WELCOME TO THE MAY 07 ISSUE

Tena koutou e te whanau. Welcome to the latest issue of GEC:NEWS

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  • Schools Update
  • Community Happenings
  • New Resource on Music for Change
  • Do-It-Yourself Guide
  • Youth Guide to International Volunteering
  • Just Focus
  • First Media that Matters Aotearoa run in Wellington
  • Dev-Zone Update

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  • The Arms Trade: Who's Buying and Who's selling?
  • Fairtrade Fortnight 2007

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  • New Bill to Impose Pharmaceutical Model on Natural Medicines
  • Climate Change Anxiety
  • Climate Change Refugees
  • Where Have All The Bees Gone?

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  • Global Citizenship Conference 2007
  • Climate Change - A Seminar for Teachers
  • Make a Short Film on Sustainability and Make a Difference!
  • Run a Media that Matters Film Event
  • Global Poetry Book
    
  • Youth Week 2007
  • World Environment Day
  • World Refugee Day 2007
  • Human Rights Film Festival
  • Therapeutic Products and Medicine Bill

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  • Global Bits: Music for Change
  • Global Bits: Take Action
  • World Changing: A User’s Guide
  • Take it Personally: An Action Guide for Conscious Consumers
  • 365 Ways to Change the World
  • We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People
  • The Better World Handbook
  • 50 Facts That Should Change The World
  • Seeing is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and News (DVD)
  • Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (DVD)
  • Breath of Peace (DVD)

• In A World of Misplaced Priorities

  Traders on Wall Street get more every Christmas in bonuses than the G8 gave Africa in 2004. Rich countries need to stop giving lectures to the poor and start putting their money where there mouth is.

• Row over Iraqi oil

  Adraftlaw being considered by the Iraqi parliament would enable UScompanies to takecontrolof Iraq's oil industry,oil experts in the countrysay. The proposed bill, approved by theIraqi government in February after months of wrangling, opens the country's oil sector to foreign investors 35 years afterit wasnationalised.

• Human Rights for chimps?!

  Hiasl, a 26-year old Austrian-based chimpanzee, is petitioning the courts for human status. His motivations are economic as his animal sanctuary has run out of funds, and, in Austria, only a person can receive personal donations.

• "He who invites the G8 summit, also invites the protest against it "

  Police raid 40 anti-G8 houses and projects in Hamburg, Berlin, and Bremen in the lead up to the Summit.

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Ignoring climate change will be the most costly of all possible choices, for us and our children.

Peter Ewins