In these Times

Linked with Ann Pettifor – England, with New Economics Foundation NE,  with A cycle of illusions, with Bringing the Proposal to Reality, and with Jubilee Research.

In These Times is dedicated to informing and analyzing popular movements for social, environmental and economic justice; to providing a forum for discussing the politics that shape our lives; and to producing a magazine that is read by the broadest and most diverse audience possible. In 1976, author and historian James Weinstein founded In These Times with the mission to “identify and clarify the struggles against corporate power now multiplying in American society.” Weinstein was joined in establishing this independent magazine of news, culture and opinion. by noted intellectuals Daniel Ellsberg, E.P. Thompson, Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, Julian Bond and Herbert Marcuse, all of whom were among the original sponsors of the magazine. In 2005, those sponsors now number in the thousands—as a not-for-profit publication, In These Times, like all political magazines on both the left and the right, has survived with the help of readers who make donations above and beyond the cost of their subscriptions. (Read the rest on above link).

New Economics Foundation NEF

Linked with Ann Pettifor – England, with In these Times, with A cycle of illusions, with Bringing the Proposal to Reality, and with Jubilee Research. See also nef on Dec. 29, 2006.

New Economics Foundation, The NEF is an independent think-and-do tank that aims to improve quality of life by promoting innovative solutions that challenge mainstream thinking on economic, environment and social issues. (Big Picture) . … NEF Homepage;

Economics Overview;

NEF’s theoretical new economics programme‘ aims to build a framework for a new economics which promotes real well-being (rather than financial wealth), environmental sustainability and social justice;
Democs: (deliberative meeting of citizens) is part card game, part policy-making tool that enables small groups of people to engage with complex public policy issues. It helps people find out about a topic, express their views, seek common ground with the other participants, and state their preferred policy position from a given choice of four. They can also add their own policy positions.

THE REAL WORLD ECONOMIC OUTLOOK: NEF is launching the first in a new series of yearly reports provocatively shadowing the International Monetary Fund’s annual World Economic Outlook on September 1st.

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The Development Research Institute dri

Linked with William Easterly – USA, with Center for Global Development, with A Modest Proposal, and with The West Can’t Save Africa.

The Development Research Institute dri (of the New York University) is devoted to research on the economic development and growth of poor countries. Poor countries include all those besides the industrialized nations, i.e. Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Asia. The Institute includes both macroeconomic and microeconomic research, and both theory and empirics. The Institute is devoted to high standards of research, including publication in peer reviewed journals, scientific methodology, and creative and skeptical inquiry. It also includes research on the relationships between rich and poor nations, and between international organizations/aid agencies and poor nations. The Institute does not engage in any kind of advocacy for particular causes or organizations. The co-directors of the Development Research Institute are William Easterly and Yaw Nyarko.

Global Development Network Growth Database;

dri working papers;

Conferences & Seminars.

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The Center for Global Development

Linked with William Easterly – USA, with A Modest Proposal, with The West Can’t Save Africa, and with The Development Research Institute dri.
(To be distinguished from the Global Dialogue Center).

The Center for Global Development, (stands) for Independent research and practical ideas for global prosperity. The CGD is an independent, not-for-profit think tank that works to reduce global poverty and inequality by encouraging policy change in the U.S. and other rich countries through rigorous research and active engagement with the policy community. It was founded November 2001 by Edward W. Scott Jr., C. Fred Bergsten and Nancy Birdsall. A technology entrepreneur, philanthropist, and former senior U.S. government official, Ed provided the vision and a significant financial committment that made the creation of the Center possible. Fred, the director of the Institute for International Economics (IIE), lent his formidable reputation in academic and policy circles as well as providing the fledgling Center with a roof and logistical support within IIE for its initial months of operation.

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Global Dialogue Center

Linked with John Perkins – USA.

(To be distinguished from The Center for Global Development), Washington DC 20036).

The Global Dialogue Center is a virtual gathering place for people throughout the world with a focus on leadership, professional and personal development — a place to think, question, explore new ideas, learn and connect with a purpose: To help us all become catalysts for creating a better world than we know today.
See also John Perkins COLLECTION at the Global Dialogue Center!

See more on following links:

Dream Change

Linked with John Perkins – USA.

Dream Change was founded in the early 1990s to change consciousness. With the new millennium came the realization that a powerful grass-roots movement is necessary to channel the energy from our awakened individual consciousness into actions that create a more compassionate and just world. WOW! (WAKING OUR WORLD!) is that movement.

DREAM CHANGE (DC) is a world wide grass roots movement of people from diverse cultures and backgrounds dedicated to shifting consciousness and promoting sustainable lifestyles for the individual and global community. The objective of inspiring earth-honoring changes in consciousness is accomplished through programs that educate and foster environmental and social balance. DC was originated to encourage new ways of living. (Read more on ‘above‘).

See more on following links:

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The National Agricultural Research Institute NARI

Linked with Maria LINIBI – Papua New Guinea, and with Strategies for agriculture and rural development in Papua New Guinea.

NARI is a publicly-funded statutory research organisation for conducting applied and development-oriented research on food crops, emerging food and cash crops, livestock and resource management issues. In its vision for PNG, NARI foresees « Prosperous PNG Agricultural Communities. » The word « prosperous » implies economic, social, and cultural well-being of all residents of PNG. Reference to « agricultural communities », in its wider sense, means that the prosperity of all in PNG will be realised through wealth creation and sustainable broad-based economic growth from agricultural development. The major targets are the smallholder, semi-subsistence, semi-commercial and commercial farmers and rural communities in the country.

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The Friends of St. Vincent's Center

Linked with Nicole Magloire – Haiti.

Friends of St. Vincents. The Friends of St. Vincent’s Center for handicapped children is a volunteer group formed in 1997 to help the children and staff at St. Vincent’s Center for Handicapped Children in Port-au-Prince, Haiti obtains the resources needed to educate and care for the children. The Friends of St. Vincent’s Center is an interfaith outreach ministry of St. James’s Episcopal Church in West Hartford, Connecticut.

The Friends of St. Vincent’s Center mission statement is to provide service, supplies and support to the children and staff at St. Vincent’s Center, a residential school, day school, orphanage and hospital for approximately 350 handicapped children in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

2005 has been a very difficult year for our colleagues and the children at St. Vincent’s Center due to the political situation and civil unrest. The Friends of St. Vincent’s Center continued their support in many different ways as it was not possible to conduct medical, construction and education missions in Haiti.

St. Vincent Hospital.

Proyecto Palomas

Linked with Lázara Lizette Vila Espina – Cuba.

¿Qué es el Proyecto Palomas?

USTED PUEDE AYUDAR A CIENTÍFICOS A CONTESTAR LAS SIGUIENTES PREGUNTAS:

1. ¿Por qué existen las palomas en colores tan variados?

2. ¿Qué color de pareja suele escoger una paloma?

Los participantes del Proyecto Palomas observan palomas y envían sus observaciones y cómputos al Laboratorio de Ornitología de Cornell en donde científicos recopilan los datos y usan la información para examinar estas dos preguntas de interés científico. La gente participa al contar palomas y anotar los comportamientos de cortejo observados en las bandadas de palomas del vecindario.

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big-picture.tv BPTV

Linked with Wally N’Dow – Gambia, with Lori Wallach – USA, and with Marshall B. Rosenberg – Switzerland & USA.

Big Picture TV BPTV – an online media channel that streams free video clips of global leaders in sustainability. (To) browse a growing archive of internationally renowned names including scientists, environmentalists, politicians, journalists, academics and activists. BPTV is easy to watch. Simply select a speaker, choose a clip and press play (see how to watch tv). (The) video clips can only be watched with Microsoft’s Media Player (can be downloaded on their website).

They write about themselves: Big Picture TV (BPTV) is a free media channel based in London and San Francisco. We stream short talking heads of some of the most renowned pioneers in Sustainable Development and from the environmental, social justice and peace movements. By offering progressive leaders in these inter-related fields a fully independent web-based media platform, we aim to make the big picture a clearer one for the world’s online community. We would very much like to thank our sponsors Green & Black’s and Groovy Gecko, with particular thanks to Craig Moehl at Groovy Gecko for providing us with their excellent streaming services free of charge. We would also like to thank all the speakers who have so generously contributed to the archive. In addition, we want to thank Petica Watson and Simon Levermore for their much valued technical expertise and advice as consultants. Finally, we wish to thank the following people for their kind help and support: (Read the rest on ‘about‘).

Register and Newsletter.

The Public Citizen

Linked with Lori Wallach – USA, with Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, and with Why Does the WTO Want My Water?

The Public Citizen for Protecting Health, Safety and Democracy. Public Citizen is a national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization founded in 1971 to represent consumer interests in Congress.

The executive branch and the courts:

We have six divisions and two state offices. To learn more about each of the divisions, click on the links below:

… and Texas and California offices:

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Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch

Linked with Lori Wallach – USA, with Why Does the WTO Want My Water?, and with The Public Citizen. Also linked with Third World Traveler, and with Michael Parenti – USA.

Global Trade Watch was created in 1995 as a division of the U.S.-based NGO Public Citizen that monitors the WTO and other trade agreements such as NAFTA and CAFTA. Like Public Citizen in general, GTW advocates for a greater public role in international, federal, state and local policy-making, and for a different set of policies and institutions that govern the current model of globalization, according to its website. [See Public Citizen].

Its director and founder is trade lawyer and activist Lori Wallach. Wallach has been compared to « Ralph Nader with a sense of humor » in a Wall Street Journal profile, dubbed « the Trade Debate’s Guerrilla Warrior » by the National Journal,[see the Journalism School] and « a key player in Washington debates on trade policy » by The Nation. [See commondreams].

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Center for Nonviolent Communication CNVC

Linked with Marshall B. Rosenberg – Switzerland & USA., and with Raising Children Compassionately.
The Center for Nonviolent Communication emerged out of work he was doing with civil rights activists in the early 1960s. During this period he provided mediation and communication skills training to communities working to desegregate schools and other public institutions. (Read much more on wikipedia).
Nonviolent Communication NVC helps us stay connected with what is alive in ourselves and others moment-to-moment, and enhances our ability to make life more wonderful for ourselves and others.

Vision: The Center for Nonviolent Communication CNVC is a global organization whose vision is a world where all people are getting their needs met and resolving their conflicts peacefully. In this vision, people are using Nonviolent Communication NVC to create and participate in networks of worldwide life-serving systems in economics, education, justice, healthcare, and peace-keeping.

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DCA DanChurchAid Cambodia- the right to food

Linked with Thavrin THONG – Cambodia, with Boua Chanthou – Cambodia, with The Khmer Rouge next at Trial, and with NGO Forum on Cambodia.

Established in 1922, DanChurchAid DCA is today one of the major Danish humanitarian non governmental organisations (NGO), working with local partners, international networks, churches and non-religious civil organisations to assist the poorest of the poor. DanChurchAid’s work abroad is focused on the poorest population groups in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Central America, and Central Asia & Eastern Europe. Financed by private donations and funds DanChurchAid is an independent non-profit organisation whose activities are financed by private donations and funds from the Danish government (Danida), the UN, EU and other bilateral donors.

Homepage;
News and Publictions;
Newsletter;
E-mail.

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