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Linked with Pauline Tangiora – New Zealand.

dropping knowledge dk inspires social transformation through innovative projects and multimedia. Help us to continue generating and distributing information that challenges you to see yourself and your world anew.

dialogue;
projects;
archive of answers;
participants;
media;
Our blog – the drop;
address: dropping knowledge e.V., Schlesische Str. 38, 10997 Berlin, Germany;
contact.

About: dropping knowledge dk encourages social change. Using advanced web technologies, the initiative with offices in Berlin, Germany links the voices of individuals and organizations. The web-platform enables the global public to ask and answer questions, exchange ideas, and start initiatives around the most pressing issues of our time. Events like the Table of Free Voices, campaigns like « ask yourself » and projects in cooperation with different partners create a meaningful bridge between the on and offline worlds.

dropping knowledge e.V. is a registered non-profit association duly organized under the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany. dropping knowledge’s constitutional purposes are the promotion of international understanding and the promotion of art and culture.

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Linked with Pauline Tangiora – New Zealand.

WFFP is a federation of Mass Based Organization mainly working in Asia and Africa .We are mainly Beach Based fisher people.We use traditional fishing crafts.We have come together since 1997. We have come together to fight for our rights, to protect the fish resources and to protect the coast.

Vision: Our vision is that the sea, forest and land belong to those who depend on them for their livelihood. We are against Globalization, WTO, World Bank.

Partners;
The formation of WFFP /History;
Investigation Media Relese of WFFP;
reports (in english and french);
letter to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Philippines, 25 August 2006;
photo gallery;
address: WFFP Secretariat office, 10, Malwatta Road, Negombo, Sri Lanka;
contact.

About /Global WFFP Fisheries Policy: PREFACE: At the WFFP 3rd General Assembly, held at Kenya from 21-28 November 2004, the delegates and all the participants from the member organizations had involved very actively on the drafting the Global Fisheries Policy of World Forum of Fisher Peoples’ in which facilitated by ICSF.

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Promoting Alternative Security, Specialist branch of the Aotearoa New Zealand Peace Foundation

Linked with Pauline Tangiora – New Zealand.

Homepage;
people;
books;
papers;
LINKS;
addresses: Peace Foundation Disarmament and Security Centre, PO Box 8390, 35 Rata Street, Riccarton, Christchurch, Aotearoa/New Zealand;
The Peace Foundation Aotearoa of New Zealand, PO Box 4110, 29 Princes Street, Auckland, 1, Aotearoa/New Zealand;
contact.

About /History: Established in 1998, the Disarmament and Security Centre (DSC) is a specialist arm of the Peace Foundation coordinated by Kate Dewes and Rob Green from their Christchurch home. Kate had previously coordinated the Peace Foundation’s South Island office from her home since 1980. In 2002 the DSC became a separately incorporated branch of the Peace Foundation. The broad objective of the DSC is to provide a resource centre for alternative thinking on disarmament and security issues, both within Aotearoa/New Zealand and internationally. Currently the work focusses on promoting the World Court’s 1996 Advisory Opinion on nuclear weapons and its implications; promoting the United Nations Study on Disarmament and Non Proliferation Education; and implementing the Peace City recommendations adopted by the Christchurch City Council in May 2002.

BACKGROUND of the PEACE FOUNDATION: … (full long text).

Sound & Picture ARchives for Research On Women

Linked with Flavia Agnes – India.

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.
• A commitment.

Projects;
outreach;
publications;
annual reports;
archives;
newsletter;
downloads;
address: Sparrow, B – 32, Jeet Nagar, J. P. Road, Versova, Mumbai – 400 061, India;
contact.

About /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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a center for rights discourse and multi disciplinary arts initiatives

Linked with Flavia Agnes – India.

One of the projects – Cinema City Mumbai: Cinema City is an attempt to create an audiovisual dateline of Asian cities with 100 year old cinema histories through multi-disciplinary art and research practices, such as cartography, film and video productions, visual art works, seminars and publications. The aim of this endeavour is to study the City, in particular, the city that is inextricably linked to its ‘cinemascape’. The project will be carried out in two phases. The first phase will culminate into an extensive exhibit on Bombay/Mumbai: The Cinema City. The second phase will be in collaboration with two other cinema cities in Asia-Tehran and Hong Kong. Project dateline: July 2007- January 2009. Project dateline: July 2007- January 2009. Kindly contact us if you are a student, researcher, city/cinema-phile, willing to volunteer time and energy to this project.

Homepage;
people;
majlis and you;
research & academic;
fellowship;
GODAAM, digital image archive;
contact.

About: Majlis means association in Hindustani. The word is commonly used with subtle different connotations in Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Arabic, Persian and many other languages of the continent. Our center is a people’s forum- fluid, flexible, layered, multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural.

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