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Augusta civil rights leader explains Kellogg project to reduce violence, improve l...
Several black-colleges in Georgia - including Paine College in Augusta - are partners in a new project to lower violence, reduce the influence of gangs and drugs, increase quality of life, proviide HIV/AIDS information and provide access to healthcare facilities for low-income and underserved residents
The three-year project is funded by a $255,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation,
"We have identified violence as a public health issue," said Rev. Terence A. Dicks, chairman of New Tools New Vision Augusta in an interview with the United Methodist News Service.
New Tools, New Vision is teaming the resources of the Southeast Community Research Center, the Research Center on Health Disparities at Morehouse College in Atlanta and four communities surrounding historically black colleges and universities in Georgia.
In addition to Paine (a United Methodist school), other colleges participating include Morehouse College in Atlanta, Savannah State University, Albany State University and Fort Valley State University.
The Kellogg grant will build problem-solving partnerships in several cities including Augusta where Paine College faculty will work with inner city communities residents are victims of violence, plagued by youth gangs and are witnesses to a dramatic rise in gun crimes (30901, 30906 zip codes).
Augusta is home to the prestigious and exclusive Masters Golf Tournament at the famous Augusta National Golf Club - that's a rich enclave located near some of Augusta's poorest communities.
The excellent story is written by UMNS Reporter Linda Green
Rev. Dicks is well known for his civil rights work in Georgia and recently served as chair of the Augusta Human Relations Commission and is chair of the Georgia Clients Council.
He co-organized the original 1986 James Brown Appreciation day in Augusta, the first time the town had honored the late Godfather of Soul. Several black-colleges in Georgia - including Paine College in Augusta - are partners in a new project to lower violence, reduce the i... more -
China building green city on island near Shanghai
While the Chinese government has never been known for its environmental consideration, a new city springing up there on an island in the mouth of the Yangtze River may start to change all of that. Bulldozers have already broken ground on Chongming, where China is constructing an earth-friendly city from scratch catering to the overflowing masses from nearby Shanghai as well as those displaced by the massive and ongoing Three Gorges dam project.
Many of the details about Chongming's purported environmentally friendly features are not yet known, but include the proposition to only allow electric cars onto the island. Meanwhile, construction in the new city will have to meet sustainability standards. And the wetlands around the island's perimeter, still teeming with wildlife, will be protected by a five-kilometer wide buffer zone comprising around 30 percent of the new city's proposed land mass.
Meanwhile, many analysts remain skeptical about China's ability to follow through on its green plans for Chongming. After all, 16 of the world's 20 most polluted cities are in China, and continuing pressure to develop may only make matters worse. Even on Chongming, long a sleepy backwater where farmers still get around the island's dirt roads via donkey carts, wetlands and the wildlife species that thrive in such environments have been quickly disappearing. Nevertheless, the same skeptics are hoping that the planned sustainable city on Chongming is a harbinger for greener things to come within the world's most populous nation. ...
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from TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com where we encourage building homes for those living in poverty worldwide with recycled glass and plastic bottles, cans, and tires like the Earthships in Taos, New Mexico http://current.com/items/88602021_bottles_cans_and_tire...
and the Bottle Houses in Bolivia.
http://current.com/items/85280691_this_glass_house
via emagazine.com
China Building Green City on Island Near Shanghai
April 25, 2006
Reporting by Roddy Scheer
While the Chinese government has never been known for its environmental consideration, a new city springing up there on an island in t... more -
HillaryClinton.com - Mother's Day Speech in West Virginia
HillaryClinton.com
Senator Hillary Clinton gives Mother's Day Speech near West Virginia town where Mother's Day was started 100 years ago....
Senator Hillary Clinton said, "I wanted to begin by saluting my own mother who couldn't be here, because my mother, as some of you may have heard me say or read in my book, didn't have the benefit of a stable family growing up. Her parents were unable to care for their two young daughters and were divorced in the 1920s which wasn't very comment back then. My eight year old mother and her five year old sister were sent away on a train all by themselves from Chicago to California to live with grandparents who had little interest in raising them.
So when my mother was about 14, she left that home and was hired as a live'in helper by a woman who encouraged and supported her. My mom took care of the children in the morning, got them off to school, then she could go to high school, she would come right back and take care of them when the kids got home from school. She never had the chance to go to college, but she was determined that her own children would have that chance.
As I grew older and learned more about my mother's own story, it really impressed upon me more fully what it took for her to forge ahead in the face of life's challenges. I saw how hard she worked every single day to support my father and our family, to raise me and my brothers, and to be involved in teaching Sunday School to helping out at the neighborhood school.
My mother didn't have the luxury to put up her feet and take a breather. She just kept going, kept working, kept meeting her responsibilities and pursuing her dreams for her children so that we could have opportunities that she, and prior generations, never ever dreamed of. She wasn't alone.
Judging from the mothers I meet across our country, I've come to believe that hard work, determination and resiliency are encoded in our DNA. We know we have the "worrying" gene. We know we have the "put your coat on because it's cold outside" gene. Well, we also have the "stand up and fight for what you believe in" gene...."
Read full speech at link.
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Rising ranks of Iraqi widows making new class of poor single mothers
Suad Rzuki Aboud lost her husband, three sons and a son-in-law when Sunni insurgents blew up the family bakery. As she held her dying husband, "I was pleading for anyone to help," says Aboud, 50. "No one came."
Aboud, her youngest son and widowed daughter fled their Shiite neighborhood with "just the clothes on our backs" and wound up as squatters in an apartment with eight other people. She sold her last possessions, two gold bracelets, to pay the rent. She survives on $50 a month from the government.
Violence in this country creates more widows by the day, and some members of parliament and women's advocates warn of a growing class of poor, single mothers unable to raise Iraq's next generation.
They say the situation has been made worse by U.S.-backed constitutional changes that allow each religious sect to decide its own rules on marriage, divorce, inheritance and child custody.
The shrinking of women's rights in marriage "is as important as the oil issue," says Maysoon Al-Damluji, a secular member of Iraq's parliament.
She says Article 41 of Iraq's new constitution is "a recipe for disaster." If parliament implements it, the deference to Islamic law would reverse gains made under a 1959 law that gave Iraqi women greater rights than in any other Arab country, women's advocates say.
Nathan Brown, director of the Institute for Middle East Studies at George Washington University, says parliament has not yet implemented Article 41, but "in practice, Iraqi civil courts have taken sect into account in personal status matters."
A bill that would help widows and other single women get job training, housing, health care and other help has stalled in parliament. Al-Damluji says the legislation was "not fully thought through" and some lawmakers think it's too expensive.
'Social stigma'
At least 70,000 women have been widowed by bloodshed since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, says Narmeen Othman, acting minister of women's affairs. Of about 1.3 million widows, 80% lost husbands in conflicts, including the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980, the Persian Gulf War in 1991 and sectarian uprisings.
Othman says a fraction of the poorest, about 86,000, receive $35 to $100 a month from the government.
Many more need help because women often lack skills or family support for them and their children. And employers still prefer to hire men, Al-Damluji says.
"In the eyes of society, women always need a man to protect them and keep them straight," she says. "There is still some social stigma about a woman being on her own."
Suad Rzuki Aboud lost her husband, three sons and a son-in-law when Sunni insurgents blew up the family bakery. As she held her dying ... more -
Power Exchange: Family Values
Ever wanted to know who's wild enough to run a sex club? Is it run by closeted conservatives? Is it run by nymphomaniacs? Or is it run by family?
Check out what family values really mean in Part 2 of our 3 part series on The Power Exchange.
Make sure to also catch Part 3 of our series, Power Exchange: Sexual Values, where we explore how the customers and employees of The Power Exchange view American sexual values. Ever wanted to know who's wild enough to run a sex club? Is it run by closeted conservatives? Is it run by nymphomaniacs? Or is it run... more -
Alice - The story of a family and their disabled child | Contact a Family
Ten-year old Alice was born with Sturge-Weber syndrome, a congenital disorder involving the brain, skin and eyes. This is the story of a family and their experiences in caring for a disabled child.
For more information on Sturge-Weber syndrome, please visit the Contact a Family directory: http://www.cafamily.org.uk/Direct/s63.html
If you would like any information about specific conditions or rare disorders, you can access the Contact a Family Directory here:
http://www.cafamily.org.uk/dirworks.html Ten-year old Alice was born with Sturge-Weber syndrome, a congenital disorder involving the brain, skin and eyes. This is the story of... more -
R.A.W.A. - Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan Speak Out
This is a link to the latest newsletter from R.A.W.A. (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan) with 17 news items on life in Afghanistan.
1. A Young Girl Kidnapped in Baghlan Province
2. Unidentified assailants blow up school in Khost
3. Afghan Disenchantment
4. Unemployment, drought force youth out of Samangan Province
5. Her son killed for a gold ring, an Afghan mother wants justice
6. Afghanistan: 'Opium Brides' pay the price
7. Afghan lawmakers pass resolution aimed at censoring un-Islamic images on TV
8. Pakistan 'dumped nuclear waste' in Afghanistan
9. UN: Afghanistan still heavily mined
10. Afghan woman MP challenges parliament expulsion
11. Forced Taking and Seizure of the Properties of the People of Sar-e-Pul
12. 8-year Old Girl Raped in Takhar Province
13. Around 40 civilians killed in a deadly airstrike by US-led coalition
14. What “Freedom” Brought to Afghanistan
15. Mass grave discovered in Afghan north
16. Children work in brick factories to help pay off family debts
17. Afghans Battle Drug Addiction
There can be no peace without justice. Women and families in Afghanistan want the same thing women and families want worldwide, freedom, peace and justice. Work and pray for justice across the earth.
This is a link to the latest newsletter from R.A.W.A. (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan) with 17 news items on li... more -
The Water is One - Indians Canoe Protest : Moratorium on Uranium Mining
The Water is One. Everything we put into the water ends up somewhere downstream in someone else's water supply.
Indians in the Americas join with indigenous and indigenous minded people worldwide to say the Water is Sacred and anything we do to water, we do to ourselves.
Hear Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley, Jr. and other indigenous leaders talk about the water and why uranium mining must not be renewed on Navajo lands.
http://current.com/items/88908901_youtube_uranium_minin...
http://current.com/items/88905521_democracy_now_the_nav...
http://current.com/items/88905515_uranium_impact_assess...
http://current.com/items/88905690_leetso_the_powerful_y...
See the beauty of Navajo Country and Canyon de Chelly in the heart of the Dine Nation.
http://www.flickr.com/gp/30209764@N00/CsUKjv
From your friends at TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog where every day is Earth Day. The Water is One. Everything we put into the water ends up somewhere downstream in someone else's water supply. ... more -
On the Road with Mixed Blood Radio and TouchArt Salon - a set on Flickr
On the Road with Mixed Blood Radio and TouchArt Salon.
- June 2007
- Realizing the Dream Listening and Learning Tour, TouchArt's Charleen Touchette, Liesette Paisner and Photographer Sage Paisner guided Martin Luther King III on the Albuquerque and rural Northern New Mexico segment of his RTD Tour to End Poverty in America. Martin King met with elders, community leaders, families and children in Chimayo, Cordova, Truchas, Picuris, Ohkay Owinghe and Santa Clara Indian Pueblos
Summer/Fall 2006
- Winona LaDuke with Son in Santa Fe for Native Foods Festival -
August - October 2006
- Mixed Blood Radio Tour gathering taped interviews with Indian, Mixed Blood, Indigenous and Indigenous-Minded Artists, Authors, Healers and Leaders in Minnesota, South Dakota, California, and New Mexico.
- Winter 2007
- Oppression/Tradition Exhibition by Oppressionist Artist Sage Paisner, Albuquerque, NM.
- "Chairs for Charity" "Schoolgirl Chair" for Santa Fe Design Week.
- Santa Fe Photo Workshop participant photographed Charleen Touchette beading on Canyon Road.
Spring/2007
- TouchArt Ltd Unity Mural and Plaza Proposal April 2007
- "Calling the Bees" New Art by American Artist and Activist Charleen Touchette
Summer/2007
-TouchArt Book Release for Albuquerque Blues by Jacques Paisner.
Pictures of Jacques Paisner's life as a child in Chinle and Tuba City, Arizona 1984-87,. Spring 2007 - Window Rock, Crownpoint, and Chama.
- TouchArt Artist of the Month Philip Vigil from Dulce Jicarilla Apache at Chama Lodge. On the Road with Mixed Blood Radio and TouchArt Salon. - June 2007 ... more -
YouTube - Uranium Mining Hearing - azdailysun.com
Uranium Hearings on whether to allow uranium mining in and near Grand Canyon and elsewhere in Arizona.
Hear Navajo President Joe Shirley, Jr., and other Indian leaders decry the desecration of the water and land.
This message from your friends at TouchArt.net and One Earth Blog. Uranium Hearings on whether to allow uranium mining in and near Grand Canyon and elsewhere in Arizona. ... more -
PPI: Bush vs. Clinton: An Economic Performance Index by Robert D. Atkinson and Jul...
Poverty Reduction21
Poverty statistics are telling indicators of the country's economic health. The number of Americans below the poverty line fell 2.29 percent annually in the Clinton years, but has since gone up 4.33 percent annually in the Bush years. Poverty Reduction21 ... more -
DEVELOPMENT: Turning the Tide on Human Suffering
"If the world's growing water crisis remains unresolved -- depriving clean water to more than one billion of the world's six billion people -- it will jeopardise the U.N.'s longstanding battle to reduce global poverty, hunger and disease by its targeted date of 2015, the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) warned Thursday."
From your friends at TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog because today and every day is Earth Day. "If the world's growing water crisis remains unresolved -- depriving clean water to more than one billion of the world's six billion ... more -
Everyone their Grain of Sand - Maclovio Rojas fights globalization
Beth Bird's EVERYONE THEIR GRAIN OF SAND chronicles the struggles of the fiercely determined citizens of Maclovio Rojas, Tijuana, Mexico, as they battle the state government's attempts to evict them from their land to make way for corporate development. Over a three-year period, we follow the remarkably spirited and resourceful residents as they build a school by hand and persistently petition the state for such basic services as running water and pay for their teachers. The government responds with a combination of bureaucratic stonewalling and the systematic persecution of community leaders--eventually arresting one leader and forcing others into hiding, where they remain to this day. This heartbreaking and intimate documentary balances these hardships with glimpses of hard-won triumphs and the rhythm of daily life--an elementary school graduation or time at home with family--to remind us what the community is fighting for. The film provides a rare glimpse of the human cost of economic globalization in a part of the world where working people are valued only as cheap labor to fuel the profits of multinational corporations.
Beth Bird's EVERYONE THEIR GRAIN OF SAND chronicles the struggles of the fiercely determined citizens of Maclovio Rojas, Tijuana, Mexi... more -
On the Issues on Hillary Clinton and Commitment to Poverty
Hillary Clinton on Welfare & Poverty
Go to webpage above and click for 16 full quotes on Welfare & Poverty OR background on Welfare & Poverty.
* Partner with faith based community in empowerment zones. (Dec 2007)
* Considered idea of $5000 at birth to pay for future college. (Oct 2007)
* Time-out for mortgage companies on march toward foreclosure. (Sep 2007)
* Wellesley thesis: Saul Alinsky & people over bureaucrats. (Jun 2007)
* Hedge funds incentivize risk, but need regulation. (Apr 2007)
* Lazio weakened housing standards and limited public housing. (Oct 2000)
* Lazio fought against FHA on low-interest housing loans. (Oct 2000)
* Equal access to capital and jobs. (Jan 2000)
* Working should mean no poverty. (Jan 2000)
* Community involvement helps, but only in short term. (Dec 1999)
* Don’t criminalize the homeless. (Dec 1999)
* Microcredit is an invaluable tool in alleviating poverty. (Feb 1997)
* Link payments to good parenting behavior. (Feb 1997)
* Establish a National Affordable Housing Trust Fund. (Jul 2003)
* Tax credits to promite home ownership in distressed areas. (Apr 2003)
* Fully fund AmeriCorps. (Jun 2003) Hillary Clinton on Welfare & Poverty ... more -
Michael Jackson's family seek Devon hideaway
The family of Michael Jackson, the pop star, may move to Devon to escape the media spotlight...not so secret now...
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Men who do housework may get more sex
The average dad has gradually been getting better about picking himself up off the sofa and pitching in, according to a new report in which a psychologist suggests the payoff for doing more chores could be more sex. The average dad has gradually been getting better about picking himself up off the sofa and pitching in, according to a new report in ... more
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