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Linked with Challengling the Banks, and with Danny Schechter – USA.

• We live in challenging and increasingly hard times in the United States. Over the last few decades, the American economy has drastically changed. Wages for working people have not risen in 30 years, the vast majority of families need two incomes to get by, and after working for 40 years, few are assured a livable pension.
• We have witnessed the once strong American economy and American worker become the most indebted in the world. The average American is in debt to a greater degree than any time in history, while in a half century the nation has gone from the greatest creditor nation in history to the largest debtor nation in history.
• Most recently, a meltdown of Wall Street and the banking sector has seen 401ks drop in value and, most tellingly, a government deaf to the plight of average Americans and cries of economists immediately pour trillions of dollars in the coffers of Wall Street and the banks. At the same time, the floors of Congress are turned into a trading pit, with lobbyists of mega-corporations stacked outside in the halls fighting to fund reelection committees, so they can get the best deal … (full text The Idea).

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About: Our mission is to transform the public’s relationship to the monetary and economic policies that govern our lives. Our platform is structural reform of the financial industry. We will change the American financial industry from one that skirts and dictates laws to reap false profits for the few at the expense of the many into one that takes its proper place as a facilitator of general prosperity. We demand a financial industry that does not actively work against the interests of the public but that is stable and secure, prudent in risk, and manageable in failure.  Continuer la lecture de « A New Way Forward.org »

… Amar Jyoti is a voluntary organization rendering rehabilitative services to persons with disabilities through inclusive and integrated education, medical care, vocational training, child guidance and self-employment since 1981 … (full text about).

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Academics: School,  Special Training, Vocational Training;
Healing; Publications; Branch in Gwalior; Help;
Address: Amar Jyoti Charitable Trust, Karkardooma, Vikas Marg, Delhi 110092, India;
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Outreach: The Community Based Rehabilitation project has been completed with positive community development in 30 urban slums of Delhi.  The services are continued through various other projects of Institution Based Rehabilitation & Community Based Rehabilitation at the centre. Continuer la lecture de « Amar Jyoti Charitable Trust »

This NGO shows no own website, but is named on:

NGOs INDIA: Purpose: Disadvantaged communities, Employment, Human Rights, Poverty. Aim/Objective/Mission: APSERI involves advancement of disadvantaged groups in society including women, children and aged person; protection of human rights; strengthening of democratic institutions for socio economic development through peoples’ participation; reduction of poverty, unemployment and inequalities of income and wealth and increasing transparency in political, economic and social systems. E-mail.

on Wiser Earth: Contact /Name: Dr. Hari Goyal, Director
Activities: Research
Headquarters: P O Box 10518, JNU Post Office, New Delhi 110067, Delhi, India;
Phone: 91-11-6108512, Fax: 91-11-6171506,  Continuer la lecture de « Asia Pacific Socio-Economic Research Institute APSERI »

• NISBA’s mission is to support quality education in a safe environment from early childhood through life in accordance with the Tribe’s needs for cultural and economic well-being in keeping with the wide diversity of Indian tribes and communities as distinct cultural and governmental entities. NISBA will consider the spiritual, mental, physical and cultural aspects of the whole person within the familly, community and tribal context.
• NISBA’s vision is to have empowered school board members, parents and other stakeholders exercising effective stewardship of Indian education in cooperation with their respective tribal governments.
• Goals: … (full text Homepage).

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Address: NISBA, PO Box 790, Polson, MT 59860, USA;
Contact.

Legislation: The following is a draft proposal which was developed by Alan Lovesee on behalf of the National Indian School Board Association (NISBA), the Association of Community tribal Schools (ACTS), and the Native American Grant School Association (NAGSA). Through a variety of meetings and discussions which began as early as July of 1996, these amendments have been developed.  Continuer la lecture de « National (US-)Indian School Board Association NISBA »

also in french, spanish and portugese

Linked with adopt a negotiator.org, and with Adopt A Negotiator By The Youth Of The World.

• Tck Tck Tck is an unprecedented global alliance of non-government organizations, trade unions, faith groups and people like you—all calling for an ambitious, fair and binding climate change agreement.
• This global alliance has come together to ensure a fair, ambitious, and binding agreement from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, a meeting of world governments in Copenhagen, Denmark starting December 7, 2009 … (full text background).

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About /Copenhagen Climate Summit, December 7-9, 2009:  On December 9, 2009, representatives of 192 nations will meet in Copenhagen, Denmark for a conference on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. That’s the formal title for what most of us think of as the Kyoto Protocol, an agreement that expires in 2012 and that badly needs a fair, ambitious, and binding update.  Continuer la lecture de « Tck Tck Tck.org »

Linked with Adopt A Negotiator By The Youth Of The World, and with tcktcktck.org.

A fair, ambitious, and binding agreement coming out of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference (COP15) in December could mean the difference between a manageable future and dire climatic consequences.  But who knows what really goes on at these meetings? For an event described as “the most important meeting in the history of the world,” scant little seems to be known about what goes on behind the scenes.  Through Adopt-a-Negotiator, we are lifting the veil and shining light on this diplomatic process … (about 1/2).

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About 2/2:
Launched at the Bonn intersessional talks in June, we’ll track the negotiations through Bangkok, then Barcelona, and on to Copenhagen, following the lead negotiators and delegates from 12 key countries, and sharing news and updates of their positions along the way.  Continuer la lecture de « adopt a negotiator.org »

Linked with the Mandala Trust, and with the Khuphuka Project.

Welcome to Dharmagiri, a Buddhist hermitage nestled in the dramatic Southern Drakensberg (uKhahlamba in Zulu) on the border between South Africa and Lesotho. It is affiliated with the Forest Sangha of Ajahn Chah and was founded by his disciples Kittisaro and Thanissara in 2000 as a hermitage. Dharmagiri is the home of a contemplative community that provides support for self retreatants and practitioners, facilitates meditation retreats and enables access to Buddhist practice and teachings. Dharmagiri runs on a semi monastic ethos and requests that visitors and retreatants join in the community morning and evening practice sessions as well as help with simple daily chores. An extensive library of Dharma talks and Dharma books is available for retreat support … (full text Homepage).

Retreats: Info/schedule, Self retreat; Staying here; Dana;
Teachings; Talks; Year long study; News, articles, events; Newsletter; Links; Donations;
Address: Dharmagiri, PO Box 270, Underberg 3257, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa;
Contact.

About: Dharmagiri is a Section 21 Company which operates under South African law. It is a registered Non Profit Organisation and has Public Benefit Organisation status. It has three directors, two managers and sixteen members from South Africa, the UK and the US who support and oversee its guidance.
The Founders: … (full text).    Continuer la lecture de « Dharmagiri »

Compassion in Action

Linked with the Mandala Trust, and with Dharmagiri.

• The Khuphuka Project is an initiative of Dharmagiri Outreach.  We are a HIV and AIDS community care and support program serving the uMqatsheni tribal area falling within the Kwa Sani municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. To find out more about our work please take a little time to look around our site.
• The special challenge facing Buddhism in our age is to stand up as an advocate for justice in the world, a voice of conscience for those victims of social, economic and political injustice who cannot stand up for themselves. This is a deeply ethical challenge, marking a watershed in the modern expression of Buddhism – Bhikkhu Bodhi (Khuphuka Project patron).
• May all beings be well and free from suffering. (Homepage).

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Address: The Khuphuka Project, Dharmagiri, PO Box 270, Underberg 3257, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa;
Contact.

About: All Buddhas take the mind of great compassion as their substance (from the Avatamsaka Sutra): The Khuphuka Project is an initiative of Dharmagiri outreach.  We are a HIV and AIDS community outreach program serving the uMqatsheni tribal area falling within the Kwa Sani municipality, KwaZulu-Natal.  This community faces huge problems including high HIV infection rates, high levels of unemployment, many orphans and ‘at risk’ children and associated poverty. There are large numbers of families close to starvation.   Continuer la lecture de « The Khuphuka Project »

• The Bonita Trust is an independent philanthropic trust, founded in 2004. Bonita’s endowment programs results from a personal commitment by its principals to help communities address some of the important health and education challenges facing them, leveraging new technologies and Internet-based solutions.
• In 2006 The Bonita Trust settled the Bonita Charitable Trust which is a registered charity in Gibraltar … (full text Homepage).

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Address: The Bonita Trust, Belvedere Trustees Limited, 57/63 Line Wall Road, Gibraltar;
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About /Mission: Community Endowment: The Bonita Trust was founded in 2004. Bonita’s community endowment results from a personal commitment by its principals to help communities address some of the important health and education challenges facing them, leveraging new technologies and Internet-based solutions.  Continuer la lecture de « Bonita Trust – Bonita Charitable Trust »

in arab, in english and in hebrew – Linked with Educating Children in Conflict Zones.

The Hagar Association was founded in 2006 by Jewish and Arab parents, teachers, community organizers and other concerned residents from Beer Sheva in order to promote cooperation, mutual trust and understanding in the Israeli Negev. To realize its vision of a better future, the Association decided to create a Jewish-Arab pre-kindergarten-12 school as well as a community outreach program. (Homepage).

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Address: Hagar: Jewish-Arab Education for Equality, P.O. Box 3369, Shikun Hei, Beer Sheva 84133, Israel;
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About: In 2006, a group of Beer-Sheva parents, academics and community activists in the city and its environs, founded the Hagar Association as a response to the present reality in the Negev, where about 600,000 citizens, a quarter of them Arabs, live side by side but in segregated spaces.  Continuer la lecture de « The Hagar School – Education for Equality »

Linked with the Mandala Trust.

• Our Vision: A world in which the rights of street-involved children are realised.
• Our Mission: The Consortium for Street Children (CSC) is the leading international member-based network dedicated to advocating, promoting and campaigning for the rights of street-involved children. We are committed to creating a better and sustainable future for some of the most disadvantaged and stigmatised children by working together to inform and inspire research and action that influences policy and best practice worldwide.
• How we work: … (about 1/2 /who is who).

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Address: Consortium for Street Children, Unit 210 Bon Marche Centre, 241-251 Ferndale Road, London SW9 8BJ, UK;
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About 2/2 /Background: … How CSC came to be: In early 1992 Nic Fenton, Director of Childhope, and Trudy Davies, Research and Liaison officer to the all-Party Parliamentary Group on Population and Development, met to discuss the need for an umbrella organisation for the newly emerging small street children charities.   Continuer la lecture de « Consortium for Street children CSC »

Linked with the Consortium for Street children, with Khuphuka Project and with Dharmagiri.

• The Mandala Trust is a member of the Consortium for Street children – a UK based network of NGOs working to promote and protect the rights of street associated children in the developing world.
• The Mandala Trust is a UK based NGO working in partnership with a variety of grass roots organisations overseas.  We have a particular focus on projects which support vulnerable children and are currently active in Southern Africa, Cambodia, India, China and Peru.(Homepage).

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Address: The Mandala Trust, The Stables, Langham Place, Rode, Somerset BA11 6PL, England;
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History: Things were set in motion when a man travelling in India met and became friends with a local man who worked as a shoe wallah.  The two would sit together each day on the side of the road as the Indian man worked, drinking chai (sweet tea), sharing stories and eventually becoming good friends.  Continuer la lecture de « The Mandala Trust »

putting a human face on the global economy

• Few of the estimated 30 million migrant workers in China’s Guangdong Province have health insurance as factories will not pay for it.  If a worker gets sick, seeing a doctor in a hospital is prohibitively expensive, costing $25.59, more than a full week’s wages, including overtime. (Feb. 2007)
• It is all too easy for factories in China producing goods for export to U.S. companies to violate the laws on occupational health and safety and work injuries with complete impunity.  The U.S. companies involved are also displaying a total indifference when it comes to respecting worker rights.” (Feb. 2007).
• Forced labor, including the exploitation of children, continues in Burma, as do extrajudicial killing, disappearances, rape and torture. (June 2008)
• … etc. etc. – see down the right column of each page.

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Address: National Labor Committee, 5 Gateway Center, 6th Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, USA;
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About Mission: Transnational corporations now roam the world to find the cheapest and most vulnerable workers. The people who stitch together our jeans and assemble our CD-players are mostly young women in Central America, Mexico, Bangladesh, China and other poor nations, many working 12 to 14-hour days for pennies an hour. Continuer la lecture de « The National Labor Committee NLC »

There are two primary causes for both poverty and war:

• 1.Two crucial concepts: Plunder by trade, and Property rights law, as applied to nature’s resources and technologies, denying others their rightful share of what nature offers to us all for free.
• 2.We are culturally trained to unsustainable conspicuous consumption, unaware that much of this wealth is unearned through causes one and two listed above.

Those fundamentals of world trade and domestic economies (item one) is the heart of the enormously violent and wasteful world monopoly system. Well over half of our labors and resources expended adds nothing to our quality of life. We suggest these links for a quick initial understanding: … (full text Homepage).

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A Message to Global Warming, Poverty Elimination, and No-More-War Activists;
Address: The Institute for Economic Democracy, 13851 N 103 Ave, Sun City, AZ 85351, USA;
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About: This institute, founded by Dr. J.W. Smith, is a 501C3 non-profit/educational foundation researching the causes of, and elimination of, poverty and war.  Continuer la lecture de « Institute for Economic Democracy »

mainly in chinese – based in China serving China, organising and sourcing a variety of projects bringing together people desiring to serve and those in need.

The Yellow River Soup Kitchen is a not for profit NGO, registered in the UK. A secular organisation that is open to everybody, it is wholly run by volunteers for volunteers and as such has no overheads of any description. Our objective is to organise or source a variety of projects, with the aim of bringing together two specific groups of people; namely those with a desire to serve and those that are in need. Hence, providing an opportunity, a vehicle, support and empowerment, to enable volunteers to channel their energies for the benefit of others whilst at the same time achieving personal growth and development. Facilitating the opportunity to cultivate a small change inside potentially manifesting in a larger change outside … (full text english Homepage/about).

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On going projects: Soup Kitchen, in Xi’an: Several large filled steamed buns called Baozi stuffed with a combination of vegetables, tofu and noodles, pots of hot soup and tea are served three times weekly, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings at the catholic church on Wu Xing Jie.   Continuer la lecture de « Yellow River Voluntary Alliance »