WELCOME TO THE OCTOBER 2005 ISSUE

Tēnā koutou e te whānau.

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  • New Global Education Fund available
  • Network of Global Educators established
  • Exciting new youth website goes live
  • Hip Hop Resource launched
  • Money makes the world go round
  • Two teacher resources launched
  • Dev-Zone website gets a face lift
  • SOCCON conference report
  • DVD's available for borrowing

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  • Make Nov 5 Parihaka Day
  • Oxfam's Campaign for Fair Trade
  • Gangsterism, poverty and globalisation
  • Digging Below the Surface

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  • HIV/AIDS
  • Tourism
  • Peak Oil

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  • World Indigenous Peoples Conference
  • One World Week
  • National Peace Workshops
  • Universal Children's Day
  • Elimination of Violence against Women
  • World Food Day
  • Buy Nothing Day
  • Volunteering in Thailand for Burmese Democracy

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  • GEC Publications
  • The Atlas of food
  • Fair trade in action
  • Make your town a fairtrade town
  • 100 ways of seeing an unequal world
  • The Next - An Impression of Hip Hop Expression
  • Seeing is believing: handicams, human rights & news (DVD)
  • The Corporation (DVD)
  • Hotel Rwanda (DVD)
  • Reframe (DVD)

• ARE WATER WARS A FANTASY OR A FUTURE REALITY?

• STOCKHOLM, Aug 29 (IPS) - The Middle East, one of the world's perennial war zones, has traditionally been blessed with a surfeit of oil and cursed by a scarcity of water. read more

• NOTES TO A GLOBALISING WORLD FROM A YOUNG MASAI WARRIOR

  I am Lesikar Ole Ngila, a Maasai from East Africa. I have a question that I want to ask our elders, brothers and sisters who have been working for many years, and are still working today, to study different human societies. Forgive me for asking this question, but it's one that my father in the village once asked me: What is the meaning of `government'? read more

• ARRESTS, THEN BUSHMEN WIN ‘ALTERNATIVE NOBEL PRIZE’

• 29.09.2005 Five days after their leaders were arrested and beaten, the Kalahari Bushmen today learnt that their organisation, First People of the Kalahari, had won the "Alternative Nobel Prize" for "resolute resistance against eviction from their ancestral lands, and for upholding the right to their traditional way of life."
  The organisation shares the Right Livelihood Award with activists from Canada, Malaysia and Mexico. read more...

Quote

E hoki tete tihe ki te ihu?
Will the sneeze return to the nose?
(What's done is done.)

Ngā Pēpeha a ngā Tīpuna, VUW Press, 2004.