Speakers Gordon Brown: British Prime Minister

About this talk. We're at a unique moment in history, says UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown: we can use today's interconnectedness to develop our shared global ethic -- and work together to confront the challenges of poverty, security, climate change and the economy.

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown played a key role in shaping the G20 nations' response to the world's financial crisis and has been a powerful advocate for a coordinated global response to problems such as climate change, poverty and social justice. UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is one of the world's most experienced political leaders, with a deep understanding of the global economy based on 10 years' experience as Great Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer. He has been a key architect of the G8's agreements on poverty and climate change, and has provided a passionate voice to encourage the developed world to aid struggling African countries. He is an advocate of global solutions for global problems -- through both the reinvention of international institution and the advancement of a global ethics.

Mr. Brown has promoted technology as a tool for economic (and environmental) recovery. With his charge to "count the carbon and the pennies," research on electric cars and residential energy efficiency are slated to become a major part of the UK's recovery plan. He has pushed for universal broadband and a general increase in spending on science. He has also sought to use new communication tools like Twitter and YouTube as a means to communicate government policy. "Brown does not run from the image of the homme sérieux." New York Review of Books

RIP: Michael Jackson - Man in the Mirror

Artsworld - Borneo's Music Revival - 30 Aug 08 - Part 2

Artsworld features South African writer and performance poet Lesego Rampolokeng, who is known for being outspoken on sensitive political issues.

With the recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa and election violence elsewhere on the continent, Lesego has no shortage of ammunition for his sharp tongue.

Plus a top London art gallery, famous for its collection of Old Masters, believes art can help young people turn away from street crime, gang culture and drugs.

Dulwich Picture Gallery is offering youngsters from tough inner-city areas the chance to discover their potential as artists.

Artsworld reports on one teenage boy from an unsafe part of the city and what it means to have a safe place to paint.

Let Your Voice Be Heard In The Name of NEDA!

Stop Child Slavery - Shelley Seale's Virtual Book Tour

Join author Shelley Seale at Stop Child Slavery, where host Jeff Turner will be conducting a webcam video interview with Shelley. Watch it at:

http://stopchildslavery.com/

Child slavery is a problem larger than most are willing to admit. We need more voices crying out for it’s end. We need more people awakened to the horrors inflicted on our innocents. We need to make a stand and call out for others to make a stand as well. We need education. We need action.

And they need hope.

Host: The Weight of Silence
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Time: 9:00am - 11:00pm
Location: http://stopchildslavery.com/

The Road to Doomsday Part 1

The Road to Doomsday Part 1

The Road to Doomsday Part 2

The Road to Doomsday Part 3

This 20-minute documentary by Tapas Majumdar, Indrajit Das and Souparna Lahiri, shot in 2006 and 2007, narrates the story of the changing landscape of West Bengal and Sikkim in the Himalayas in Northern India. The region is home to the fierce Teesta River, tropical evergreen forests, cultivated lands in the foothills of the mountains and small community settlements. Today, the Teesta River, called the lifeline of Sikkim, is being devastated by two large hydropower projects, Teesta III and Teesta IV, constructed by India’s state-owned National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC).

Both dams are referred to as run-of-river projects, implying that they will have little impact on the surrounding environment. Neither the project developer nor the government want to recognize the short and long-term impacts the two projects will have on the surrounding ecology, environment and the lives and livelihoods of the people who call Sikkim home. But, the film shows that as construction progresses, the projects are leaving their mark on the environment, signaling an uncertain future for the people and the ecology of Sikkim and West Bengal. As the projects near completion, the landscape is changing; there looms the very real possibility that the beautiful Darjeeling Hills, drained by the Teesta River, will soon exist only in the peoples’ memory.

Lori Pottinger interviewed on Mphanda Nkuwa Dam, Zambezi River

International Rivers' Lori Pottinger talks about how the Mphanda Nkuwa Dam, proposed for the Zambezi River, will not meet the development needs of Mozambiquans and will have large social, environmental and economic impacts.... Filmed and edited by Liane Greeff. MORE INFORMATION: Visit our Mphanda Nkuwa campaign page .

Forced Eviction Coming at Borei Keila

Over 30 families living with HIV/AIDS in the "green shed" at the Borei Keila social land concession are facing the prospect of eviction. The families living in the temporary "green shed" have been waiting for new apartments to be allocated to them for the past 2 years, but they are now faced with the prospect of being evicted to the Toul Sambo relocation site 20km outside of Phnom Penh. At Toul Sambo there is inadeuqate housing, no clean water and is far from any markets, schools, employment opportunities and most importantly medical facilities.

Please Support LICADHO - Since 1992, LICADHO has been at the forefront of efforts to protect human rights in Cambodia and to promote respect for civil and political rights by the Cambodian government and institutions. Building on its past achievements, LICADHO continues to be an advocate for the people and a monitor of the government through wide-ranging human rights programs from its main office in Phnom Penh and 12 provincial offices.

A Must See Documentary Film: Children Full of Life ( 1 of 5 )

"In the award-winning documentary Children Full of Life, a fourth-grade class in a primary school in Kanazawa, northwest of Tokyo, learn lessons about compassion from their homeroom teacher, Toshiro Kanamori. He instructs each to write their true inner feelings in a letter, and read it aloud in front of the class. By sharing their lives, the children begin to realize the importance of caring for their classmates."

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