1StrawRevolution's favorite social-justice pages, page 1

Last login: 4 hours ago1StrawRevolution: Rob is a 34 year old married guy from Madison, Wisconsin, USA.; Likes 335 pages, 22 videos, 1 photo • 58 fans • Received 9 reviews; Member since Dec 02, 2007

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ENN: Poor children main victims of climate change: U.N.: Apr 29, 6:39pm 1 review environment, social-justice
http://www.enn.com/ecosystems/article/35474; From the page: ""It is clear that a failure to address climate change is a failure to protect children," said UNICEF UK director David Bull. "Those who have contributed least to climate change -- the world's poorest children -- are suffering the most.""

BBC NEWS | Business | Steep rise in Chinese food prices: Apr 16, 5:25am 2 reviews food, social-justice
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7349896.stm; From the page: "The sharp rise in food prices, driven principally by the increased cost of grain, is a worrying development for the Chinese authorities which have been trying to contain inflation to stop the economy from overheating. -----if you thought Haiti was bad... Way to go Bush, thanks for promoting Ethanol from food crops in a period of all time low global grain reserves. "I am afraid that grain prices will edge up in the months to come as global supply is tight and domestic consumers may resort to panic purchasing in expectation of high prices," said Zhang Shiyuan, an analyst with investment firm Southwest Securities."

ENN: World food shortages to stay, riots a risk: FAO: Apr 10, 2:33am 1 review agriculture, ethics, poverty, social-justice, ethanol
http://www.enn.com/agriculture/article/34367; From the page: "Five people have been killed in a week of demonstrations in Haiti over high food prices in the poorest country in the Americas, while unions in the West African nation of Burkina Faso called a general strike over soaring food and fuel costs. "There is a risk that this unrest will spread in countries where 50 to 60 percent of income goes to food," Diouf added." ----And we turn more and more land to corn to fuel our F-150's.

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Deaths reported in Tibet protests: Mar 14, 6:32pm 4 reviews activism, politics, social-justice
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7296837.stm; Please let it not be Tiananmen again...

NPR: Tracking the Violent Life of Milosevics Tiger: Mar 9, 7:03am 1 review ethics, books, social-justice
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87965187; If you read down the article there is a riveting excerpt from the book. That this happened in living memory, in the "civilized" world is a wake up call to us all as a reminder of the the terror and horror of what happens on the ground when a State fails. Especially poignant given the rising numbers of States slipping into the abyss with growing pressures of slumping economies, resource decline, and global warming.

WUWM: Lake Effect - Monday March 3, 2008: Mar 3, 10:31am 1 review activism, nutrition, poverty, social-justice, organic-food
http://www.wuwm.com/programs/lake_effect/view_le.php?articleid=400; Great radio story on the disparity of the rural and urban poor living with daily food insecurity, while the upper middle class (me) funds meteoric growth in Whole Foods and CSA's. Mark Winne makes some great comments from his book Closing the Food Gap.

Canada calls the Americans torturers: Feb 9, 4:46am 11 reviews politics, canada, social-justice
http://www.canadiancontent.net/commtr/canada-calls-americans-torturers_873.html; Glad to see their is still sanity in North America... even if it is outside our borders. Only frustration is the "official" backpedaling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hsn77RuHW8: Jan 21, 12:26pm 1 review environment, video, social-justice, permaculture
http://video.stumbleupon.com/?p=y9knmlfudi; Loved the use of unglazed pots sunk into soil to irrigate a roof top garden in India.

YouTube - &The Permaculture Concept& - Part 5: Jan 21, 8:18am 1 review environment, gardening, video, social-justice, permaculture
http://video.stumbleupon.com/?p=3kpes4z5lu; Part 5 in the great permaculture series. Focus on the impoartance of Forests on water cycling. Also stresses his focus on the 3rd world as building experiencial capital for the 1st world to drawn on when we hit The Wall. Put them all together and you have an hour of inspiring, educational video that will change how you garden.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKee0ljYZoo: Jan 21, 5:32am 1 review environment, india, video, social-justice, permaculture
http://video.stumbleupon.com/?p=19hm8uqsut; Part 4 in the Global Gardening in the Tropics Permaculture Series. Spends most of the video detailing the ridiculous economics of monoculture agriculture in the Tropics. Very moving story concerning the saving of one child (literally) through Permaculture and that boy's quest to bring permaculture to save his village. Wow, Wow, WOW!