Posted By:  juliabnewmoon Posted On:  Jul 16, 2008	orb28 Members Want to Know: What's the History of New Moon and orb28?
We've had some awesome discussions on the blog lately, and some questions come out of them too--which is just great! Recently, orb28 members have been curious about the history of New Moon and orb28, so I'll post a bit about that here. New Moon Girl Media was founded by Nancy Gruver, who was...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jul 11, 2008	Bahamas Equipped To Tackle The Future - Says Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham On The Country's 35th Birthday
PM: Bahamas Equipped to Tackle The Future: By TOSHEENA ROBINSON-BLAIR - Nassau, Bahamas: In his Independence Day address to the nation, Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham yesterday urged the Bahamas to draw on all its talents, resources and cultural strength in facing internal and external...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jul 7, 2008	The true story and the challenge of the Cuban journalists
Reflections of Fidel: SEVEN days ago I wrote about one of the great men in history: Salvador Allende, a man the world remembered with deep emotion and respect on his first centennial. However, no one quivered or even recalled the date of October 24, 1891, when the Dominican despot Rafael...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jul 6, 2008	The McCain Tour and the Manifest Destiny of the U. S. Fourth Fleet
REFLECTIONS BY FIDEL: While I was preparing a reflection about McCain's relationship with the anti-Cuban terrorist mafia in Miami and other related subjects of historical interest, fresh news was flowing about this character that is being projected by the empire’s hawks as Bush’s...... [view]

Posted By:  ReillyY Posted On:  Jul 5, 2008	Coal Trucks and Consumerism in Inner Mongolia
Last night I returned to Beijing after two weeks of scientific research in the “autonomous region” of Inner Mongolia, China. I won’t bore anyone with details of my roamings, but during the trip I did notice a couple of things that got me thinking about China’s rapidly...... [view]

Posted By:  mydemand Posted On:  Jul 2, 2008	SOLS 24/7 - Education & Support for the Marginalized
The SOLS (Science of Life) 24/7 organization, founded by the family of young Malaysian social entrepreneur Raj Ridhvan Singh (recently shortlisted as one of KLue’s Blue Chillies ) builds boarding schools across Cambodia, Timor Leste, and Malaysia for marginalized young people. In...... [view]

Posted By:  ighih Posted On:  Jun 22, 2008	Peak-a-boo
You’ve heard it before - we are running out of stuff. Peak oil, peak food, peak xyz. Resource consumption generally follows a bell curve, where we increasingly consume something until we can’t consume it any faster, and then we start to run out of it and its use declines just as...... [view]

Posted By:  ascendency Posted On:  Jun 22, 2008	Peak-a-boo
You’ve heard it before - we are running out of stuff. Peak oil, peak food, peak xyz. Resource consumption generally follows a bell curve, where we increasingly consume something until we can’t consume it any faster, and then we start to run out of it and its use declines just as...... [view]

Posted By:  christopherbaan Posted On:  Jun 20, 2008	World Refugee Day: Displacement in the 21st Century. A new paradigm
The refugee challenge in the 21st century is changing rapidly. People are forced to flee their homes for increasingly complicated and interlinked reasons. Some 40 million people worldwide are already uprooted by violence and persecution, and it is likely that the future will see more people on...... [view]

Posted By:  juliabnewmoon Posted On:  May 22, 2008	Happy Turn Beauty Inside Out Day!
Today is Turn Beauty Inside Out Day! Back in 2000, your very own New Moon started this national initiative, and now it's headed up by the awesome non-profit Mind on the Media . Turn Beauty Inside Out Day is a way to spark awareness and dialogue about media images of girls and...... [view]

Posted By:  juliabnewmoon Posted On:  May 26, 2008	Girls Read Their Writings at Barnes & Noble in New York!
Girls Write Now , an awesome organization that gets girls writing, is holding its Spring Reading at the Tribeca, NY Barnes and Noble on June 8. Amazing feminist author Deborah Siegel will be there and hopes you'll join her if you live in the NY area! Know of any other girl readings...... [view]

Save A Family Plan
Submitted By:   AmySAFP Website:  http://www.safp.org/ Phone:  519-672-1115 E-mail:  safpinfo@safp.org	Vision:   SAFP, in partnership with the poor, fosters conditions that promote healthy families and communities so that they can contribute to sustainable development. • Lack of participatory decision-making and necessary action......   [view]

Action Lab on Economic Migration

Starter:   sbarbic Date Created:  May 1, 2008 [view]

Description:   The freeDimensional Action Lab on Economic Migration is interested in investigating the nexus between migration and detention. The Action Lab also wants to share and learn about stories from around... Goals:   (a) visiting detainees (b) online course (planning and media outreach) (c) From April 6-12, the Casa Frela Gallery in Harlem has offered its space in order that members of New York's Senegalese community can meet and plan a unified message on the situation of detained/warehoused Senegalese in the US. This process will culminate in the NYC Immigrant History Week event 'There to Here: African Immigrants in NYC' on April 19th The Shrine (venue) also in Harlem. The first step in the process will be supported by Dutch artists Wouter Osterholt and Elke Uitenhuis who conducted a similar artistic/planning charette (and documentation) on migration in the Netherlands - http://www.publicinterface.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=20&Itemid=68 (d) From April 21-24, freeDimensional will join the community of Santa Fe Art Institute for a lecture and workshop that will build on the experience raising awareness in New York City through a process that allows artists and interested community members to engage in the creation of a campaign that will be carried to Dakar, Senegal during the 2008 Dak'Art Biennale. Whereas the Senegalese community in NYC will add to the testimony of the detained economic migrants, the SFAI workshop will give an artistic treatment to the English/French/Wolof text compiled moving it from mere content to aesthetically viable pamphlet graphically designed to capture the attention of Dakar citizens, art world visitors and international journalists covering the Biennale. (e) operate from base of Atelier Moustapha DIME on Goree Island from May 5