Green Left – Australia's leading radical newspaper

In these days of growing media concentration, Green Left Weekly is a proudly independent voice committed to human and civil rights, global peace and environmental sustainability, democracy and equality. By printing the news and ideas the mainstream media won’t, Green Left Weekly exposes the lies and distortions of the power brokers and helps us to better understand the world around us.

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About Green Left Weekly:
Green Left Weekly aims to provide a much-needed forum for discussion and debate about changing the world. By giving a voice to progressive ideas, by sharing a wide range of views, by linking issues, campaigns and activists, and by letting people know how they can join with others to take action for change, the paper contributes to the development of a more just and democratic world.

Most importantly, Green Left Weekly is a campaigning paper: it helps strengthen the anti-racist, feminist, student, trade union, environment, gay and lesbian, civil liberties and anti-imperialist movements by linking the issues and activists, and by letting people know how they can join others in action for change.

Green Left Weekly is your paper … (full text).

Community and Institutional Development CID

Linked with Laila Iskandar – Egypt.

Company Profile – a helping hand: The challenges facing businesses and community projects in a developing country can be daunting. Recognizing weaknesses or gaps in an organizational structure without having the time or specialized expertise to remedy them, can be a frustrating experience. That is where we, at CID, come in to lend a hand.

Homepage;
Sitemap;
CID Team;
Private Sector Development;
Community Development;
Training;
Communication;
Contact: on the web, by e-mail, by Tel-Egypt +20 2 736 44 79

CID is a business. It began by working with the 60,000 zabaleen who live on the outskirts of Cairo and gather daily 10,000 tons of garbage. CID introduced innovative social and environmental initiatives, including recycling as much as 80% of the inorganic waste into raw materials and manufactured goods. CID works with local and international partners and clients to link business and poor communities and create viable partnerships to address a myriad of needs, from rural sanitation and low cost housing to sustainable waste recycling programs. CID highlights how the reality of megacities, particularly in emerging markets, must place people at the center of waste management planning. (full text).

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Global Call to Action Against Poverty GCAP

also in espanol, francais, portugues, arab

Linked with remember some Arab NGOs.

The Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance of trade unions, community groups, faith groups, women and youth organisations, NGOs and other campaigners working together across more than 100 national platforms. GCAP is calling for action from the world’s leaders to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality … (full long text).

Homepage and Latest News;
worldwide GCAP sites;
ISSUES;
GCAP partners;
Volunteer;
Documents and Reports;
Photo-Gallery;
Audio and Video;
Contact.

About:
At the start of the 21st century more than a billion people are trapped in a situation of abject poverty and gross inequality. 70% of them are women. We face an AIDS and Malaria emergency, with 40 million people infected by the disease. 104 million children are denied access to school and 860 million adults. (70% of them women) cannot read or write. Millions of people are unemployed or working in precarious jobs with deteriorating conditions of labour. Neither have a secure income to sustain their families. Children and young people make up half of the world’s population and suffer from the lack of inclusion and provision of basic services. Hunger is a daily reality for many. In parts of the world, the death of mothers in childbirth and infant children are still routine – deaths that could be prevented by the availability of simple healthcare. 1.4 billion people don’t have access to safe water. We draw inspiration from their persistent daily struggles to realise their rights to livelihoods, resources, assets and basic services. Today the world has enough resources, knowledge and technology to eradicate poverty … (full long text).

remember some Arab NGOs

Remembering some Arabian NGOs, some already on this blog in summer 2005:

GCAP: the world largest Civil Society Movement, for an END to Poverty & Inequality website, and e-mail. If you wish to join GCAP, please contact the relevant person hereafter in your country:

I would also like to invite you to join an open discussion group on the Arab NGO Network for Development:

See also: CIVICUS World Alliance for Citizen Participation, (also in french and spanish), (on our blog as CIVICUS).

Trident Ploughshares TP

Linked with Angie Zelter – England.

Trident Ploughshares TP is a campaign to disarm the UK Trident nuclear weapons system in a non-violent, open, peaceful and fully accountable manner.

Introduction part I: Trident Ploughshares TP is a part of the international nuclear disarmament movement. Trident Ploughshares activists have pledged to disarm the UK Trident nuclear weapons system in a non-violent, open, peaceful, safe and fully accountable manner. At this time over 200 Trident Ploughshares activists have signed a pledge to prevent nuclear crime. (full text).

Homepage and latest news;
Sitemap;
Invitation to join;
TP Defences in Court, Legal Documents & Articles;
TP Legal Support;
TP Prisoner Support;
Anti War Actions;
Photo Gallery;
Newsletter;
Address: TP Office: 42-46 Bethel Street, Norwich Norfolk NR2 1NR, United Kingdom, Phone: 0845 45 88 366 (from overseas +441259 753815), Fax: 08454588364 (from overseas +441259751959);
Contact by e-mail.

Introduction, part II /(About): We believe that the use or threatened use of nuclear weapons is totally immoral and irresponsible and that the Trident system is illegal under international law.

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