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Jennifer Connelly, KarmaTube.org - 1.1 billion need safe water. Charitywater.org

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Is Los Angeles a third world city?

A new study from the Migration Policy Institute reports a third of the immigrant... more

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UK charity demands Freedom of Movement for all

The out spoken not for profit WORLDwrite which makes Global Equality non- negotiable is joining magasine Spiked to promote a new campaign to Open the borders and is calling on Current viewers to support this timely quest. As the British government launches its draconian 'points system' to limit immigration and releases reports which question the economic benefit of letting people into the UK, WORLDwrite is releasing a new short film entiled The More the Merrior which champions unfetterred Freedom of Movement for all.

This new short film, interwoven with compelling archive, provides a timely case for unfettered freedom of movement for all across the globe. Too many people? Too many immigrants? For The More the Merrier the answer is a deafening no.

Evocative sea shanty songs take us to St Katharine Docks on the Thames and set the scene. This was a landing and departure point for immigrants settling in the UK and emigrants heading off to the New World. Immigration and emigration represent striving for a better world, yet from the 1905 aliens act onwards the UK began to shut its’ borders. The film suggests that while attitudes to immigration have been de-racialised there has been more closure than ever before and situates today’s anti immigrant sentiment within a culture of limits.

The film incorporates inspiring arguments from the Battle of Ideas immigration debate and features Bruno Waterfield Brussels correspondent for The Daily telegraph who argues “anti immigration sentiments represent a closure of the historical imagination” and quoting American writer P J O’Rourke he points that if the whole of the worlds’ population moved to one place they would cover a space the size of former Yugoslavia at the same density as Manhatten and he says “Manhatten is a pretty good place to live.” Philippe Legrain author of Immigrants Your Country Needs Them explains internal migration outstrips migration overseas today and this has “not for example caused China to collapse.” Legrain ridicules the ‘points system’ and argues immigration controls today represent a form of global apartheid. Illustrating these points Sadhavi Sharma a young Indian student obliged to go home, explains why she wants to stay and has more friends here than in Bombay.

WORLDwrite Director Ceri Dingle explains:
“This is a positive pro immigration film, not a tragic story, not an exceptional case but a fresh appraisal of the debate with a much needed historical perspective. Cutting through the depressing low expectations we have for what is possible today, the title of the film says it all.”

The More the Merrier will be launched along with a further short documentary Cash Back (available on Current ) highlighting the role of remittances (monies sent by migrants and diasporas back to countries of origin) at the new Vibe Lounge, Brick lane, London E1 on Sunday 20th April at 6pm. Speakers will include Philippe Legrain, (Author Immigrants their country needs you) Claire Fox (Director Institute of Ideas) and a representative of Open the Borders – a spiked-online campaign.

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The Young Hardworking Poor of Rural Bangladesh

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Scotland's Fairtrade nation campaign backed by government

Scotland may become the world's first Fairtrade nations, and the plan has been... more

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Fairtrade sales soar, up 81%. But how fair is it?

The Fairtrade industry is booming. In 2007, we spent £493 million on Fairtrade... more

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Built in Kabul

Built in Kabul shows a side of Afghanistan you haven't seen: young Afghani's... more

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Make your voice be heard!

The Annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, is accepting the participation... more

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Think BIG

Think BIG showcases Ghanaians with big aspirations and big plans. Flash hotels, fab... more

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THIS IS MY WORLD THROUGH MY EYES!

All my life people told me that i betrayed my country that i should one day go... more

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Ending Famine, Simply by Ignoring the Experts

By doing as the West does and not as it says, Malawi has solved its famine problem and... more

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School in a box, for the world!

MIT Prof. Nicholas Negroponte's dream is to put a laptop computer into the hands... more

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Life and debt - trailer--Jamaica No Problem?

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'$100 laptop' begins production

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SICKO now available on DVD

Our current system is not working. Michael Moore hits another home run with his... more

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Sarah McLachlan - World On Fire

Sarah explains where all the money went. If I were to have a celebrity crush, I think... more

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Frankenfoods

About 70% of the food we eat contains genetically modified ingredients and is not... more

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Al Gore at the UN: Joint attack on climate change and poverty needed

24 September 2007

A new Marshall Plan is needed to simultaneously tackle global warming and poverty, the environmental activist and former United States Vice-President Al Gore told an audience at United Nations Headquarters in New York today. We now face a global crisis that makes it abundantly clear that increased carbon dioxide emissions anywhere are a threat to the integrity of this planets climate everywhere, Mr. Gore told a luncheon event called Global Voices on Climate Change. The event, hosted by Denmark, Indonesia, Kenya and Poland, was held on the sidelines of the largest-ever gathering of world leaders on climate change.

Increased emissions are responsible for rising temperatures and rising sea levels, which combine to elevate both food and water insecurity worldwide, Mr. Gore said.The old divide between North and South, between developed and developing, is now obsolete, he told the events participants, who included 40 heads of State or government, nine deputy prime ministers and vice presidents and 70 cabinet ministers from all over the world.We must link poverty reduction with the sharp reduction of carbon dioxide emissions, he noted, calling for a plan of attack like that of the Marshall Plan, the post-World War II European reconstruction initiative of the US to tie the struggles against climate change and poverty.

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This is the reason why his work now is being rewarded, because he can now state what he could not state as a "candidate" in this system that rewards nothing but kowtowing to the corporate masters. Though, Mr. Gore, I hope when you made that statement you realized that it is the World Bank through their strings attached loan schemes that have bankrupted many countries with the promise of aid, especially regarding their bribery of countries in order to have their water systems privatized.

Privitization is not taking people out of poverty either, it is exacerbating it on the whole. We need to see micro loans and other types of opportunities made available to the poor along with the tools necessary, ESPECIALLY education and information to teach them how to meet this challenge without relying on organizatioins like the World Bank, the IMF, and other new world order type organizations seeking to keep the poor down in order to make themselves richer. We have to recognize that water is a human right and hold corporations and governments accountable for using it as a weapon and exploiting its scarcity for their own gain like I believe John Howard of Australia has done.

We also have to bring small communities around the world into the alternate energy market (as in biofuels that are not going to deplete food and water resources) to keep it local and to keep it out of the hands of conglomerates such as Archer Daniels Midland that are taking advantage of this water and food insecurity for their own benefit. Corn ethanol is not the answer. Bringing parity to the market, rewarding those companies that understand their moral and ethical responsibilities now, and introducing more to that process will spark innovations, jobs, and hope.

Keeping it in the hands of the same groups will do nothing but continue the viscious cycle we are in now. I know you understand that, and that is why through your Climate Project I hope to see the seeds of hope planted globally. You are doing a great thing here, and I for one thank you for these words. I sincerely hope those you spoke them too understand this as well and begin to act on them now. We cannot save ourselves without ourselves.24 September 2007 A new Marshall Plan is needed to simultaneously tackle global... more

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New method for Cervical Cancer screening in Third World Countries

Where pap smear tests are not available or too expensive

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