Louisiana Needs To Be Shamed Into Doing The Right Thing
Posted By Brooke Shelby Biggs on January 31, 2012
Topic :Human_rights
Laura Sullivan of NPR’s All Things Considered put together an amazing, in-depth, comprehensive three-part story that fleshes out the complexities of the Angola 3 case and the setting for this tragedy in a way that no other single media story on the case has before. Please listen when you get a chance, and take time to read and understand the terrible punishment these innocence men have endured for 40 years.
Sustainable Communities Revolution To A New Way Of Living
Posted By Anita Roddick Team on January 26, 2012
Topic :Environment
We’ve just come across the below posting by Building Rural Self Sustainable Communities on Facebook, and thought we’d share it on as we like this notion and feel it’s where we all need to be:
REVOLUTION
The revolution will take place. The time and the method are still up in the air. Ideally it won’t be fought with guns, sanctions and weapons of mass destruction. It will be fought with acres of land, solar panels, rain collection, and off grid solutions. The goal is to stop participating in their system and to create our own. We can’t wait for Monsanto to grow a nicer plant for us. We have to turn every inch we have into a productive landscape, and use our resources to change the world in front of us.
If you want peace on earth. If you dream of a better way. If you want governments to shake in fear at the mention of its citizens then it’s time to embrace domestic change and reoccupy your house. Free yourself step by step from shackles to their world and truly become sovereign. Teach each other. Learn from each other. Help each other. Build a different possibility.
Come On Let’s Stop Being Ripped-Off for Gas & Electricity
Posted By Anita Roddick Team on January 19, 2012
Topic :Corporate Greed
Despite some of the gas and electricity suppliers having dropped their prices in the past few weeks, it really still isn’t anywhere near enough and we, the customers, are still be ripped off.
38 Degrees are running a campaign calling on the ‘Big Six’ to give customers a fair deal, to cut their prices, and stop creaming off huge profits. Companies are always quick off the mark to pass on price hikes but rarely do we see them passing on any prices cuts.
38 Degrees has over 1 million members and they are hoping that if enough people sign their petition they can drive down gas and electricity bills for everyone.
Please take just a few moments to complete their petition.
Transformers - Robots Made In Sweatshop
Posted By Anita Roddick Team on January 12, 2012
Topic :Human_rights
Did your children get any Hasbro Transformer toys for Christmas? If they did, you may not be aware that The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights (formerly the National Labor Committee) has released a report exposing that Hasbro Transformers are being made in the Jet Fair sweatshop in China.
Charles Kernaghan, Director of IGLHR, said ‘I challenge Hasbro’s executives to imagine their own sons and daughters working under such miserable sweatshop conditions. It doesn’t have to be this way.’
Responding To The Hopes Of The Arab Spring
Posted By Anita Roddick Team on January 3, 2012
Topic :Activism
Our friends at Global Witness whose current and ongoing campaign is aiming to assist Libyan authorities to implement transparency measures in the management of natural resources, to create a growth and stability in this new phase, have recently been invited to write an article for Alliance Magazine (a resource magazine for the philanthropy and social investment sectors) on one of 2011’s most striking events – the revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests occurring in the Arab world, also known as Arab Spring.
Global Witness was at the forefront of obtaining and publishing details of where Libyan oil funds were banked, making the front pages of the Washington Post, Financial Times and Le Monde, as well as being widely covered elsewhere.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed." -- Eisenhower
