban on uranium mining
- phase out of nuclear power
- complete nuclear weapons disarmament
- ban on the use of depleted uranium weapons
- responsible solutions to nuclear waste
- full rehabilitation of abandoned uranium mines and all nuclear facilities
- development and use of renewable energy technologies
- http://www.uranium-network.org/Nuclear Free Future Walk.PDF
Please join us on this walk in Western Australia to STOP Uranium Mining and create a nuclear free future.
Gegenrede: Offener Brief von Jean Ziegler
Festspielrede 2011 Part 1/2. Rede in zwei Teilen ist auf Youtube.com zu sehen und zu hören.
Nachdem Jean Ziegler http://www.righttofood.org/ als Festredner der Salzburger Festspiele ausgeladen wurde, begründete er am Donnerstag seine Entscheidung, am Eröffnungstag der Festspiele doch keine Gegenrede in Salzburg halten zu wollen, in einem offenen Brief. http://t.co/xsRjOnr via @salzburg_com
„Ziegler hätte in seiner Rede den Welthunger thematisiert. Er wollte in Salzburg gerade diese Leute treffen, die verantwortlich für das Elend dieser Welt sind“, sagte eine Aktivistin.
… Ich komme gerade von einer mehrwöchigen UNO-Mission in Nordafrika zurück, die mich tief bewegt hat. Im Maghreb und im Majrekh stehen ganze Völker auf. Mit oft leeren Händen kämpfen sie todesmutig gegen Tyrannei, Korruption und über Generationen erlittene Erniedrigung. In Ras el-Jdir und Zaouïa (Westlibyen), in den Berber-Gebirgen von Djebel Gharbi, sterben Männer und Frauen für unsere und ihre ureigensten Träume: für Demokratie und Freiheit.
Die zerrissenen, blutüberströmten Körper junger Menschen, die auf Tragbahren bei Dhiba über die südtunesische Grenze in die Hilfslazarette von Gabès kommen, wollen mir nicht aus dem Sinn. Von Syrien bis Bahrein und Jemen hoffen die aufständischen, todesmutigen Menschen bisher umsonst auf die konkrete Hilfe der internationalen Gemeinschaft, denn die UNO ist gespalten…
Jean-Paul Sartre schreibt: „Wer die Menschen lieben will, muss sehr stark hassen, was sie unterdrückt“. Vergangenes Jahr haben die 500 weltgrössten Privatkonzerne 52,8 % des Welt-Brutto-Sozialproduktes kontrolliert.
Derweil steigen in der südlichen Hemisphäre, wo 4,8 der 6,7 Milliarden Menschen der Erde leben, die Leichenberge. Alle fünf Sekunden verhungert ein Kind unter zehn Jahren – auf einem Planeten, der problemlos 12 Milliarden Menschen ernähren könnte.
Ich bewundere Ihren geduldigen, mutigen Kampf gegen die kannibalische Weltordnung. Die Aufklärung ist ein langer, mühsamer Prozess. Unsere Gegner erscheinen zur Zeit übermächtig. Aber Che Guevara sagt: „Auch die stärksten Mauern fallen durch Risse“…
Jean Zieglers „Gegenrede“ bei den Festspielen verteilt: http://www.nachrichten.at/nachrichten/ticker Aktivisten haben vor der Eröffnung der Salzburger Festspiele die nicht gehaltene Rede von Jean Ziegler an Festspiel- und Zaungäste vor den Festspielhäusern verteilt. Auf Youtube ist die Rede zu sehen und zu hören.
Aktivisten der „Plattform Zivilgesellschaft“ und der Salzburger „Grünen“ haben vor der Eröffnung der 91. Salzburger Festspiele am Mittwoch Vormittag die nicht gehaltene Rede von Jean Ziegler vor den Festspielhäusern in der Hofstallgasse verteilt. Es handelte sich dabei um eine 16-seitige Broschüre des „Ecowin“-Verlages mit dem Titel „Aufstand des Gewissens“.
“In a world overflowing with riches,
it is an outrageous scandal that more than 1 billion people suffer from hunger and malnutrition and that every year over 6 million children die of starvation and related causes. We must take urgent action now.”
Jean Ziegler, January 2010
Global funding for agricultural research, public and private, is estimated to total around $40 billion. There is a stark contrast with the $1500 billion the world now spends on weapons.
- The coming famine: risks and solutions for global food security (Science Alert):
- http://sciencealert.com/coming famine
- Petition: Dakar Appeal Social Forum against Farmlandgrab
- http://www.grain.org/farmlandgrab
- Somalia: the Real Causes of Famine www.globalresearch.ca Far beneath the surface of the tragic drama of Somalia, four major U.S. oil companies are quietly sitting on a prospective fortune in exclusive concessions to explore and exploit tens of millions of acres of the Somali countryside. http://www.oilwatchafrica.org/
- News & Media http://www.business-humanrights.org/ UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ENDORSES NEW GUIDING PRINCIPLES ON BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS http://www.unog.ch/unog/OpenDocument
The Woodrow Wilson Int. Center for Scholars
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http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/persecution health workers
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (or Wilson Center), located in Washington, D.C., is a United States Presidential Memorial that was established as part of the Smithsonian Institution by an act of Congress in 1968. Named in honor of President Woodrow Wilson (the only President of the United States with a Ph.D.), its mission is:
“to commemorate the ideals and concerns of Woodrow Wilson by: providing a link between the world of ideas and the world of policy; and fostering research, study, discussion, and collaboration among a full spectrum of individuals concerned with policy and scholarship in national and world affairs.”
Purpose: The Center serves as a national memorial to President Wilson established by Congress in 1968 and headquartered in Washington, D.C. It is a nonpartisan institution supported by public and private funds, engaged in the study of national and world affairs. HERE
Having surged to the center of the world’s political and economic stage, China is plagued by contradictions. On the one hand, Maoism is enjoying a comeback: the CCP ax-sickle flag is flying everywhere, “red songs” are back in fashion, loud calls for another “Cultural Revolution” are heard, and jobs in the government and at the state enterprises are once again favored by the young generation.
On the other hand, however, the movement to defend people’s legal rights and interests is stronger than ever, calls for political reform proliferate, and many foreign enterprises are still eager to invest in China. The challenge is to penetrate this confusion and try to divine where China will go in the future. Through an in-depth analysis of China’s actual conditions–the “crossroads” it faces–this presentation will seek to suggest ways to make sense of China’s uncertain future.
Kissinger Institute on China and the United States
Events: China at a Crossroads:
Distress Over Democratization or an Omen of Collapse?
August 04, 2011 // 10:00am — 11:30am
CLICK – THERE WILL BE A LIVE WEBCAST OF THE EVENT
Dateline SBS – “ Chinas Economic Growth looks not so rosy as it seems „
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is the national, living memorial honouring President Woodrow Wilson. In providing an essential link between the worlds of ideas and public policy, the Center addresses current and emerging challenges confronting the United States and the world. The Center promotes policy-relevant research and dialogue to increase understanding and enhance the capabilities and knowledge of leaders, citizens, and institutions worldwide. Created by an Act of Congress in 1968, the Center is a nonpartisan institution headquartered in Washington, D.C., and supported by both public and private funds.
NEWS – Bahraini Human Rights Activist Nabeel Rajab to Receive 2011 Ion Ratiu Democracy Award Jul 29, 2011
Nabeel Rajab, a leading human rights activist and president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, will receive the 2011 Ion Ratiu Democracy Award, presented annually by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
One of the founders of the human rights movement in Bahrain, Nabeel Rajab is president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights. Rajab also has been active internationally as deputy secretary general for the International Federation for Human Rights and as the chairperson of CARAM-Asia, a regional network that addresses migration and health issues. He is also a member of the Board of Advisors for the Middle East and North Africa division of Human Rights Watch and a member of an Arab media monitoring group.
The Ion Ratiu Democracy Award aims to bring international recognition to the ideas and accomplishments of individuals around the world who are working on behalf of democracy.
“In such a tumultuous year, Nabeel Rajab’s efforts to peacefully advance democratic freedoms for Bahraini citizens, even in the face of considerable personal peril, are truly exemplary,” said Jane Harman, director, president & CEO of the Woodrow Wilson Center. “He is an exceptional choice to receive the Ion Ratiu Award and I extend my sincerest congratulations.”
http://www.facebook.com/KissingerInstitute
http://www.facebook.com/chinadialogue
http://twitter.com/nabeelrajab
http://www.facebook.com/Bahrain Center for Human Rights
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahrain United States Free Trade Agreement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign relations of the Peoples Republic of China
* Infographic: Map of Pollution Levels in China’s Major River Basins @circleofblue, Great Lakes
* Climate Crisis at the Third Pole, China’s disappearing rivers and lakes @ecobuddhism
ECONOMY OF CHINA CHOKE POINTS: www.hrw.org/asia/CHINA
http://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/
http://www.srfood.org/country-missions/CHINA PDF
Analysis: What is Plan B if China dumps its U.S. debt? | Reuters
US labour group urges end to Bahrain free trade pact – Arabian Business.com
http://www.business-humanrights.org/CHINA
http://www.minesandcommunities.org/CHINA
http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/Choke Points/CHINA/US
http://www.internationalrivers.org/CHINA
http://www.laborrights.org/CHINA
http://www.nkeconwatch.com/ NORTH KOREA ECONOMY
Chinese Sea, Arctic, Climate Change, Deep Sea Mining http://www.blacksands.org.nz/
http://en.wikipedia.org/UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
http://en.wikipedia.org/Asian_Dust CHINA GLOBAL
India Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)- CHINA
http://www.india-defence.com/reports
http://www.defenceweb.co.za/CHINA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China space program
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Mission (MER)
http://costofwar.com/en/ #debtceiling http://www.ifamericansknew.org/
Water Wars in the Making: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South North Water TransferProject
http://www.greengrowth.org/rethink.asp UN
http://www.facebook.com/mcampaign
http://en.wikipedia.org/Millennium Development Goals
16th Protecting Mother Earth Gathering
“Energy, Climate, Water and the Importance of Health and Culture.”
July 28 – 31, 2011
Four Bears Park/Little Shell Powwow Grounds
New Town, North Dakota
Hosted by Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara Nations Community Members
Click here to learn more and register online.
The Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), a Native national environmental justice advocacy organization, is sponsoring the gathering where educators, indigenous peoples, local community members, youth and elders, and other interested individuals camp outdoors together for four days to collectively discourse and strategize on the resolution of local, national, and international environmental justice and indigenous rights issues through forums of plenary and concurrent workshop sessions.
The theme for the July gathering is “Water, Energy, Climate, and the Importance of Health & and Culture,” which is fitting for the indigenous community hosting PME.
Listen to Crow Voices 87.9 Live Stream. Native Youth explore Radio / Center Pole Web Cast
The new Crow Voices radio http://www.crowvoices.blogspot.com/ will broadcast the upcoming conference of the Indigenous Environmental Network, with Earthcycles and Censored News assisting, from the campground near New Town, ND, July 28–31, 2011.
UN High-Level Meeting on Youth 2011
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals
http://social.un.org/youthyear
www.world-economy-and-development.org
In December 2009, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 64/134 proclaiming the year commencing 12 August 2010 as the International Year of Youth. The resolution calls upon governments, civil society, individuals and communities worldwide to support activities at local and international levels to mark the event. The International Year of Youth can generate much needed attention for youth participation and youth development and can provide an impetus to partnerships among youth organizations around the world. Youth organizations, governments, and civil society are encouraged to organize activities that promote an increased understanding of the importance and benefits of youth participation in all aspects of society, as well as those that support youth to devote their energy, enthusiasm and creativity to development and the promotion of mutual understanding.
It encourages young people to dedicate themselves to fostering progress, including the attainment of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which seek to slash a host of social ills, ranging from extreme poverty and hunger to maternal and infant mortality to lack of access to education and health care, all by 2015. HERE
As part of the International Year of Youth, the General Assembly will hold a high-level meeting on youth on 25 and 26 July 2011. The High Level Meeting will have as its overarching theme “Youth: Dialogue and Mutual Understanding”.
The High Level Meeting on Youth is scheduled to take place from 25 to 26 July 2011 at the General Assembly, United Nations Headquarters in New York.
The high-level meeting will comprise two consecutive informal interactive thematic panel discussions on 25 July 2011 and two plenary meetings on 26 July 2011. The thematic panel discussions will be chaired by Member States at the invitation of the President of the General Assembly and will address the following themes:
Thematic panel discussion 1: Strengthening international cooperation regarding youth and enhancing dialogue, mutual understanding and active youth participation as indispensable elements towards achieving social integration, full employment and the eradication of poverty;
Thematic panel discussion 2: Challenges to youth development and opportunities for poverty eradication, employment and sustainable development.
„Youth should be given a chance to take an active part in the decision-making of local, national and global levels.“ – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
http://www.youtube.com/unyouthyear2010 Dialogue for Peace: The Impact of Youth
If you are holding an event in celebration of the International Year of Youth (IYY) and would like to register it on our calendar of events, please visit this link: http://social.un.org/iyyevents.
CHANGE YOUR WORLD 2011 If you are holding an event in celebration of the International Year of Youth (IYY) and would like to register it on the calendar of events, please follow these steps:
Step 1. Pledge your commitment on the UN International Year of Youth Calendar of Events page: http://social.un.org/IYYevents/ Don’t forget to title your event “Change Your World + (the name of your event)” .
Step 2. After sending your Waiver of Liability Form to youth@un.org (subject heading: „Change Your World“), you will receive an email with the International Year of Youth logo to use for your event.
Step 3. After this, immediately navigate to our Facebook page. You can upload photos, videos, and a brief description of your initiative.
Make sure to cross-link this FB page with your online accounts and websites to maximize your project’s exposure. Keep in mind, the five projects with the most likes will be presented at the next Global Changemakers Youth Summit and will receive an International Year of Youth poster signed by Monique Coleman, Hollywood star and UN Youth Champion.
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http://www.facebook.com/UN Millenium Campaign
http://www.facebook.com/Earth Summit 2012
http://www.facebook.com/road2rio20
http://www.youthforhumanrights.org/
http://www.un.org/documents/udhr/index.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Sufi Music Of Kashmir (Sufiyana Mousiqui)Part 1
Ghulam Mohamad Saznawaz is the only existing master of Kashmiri Sufiyana Music in the world. The most tragic part of Kashmiri sufiyana music is that with the Maestro Ghulam Mohamad Saznawaz the art will be lost to posterity, now very old with his age the mastero has opened a school to teach Kashmiri Sufiyana Music free of charge but this school does not attract many students from Kashmir because of the religious and social prejudice among the majority of Kashmiris. This is sad but its true that still musicians are considered as of a lower class or of low moral and as if they can not do something useful thats why they chose to be musician.
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With the goal of uniting conservation, communities and sustainable travel, TIES is committed to promoting the principles of ecotourism and responsible travel around the world.
http:// www.disappearancesinkashmir.com/
http://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/1999/kashmir/
West Papua refugees in Papua New Guinea
Live Webcasts: Kalachakra for World Peace
His Holiness the Dalai Lama is greeted by members of the Tibetan community on his arrival at his hotel in Washington DC on July 5, 2011. Photo/Tenzin Choejor/OHHDL
Venue: Verizon Center, Washington DC, USA
Date: July 6-16, 2011
Duration: 5 webcasts each approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes
Languages: English, Chinese
His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be in Washington DC, USA, for the Kalachakra for World Peace, from July 6-16, 2011. Many of the events will be webcast live in English, Chinese and Russian languages. Please check the times and events as they are subject to change.
All times are Eastern Daylight Time in Washington DC, USA. (To change languages, choose the language in the box at the lower right corner of the player and then click on „USTREAM“)
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and Professor Robert Thurman are both asked „Please explain the significance of the Kalachakra.“ Both the Dalai Lama and Prof. Thurman speak about little known aspects of this Tibetan Buddhist teaching, and how it is meant to positively affect World Peace.
July 6 – Teaching and Birthday Celebrations
His Holiness the Dalai Lama will give a short teaching followed by celebrations in honor of His Holiness’s 76th birthday.
Time: 9:30am-12:00noon
His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 76th Birthday Celebrations – Celebrations in honor of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 76th birthday held in Washington DC, USA, on July 6, 2011.
July 9-11 – Preliminary Teachings
His Holiness will teach in the afternoon for three days on Gyalsey Thokme Sangpo’s „37 Practices of a Bodhisatva (Laklen Sodunma)“ & Kamalashila’s „The Middling States of Meditation (Gomrim Barpa)“.
Teachings times: 1:00pm-4:00pm each day
July 16 – Long Life Empowerment & Long Life Offering to His Holiness
His Holiness the Dalai Lama will confer a Long Life Empowerment followed by a Long Life Offering to His Holiness.
Time: 8:00am-12:00noon
http://dalailama.com/live-webcasts-kalachakra-for-world-peace
Ramkatha Live from New York, USA
The Ramayana (Sanskrit: रामायण, RÄmÄyaṇa) is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is ascribed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon (smṛti), considered to be itihÄsa. The Ramayana is one of the two great epics of India, the other being the Mahabharata.] It depicts the duties of relationships, portraying ideal characters like the ideal father, ideal servant, the ideal brother, the ideal wife and the ideal king. HERE
Morari Bapu (Gujarati: મોરારી બાપુ, Hindi: मुरारी बापू; real name Moraridas Prabhudas Hariyani born on September 25, 1946 in Talgajarda is a popular Hindu kathakaar (preacher), who has been giving 9 day-long sermons (kathaas) in both Gujarati and Hindi all over the world—including in India, the United States, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean Sea, and on an airplane travelling the world—since the mid-1970s. To date, he has conducted over 600 kathaas, most of them based on the Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas and other such works about Rama as well as Gopigeet which has the gopis of Vrindavan singing of the glory of Krishna. HERE
Ramayan and Ram Charit Manas The Ramayana is an epic poem which was first written from memory (smriti) by sage Valmiki in the Sanskrit language. Many years later, Goswami Tulsidas, born in the 16th century, wrote the Ramcharitamanas (a dfferent verson of the Ramayana written in Avadhi Hindi), which is the scripture used as a basis by Morari Bapu in his kathas.
Through Asia, the Ramayana has served not only as poetry, but as the ideal of life and embodiment of principles, as the basis for festivals, plays and rituals, as the foundation for religion, and as an eternal tale of love and duty.
The Ramcharitmanasa is broken up into stanzas called chaupais, passages of which are interposed with dohas or couplets. It is filled with exquisite poetry and consists of seven chapters: Bal Kand, Ayodhya Kand, Aranya Kand, Kiskindha Kand, Sundar Kand, Lanka Kand and Uttar Kand.
All these sections cover the different periods of Lord Rama’s life, taking us right from his boyhood, through his exile and his life in the forest, to the abduction of Sita, the war which follows in Lanka and finally, what happens after the recovery of his wife. Preceding these seven sections, the story of Lord Shiva has also been narrated in the form of a prologue to Ram’s story.
Katha Dates : Saturday July 2nd, 2011 – Sunday July 10th, 2011
http://iiramii.net/ramkatha_schedule_detail_newyork.html
European Maccabi Games: Vienna 2011
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The Maccabi World Union is an international Jewish sports organisation spanning 5 continents and more than 50 countries, and boasting some 400,000 members. Maccabi World Union organises the Maccabiah Games, a prominent international Jewish athletics event. The organisation comprises six confederations: Maccabi Israel, European Maccabi confederation, confederation Maccabi North America, confederation Maccabi Latin America, Maccabi South Africa and Maccabi Australia.
The origin of the word is not clear but the common opinion is that the word „Maccabi“ (מכבי) is an acronym of the biblical sentence: „Who is like unto Thee, O LORD, among the mighty?“ (Exodus 15:11), in Hebrew: „‚מי כמוך באלים י“, „Mi kamocha ba’elim YHWH“. Read More: > HERE <
YHWH – Yahweh is the personal name of God in the Hebrew Bible. This form is a modern scholarly convention: Hebrew scripts write it as four consonants, rendered in Roman letters as YHWH, due to the fact that most alphabets, prior the Greek alphabet, did not display vowels, and required that vowels be mentally pronounced in the proper places. The most likely meaning of the name may be “He Brings Into Existence Whatever Exists,“ but there are many theories and none is regarded as conclusive by scholars. Read more: > HERE <
Mission statement – European Maccabi Games – Vienna 2011 – The Maccabi Games are the biggest Jewish sports events and are organized in a similar way to the Olympic Games. The Games are one of the five biggest international sporting events worldwide.
The Israel Maccabiah is organized by the Maccabi World Union (MWU), which is the umbrella organization overseeing all regional Maccabi unions. Although the history of the Maccabi Games is not as old as the Olympic Games the first Maccabiah did take place in Tel Aviv as far back as 1932. Meanwhile the Maccabiah has become a sporting anchor event which takes place regularly every four years in Israel.
The European Maccabi Games – Exciting and in our case very interesting are the European Maccabi Games. They also take place every four years, however always two years after the Maccabiah in Israel.
The participating European Delegations send their best Jewish athletes to this event. The organization of the Games is carried out in very close cooperation with the European Maccabi Confederation (which currently has 36 member nations) and the national Maccabi Confederation (in Austria the Jewish Sport Union, to which the Unions of the Hakoah Vienna and Maccabi Vienna belong).
17th Maccabiah Games To Love To Live To Win – — Go to www.maccabiusa.com to learn how you can compete in the 18th Maccabiah Games in July 2009.
The “White Horse Olympics” – It was in 1932 that the first Maccabiah was held in Mandate-era Palestine. Meir Dizengoff, the first mayor of Tel Aviv, decided to lead a parade in honour of the Games riding his notorious white horse, and that is why the event is remembered as the ”White Horse Olympics”. In order to spread the news of the first Maccabiah to the world, 120 pigeons, ten for each of the twelve tribes of Israel, were released.
Maccabi and Politics – Due to the rise of Nazism, World War II and the Holocaust, the Maccabi movement suffered a setback. A large group of Young Maccabi members decided to join the British Army during the Second World War. Many served in the Underground Movement and subsequently were active in the establishment of the new State of Israel.
In the early nineties, after the fall of the Iron Curtain, Maccabi has played an important role in ending the isolation of Jews in Eastern Europe and given fresh impetus in the former Soviet republics.
The Jewish Museum Vienna www.jmw.at will organize an exhibition dedicated to the subject of sport from July to September 2011 on the occasion of the 13th European Maccabi Games that will take place in Vienna from 5th to 13th July 2011.
- www.lettertothestars.at
- http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/
- Isralestinian Ghandis – Meditation for Peace
- Israeli-Palestinian “COMET-ME” Project
- “Hoppauf Hakoah” Jewish Sports Club in Vienna, 1909-1995
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakoah_Vienna
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Aktion “Tibetkinder” / Tibet Heute
Tibet heute / http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomes_Gebiet_Tibet
http://www.xavier.de/microsite/
Tibet umfasste eine Fläche von 2.470.000 km² und war damit siebenmal so groß wie Deutschland. Das ursprüngliche Gebiet Tibets wurde von China in sechs verschiedene politische und administrative Einheiten zerlegt, die untereinander keine direkten politischen und kulturellen Kontakte pflegen dürfen.
Seit 1965 bilden Zentraltibet (Ü-Tsang), West-Tibet (Ngari) und ein Teil Osttibets (Kham) die sogenannte “Autonome Region Tibet”, mit einer Fläche von 1.200.000 km2. Von den früher einmal ca. 6 Millionen tibetischen Einwohnern, blieben für die “Autonome Region Tibet” nur ca. 2,1 Millionen übrig, die einer immer größer werdenden Zahl chinesischer Einwanderer gegenüberstehen. Die Ausgliederung der Provinzen Amdo und Kham, die über die Hälfte der Gesamtgröße Tibets ausmachten, trägt in großem Maße zum Auseinanderfallen der tibetischen Nation und zum Sinisierungsprozess der verschiedenen tibetischen Volksgruppen bei, die in allen Bereichen um ihre Existenz kämpfen müssen.
Seit 1950 starben mehr als 1,2 Millionen Tibeter durch Hunger, Verfolgung, Folter, Hinrichtung und Selbstmord aus Verzweiflung.
Wegen öffentlicher Demonstrationen, bei denen besonders Nonnen und Mönche eine aktive Rolle spielen, und persönlicher Meinungsäußerungen, sind Verhaftungen an der Tagesordnung.
In den Gefängnissen wird mit Elektroschocks, Fast-Ertränken, Aufhängen an Armen und Beinen, fortgesetztem Prügeln und Vergewaltigen von Nonnen mit elektrischen Viehstöcken systematisch gefoltert.
Zwangsabtreibungen bis zur Niederkunft und Sterilisationen an tibetischen Frauen sind üblich.
Durch den von China geförderten Zuzug von Han-Chinesen sind die Tibeter mittlerweile eine Minderheit im eigenen Land, was die fortschreitende Zerstörung der tibetischen Kultur noch mehr beschleunigt. In den alten Grenzen Tibets leben heute neben 6 Mio. Tibetern etwa 8 Mio. Chinesen, die durch wirtschaftliche Verdrängung bei den Tibetern Arbeitslosigkeit verursachen.
Vor und während der Kulturrevolution wurden über 99% der tibetischen Klöster mit ihren Bildungseinrichtungen von den Chinesen systematisch zerstört. Davon wird heute ein kleiner, für Touristen interessanter Teil wieder aufgebaut, ohne aber einen normalen Klosterbetrieb zuzulassen. Klöster und tibetische Pilger werden zu Touristenattraktionen degradiert. Trotz offizieller Religionsfreiheit wird das Lehren der Religion fast völlig unmöglich gemacht.
Die Bodenschätze Tibets (z.B. Uran und Gold) und die ehemaligen riesigen Waldbestände werden rücksichtslos geplündert. Die Abholzung von mittlerweile ca. 60% des Waldes hat schon zu erheblichen Überschwemmungskatastrophen in Bangladesh, Indien und auch im Kernland Chinas geführt. Die Veränderungen des Weltklimas sind unabsehbar.
Im Rücken des Himalaya wurde eine gigantische Militärstruktur geschaffen, deren Atomraketen weite Teile Asiens bedrohen. In der Kuku-Nor-Region testen die chinesischen Machthaber ihre Atomwaffen ohne ausreichenden Schutz für die Bevölkerung. Und für viele Länder der Welt bietet China die Endlagerung ihres Atommülls in Tibet an.
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Tibet : Kirti monastery is still under siege
01.07.2011 China Intensifies Restrictions in Tibet – Pictures, Protests Reveal Tense Situation and Heavy Restrictions in Karze
“There were thousands of police and army, in riot gear, in armored trucks patrolling the streets, and on foot in formation patrolling the streets. As well as many standing on street corners, and many more in plain clothes,” the foreigner said.
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Tibet : Kirti monastery is still under siege – 25.06.11 Dossier Tibet
02.07.2011 Tibetan writer jailed for 4 years in China: group | Reuters http://t.co/kos5XNh
Peaceful Protests Continue in Tibet, Chinese Police Raid Monasteries and Nunneries
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Food crises: five priorities for the G20
http://www.g20transparency.com/petition.html
STWR_ stwr.org (STWR) http://www.stwr.org/ Great backgrounder for this week’s G20 meeting RT @GdnDevelopment What’s pushing up food prices? | Mark Tran gu.com/p/3v2nb/tf
Oxfam Oxfam International http://www.oxfam.org #Agriculture is on the #G20 agenda – and about time too! http://blogs.oxfam.org/fr/
Hunger is not a natural disaster – it’s a political problem. And G20 leaders can and must act to end this scandal.
In the fight to address global food crises, will the French presidency at the G20 summit succeed where others have failed? On the eve of the G20 agriculture summit on 22-23 June, we urgently need to adopt an ambitious action plan. G20 leaders have a decisive role to play in Paris: they must tackle the problems in the food system.
It will take courage from G20 leaders to put the global food system back on track. They will have to break the „myth“ of hunger as being reducible to a technical issue or to a failure of food systems to produce sufficient volumes. The French presidency appears determined to act decisively on the issue of speculation on the agricultural commodities market. But beyond that, the G20 members remain deeply divided over agricultural policy for the 21st century. The outcome of this debate will have real consequences for all humanity.
Five priorities may give this G20 summit a vital role in improving long-term global food security. As the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, I call upon G20 leaders to endorse the following priorities, and act upon them:
Food crises: five priorities for the G20 | Olivier De Schutter http://t.co/jNdEDvd via @guardian
Report: Eco-Farming Can Feed the World
Post-2011-03-21-DeSchutterNEW: Check out this short video featuring a CBC interview with Olivier de Schutter (UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food) discussing the merits of eco-agriculture.
This report – Agro-ecology and the Right to Food – calls for a fundamental shift towards agro-ecology as a way for countries to feed themselves while addressing climate and poverty challenges.
Special Rapporteur on the right to food
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United Nations Millennium Campaign
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Press Conference on Landgrabbing Argentina
Sign the Dakar appeal against land grabbing!!
The right to food, and its variations, is a human right derived from the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food www.srfood.org , www.righttofood.org in 2002 defined it as follows: HERE
THE OAKLAND INSTITUTE BREAKING NEWS – Investor land deals exploiting Africa, report alleges | Energy & Oil | Reuters Refugees displaced by investors. $2 per hectare land deals cited. Biofuel production at expense of food.
http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews
This coverage highlights how a US investor, AgriSol, has crafted a deal with the Tanzanian government that will displace 160,000 Burundian refugees who have been farming the land since 1972. The refugees have been working to gain Tanzanian citizenship, and are now being coerced into leaving the land in question if they want citizenship, according to our report.
These large scale investments in land in Africa are resulting in food insecurity, the displacement of small farmers, conflict, environmental devastation, water loss, and the further impoverishment and political instability of African nations. Please read this investigative series of reports and post widely.
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PRESS CONFERENCE ON LANDGRABBING IN PATAGONIA, ARGENTINA
The Permanent Forum for Life Dignity / Food Sovereignty Group, and the Grupo de Reflexión Rural (www.grr.org.ar), along with unions, student and teachers associations and many social organizations and political forces, convoke national and international journalists, social organizations, friends, colleagues and the general public to a Press Conference to be held on Friday June 10th, at 10:00 am at the Microcinema of the Atlantic Regional University Center of the National University of the Comahue Region of Patagonia, located in Ayacucho and Monsignor Esandi Boulevard, Viedma, Rio Negro Province, Argentina.
We want to expose and make known the actions we carry out against the traitorous agreement signed by the Governor of the Province of Rio Negro, Miguel Angel Saiz with the Chinese Heilongjiang Beidahuang State Farms and Business Trade Group CO., LTD . According to published information, this “agreement” threatens to hand over 320.000 hectares of arable land of Patagonia to this corporation for indiscriminate exploitation, including public infrastructure, irrigation systems, huge direct and indirect subsidies and fiscal favors, violating our National Food Sovereignty with multiple social, environmental, economic and cultural consequences.
Contact: Soberania Alimentaria nisojanichina@yahoo.com.ar
FINAL CALL FOR ORGANISATIONS TO SIGN THE DAKAR APPEAL AGAINST LAND GRABBING!!
During the > World Social Forum in Dakar, Senegal, in February 2011, social movements and organisations released a collective appeal against land grabbing. Over 150 organisations have already signed. If your organisation would also like to support this appeal, please do so before 15 June 2011.
The Dakar Appeal, together with the names of organisations endorsing it, will be presented during the mobilizations against the G20 Agriculture Ministers‘ meeting in Paris on 22-23 June.
Read and sign the petition here: http://www.petitiononline.com/dakar/petition.html
FINAL CALL FOR ORGANISATIONS TO SIGN THE DAKAR APPEAL AGAINST LAND GRABBING!!
Organisational signatures so far: http://www.grain.org/
The Economics of Happiness
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Fair trade is an organized social movement and market-based approach that aims to help producers in developing countries make better trading conditions and promote sustainability. The movement advocates the payment of a higher price to producers as well as higher social and environmental standards. More
‚Going local‘ is a powerful strategy to help repair our fractured world – our ecosystems, our societies and our selves. Far from the old institutions of power, people are starting to forge a very different future…
Economic globalization has led to a massive expansion in the scale and power of big business and banking. It has also worsened nearly every problem we face: fundamentalism and ethnic conflict; climate chaos and species extinction; financial instability and unemployment. There are personal costs too. For the majority of people on the planet, life is becoming increasingly stressful. We have less time for friends and family and we face mounting pressures at work.
The Economics of Happiness describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. On the one hand, an unholy alliance of governments and big business continues to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power. At the same time, people all over the world are resisting those policies, demanding a re-regulation of trade and finance—and, far from the old institutions of power, they’re starting to forge a very different future. Communities are coming together to re-build more human scale, ecological economies based on a new paradigm – an economics of localization.
www.energyblueprint.info The report: ‘Energy [R]evolution: A Sustainable World Energy Outlook’, provides a detailed practical blueprint for cutting carbon emissions while achieving economic growth by replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy and energy efficiency. This phase-out of fossil fuels offers substantial benefits such as energy security, independence from world market fuel prices as well as the creation of millions of new green jobs.
The film shows how globalization breeds cultural self-rejection, competition and divisiveness; how it structurally promotes the growth of slums and urban sprawl; how it is decimating democracy.
We learn about the obscene waste that results from trade for the sake of trade: apples sent from the UK to South Africa to be washed and waxed, then shipped back to British supermarkets; tuna caught off the coast of America, flown to Japan to be processed, then flown back to the US. We hear about the suicides of Indian farmers; about the demise of land-based cultures in every corner of the world.
The second half of The Economics of Happiness provides not only inspiration, but practical solutions. Arguing that economic localization is a strategic solution multiplier that can solve our most serious problems, the film spells out the policy changes needed to enable local businesses to survive and prosper. We are introduced to community initiatives that are moving the localization agenda forward, including urban gardens in Detroit, Michigan and the Transition Town movement in Totnes, UK. We see the benefits of an expanding local food movement that is restoring biological diversity, communities and local economies worldwide. And we are introduced to Via Campesina, the largest social movement in the world, with more than 400 million members.
We hear from a chorus of voices from six continents, including Vandana Shiva, Bill McKibben, David Korten, Samdhong Rinpoche, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Michael Shuman, Zac Goldsmith and Keibo Oiwa. They tell us that climate change and peak oil give us little choice: we need to localize, to bring the economy home. The good news is that as we move in this direction we will begin not only to heal the earth but also to restore our own sense of well-being. The Economics of Happiness challenges us to restore our faith in humanity, challenges us to believe that it is possible to build a better world.
Casino of Hunger: How Wall Street Speculators Fueled the Global Food Crisis
The global food crisis is an overlooked symptom of the broader global economic crisis. The food crisis shares many characteristics of the financial meltdown ‚ it was exacerbated by the deregulation of the commodity markets (including agriculture) that encouraged a tidal wave of Wall Street speculation‚ leading to further increases in already rising food and energy prices.
Over the past two decades, the safeguards that prevented excessive speculation from distorting the futures markets were eroded or eliminated.
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