Catégorie : Civil Society

anticipating and influencing global future

Linked with Are We Cruel, Stupid or Just Shameless.

SFG undertakes long-term research contracts on scenarios and future options for countries, regions and sectors. It delivers its output in the form of:

• confidential or public reports, policy briefs, electronic updates;
• personal briefings at the board or committee level.

Its research is most relevant for:

• Governments and corporations that want to engage with a new country, region, or sector and want an insight into the long-term prospects for a given geography;
• Governments, political parties, security management organisations that want to explore new long term risks and opportunities for their own societies.

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Address: Strategic Foresight Group, C-306, Montana, Lokhandwala Complex, Andheri West, Mumbai 400 053, India;
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About: Strategic Foresight Group is a think tank engaged in anticipating and influencing the future in uncertain times. It produces scenarios, creates policy concepts and facilitates political processes. It advises governments and business leaders and informs the public on future trends as well as discontinuities.

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a simple one page site – but full of friendship (photo)

Added Nov. 20, 2008: Linked with Civil Rights Movement Veterans.

We are an organization of former civil rights workers who were active in the Southern Freedom Movement of the 1960s. We were staff and volunteers for CORE, SCLC, SNCC, NAACP and other organizations. In the years since, we’ve all gone our various ways but regardless of where we are now we consider the Movement to be one of the defining experiences of our lives.

The bonds we forged in danger, struggle, defeat, and victory neither rusted, nor withered with age. In our hearts we still stand in that Band of sisters and brothers in a circle of trust. Those of us who served in the Southern Freedom Movement and associated northern support centers are in a very real sense veterans of America’s second civil war. And like veterans of other wars, we wonder where our old friends have wandered and how they have fared. And also like veterans of other wars, some of us suffer from forms of post-traumatic stress syndrome and others of our brothers and sisters have fallen on hard times.

We don’t have a Veterans Administration — but we still have each other … (full text Homepage).

Contact on the Homepage: Tel. 510.658.6271 and e-mail.

Established in 1981, the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership pursues a bold mission: “to foster leadership excellence through scholarship and education, with special attention to advancing the leadership of groups historically underrepresented in public life.” The vision that informs our work at the Academy is of a world where able leadership has resulted in peace, social justice, environmental sustainability, and shared prosperity – locally, nationally, and internationally. (Mission). /mission.html

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Address: James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, 1119 Taliaferro Hall, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-7715, USA;
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About: Have you ever marveled at the apparent ease with which a world-class musician, dancer, or athlete performs at a level beyond what most of us can attain? The things they do can seem almost magical.

Of course, we know that what looks so easy is a result of a deep commitment to excellence, demonstrated through in-depth study of their craft, in self-awareness and self-discipline, and in skills well honed by practice.

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CounterPunch is the bi-weekly muckraking newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair. Twice a month we bring our readers the stories that the corporate press never prints. We aren’t side-line journalists here at CounterPunch. Ours is muckraking with a radical attitude and nothing makes us happier than when CounterPunch readers write in to say how useful they’ve found our newsletter in their battles against the war machine, big business and the rapers of nature … (about 1/2).

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About 2/2: … We’re in our sixth year now and have exceptionally loyal readers, who have delighted in our irreverent and biting approach. Time and again they tell us they’re sick of dull, predictable writing. They want fresh facts, a newsletter that they can enjoy rather than just endure–and we give it to them. Barbara Ehrenreich says, « CounterPunch makes me think. It makes me laugh. Above all it tells me things I didn’t know. »

Here at CounterPunch we have many friends and all the right enemies. And, guaranteed, you’ll never see any of us on the pundit line up at MSNBC. We try to stay beyond the pale. (Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, Editors).

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A very simple 1 page-website with – just now – a list of 27 video subcategories.

5 Examples (of 27):
Money Madness, with 25 videos;
Election Fraud in the USA, with 17 videos;
Health and Medical, with 31 videos;
Attacks on civil liberties, with 33 videos;
TV Gems, with 6 videos.
… … etc. etc.

Added Nov. 7, 2008: Take as an exemple this: How the markets really work (from 2007) – How did these comedians see it coming when financial reporters did not? 8.29 min.