WELCOME TO THE JUNE 06 ISSUE

Tena koutou e te whanau.  Welcome to the June 2006 issue of GEC NEWS. Happy reading...

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  • NZAID continues to fund Global Focus
  • 7 NZ delegates to attend first Pacific Youth Festival
  • Just Focus Member selected to go to United World College
  • New staff take Treaty Training
  • Global Perspectives: A journey of identity through Hip Hop culture
  • Global Bits Identity - who are you in the global village?
  • News from Dev-Zone
  • Global Issues #18 out now!
  • Poverty resource redesigned
  • Disparities in development resource out now!

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  • Engaging young people in Global Citizenship on thier terms
  • The Global Issues Club

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  • Movies with a message
  • Thinking about famine

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  • Trade Aid offers fair trade chocolate option for shcools and community fundraisers
  • Pacific Youth Festival
  • Ministry of Youth Development take action guide
  • World Urban Forum and UN Habitat Global Hip Hop Mainstage
  • Do you want to be a voice for youth at the Digital Earth Summit?

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  • Global Bits Identity - who are you in the global village?
  • Global Perspectives: A journey of identity through Hip Hop culture
  • Letter to the President
  • Turtles can fly
  • Lord of war
  • Hunger for Land
  • The Perfect Famine
  • Higher Ground
  • Coming Ready or Not: preparing for natural disasters

• THE NEW CORROBOREE

• The oral traditions of Aboriginal societies have paved the way for a vibrant hip-hop scene, but the local rappers are not simply mimicking US styles, Tony Mitchell finds. It is also helping preserve indigenous languages.

• Why the Democratic Ethic of the World Wide Web May Be About to End

  The World Wide Web is the most democratic mass medium there has ever been. But the vision is being threatened by telecommunications and cable companies, and other Internet service providers, that want to impose a new system of fees that could create a hierarchy of Web sites.
  

• Jamaican boys behaving badly: changing schools to change male behaviour

  Jamaica has one of the highest homicide rates in the world, mostly committed by young men. Their socialisation begins at home but continues in a society that holds strong stereotypes about male behaviour; Boys learn to adopt a ‘macho' and disruptive attitude within school.

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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

Jacob Chanowski