Catégorie : Media, Blog, Publication, Archive

Website in Farsi – Linked on our blogs with Workers’ Struggles in Iran, November 1, 2006.

The International Alliance in Support of Workers’ in Iran (IASWI) was formed in January 2000, with labour endorsements, particularly from Canadian labour movement, to launch and organize collaborative international solidarity campaigns in support of workers’ rights and struggles in Iran. (About).

english Homepage;
Campaigns; Seminars; Articles; News; Archives; Links; Partners: LabourStart; LabourNet UK /Homepage with search to many topics, do./Iran;
Address: IASWI, Box 1164, Station Q, Toronto, Ontario, M4T 2P4, Canada;
Contact.

What are our Objectives?: The lack of free and independent labour organizations, and the lack of the right to strike in Iran, have created great obstacles for workers in their struggles for the realization of their rights and demands. The working class in Iran needs the international support of the workers and their organizations in other parts of the world in its struggle. Continuer la lecture de « International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran IASWI »

Rue89 is a French website created by former journalists from Libération. It was officially launched on 6 May 2007, on the day of the second round of the French presidential election. Its news editor is Pascal Riché, former Op-ed editor of Libération, and its chief editor and president of the society Rue 89 is Pierre Haski, former deputy editor of Libération … (rue89 on en.wikipedia 1/2 /no wikipedia-article on Rue89 in french).
Libération on fr.wikipedia.

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Rubriques: Monde, Politique, Société, Culture … etc.; Marseille89; Eco89; Services; Le Mur; FAQ;
Contact online.

Rue89 on en.wikipedia 2/2: … Rue89 was co-founded by Pierre Haski, Pascal Riché, Arnaud Aubron, Michel Lévy-Provençal, and Laurent Mauriac.  Continuer la lecture de « Rue89 »

a service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – also in french and arabic

• IRIN is an award-winning humanitarian news and analysis service covering the parts of the world often under-reported, misunderstood or ignored.
• It delivers unique reporting from the frontlines of humanitarian action to over a million online readers.
• IRIN exists to make a difference. According to a 2008 survey by the global marketing research company ACNielsen, IRIN is the premier online humanitarian news source for people who describe themselves as having a « strong impact on humanitarian issues ». Its reports are used directly in planning, advocacy and policy development … (about 1/2).
• IRIN on en.wikipedia.

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Global Issues; Analysis; In-Depth reports; PlusNews; Jobs; Donors;
Feedback online; Contact: Ben Parker/Nairobi on Twitter.

About 2/2: … The survey also found that when it comes to keeping abreast of humanitarian news and issues, IRIN’s coverage was preferred to its closest rival, BBC Online, by a ratio of 4 to 1. Continuer la lecture de « IRIN – Humanitarian News and Analysis »

Linked on our blogs with Responsible Debt Relief RDR Institute.

• The objective of our educational program is to explain how individuals can empower themselves by better understanding the financial issues that create emotional and economic stress.
• Our program begins with assessment quizzes that compare your knowledge of amusing cultural information with important practical information on the use of credit cards. The focus is on the early use of credit cards (typically in college and increasingly high school). Your individual performance then directs you to a level in the 3-step credit card education program (novice-intermediate-advanced) … (full text Financial Education).

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Assessment Quizzes; Credit Card Education; Fincial Modules; Educatinal Programs; Debt Zapper Calculator online; Partners;
Address: Responsible Debt Relief RDR, 1100 University Avenue, Suite 209, Rochester, NY 14607, USA;
(Contact) /Feedback online.

Legislation: With Clinton’s pocket veto of the Bankruptcy Reform Act, the future of legislation regulating credit cards and consumer bankruptcy is now the responsibility of the nearly evenly divided U.S. Congress. Continuer la lecture de « Credit Card Nation »

critical gateway to world politics, society and culture

In the twenty-first century, the social sciences face new intellectual and political challenges. The world has been undergoing profound political and military upheavals, in which both national and international relations of power are being transformed.
Increasingly global capitalist relations pose old questions of inequality and social conflict in new forms. Both the contents and forms of cultural relations are rapidly changing, together with their political and economic significance, and the challenge of the Internet is part of this process … (editorial /statement of aims 1/2).

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new writing in the critical social sciences; subscribe; languages; editors; board; writing; reviews; comment; justpeace; obituaries;
Address: The Global Site, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9SN, England;
Contact: Tel. +44 1273 678892, Fax +44 870 127 6581.

Editorial /statement of aims 2/2 … the challenges: – The global site has been founded, therefore, to address five challenges to our understanding that these developments raise for the social sciences:  Continuer la lecture de « Global Site »

PeaceAfrica – supporting Africa’s Peacebuilders – is a Website created by allAfrica.com

… AllAfrica Global Media is a multi-media content service provider, systems technology developer and the largest electronic distributor of African news and information worldwide. Registered in Mauritius, with offices in Johannesburg, Dakar, Lagos and Washington, D.C., AllAfrica is one of a family of companies that aggregate, produce and distribute news from across Africa to tens of millions of end users … (allAfrica /Who we are 1/2).

english Homepage allAfrica.com, french Accueil allAfrica; english Homepage;
PeaceAfrica-Pages: People, Projects and Organizations Database; Resources; Calendar;
allAfrica.com-pages: Site Guide; Content Providers; Headline Modules; BizzTech;
Contact online /Feedback for both.

allAfrica.com /Who we are 2/2: … This website, allAfrica.com, is among the Internet’s largest content sites, posting over 1000 stories daily in English and French and offering a diversity of multi-lingual streaming programming as well as over 900,000 articles in our searchable archive (which includes the archive of Africa News Service dating from 1997).   Continuer la lecture de « allAfrica.com and PeaceAfrica »

A Publication-Website, with a big amount of articles and analyses, sorted by country and by topic, but with not any text explaining who they are.

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Papers; Notes; Forum; Rightz Column: links for countries and topics;

Address: Dr. S. Chandrasekharan, Director, South Asia Analysis Group SAAG, P.O. Box 175, Noida, 201 301, India;
Feedback online.

That’s it.

thoughts on the middle east, history and religion – Linked on our blogs with Tomgram: Shahin and Juan Cole, The Women’s Movement in the Middle East.

• Welcome to Informed Comment, where I do my best to provide an independent and informed perspective on Middle Eastern and American politics.
• Informed Comment is made possible by your support. If you value the information and essays, I make available and write here, please take a moment to contribute what you can.
• Thank you to all of my supporters for your generosity and your encouragement of an independent press. (right column).

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Books on Mideast; Bibliography; Feed; Comment Rules; Mideast Maps; Contribute;
Contact online.

About: Juan Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. For three decades, he has sought to put the relationship of the West and the Muslim world in historical context.  Continuer la lecture de « Informed Comment »

putting the movement back in the labor movement

• Labor Notes is a media and organizing project that has been the voice of union activists who want to put the movement back in the labor movement since 1979.
• Through our magazine, website, books, conferences and workshops, we promote organizing, aggressive strategies to fight concessions, alliances with workers’ centers, and unions that are run by their members … (about 1/2).

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Magazine; Archives; Blog; Music; Schools; Staff; Solidarity Network; Donate; Troublemakers Handbook
Address (1 of 2): Labor Notes, Main Office, 7435 Michigan Ave, Detroit, MI 48210, USA;
Contacts.

About 2/2: … Labor Notes is also a network of rank-and-file members, local union leaders, and labor activists who know the labor movement is worth fighting for.  Continuer la lecture de « Labor Notes »

THE MONEY MASTERS is a 3 1/2 hour non-fiction, historical documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure. The modern political power structure has its roots in the hidden manipulation and accumulation of gold and other forms of money. The development of fractional reserve banking practices in the 17th century brought to a cunning  sophistication the secret techniques initially used by goldsmiths fraudulently to accumulate wealth … (full long text about).

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Principles; Reform Act; Interview Requests; Secret of Oz; Glossary; END THE FED; FAQs; 5 Bank Wars; Links; Order;
Address: The Money Masters, c/o Royalty Production Company, P.O. Box 67, Manitou Springs, CO 80829-0067, USA
Contact.

The Two Step Plan to National Economic Reform and Recovery:

• Step 1: Directs the Treasury Department to issue U.S. Notes (like Lincoln’s Greenbacks; can also be in electronic deposit format) to pay off the National debt.
• Step 2: Increases the reserve ratio private banks are required to maintain from 10% to 100%, thereby terminating their ability to create money, while simultaneously absorbing the funds created to retire the national debt.  Continuer la lecture de « The Money Masters »

publisher of (paid) educational materials

• In 1986, a group of Milwaukee-area teachers had a vision.
• They wanted not only to improve education in their own classrooms and schools, but to help shape reform throughout the public school system in the United States.
• Today that vision is embodied in Rethinking Schools.
• Rethinking Schools began as a local effort to address problems such as basal readers, standardized testing, and textbook-dominated curriculum. Since its founding, it has grown into a nationally prominent publisher of educational materials, with subscribers in all 50 states, all 10 Canadian provinces, and many other countries … (about 1/2).

Homepage; Sitemap;
Magazine current Issue; Archives; Catalogue; Games etc.; Links;
Address: Rethinking Schools, 1001 E. Keefe Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53212, USA;
Contact our Staff.

About 2/2: … While the scope and influence of Rethinking Schools has changed, its basic orientation has not. Most importantly, it remains firmly committed to equity and to the vision that public education is central to the creation of a humane, caring, multiracial democracy.  Continuer la lecture de « Rethinking Schools »

Chercheurs, journalistes et militants peuvent-ils s’essayer, ensemble, à décrire le monde social et contribuer au débat d’idées ? C’est le pari lancé par la revue Mouvements : se constituer en espace d’information critique, d’enquêtes sociales, de travaux théoriques et d’interpellation politique afin d’intensifier les échanges entre travaux de recherche, espaces de résistance et de proposition politique. Ni journal en ligne, ni liste de diffusion partisane, ni blog collectif, mouvements.info est un espace réactif de réflexion politique et théorique … (qui sommes-nous 1/2).

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Dossiers; Archives; Newsletter; Abo revue; Liens colonne de gauche: la revue, recherche, les partenaires, Twitter;
Contact online.

Qui sommes-nous 2/2: … Dans le contexte d’une crise sans précédent de la presse généraliste et des revues de sciences humaines, Mouvements entend conjuguer le sérieux et la rigueur à un souci de réactivité aux grands débats et faits du moment, et montrer que les sciences sociales peuvent contester ou utilement éclairer les prises de position politique.  Continuer la lecture de « Mouvements – des idées et des luttes »

an evolving exploration into the head, heart and hands of energy descent.

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Why; Shop;
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About this site and me: For more about this website and what is all about take a look at the page Why Transition Culture. This section is to tell you about myself.  It is written in the third person not due to delusions of grandeur, but so that people who need biog pieces can cut and paste it from here.

“Rob Hopkins is the co-founder of Transition Town Totnes and of the Transition Network. He has many years experience in education, teaching permaculture and natural building, and set up the first 2 year full-time permaculture course in the world, at Kinsale Further Education College in Ireland, as well as co-ordinating the first eco-village development in Ireland to be granted planning permission … (full text about).