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Holmer Green Senior School tells Ve...
After hearing about Vedanta's operations in Orissa, India, 150 Year 8 pupils at Ho...
gb on 22 July 2010 | 1 comment
Hugh Thomas. Consume to live; or li...
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. Socrates Greek philosopher in Athens...
Hugh Thomas (Cardiff) on 26 September 2009 | 10 comments
Free the VJs
Images from The Burma VJ 'Free the VJs' campaign which calls for the release of po...
Helen McTaggart on 12 August 2009 | 0 comments
"Tomorrow is forever"... a song I w...
"Tomorrow is forever" is a song I wrote with my band NUEVE as a support for the Hu...
Antonio on 02 January 2009 | 1 comment
Reasons why...
Sometimes it's important to let people see why we are here all together trying to ...
Antonio on 17 December 2008 | 3 comments
Hooray!
Grapes of Wrath
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24) Empty Table
‘...The year is 2085 and Yasmin’s teacher has taken the small class to the local museum .Their assignment is to discover how their ravaged world has come to be. As they enter the darkened central chamber, a single ray illuminates the object displayed on a blackened pedestal, a thing so forbidding that its vague form – let alone the messages it contains- sends a chill of horror through the awed children. As they draw closer they begin to feel its power. Closer and they can at last make out what is, this fount of all the ruin, the suffering, the hunger, the loss. It is a cookbook.
Those raised on conventional museums are accustomed to the guns, swords, religious symbols, and legal documents with which our thuggish ancestors imposed their views on their fellows, or died in the attempt. The victors had the privilege of framing history the way they liked. In the food wars to come, however, there will be no victors - only victims, and they will see the matter differently. The typical early twenty-first century cookbook, with its gorgeous illustrations, elegiac combinations of the failing fruits of the Earth with those that cost us the climate, water, soil, and our safety to produce is, unambiguously, a recipe for disaster on a planetary scale...’
Extract from the book : The Coming Famine by Julian Cribb (publisher University of California press).
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Generally the human being think only about the outsider shell and ..........
production of the food terms in the world are always more (about...
Well Done Holmer Green - sounds like the group is going strong.
Happy Christmas
Isobel
Amnesty
Education and Student team
The conveyor belt of death: Secret footage shows how millions of unwanted British chicks are killed every year
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/...
IMAGE The Breaking of Animals
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Bag for shopping and recycling - so fostering 'feeling good' about consumerism - don't buy it.
This interesting article raises issues about how far away from an issue of human rights can you go before ignoring it and take the revenue ? For instance an American architectural company is designing a campus for Vedanta's proposed university in India, a company well known from the Demand Dignity campaign. A company close to where I live in Bristol, UK, manufactures the signs for Shell, another company well known from the Demand Dignity campaign. Both companies talk about sustainable environmental issues, clients as role models, ethical values etc.on their web sites. I've received no replies from either of them in the past when I raised human rights issues . Even closer to home my university sources its water from Eden Springs, a company known to be involved in the extraction of water from the Golan Heights, which has been illegally occupied by the Israeli's for a number of years. It seems wrongly in my mind that the further away you are from the direct issues involved the more you seem to see them in a blurred fashion.
The tentacles of business reach out and ensnare everybody !!
Very interesting conversation there. I've recently seen Ed Kashi's photos from the Niger Delta at the Human Rights Action Centre. If you want to take action on Shell and their human rights abuses... - http://www.amnesty.org.uk/s...