Mois : mai 2011

Investigative Fund

a project of  The Nation Institute – Linked on our blogs with The Nation Institute, and with TomDispatch.com.

Mission: The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute is dedicated to improving the scope and overall quality of investigative reporting in the independent press and beyond. The Investigative Fund incubates and supports important investigative stories with the potential for social impact, particularly on issues that may be bypassed by the mainstream media … (about 1/2).

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UK Uncut

There is no alternative: We are told that the only way to reduce the deficit is to cut to public services. This is certainly not the case. There are alternatives, but the government chooses to ignore them, highlighting the fact that the cuts are based on ideology, not necessity:

  • One alternative is to clamp down on tax dodging by corporations and the rich, estimated to cost the state £95bn a year;
  • Another is to make the banks pay for a crisis they created: last year they paid out over £7bn in bonuses and just four banks made £24bn in profit;
  • The tax avoided and evaded in a single year could pay for the £81bn, four-year cuts programme … (full text about 1/2 /The Cuts).

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Peace Research and Education Trust PRET

  • The project reclaims the lost voices of the young men, many of whom languished in prison, often in solitary confinement;
  • young men who risked loss of family support, and social ostracism. Some in World War One, despite being condemned to death, refused to put on a uniform or pick up a gun.
  • Our aim is also to promote a better understanding of war and the arguments against it through the eyes and activities of its radical opponents … (full text Support the CO project).

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Peace Pledge Union PPU

  • This part of our web site brings together some of our resources which are most likely to be of interest to pupils, teachers and parents.
  • The site’s title hints that this is a site with attitude. The education process and its content are not value free and neither is the material available here … (full text learn peace).
  • Petition: stop the advertising of violent toys on television.
  • PPU on en.wikipedia.

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White Poppy;
Conflict Resolution; War Facts; Pacifism; Read; Newsletter; News, Actions; Join / support us;
Address: Peace Pledge Union, 1 Peace Passage, London N7 0BT, UK;
Contact online.

Arms Trade: A steady rise in arms sales since the late 1990s continues. Today the combined sale of the top 100 arms companies amounts to some $268 billion.   Continuer la lecture de « Peace Pledge Union PPU »