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One in six South Africans struggle with a mental disorder.
CAPE TOWN, Apr 4, 2011 (IPS/Street News Service)
By Jamie Elkon* Since psychiatric care was decentralised last year in South Africa, patients have been moved from hospitals into community day hospitals that don’t have the appropriate resources to deal with mental illnesses. As a result, many of society’s most vulnerable have slipped through the cracks in the system and now walk the streets like invisible people…………. /cont.
by Daniel Kessler
The voices for climate action come from everywhere. This weekend both the Dalai Lama, at a speech in India, and scientists publishing a paper in Nature, brought the world’s attention to the melting of the earth’s glaciers, a reality that is dramatically changing landscapes and threatening millions who depend on glaciers for fresh water…..
In India, the Dalai Lama, at the centenary celebrations of India’s former President R. Venkataraman, said that “since millions of Indians use water coming from the Himalayan glacier, so you have certain right to show your concern about ecology of that plateau.”———- /cont
via As Minsters Meet at Climate Talks, Reports of Massive Glacier Melting Pour In : TreeHugger.
. Small debris-free plateau glacier with glacier lakes at Gangrinchemzoe Pass at 5,200 m, south of the main Himalayan divide, Bhutan. Photo via USGS
………Since the rapprochement with the country following their 2003 decision to no longer develop weapons of mass destruction that climaxed in Tony Blair’s 2005 visit to Gaddafi, deals worth many millions and too numerous to mention have been signed, all available for dissection at the Foreign Office website. The increase in licensing of exports following Blair’s visit is stark, from a meagre £500,000 in 2004 to a £41 million deal in 2005. Nor were these “non-violent” weapons: heavy machine guns, components for tanks, APCs and turrets were shipped to Gaddafi’s regime alongside thermal imaging equipment, gun mountings, radios and fire control systems. At the same time, Shell signed a deal worth £550 million to explore oil fields off the coast of Libya. Blair’s part of the bargain was not only arming the regime, but also deporting dissident refugees in Britain back to Libya where they faced torture and even death……….
….As Cameron said in response to Gaddafi’s declaration of a non-existent ceasefire, actions speak louder than words. His own actions when he toured the Middle East hawking weapons to corrupt and bloodthirsty autocracies reveal that he truly is the “heir to Blair”. With the UK and US now openly talking about arming the rebels, we have to seriously question whether or not those arms will go to the rag-tag guerrillas dressed in football shirts who launched the revolution from the back of pick-up trucks, or the suited and uniformed ex-Gaddafi insiders and former officers whose intentions are not clear and who will no doubt have no problem with maintaining the flow of oil and guns, in a Libya divided by and locked in civil war if needs must. Given their dedicated and lucrative support of Gaddafi as recently as six months ago, can we really trust our government’s claim to humanitarianism?
The Free World Charter is a document that proposes an advanced alternative society that uses no money, is free, fair, and sustainable.
It is neither political nor religious. It is simply sense, science and survival.
This is our world and we can choose a better society now if we want it.
Please read and sign The Free World Charter today at http://www.freeworldcharter.org
via Let’s make everything FREE! An introduction to The Free World Charter. – Money-Free.
Shaming of a repeated sexist agressor inside the Free Transport movement in Sao Paolo (see video)
Texto do panfleto: escracho público a agressor no 11º ato contra o aumento
Posted on 2011/03/31 by feministascontraoaumento
PARA COPIAR-COLAR-DIFUNDIR!
Por um mundo sem catracas e sem violência machista!
Estamos aqui hoje para falar de um assunto que tem nos afetado muito nesses meses de luta contra o aumento: a presença de um agressor de mulheres no centro das mobilizações.
Há cerca de 6 meses um dos militantes do movimento passe livre de São Paulo ameaçou de morte, perseguiu, constrangeu, agrediu verbalmente, insultou e limitou o espaço físico de uma companheira de movimentos sociais autônomos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvqBxEFJMy0
Fazemos essa denúncia porque esse agressor continua frequentando os mesmos espaços políticos como se não houvesse acontecido nada ou como se aquilo que aconteceu não tivesse relevância política nenhuma. Que as agressões cometidas contra as mulheres sejam vistas como algo de pouca importância infelizmente não nos surpreende. Os movimentos sociais têm muita dificuldade de enfrentar coletivamente e publicamente as violências machistas que acontecem em seu meio. É estranho ver como as bocas daqueles que defendem todo o tempo que tudo é coletivo ou que assim deveria ser, ficam caladas nesse
Complicity, Duplicity, Monstrosity, Let me count the ways. A numerate response to the apparitions of neo-liberal confinement.
Nic Beuret
1. The violence comes in waves of shock, panic and terror. As the waves crash, outrage emerges as the universal emotional condition: so commonplace as to become another affliction like an obsession with the weather. People are outraged about what is being cut and from whom. Others are outraged about occupations and property damage. With baton charges and things thrown from roofs. People are outraged about the complicity of the TUC, the duplicity of the Liberal Democrats and the so-called self-interest of students and public sector workers.
2. Outrage flies in all directions, creating a numb sense of brutality. There are two faces to this brutality. It is productive of both our ability to solve the twin crisis of profitability and governance and to their policing of our labouring bodies.
3. But outrage gives us no special insight: it is mere reaction. So it must be put to one side. We need to see why our struggles, actions and protests have invited the intensity of violence that they did. We must look to what the theatre of baton charges, horse charges and late night imprisonment meant.
4. The police are not merely an agent of repression. The idea of the police evolved from a set of practices……….
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