Posted in Condoleezza Rice, European Union, Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel, Mahmoud Abbas, Middle East, Mideast, Russia, Tony Blair, United Nations, United States, West Bank, World Bank, aid, blockade, humanitarian aid, international, militants, peace, peace talks, peacemakers, poverty, roadblocks, suicide bombings, war, tagged Arab, GazaStrip, humanitarian aid, international, Israel, Jewish, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian, peace, peace talks, poverty, roadblocks, suicide bombings, United Nations, war, West Bank on December 20, 2007 | No Comments »
From the World & Comment section of the Toronto Star, Tuesday, December 18, 2007, pages AA, AA4, an article about international donors pledging aid for the West Bank and Gaza:
$7.4B PLEDGED FOR PEACE
Israel urged to ease blockade on Palestinians as funds for recovery of West Bank, Gaza pour in
Anne Gearan
Associated Press
Paris -Led by Europe, international donors yesterday [...]
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Posted in Africa, Horn Relief, Islamist movement, Oxfam, Somalia, displaced people, humanitarian aid, inter-clan fighting, peace talks, warlords, tagged , Africa, African troops, aid workers, clans, conflict, dictator, disease, displaced persons, Ethiopia, Horn Relief, Human Rights Watch, humanitarian organizations, insurgents, inter-clan fighting, interim government, Islamist movement, misery, Mogadishu, Oxfam, peace talks, poor, rape, sanitation, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, starvation, United Nations, warlords on November 24, 2007 | No Comments »
From the Tuesday, September 18, 2007, Toronto Star, World & Comment section, pages AA-AA4, an article about the displacement and misery of thousands of people in Somalia.
As Oxfam is one of the humanitarian organizations mentioned in the article, here is the web address of the Take Action page at Oxfam, which includes 10 actions you can [...]
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Posted in Gandhi, Global Voices, India, Iraq War, Jr., Kielburger brothers, Martin Luther King, Vietnam war, civil disobedience, human rights, injustice, internet, non-violent protests, online petitions, peaceful, peaceful protest, protesters, technology, text messages, tagged United Nations, non-violent protests, children's rights, activists, global isssues, Mahatma, online protests, text messages, street protests, Gandhi, Iraq War, internet, solidarity, injustice, technology, online petitions, blogs, human rights, civil disobedience, pro-democracy advocates, non-violence, on November 24, 2007 | No Comments »
With the “new” technology, comes new ways of protest, as mentioned in this column by the Kielburger brothers in the Monday, October 1, 2007, Toronto Star, page AA2:
NON-VIOLENT PROTEST HAS GONE ONLINE
Craig and Marc Kielburger
Global Voices
Their weapons were no match for the frail man draped in a simple white cloth.
Often facing the barrel of British [...]
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Posted in IPCC, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Synthesis Report, United Nations, adaptation, carbon dioxide emissions, climate change, climate science, climate scientists, coastal flooding, droughts, economic growth, environment, extinction, extreme weather, floods, glaciers, global economy, global warming, green, greenhouse gas emissions, heat waves, heavy rains, mitigation, prophecy, salination, science, sea levels, species loss, take action, tropical storms, water salination, water shortages, tagged global warming, environment, carbon emissions, climate change, IPCC, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2007, United Nations, UN, science, climate science, climate scientists, scientists, adaptation, mitigation, sea levels, extinction, greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, water shortages, river flooding, coastal flooding, heat waves, extreme weather, drought, wildfires, salination, global economic growth, global economy, water salination, , prophecy on November 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
From the StopGlobalWarming.org website, http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/sgw_read.asp?id=6385211172007 , here is a brief summary of the “Synthesis Report” from the International Panel on Climate Change’s Climate Change 2007 report. It is a scary prophecy of what we can expect if we do nothing. So we all need to start doing our bit — now.
The three other sections of [...]
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