GEC:NEWS September 2008
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- Development Resource Centre
Keep upto date with news from GEC's parent organisation.
- Community Programme News
The latest from the Community Youth arm of GEC
- Schools Programme News
Latest news from the Schools team.
- Just Focus Network
Findout the latest information on, Just Write, Just Focus Website, Media that Matters Aotearoa, and updates for adult supporters.
- Job Vacancy at GEC
We are seeking a passionate and committed person, to fill the role of Resource Writer (Community Programme). This exciting role is responsible for developing innovative educational resources targeted at community educators and rangatahi/youth.
- New Resource for Youth Workers and Community Groups
In this issue of Global Bits, we explore the history and reach of these global corporations, and look behind the PR and ‘spin’ to explore the place Big Business holds in all our lives.
- Different Perspectives
A resource that includes four A3 colour posters showcasing the perspectives of sixteen indigenous groups of people from around the world towards four aspects of the natural environment: Land, oceans, forests and water.
- Engaging Rangatahi-Youth Through Hip Hop
Update on The Next project, where we’re at, what we’ve been doing and how hip hop is working towards a better and just world.
- Workshops For Teachers
Are you interested in a global issue and want to know more for your own professional development? If your local teacher association is holding a professional development day you can request one of the school’s team to come and run a workshop.
- Dev-Zone News
Findout the lastest from GEC's sister programme.
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- International Year of Sanitation 2008
What’s more important than a cure for AIDS? In terms of global health, having good clean water and good clean toileting facilities.
- (RED) Selfish Giving?
If I told you that some of the largest multinational corporations in the world have joined together to form a giant ‘global initiative’ which is targeted at you, the consumer, what would you think?
- Please don't bash (RED)!
If you went over to your local hospital with a group of friends and volunteered to clean and repaint the entire children’s ward, only to demand afterwards that you all be shown on the 6 o’clock news so that the entire country can see what great people you are, would this be considered socially acceptable? No, of course it wouldn’t be.
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- The World Is Now More Urban Than Rural
Sometime in July this year, the world passed a significant milestone: more people now live in urban areas than in the countryside.
- BIOFUELS-Dev-Zone One Pager
Are biofuels the promised solution to the global energy crisis, or a potential global disaster in the waiting? The type of biofuel has been shown to impact on food prices and may undermine food security. These include soya, , maize, African palm and others.
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- Celsias
Celsias is becoming the world's leading action-based climate change website that enables individuals, organizations and companies to take real action against global warming.
- 4Real
4REAL.com is a community of individuals from around the world who are passionate about creating social change through action, art, and culture.
- Artevist
Artevist is a community where artists can come together to share their ideas on BIG issues and create wearable art with meaning and purpose. The BIG issues can be local or global (everything is related) and they can span themes such as: AIDS, climate change, consumerism, extinction, human rights and pollution. It's also a place where nonprofit organizations and artists meet, and produce work that helps spread their message to a larger audience.
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- Workingman's Death
Astonishing depiction of six of the most gruelling jobs known to man that soberingly conveys the extremes that certain members of the global population have to face day-to-day in order to survive. Beware some scene are very graphic in nature.
- The Hip-Hop Education Guidebook Volume 1
How can we utilize the energy and creativity of Hip-Hop music and culture to make schools and classrooms more engaging? The H2Ed Guidebook provides answers.
- Global Youth Work-Taking it Personally
Global Youth Work: Taking it Personally is geared towards practitioners who work face-to-face with young people.
- Goodbye Bafana
Nelson Mandela's imprisonment and subsequent friendship with a bigoted Afrikaner prison warden is eavesdropped in this humanist portrait of a crucial chapter in South Africa's troubled racial past.
- The Devil Came on Horseback
Documentary film illustrating the continuing Darfur Conflict in Sudan.
