Scriptorium

Google’s Knol will change Content forever

Community site for Google’s new Knol Content Encyclopedia … KnolStuff.com is a brand new social netwoking community for Google’s Open Encyclopedia. This is a Community to discuss and learn about « Knol » and take advantage of what Google is offering. This site also supports the new Google OpenSocial Platform. Share with others updates and insights about Knol. Meet new people and network. (Homepage 1/2).

Open Social Blog;

Members: with their page, their friends, and with their blog.
Groups;
Events;
My page / Sign Up/In for sharing;
Contact: click on Sign In.

Google Knol is Open to the Public (Homepage 2/2):
Click also here.

Google Blog 7/23/2008: A few months ago we announced that we were testing a new product called Knol. Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects. Today, we’re making Knol available to everyone. Read more: … (full text).

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to prevent war and armed conflict

Linked with Rebecca Johnson – England.

The Past century was the most lethal in human history: Over 200 million people were killed in 250 wars and genocidal onslaughts, more people than were killed in warfare in the past two thousand years.* More than six million people have died in war since the end of the Cold War, when things should have changed for the better … (Preventing Violence: The Global Action Project 1/2).

Homepage;
Who we are;
Meetings: A UNEPS ‘White Paper’ Launched in Washington, DC;
Take Action;
UNEPS;
Newsletter;
Address; 675 Third Avenue, Suite 315. New York, NY 10017;
Contact.

Preventing Violence: The Global Action Project 2/2: … The world’s societies and governments already know how to stop the killing. What has been missing is a program for the sustained, integrated, worldwide application of their resources and knowledge. Global Action to Prevent War provides such a program.

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Linked with Rebecca Johnson – England, and with Britain’s new nuclear abolitionists.

The Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy has been working since 1995 to promote effective approaches to international security, disarmament and arms control. Engaging with governments and civil society, Acronym provides reporting, analysis and strategic thinking on a range of issues relevant to peace and security, with special emphasis on treaties and multilateral initiatives … The Acronym Institute is grateful to the Ford Foundation, the Ploughshares Fund, and the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust for their enabling support of our work and publications, including this website. (full text Homepage).

The Journal Disarmament Diplomacy;
The United Nations and the Conference on Disarmament;
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the International Atomic Energy Agency;
WMD Possessors and Aspirants;
Disarmament Calendar 2008: Main Conferences & Events;
Glossary of Acronyms;
Links (for Organisations);
Address: The Acronym Institute, 24 Colvestone Crescent, London E8 2LH;
Contact: Tel: +44 (0) 20 7503 8857, Fax: +44 (0) 20 7503 8857, e-mail of Founding Director & Editor: Dr Rebecca Johnson.

About: The Acronym Institute was set up in November 1995 under the name ‘Disarmament Intelligence Review’. In April 1997 it became sole publisher of Disarmament Diplomacy, a journal of news, documentation and opinion pieces on disarmament and arms control negotiations. In September 1997 the Institute was legally established in London, UK, under the name The Acronym Institute.

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(APA = American Psychological Association)

Be it resolved that psychologists may not work in settings where persons are held outside of, or in violation of, either International Law (e.g., the UN Convention Against Torture and the Geneva Conventions) or the US Constitution (where appropriate), unless they are working directly for the persons being detained or for an independent third party working to protect human rights. (Homepage);
The 2008 Protest for an Ethical APA, Boston, August 16, 12pm – 2pm;
Governance Resolution, adopted by APA on February 22, 2008;
Resolution;
Sign the resolution;
Frequently Asked Questions about the Resolution;

Archived Links (with texts, videos, audios);
Links to more information about colleges and universities that have protested the APAs stance on psychologists’ involvement in illegal detention sites: Inside higher ED; and Psyche, Science and Society, Archive for May 24th, 2008.

About: We commend the American Psychological Association for having recently amended its 2007 Resolution Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and its Application to Individuals Defined in the United States Code as « Enemy Combatants » (Amendment)  so as to unequivocally condemn all techniques considered to be torture,  thereby closing loopholes that existed in the original Resolution (see below). However, the International Committee of the Red Cross determined in 2003 that the conditions in such Centers are themselves tantamount to torture. Yet psychologists maintain a presence in such sites and in 2007 the elected and appointed leaders of the APA voted once again against an amendment that would have prevented psychologists from working in facilities in which detainees are deprived of their human rights except as health personnel.

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Helping society move towards a socially just and environmentally restorative existence

Linked with Wiser Earth.org.

The Natural Capital Institute serves the people who are transforming the world. We are a team of researchers, teachers, students, activists, scholars, writers, social entrepreneurs, artists, and volunteers committed to the restoration of the earth and the healing of human culture. We do two things: we describe pathways of change in books and research reports, and we create tools for connecting the individuals, information, and organizations that create change … (Homepage).

Who we are: Current Interns, Board Members and Staff;
Our History;
WISER;
WiserEarth;
WiserBusiness;
WiserEarth Partners;
WISER Platform;
Newsletter: Please drop a note to NCI’s outreach coordinator Melinda Kramer;
Address: Natural Capital Institute, 3 Gate Five Road, Suite A, Sausalito, California 94965;
Contact. Tel: 415.331.6241, Fax: 415.331.6242, e-mail.

(About)/WISER Guidelines:

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The Hindu caste system has been called a « hidden apartheid » and the single greatest existing social evil. But outside of the subcontinent few people know much about it, even among leftists … (Homepage 1/2).

News; Maharashtra burning; Mumia Abu-Jamal case; social function of caste; Caste among Muslim; Letters to workers vanguard; discrimination against untouchable survivors of the South Asian tsunami; More readings; Links;
Contact by e-mail.

Placed as External Links:
Human Rights Watch-report on casts;
Read my guestbook;
Sign my guestbook;
Country Study: Cast and Classes;
Dalits & Human Rights: The Battles Ahead, By P. Sainath.

About (Homepage 2/2):
Some 250 million people around the world were born untouchable. They live throughout South Asia, as well as in Japan and parts of West Africa. Over 160 million of them are in India, where they make up more than one-sixth of the population, and where over 580 million more people belong to other oppressed castes and tribes.

The purpose of this site is to share our ideas and research. Our perspective is Marxist. It will take a socialist revolution to create the material basis for abolishing the caste system. And only a party that openly fights against caste oppression can lead the workers of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka to power.

We are not that party, or any kind of organization.

This site is run by Sujatha and Alan. Sujatha grew up in an untouchable family in Andhra Pradesh.
See also: Sujatha’s multi-generational family narrative;

waging politics online

Linked with Matt Stoller – USA, with videos concerning the US, and with Finding Your Obviousmeter.

Blogpac funds progressive leadership and experiments with injecting new voices in the political process using internet activism. We give grants, no strings attached, to activists on the internet who have a demonstrated record of success in either creating progressive change or creating the space for progressives to make change. We also seek moments to inject progressive power into the political system through focused internet and new media activism, (about 1/2).

Blogpac grants money to two sets of emerging leaders.

• 1) Activists who have created change outside of a traditional party or campaign structure.
• 2) Local bloggers that build community spaces for activists in their state.

Homepage/main and latest posts;
Press;
In the right column: find sign up and blogroll;
Contribute;
Address: Blogpac, P.O. Box 30727, Philadelphia, PA 19104;
Contact: by e-mail, online.

About 2/2: Who We Are: Matt Stoller is the President of Blogpac. Formerly blogging with MyDD, he now incites the masses and offers strategic advice to the Democrats from his perch at OpenLeft. In 2005, he worked as the blogger for Jon Corzine for Governor, and for Simon Rosenberg for DNC Chair. He has been blogging since 2002 and has since become a caricature of himself.

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Linked with the french groups ARTANES and PLANeS.

From choice, a world of possibilities:

• PPF is a global service provider and a leading advocate of sexual and reproductive health and rights for all.
• We are a worldwide movement of national organizations working with and for communities and individuals.
• We advocate for universal access to contraceptives, gender equality and safe abortion.

Homepage;
Sitemap;
News;
What we do;
Resources;
Regions where we work;
How to help;
Volunteers;
Newsletter;
Contacts.

About: We are a global service provider and a leading advocate of sexual and reproductive health and rights for all.
Continuer la lecture de « International Planned Parenthood Federation IPPF. »

Fondation Suisse pour la santé sexuelle et reproductive
(aussi en allemand /auch auf deutsch)

Lié avec/linked with International Planned Parenthood Federation IPPF.

Organisation faîtière des centres de consultation en planning familial, grossesse, sexualité et éducation sexuelle, PLANeS s’engage pour que le droit et l’accès aux prestations de santé sexuelle et reproductive soient assurés à toute personne … (page d’accueil).

PLANeS est membre de l’IPPF (International Planned Parenthood Federation).

Plan du site;
Infos et publications;
Activités;
Association / Conseil d’Experts;
Notre réseau;
Liens Suisses;
Liens internationaux;
Contact.

Qui est PLANeS ?

• La Fondation PLANeS, créée en 2000, est une organisation à but non lucratif, indépendante de toute appartenance politique et confessionnelle. Elle succède à l’Association Suisse de Planning Familial et d’Education Sexuelle (ASPFES), fondée en 1993. PLANeS s’engage pour la promotion de la santé sexuelle et reproductive, ainsi que pour les droits de la population qui y sont liés.
• PLANeS est l’organisation faîtière suisse des centres de consultation en planning familial, grossesse et sexualité, des services d’éducation sexuelle et des associations professionnelles dans ces domaines. C’est une fondation, dans laquelle se trouve intégrée une association.
• PLANeS est le membre suisse de l’IPPF (International Planned Parenthood Federation), organisation mondiale non-gouvernementale de planning familial.

Pour quoi PLANeS s’engage-t-elle?

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Association romande des éducatrices/teurs, formatricers/teurs en santé sexuelle et reproductive

Lié avec/linked with International Planned Parenthood Federation IPPF.

Notre association est composée de professionnel(le)s ayant obtenu le certificat de cours post-grade HES en santé sexuelle et reproductive (option éducation sexuelle) délivré conjointement par les Universités de Genève et de Lausanne, ainsi que par la Haute Ecole de Travail Social de Genève (HES). Ce certificat est reconnu par PLANeS (Fondation suisse pour la santé sexuelle et reproductive) … (texte entier Home/page d’accuel).

Liens internes: cliquez sur les liens depuis la page d’accueil pour:
Service cantonaux;
Formation (référentiel de métier, formation de base, formation continue);
Littérature (articles, bibliographies);
Liens;
Contact:

• Secrétariat, Anik Debrot, ARTANES, Case postale 20, 1701 Fribourg, ccp 25-40585-9, e-mail;
• Caroline Jacot-Descombes, Présidente, Rue Alfred-Vincent 7, 1201 Genève, 079/562 49 48, e-mail.

ARTANES:

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Centre for developmental practice

We are a non-governmental organisation from Cape Town, South Africa. We work with development practitioners, organisations and movements who are engaged in social transformation with marginalised communities.

Homepage;
Sitemap;
What’s new;
Services and Programmes;
Writing from CDRA practitioners;
Dialogue Resources;
Courses;
Associates;
Creativity;
Links;
Address: 52/54 Francis Street, Woodstock, Cape Town, South Africa;
Contact.

About: … The establishment of a Centre for Developmental Practice indicates an intention to share the work of CDRA more widely, to attempt to disseminate and promote its approach to the benefit of a wider group of people – both practitioners and organisations. By forming ourselves into a Centre for Developmental Practice we are bringing to the sector a resource to help practitioners and organisations develop their practice, nurturing in them a developmental, and therefore transformational, way of understanding the world and intervening in it.

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Linked with Mallika Sarabhai – India.

From a small dance academy that was founded over five decades ago, today Darpana is a workshop for the arts where tradition meets technology to break down boundaries of art and life and where performers from the world over work together to open mindscapes through the arts. Established by Mrinalini and Vikram Sarabhai in 1949, for the last two decades the academy has been directed by their daughter Mallika Sarabhai. Today it has a permanent staff of over 60 people and several hundred others on projects. Its departments range from performance and teaching of the arts to their use as development communication through face to face impacting and software production. Its audiences range from arts lovers to district and supreme court judges, the less privileged across the world, children, women, tribal populations and more. With over 25000 graduates, nearly 10000 performances, audiences in 90 countries and a vibrant arts environment, Darpana today is a centre for artists committed to excellence, innovation and the excitement of using the arts for change. Darpana’s vision is a contemporary symbiosis affirming the role of creativity in culture, researching into our origins and reaching out to the unsaid or unthought of, with a language that is universal. (The Institution).

Homepage;
Sitemap;
Classical Dance;
Folk & Tribal Dance;
Natarani: A Theatre for Creative Performance (a diashow);
Darpana For Development;
Conservatoire;
Darpana Institute for Performance, Arts and Cultural studies DIPAC;
Vikram Sarabhai Festival;
Contact.

About: Club Natarani: With new and innovative work from Ahmedabad and elsewhere in the world, overseas performing groups touring India, traditional and folk performances, films, cartoon festivals, children’s events and performances, Natarani’s wide canvas has something to offer for everyone.

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Questions the press should ask

Linked with Alberto J. Mora – USA, with Ten lessons from recent torture hearings, and with Cruelty as a weapon of war.

Great questions are a key to great journalism. But often, in the press of deadlines, the flood of raw information, manipulated news, deliberate misinformation and just plain junk, great questions are hard to develop. Reporters and editors need to know what’s happening, why it happened, who’s involved, who’s affected and what happens next … (About 1/2).

Homepage, links, headlines and newsletter;
Ask This;
Showcase, websites for journalists;
Commentary;
Discussions;
Contributors;
Watchdog Blog;
Niemand Foundation for Journalism at Harvard;
Harvard University Home;
2008 Niemand Seminars for narrative editors;
Contact.

(About 2/2): … The premise of watchdog journalism is that the press is a surrogate for the public, asking probing, penetrating questions at every level, from the town council to the state house to the White House, as well as in corporate and professional offices, in union hal Continuer la lecture de « Nieman Watchdog »

Linked with Alex de Waal – England, and with Sudan and the International Criminal Court ICC.

The SSRC builds interdisciplinary intellectual networks to address global changes. We bring varied perspectives to bear on crucial issues and mobilize inclusive and informed publics based in multiple geographical locations. In this way, these activities promote international collaboration. International collaboration operates as a “strategic emphasis” that crosscuts, and integrates with, Council-wide programmatic areas, projects and activities, while also moving the Council’s regional programs into a new generation of research and scholarship. This is achieved through:

• organizing collaborative research on regional, cross-regional and global issues;
• facilitating and evaluating cooperation amongst institutions, centers and social science donors to enable international collaboration;
• developing training and exchange activities that promote research collaboration.

Homepage and latest news;
Sitemap;
Programs;
Fellowships;
Publications;
SSRC Blogs;
SSRC inside;
SSRC global;
Employment Opportunities at the SSRC;
Address: 810 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019, USA;
Contact: P: 212.377.2700, F: 212.377.2727, E-mail.

About the SSRC: The Social Science Research Council is an independent, not-for-profit research organization founded in 1923. Based in New York City, it mobilizes researchers, policy makers, professionals, activists, and other experts from the private and public sectors to develop innovative approaches to issues of critical social importance.

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