COMMUNITACTION: Information Without Action Is Silent - The Action Is Blind Without Information

Thursday, February 22, 2007

Monterey Aquarium Weeding Price

B (ENI) IRAQUENI: appeal against the online sale of ENI oil iraqueno

The story begins on 1 May 2003, with the settlement at the head of the U.S. proconsul Paul Bremer in Iraq after the removal of Saddam Hussein. Bremer is the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA , now dissolved) that launches the new constitutional iraqueno, comprising among other things, orders 100 ( orders) for the reconstruction of the economic system iraqueno and management of its resources .

The leitmotif of the new economic policy iraquena, as is clear from the orders, is the privatization of state resources, not excluding oil, which will be produced and distributed by multinationals, especially U.S., thus making the place the state oil company iraquena. Thanks to the PSA, the Production Sharing Agreements, literally "production sharing agreements," the monopoly of foreign multinational oil iraqueno will be for the next 30 / 40 years, with losses of 2 to 7 times the national budget of Iraq. But there's more: to take part in the sale of oil iraqueno ENI is once again at the apex in the news after the abduction of engineers in Darfur and interest Nasiriyah.

's why many NGOs and associations, including A Bridge to , CRBM , Amisnet (which also advances proposals for alternative management of oil iraqueno) seek to sign the online petition to Economy Minister Tommaso Padoa Schioppa to demand that Italy, through the state-owned ENI, which is for 32 %, distances himself from the plunder of oil resources iraquene.

Again comes the confirmation that the economic system, in its attempt to monopoly of natural resources, lies at the heart of world conflicts, from which one can leave not only with difficult political maneuvering (Italy is an obvious example ), but first of all with the spread of an alternative model of development, as proposed by the Countryside to reform the World Bank .

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Milena Velba En El Bus

FALL OF LAW: budget a one-year term on human and civil rights

The resignation of Romano Prodi, after "five of spades" on the Senate vote on foreign policy, authorizing an assessment of a year of government on of human and civil rights, regardless of how the situation will evolve in the coming hours. The

large sums allocated by the Budget and funding war costs of the missions of "peacekeeping " in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon have led to cuts in many areas of public spending, including on international cooperation in cutting threatened but then withdrawn. Economic interests and the international prestige has been the main driving force of foreign policy, as evidenced by the division ENI 's oil iraqueno (One thinks of the dramatic story of the technicians kidnapped in Darfur), the race with other states sending and command of the UNIFIL mission in Lebanon, the disregard for military purposes and declared the environmental impact of base in Vicenza.

Staying on the environmental front, despite the recent initiatives on energy conservation and the fact that liberalization has not touched the goods of mass consumption such as water , the government went ahead on the path of "great works" as TAV and Moses, but of questionable utility and considerable environmental damage.

There were, however, calls for a political solution and not of recent military conflicts in the world and a foreign policy of the previous bolder in criticizing U.S. unilateralism (like during the bombing of Nigeria); also important travel diplomats in Africa (Italy is the only state to essersene concerned) and in India, with the call of Prime Minister Gandhi , and commitment against the death penalty.

In terms of rights have been at least discussed issues of civil unions, euthanasia and alleged violations of the CPT for immigrants.

The fall of its own government on matters related to the theme of war, along with the decline because sending Blair's troops in Iraq and Bush's Vietnam iraqueno, show how the search for a non-military solution to the international problems is a necessity not only linked to human rights, but also in the interest of stability of each government.

Saturday, February 17, 2007

What Color Sofa Goes With Dark Hardwood Floors

PEACE MAD

"One Saturday fear of anti-American ", "100,000 crazy in the streets", "Pacifism terrifies Vicenza" are these titles some newspapers commenting on the large demonstration in Vicenza against the expansion of the military base, which is, as we have already seen , a location for the next offensive in Afghanistan and Iraq announced by the U.S. Congress, in addition to causing a cost significant environmental. Yet you are still unable to get out of the logic of the opposition party, understand that peace is a value that goes beyond the definitions, right, left, global, not global, American, anti-American. The paradox is that the words that accompany a demonstration against the war, in which a humanity kills itself, words are just war: "fear", "crazy", "terror", as if to be crazy, scary and awe, was the hope of a future in which problems are resolved by other means, not war. Even more paradoxical words of a head of government for the logic of coalition and international reputation by its agreement to a base, even when used for purposes declared "civilian", "living" is still a military base . And this is even more surprising when you consider that the same person a few days before the tomb of Mahatma Gandhi , said: "Too often we did not follow his teaching," and praised Mother Teresa as an example for all, an example of what the world needs. "

A flag hanging from a balcony is our condition: the window from which we view the world can still carry a strong message that "eye for an eye and the world goes blind" (MK Gandhi).

Tuesday, January 9, 2007

Cruising Places In Indaina

FRENCH RED CURTAIN: The Enfants de Don Quichotte for the right to housing

E ' news today the award by the French government of 27,000 dwellings for the homeless, after the symbolic protest 's Association Médecins du Monde , that in a year has distributed 400 tents to the homeless of Paris, to save them from the cold and give visibility to the problem. To raise awareness public on the plight of the homeless also contributed to the association Les Enfants de Don Quichotte who mounted along the canal S. Martain 150 tents, occupied by the middle of real homeless people and the other half provided by the French house. A protest was necessary, as stated Le Monde, in the 'year of the housing crisis. " The housing problem in France is not just about the homeless, forced to refuse the accommodation centers for asylum, and violent places where it is impossible to remain fixed, but also ordinary citizens.

Despite criticism of the initiative Le Figaro , which provides housing and there would be other reasons for the protest, Liberation speaks of an "action that has been able to tap into the collective consciousness of a period of unbridled consumerism," echoed The Manifesto , calling the initiative "a new way of doing politics", given by the mobilization of an entire country moved with indignation because a few people .

But if "the curtains are not a solution but the visibility of the lack of a solution," said Didier as Kussern, head of the association dedicated to the homeless Emmaus the solution for the long term is tackling the causes of the problem of homelessness and reintegration into society homeless , for which advance of proposals, including the Monitoring on national homeless.

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Français abstract

Numerous French Citizens, Guided By The association Les Enfants de Don Quichotte, HAVE slept in tents Along the channel 200 S. Martaine, in order to Obtain a home for people living outside.