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Updated November 5, 2009: this website has been renamed in Real-World Economics Review.
See also its new blog: Real-World Economics Review Blog.

Linked with Bernd Senf – Germany, with The Natural Economic Order, with die natürliche Wirtschaftsordnung, and with Real World Economics.

Homepage and links;
the real-world economics review,
The strange History of Economics;
A Brief History of the Post-Autistic Economics Movement;

papers on economy and: ecology, and ethics, and pluralism, and development, and on heterodox economics.

Sign the petition, May 2008;
Newsletter (inkl. links to back-issues),
Contact.

Like rationality, nearly everyone thinks efficiency is a good idea. Neoclassical economists adore using this word, especially when addressing the public. But the meaning of “efficiency” always depends on what you choose to count. For example … (full long text).

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Rainforest Alliance announces 2008 Honorees … ;
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Just down of this they would like you to sign in. Maybe then you’ll find also a contact link. (see also: activate your account).

Rethos.com is member of the alternative channel, see their:

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the forum’s video’s page;

the forum’s images.

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Linked with David Harris (the protester) – USA.

ANTI-WAR.US is dedicated to the free distribution of anti-war graphic material. As creative individuals trained in methods of mass communication, we can make a real difference by providing clear anti-war messages. All materials on this site are created voluntarily and distributed free to activists around the world.

All other links are to be reached from inside the homepage.

For newsletter: take contact-link below and put as subject: [Please add me to your mailing list.] (without the [ and ]);
Contact.

Contribute: TWO WAYS TO CONTRIBUTE

• Upload your artwork on the site by completing our online form; or E-mail your artwork;
• Be sure to include the artwork title in your message.

The following additional information is not required, but appreciated:

• Your name;
• Organization you wish to be identified with;
• Your home city, state/province, and country of residence;
• Intended uses of your artwork, for example: poster, flyer, postcard, sticker, etc.

Our goal is to provide print-ready graphics to activists. To ensure the widest possible distribution of your work, please follow these guidelines:

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Nearly three billion poor people in developing countries lack access to the basic financial services – such as a small loan or a safe place to save – needed to help them manage their precarious lives. At the core of microfinance is a fundamental belief that access to financial services empowers the poor by reducing their vulnerability and giving them choices. Whether they save or borrow, evidence around the world shows that when poor people have access to financial services, they choose to invest these savings or loans into building a range of assets that will make them less vulnerable. Such assets can be sending their children to school, buying medicines and more nutritious food, fixing a leaky roof, or building income-earning potential by investing in their own enterprises. In essence, access to financial services enables poor people to build their own way out of poverty. (About CGAP 1/2).

Homepage;
About Microfinance;
Key Principles on Microfinance;
Publications;
Online Resources;
There is nothing « micro » about poverty: The numbers astound: one in two human beings lives on $2 a day, or less. As many lack public sanitation. Two billion want for electricity, a billion more for clean water. The challenge is immense, but the fight against poverty often begins at the smallest level … (full text);
Contact.

(About CGAP 2/2): Who We Are: CGAP is a consortium of 33 public and private funding organizations – bilateral and multilateral development agencies, private foundations, and international financial institutions – working together to expand poor people’s access to financial services.

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(websites in many languages)

Linked with the Global Human Rights Education Database, and with Felisa Tibbitts – USA.

The Human Rights and Service Learning;

HREA and Amnesty International-USA just published a manual: Service learnings, Lessons, Plans and Projects on human rights and service learning … download the 134 pdf-pages;
Learning Centre;
Resource Centre;
Forums;
Databases;
links;
Networks;
HuriSearch (Human Rights Search tool);
International Network of Human Rights Schools;
and much more …
Contact (Netherlands and USA).

Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) is an international non-governmental organisation that supports human rights learning; the training of activists and professionals; the development of educational materials and programming; and community-building through on-line technologies. HREA is dedicated to quality education and training to promote understanding, attitudes and actions to protect human rights, and to foster the development of peaceable, free and just communities.

HREA works with individuals, non-governmental organisations, inter-governmental organisations and governments interested in implementing human rights education programmes. The services provided by HREA are:

• assistance in curriculum and materials development;
• training of professional groups;
• research and evaluation;
• clearinghouse of education and training materials;
• networking human rights advocates and educators.

… (full text).

Link: The HREA on the Cathalogue for Philantrophy (History etc.).

Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women

SPARROW is:

• A trust set up in 1988 [Register Number E-11958] in Maharashtra to build a national archives for women with print, oral history and pictorial material.
• A live archives reaching out to schools, colleges, women’s groups and other organisations.
• An active agent of conscientisation.
• A forum for discussions.
• An interactive space
• A daring flight into unexplored areas of experience and expression.

Homepage;
Projects;
Outreach;
Workshops;
Publications;
Archives (Oral History Recordings, Media Watch, Video Documentation, Photographic Project, Multi-Lingual Collections);
Annual Reports;
Newsletter;
Downloads;
Contact.

Profile: The idea of setting up SPARROW took root in 1988. Before that, those who are now the trustees of SPARROW had met several times and discussed the possibilities of setting up a Women’s Archives with a difference.

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The Project on new African Literature

Linked with Abdourahman Ali Waberi – Djibouti.

We present exciting new and emergent African literatures, especially those trapped within the ideological, political, economic, and institutional contexts of the Postcolony, and excluded by the canonising mechanisms of the metropolitan academy. This approach will be our tradition. Apart from facilitating critical conversations, we will disseminate, archive, and comment on the works of well-known, emergent and relatively unknown but equally engaging writers of the third generation from the entire continent. Although the site map is self-explanatory, it might be useful to point out that the ‘resources’ icon opens up a photo gallery of literary activities, as well as clips of authors reading excerpts from their work. This, hopefully, will expand to become a formidable online audio library with time. Our ‘programs’ icon prepares the reader for still unfolding subsidiary projects like the Elmina Press, a long term publishing project for making new African and black diasporic literatures as well as scholarly work visible in the metropolis, and for expanding outlets for manuscripts that would otherwise remain buried. (Homepage).

People;
Programs;
Resources;
The Language Curtain, Gbounbboun;
PONAL Quarterly Forum PQF;
Submission Guidelines;
Address: Project on New African Literatures, 1812 Dunton Tower, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada,
K1S 5B6;
Contact.

About: http://www.projectponal.com/mission.html
Excerpt: … Yet, these international successes do not even begin to reflect the scope of continental developments that have come under such critical rubrics as third generation writing (in Nigeria), migritude writing (in Francophone Africa), post-apartheid or post-trauma writing (in southern Africa), and post-Uhuru writing (in Eastern Africa).

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the war and peace report, radio and TV news – also in espanol.

Linked with Amy Goodman – USA.

Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez … (about 1/2).

Homepage and latest news;
listen/watch today’s show;
Features;
get involved;
Downloadable Resources;
Volunteer;
stations (in US);
address: Democracy Now! 100 Lafayette St., Suite 604, New York, NY 10013-4400, Call Us: +1 (212) 431-9090, Fax Us: +1 (212) 431-8858;
contact.

(About 2/2):
Pioneering the largest public media collaboration in the U.S., Democracy Now! is broadcast on Pacifica, NPR, community, and college radio stations; on public access, PBS, satellite television (DISH network: Free Speech TV ch. 9415 and Link TV ch. 9410; DIRECTV: Link TV ch. 375); and on the internet. DN!’s podcast is one of the most popular on the web.

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Linked with Sushobha Barve – India.

Welcome to our Website. We hope that what you experience here will further your involvement in promoting Peace & Democracy in the sub-continent.

The initiative towards formation of Pakistan-India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy was taken in late 1993 and the first joint declaration was announced on September 4, 1994 at Lahore. The objective of this initiative was to facilitate common people in both the countries to listen to voices that are different from the belligerent voices of the respective Governments … (About 1/2).

PIPFPD / Indian Chapter’s Homepage; (more links inside of this homepage)

PIPFPD / Pakistan Chapter’s Homepage; (more links inside of this homepage)

A Joint Statement of Lahore, September 1994;
photo gallery;
map;

Contact/addresses: PIPFPD Secretariat / Indian Chapter: A-1/125 Second Floor, Safdarjung Enclave, New Delhi, 110 029, India, Tel: 51652451/52, Fax: 51013382. e-mail;

PIPFPD / Pakistan: 11-Temple Road, Lahore, Pakistan, Phone: 0092-42-7357926, Fax: 0092-42-7223455, e-mail.

(About 2/2): It is with the objective of asserting the sanity of the peace loving people of India and Pakistan that concerned citizens and groups in both the countries have come together to formulate strategies for promoting peace and strengthen democracy in the sub-continent.

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ASIA PACIFIC ONLINE NETWORK OF WOMEN IN POLITICS, GOVERNANCE AND TRANSFORMATIVE LEADERSHIP

Linked with Mrinal Gore – India.

online women in politics.org was borne out of the vision of Asian Women Leaders to explore creative ways in organizing a network of Asia Pacific women involved in politics, governance, decision-making and transformative leadership … (about 1/2).

Homepage;
events and activities;
online training module;
women’s suffrage;
regions;
countries;
women’s situation;
resources;
contacts.

About 2/2: In this so-called Information Age, the Internet—through websites, electronic discussion lists, message boards and email-offers excellent opportunities to link women leaders and visionaries from all over the world without worrying about the cost, time and geographical barrier. Through the above mentioned Internet tools information-sharing, communication, networking and consensus-building amongst women leaders and organizations will be more efficient, faster and cheaper.

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Transitioning the World with Collective Intelligence
(same in french).

The Transitioner is an international network of researchers, social entrepreneurs, spiritual explorers, visionaries, writers, leaders, scientists, technical and software engineers who work on Collective Intelligence, Wisdom and Consciousness (CIWC). This is a wiki, i.e. a participative website built by its visitors. Everyone can register or login and participate. We now accept donations and sponsorship under precise conditions of eligibility. (Homepage and latest news).

Watch a video: Conference on Collective Intelligence, 29.54 min, by Jean-François Noubel, Global Human Resources Forum, Seoul, South Korea, Oct. 2007.

Next events:

• Conference: Jumping in the Gift Economy, May 19, 2008, The Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, CA 94010, USA;
• Séminaire in french: Intelligence, Conscience, Sagesse Collectives, (20 juin, 18h00 – 24 juin, 10h00.

Inscriptions: Anne-Marie Bataille, Tél (+33) 06 86 70 52 69, e-mail.

who is who;
What is a Transitioner?
events for pioneers;
Opportunities;
Contact.

About (in a Nutshell):

What? – Continuer la lecture de « The transitioner »

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.

Homepage;
Sitemap;
Our work;
Pratham Initiatives;
Partners;
Photo gallery;
Archive;
Donate;
Contact.

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);

Homepage, more countings and latest news;

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 …
(full long text Homepage).

How class works, Conference June 5-7, 2008;
Working Class Studies Association;
Publications;
Resources and links;
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;
Contact.

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?
the Breakthrough Campaign;
research;
the board of directors;
contact.

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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