Mois : mai 2008

Every child in school … and learning well

Linked with Urvashi Butalia – India;

Pratham is a large NGO involved in non-formal education for poor children in municipal schools, producing books in four or five languages … Pratham started in the slums of Mumbai in 1994, as a result of the vision of a couple of committed individuals! The two, after much deliberation, decided to tackle the problem of education headlong. They could see only one way of correcting this problem and that was to involve the people of Mumbai to help the government in its quest of universalizing primary education.

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About: … UNICEF parented the birth of Pratham and continued fostering it for the next three years. A Public Charitable Trust was accordingly formed by the Commissioner of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai together with the association of several prominent citizens of the city.

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Coalition Casualty Count/Fatalities: with Date, Name, Rank, Age, Nationality, Service Branch, Unit (Total Rows: 4387 at this moment);

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US Casualities by mogth, by state etc.;

Deaths by (all) countries;

Iraqis: their Coalition Casualty Count;

… and last but not least: Afghanistan.

The Center for Study of Working Class Life is dedicated to exploring the meaning of class in today’s world. Looking at society through the lens of class clarifies many important social questions in new ways – why the rich get richer while the poor get poorer, what attacks on government programs through privatization mean, why the suburbs aren’t really a middle class haven, how the « family values » debate impacts our lives, and much more. We are an interdisciplinary effort of faculty and staff at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, founded in November, 1999 …
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How class works, Conference June 5-7, 2008;
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address: Center for Study of Working Class Life, Michael Zweig, Director, Dept. of Economics, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384, 631-632-7536, e-mail;
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About: The Center for Study of Working Class Life pursues its purposes through a number of activities. Some have already begun. Others are yet to come as our work develops and new sources of support come into play.
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Linked with Steven M. Greer – USA, with The Disclosure Project, and with Announcing the Orion Project.

We are a non-profit 501c3 foundation dedicated to transforming the world’s energy/social crisis into a world of healthy, sustainable abundance. Our goal is to inform, educate, and help supply all peoples of our planet with sustainable, non-polluting power. To accomplish this task we are searching out and supporting the development of new, clean energy technologies that can bring this vision forward in our world now! … (full text Homepage).

why now?
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Vision:
The Orion Project is a non-profit foundation created to transform the current energy, environmental and social crisis into a world of sustainability and Enlightened Abundance.

Technological progress in the areas of advanced physics and electromagnetic systems, if appropriately supported, will enable humanity to live on the Earth with a minimal footprint with genuine long-term sustainability.

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Linked with Shabnam Hashmi – India.

The urgency to intervene in defence of democracy, secularism and justice has never been more pressing than in the conditions prevailing in the country today. There is a recognizable change in the general tenor of public discourse; unlike in the past, it is informed more by the communal than by secular ethos. In the face of concerted social mobilisation mounted by communal organisations by invoking religious symbols and sentiments, liberal civil society has come under a siege. Nevertheless, it is evident from the large number of secular democratic initiatives by political parties, voluntary organisations and individuals that society is seized of the need for sustained and constructive action for strengthening secularism and democracy and for realising justice and peace … (full text original vision).

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About, The Origin , Structure, Constitution of Governing Board of ANHAD: The Origin , Structure, Constitution of Governing Board of Anhad: Some of us who have been involved in the anti-communal movement in India for over 15 years, were totally shaken by the Gujarat carnage 2002.

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