Tag Archives: Human Rights

Cultural Revolutionaries in Copenhagen

Pass it on…. In case you are in Copenhagen/have friends who go, sense that it is about more than the climate, and want to use the opportunity to share+connect: www.culturalrevolutionaries.org / Declaration of Cultural Revolutionaries – Find it in 10 languages, post it, email it, but a button on your blog/campaign – Declare Interdependence… Let [...]

Water as Common Good – Water as means of Control and Profitmaximization

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFl1V2Iv2mU[/youtube] http://www.flowthefilm.com/ Water is a right, not a privilege – Petition to UN for 31st article of The Declaration of Human Rights: ‘Everyone has the right to clean and accessible water, adequate for the health and well-being of the individual and family, and no one shall be deprived of such access or quality of water [...]

More than 70 per cent of the Peruvian Amazon is now up for grabs for giant Oil and Gas Companies

Just received this through avaaz.org: The Peruvian government has pushed through legislation that could allow extractive and large-scale farming companies to rapidly destroy their Amazon rainforest. Indigenous peoples have peacefully protested for two months demanding their lawful say in decrees that will contribute to the devastation of the Amazon’s ecology and peoples, and be disastrous [...]

The Future of Food

Bueno, yet another movie. Hope it makes you angry (the movie, I mean…) ‘THE FUTURE OF FOOD examines the complex web of market and political forces that are changing what we eat as huge multinational corporations seek to control the world’s food system.’ – keep on watching the other parts… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUwFPSDvB7I[/youtube] You might also want [...]

THINK.MTV – Martial Law Warnings

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reCpV1YHuYs[/youtube] What do you think? (and to the non-german readers: are they really on air or online only?)

On the protection of natural systems

‘If we could only understand what a tree does for us, how beneficial it is to life on earth, we would (as many tribes have done) revere all trees as brothers and sisters.’ Bill Mollison, Originator of the Permaculture Concept That’s the trees…then there are rivers, animals, there is the soil as a living organism. [...]

Anders denken: Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen

Der Unternehmer Götz Werner nimmt Stellung zum Bedingungslosen Grundeinkommen. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG-7J-k49eM[/youtube] Bis zum 10. Feb läuft die Online Petition beim Deutschen Bundestag. Den Begründungstext und die Möglichkeit zum Mitzeichnen findet ihr hier. Links und Info zum Thema.

African Immigration to Europe

much more of the struggle in pictures here

Help Children Fight!

[youtube]http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=E7uW5m_tAGk[/youtube] klick klack

'State of Global Emergency' – There ain't no other name for it

…in my humble opinion. At least when you see it from the point of view of human civilization. …The macro-trends driving global threats and challenges have been apparent for decades and are now building toward a threshold of irreversibility. The scientific modeling of complex systems shows that when systems reach a state of critical instability, [...]