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… the journal of African American political Thought and action

In the fall of 2006, Glen Ford, Bruce Dixon, Margaret Kimberley and Leutisha Stills of CBC Monitor left Black Commentator, which Ford had co-founded and edited since 2002, and launched Black Agenda Report (about 1/2).

Homepage;
Africa;
Blacks & Latinos;
black caucus;
media;
political economy;
black agenda blog;
‘like us‘;
contact: click on mail-icon above at right on the ‘about-page’.

About (2/2): Historic « firsts, » « mosts, » and « onlys » are the hallmarks of Glen Ford’s long career.

The son of famed disc jockey Rudy “The Deuce” Rutherford, the first Black man to host a non-gospel television show in the Deep South – Columbus, Georgia, 1958 – Glen was reading newswire copy on-the-air at age eleven. Glen’s first full-time broadcast news job was at James Brown’s Augusta, Georgia radio station WRDW, in 1970 – where ‘The Godfather of Soul” shortened Glen’s surname to “Ford.”

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Left Business Observer is an 8-page more-or-less monthly newsletter on economics and politics in the U.S. and the world at large. A list of back issues since 1990 is on this web site … (About 1/2);

Download for free the book ‘Wall Street’, by Doug Henwood, 382 pdf-pages;

Homepage;
current issue;
articles;
back issues (with some articles for free);
Frothing at the house: suddenly the housing bubble is everywhere;
The Meaning of Seattle, An interview with Noam Chomsky, by David Barsamian;
radio;
address: Left Business Observer LBO, 38 Greene St – fl 4, New York NY 10013-2505, phone 212-219-0010, fax 212-219-0098;
contact by e-mail.

About (2/2): LBO, founded in 1986, is edited by Doug Henwood. Henwood is also a contributing editor of The Nation and does a weekly program on New York’s Pacifica outlet. [The show is on most Thursdays, 5-6 PM eastern time. Click here to listen to WBAI. Click here for radio archives.] His book, The State of the USA Atlas, was published by Simon & Schuster in 1994; his Wall Street was published by Verso in 1997 (paperback, 1998) to great acclaim and impressively vigorous sales (over 20,000). His book After the New Economy was published by The New Press in October 2003.

Profiles, etc. … (full text).

Linked with Oddom Van Syvorn – Cambodia.
One of the main purposes of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship is to build and support the socially engaged Buddhist community around the world. We do so by creating training, education, and practice opportunities for socially engaged Buddhists, supporting BPF chapters and affiliates, and generating Buddhist social analysis on issues such as race, gender, class, and social and economic justice (homepage).

Current projects;
get involved;
magazine;
resource center;
chapters;
annual reports;
support the Buddhist Peace Fellowship
address: Buddhist Peace Fellowship, PO Box 3470, Berkeley, CA 94703, USA, Tel: 510.655.6169, Fax: 510.655.1369 ;
contact.

About: Buddhist Peace Fellowship’s BPF open-hearted engagement with the world is expressed through expanding programs in the United States and Asia. Through BPF, Buddhists of many different traditions are developing individual and group responses to socially conditioned suffering.

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Linked with Baba Amte – India (1914 – 2008), and with Love in the time of want.

Take Heart India, a youth focused community enabling organisation focusing on educational and environmental projects in India. Take Heart primarily supports a parent organisation called the MSS, the lifetime achievement of the legendary Baba Amte … (main homepage).

Intro;
projects;
take actions;
events;
photo gallery;
The Maharogi Sewa Samiti MSS;
contact THI.

About THI: Take Heart India is a youth focused community enabling organisation focusing on educational and environmental projects in India. Take Heart primarily supports a parent organisation called the MSS, the lifetime achievement of the legendary Baba Amte. The awareness of Take Heart has been growing quickly over the years. In 2003 Take Heart became entirely student run. 34 student committee members were established at universities across the UK. Take heart is no longer entirely student run but remains entirely youth focused.

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Picked up on Weitzenegger’s Website for International Development Cooperation, and its Newsletter.

Welcome to the Enterprise Europe Network, your gateway to competitiveness and innovation. Wherever you are in Europe, you can get access to all the information you need to develop your business and find the right business partners. The network offers support and advice to businesses across Europe and helps them make the most of the opportunities in the European Union. Our services are specifically designed for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) but are also available to all businesses, research centres and Universities across Europe … (Homepage’s full text).

who does what;
the network in your country;
services;
FAQ;
EU portal;
EU law;
contact.

About the network: The Enterprise Europe Network is the largest network of contact points providing information and advice to EU companies on EU matters, in particular small and medium enterprises (SMEs). We provide practical answers to specific questions in your language.

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