WELCOME TO THE DECEMBER 05 ISSUE

Tēnā koutou e te whānau. Welcome to the last issue of GEC:NEWS for 2005. The team at GEC wishes you well over the festive season.

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  • GEC is on the Move
  • First Global Camp Trialed
  • New Resources For Teachers Being Developed
  • Parihaka Resource Available
  • Latest additions to GEC Library Holdings

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  • Global Youth Culture
  • Human Rights and The Death Penalty

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  • Child Labour
  • Using The Internet For Social Action

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  • Parihaka International Peace Festival 06
  • Waihopai Spybase Protest
  • Fair Trade Fortnight 2006

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  • Identity: Who are we in the Global Village?
  • The Take (DVD)
  • Nurturing the Spirit of Mentoring
  • Our News, Our Views
  • Rethinking Globalization
  • 50 Facts That Should Change The World
  • Bowling For Columbine (DVD)
  • Girl From Glen Innes (DVD)
  • Just Right (CD-ROM)
  • Issues; Human Rights

• Kerala challenges Coca-Cola's bottling operations

• 28.11.2005 In a move that could shut down one of Coca-Cola's largest bottling plant in India permanently, the Kerala government has notified the area as "over-exploited" where one of Coca-Cola's largest bottling plants is located in southern India. The government seeks to regulate the use of groundwater due to scarcity. more...

• African Union Warned Against Letting Sudan Lead

• Thalif Deen
  
  UNITED NATIONS, Nov 25 (IPS) - Sudan, which has been lambasted for human rights violations and genocide in the beleaguered province of Darfur, is expected to be elected chair of the 53-member African Union (AU) next year following a summit meeting of African heads of state in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum in late January. more...

• Fascism Then. Fascism Now?

  When people think of fascism, they imagine rows of goose-stepping storm troopers & puffy-chested dictators. What they don't see is the economic and political process leading to it. more

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‘I WAS ONCE TOLD BY MY MOTHER... THAT THERE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THROWING A PEBBLE IN A POND AND THROWING A BIG ROCK. THE PEBBLE CAUSES QUIET RIPPLES THAT GO A LONG WAY. THE ROCK MAKES A BIG SPLASH THAT QUICKLY DISAPPEARS.’

 

(ARUN GANDHI, GRANDSON OF M.K. GANDHI, AND FOUNDER/DIRECTOR OF THE M.K. GANDHI INSTITUTE FOR NON -VIOLENCE)