Moses Zulu – Zambia

Linked to our presentation of Children’s Town Malambanyama Zambia.

Also linked to our presentation of The International HUMANA PEOPLE TO PEOPLE Movement.

He is one of the New Heroes with the project Development Aid from People to People in Zambia (Children’s Town).

Moses Zulu – Zambia

He is a dynamic 40-year-old with a winning smile and extraordinary determination. In 1990 Zulu opened Children’s Town to serve Zambian children orphaned by the AIDS epidemic and other causes. He is devoted to helping these orphans find their way in life.

The program has grown from a handful of children living in tent shelters to almost 300 children and a staff of 22 living in six different houses. The grounds include a primary school and a community center. Zulu’s vision includes a plan to make Children’s Town self sustaining.

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Rozlana Taukina – Kazakhstan

She is one of the 1000 women proposed fort the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

Linked with the Institute of war and peace … , with ANESMI, with Reporters without borders, and also with Lazzat Ishmukhamedova – Kazakhstan, and with Central Asia, Kazakhstan.

She says: « There should be peace on earth without war, hunger, and cataclysms. Natural calamities are beyond our control, but the others we can prevent! If the women of the world stand up to protect humankind, if they take an active social stand and do not let dictators and rogues rule, there would not be wars, genocide, crimes against humanity; there would not be hungry and poor people. There is no place for fanatics and terrorists in a thriving world. What we have in real life is quite the opposite. Cruelty, thirst for power and greed rule the world. Egotism and violation of moral principles by some state leaders bring their people to poverty, aggression and envy. They breed in their people the desire to hate and kill others. This is against human nature. » (Read here about her).

Rozlana Taukina – Kazakhstan

She is working for 3 associations:

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My answer about … Shafik Handal

About Schafik Handal- El Salvador, on this site on January 28, 2006.

Dear Mr. Reynaldo Contreras-Valle,

sorry for you beeing troubled.

I do not enter the ideological dispute about any of the persons I present on my site, thinking that there are enough battles about ideology around the world, and in most cases each party is right in some aspects, and also wrong in others. So, in this way you have your opinion and I respect it as what it is: an opinion, not more.

Look, facts can be seen in different ways, I am sure an adversary of your thinking could proof that his way of thinking is as good as yours.

I present persons of different activities and believes, playing a role in the changing of our world, by working on some aspects of the humanity (Human Rights, Economy, Society etc.). I present persons I am ok with, but also others I have more difficulty with.

The goal of my sites is a vision about how rich, different, creative is our humanity in its going on for a better world. We all share one thing: the hope to make things better than they are. If we would agree each other, we would see the result on this humanity. But we do not.

An other goal is to interconnect people – as a non-directive form of networking. When we look to all what is done, with enthusiasm, with courage and selfless service to others, we can get a piece of hope for our humanity. We hear so many bad news, someone has to show how good we are, how much is done, how devoted many of us work for others.

What is very different in every one of us is our way of looking at things. Every one is individual in the way how our brain is interconnected in itself. Every one of us is seeing the reality in a slightly different way … as long as we are not stopped by ideology.

Nobody is really perfect, we all have strong sides and weak ones. But together, when comparing our visions, we can create new visions. New creative visions for our challenges.

But this needs the ability to listen to those having not the same viewpoint. Without this ability, nothing goes on in this way.

If you cannot accept the visions of those not sharing your viewpoint, I can not help you. I will let your answer on the site and put my mail there also.

I have no questions, as I am not battling on ideological items.

Have a nice day, Heidi.

P.S. of March 4, 2006: As I see today, the statement in question has been retired. I let my answer as an explication about the goals of this blog.

Kailash Satyarthi – India

Linked with our presentation of South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude (SACCS).

Also linked with our presentation of 6th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates.

Kailash Satyarthi has saved tens of thousands of lives. At the age of 26 he gave up a promising career as an electrical engineer and dedicated his life to helping the millions of children in India who are forced into slavery by powerful and corrupt business- and land-owners. His original idea was daring and dangerous. He decided to mount raids on factories — factories frequently manned by armed guards — where children and often entire families were held captive as bonded workers. (Red more on this page).

Kailash Satyarthi – India

He says: « If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery. »

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Alla Yaroshinskaya – Russian Federation

Linked with our presentation of Nuclear Weapons and Non-Proliferation – the Russian Perspective.

Linked also with Uni Cambridge, Event 24-02-2006.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed fort the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

She says: “Never be humiliated. Do not fear to have your own opinion and to make it public, even if your opinion does not coincide with the opinion of the authorities.”

Alla Yaroshinskaya – Russian Federation

She works for Soyuz Zhurnalistov Rossii (SZR), and for Regionalny grazhdansky front (RGF).

Alla Yaroshinskaya was born in 1953, in Zhitomir region of the Ukraine. She was graduating in from Kiev University and worked for 13 years as a correspondent of the local newspaper. At university she had been a political dissident. During her work she consistently tried to expose party corruption and suffered administrative penalties. At the end of 1986 she began to feel uneasy about the supposed evacuation of areas which had been contaminated by radiation from the Chernobyl accident in April that year, and she began to investigate.

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Chalmers Johnson – USA

Linked with our presentation of some of his texts, with his presentation of July 12, 2007, and with America’s Empire of Bases.

Chalmers Johnson – USA

CHALMERS JOHNSON was born in 1931 in Phoenix and raised in Buckeye, Arizona. After World War II, in which his father served in the Navy in the Pacific, his family moved to Alameda, California, where he finished high school and earned a B.A. in economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He first saw Japan and Korea in 1953, when he served in the Navy during the Korean War.

Returning to Berkeley, he switched fields and earned both his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science. In 1962, he began teaching political science at Berkeley, and did so until 1988, when he moved to the San Diego campus of the University of California. He retired in 1992. At Berkeley he served as chairman of the Center for Chinese Studies from 1967 until 1972. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1976.

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Coretta Scott King – USA 1927-2006

She was a famous Human Rights Activist and Leader.

Coretta Scott King – USA 1927-2006

Biographical Information (Taken from the King Center):

Coretta Scott King is one of the most influential women leaders in our world today. Prepared by her family, education, and personality for a life committed to social justice and peace, she entered the world stage in 1955 as wife of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and as a leading participant in the American Civil Rights Movement. Her remarkable partnership with Dr. King resulted not only in four talented children, but in a life devoted to the highest values of human dignity in service to social change. Mrs. King has traveled throughout our nation and world speaking out on behalf of racial and economic justice, women’s and children’s rights, gay and lesbian dignity, religious freedom, the needs of the poor and homeless, full-employment, health care, educational opportunities, nuclear disarmament and ecological sanity. In her distinguished and productive career, she has lent her support to democracy movements world-wide and served as a consultant to many world leaders, including Corazon Aquino, Kenneth Kaunda, and Nelson Mandela.

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Kinhide Mushakoji – Japan

Linked with our presentation of Anatomy of global sex industry.

Also linked with our presentation of The Origins of the Mainstream JapaNIEs Cultural “Order”.

Linked also with our 2 presentations of NGO’s: ARENA, and IPRA.

Kinhide Mushakoji – Japan

He is currently a Board Member of the Asian Cultural Forum on Development (ACFOD), the UN Voluntary Fund for Technical Assistance in the Field of Human Rights, the President of the Asia-Pacific Human Rights Information Centre (Hu-Rights Osaka) and the International Peace Centre in Osaka (Peace Osaka).

He is Secretary-General of IMADR, Internat. Mouvement against all forms of Discrimination and Rascisme, Geneva and Tokyo.

In the academic field, Mushakoji is a Professor in the Department of International Relations of the Chubu University and the Director of the Chubu Institute of Advanced Studies. He teaches in Ferris University Japan. Formerly the Vice-Rector of the Regional and Global Studies Division of the United Nations University for 13 years, he is also former Director of the Institute of International Relations which he founded in 1969 at the Sophia University in Tokyo.

Kinhide Mushakoji (e-mail), a reputed Japanese authority on international affairs and a lifelong peace advocate, teaches in Ferris University, Japan, and is a director of the International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR). Formerly Vice-Rector of the Regional and Global Studies Division of the United Nations University for 13 years, Professor Mushakoji, who is particularly interested in peace research, is former Director of the Institute of International Relations which he founded in 1969 at Sophia University, Tokyo.

He has been a visiting professor at Princeton University and Northwestern University in the US.

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Hasanain Juaini – Indonesia

Linked with our presentation of ashoka.

Hasanain Juaini is reforming Indonesia’s Muslim schools to encourage critical thinking, tolerance, democracy and civic participation. (Read more here).

Hasanain Juaini – Indonesia

He is a traditional religious teacher and leader who is reforming Indonesia’s Muslim boarding schools (pesantren) so they promote a practical understanding and implementation of pluralism, diversity, tolerance, and basic democratic values as they apply to daily life. He also encourages education for women, critical thinking, and participation in community development. Indonesia’s religious schools and their leaders wield much influence in their surrounding Muslim communities. Juaini is addressing some of the problems of the pesantren including the fact that: 1) many pesantrens ignore social problems in their area; 2) some pesantren have been co-opted by the state or political parties and have become tools to control and satisfy immediate needs; 3) many tend to have dogmatic, exclusive, and authoritarian teaching materials and methods; and 4) most pesantren give more attention to the education of boys than girls.

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Medea Benjamin – USA

Linked to our presentation Global Exchange.

Linked to our presentation of Leslie Cagan.

Medea Benjamin is a well-known political activist and Founding Director of the San Francisco-based NGO Global Exchange, which advocates « fair trade » alternatives to corporate globalization.

She has also been involved with anti-war groups such as United for Peace and Justice and Code Pink: Women for Peace. In 2000, she ran for the Senate on the Green Party ticket from California, basing her campaign on such issues as a living wage, education, and universal healthcare. In 1999, San Francisco Magazine elevated her to their « power list » of the « 60 Players Who Rule the Bay Area. »

Medea Benjamin – USA

Together with Kevin Danaher and Kirsten Irgens-Moller she created Gobal exchange (see link above).

She is also the co-founder of CODEPINK: Women for Peace, a women’s group that has been organizing creative actions against the war and occupation of Iraq. CODEPINK is pushing for a reorientation of budget priorities in the US to focus on heath care, education and housing, not war. Code Pink now has over 250 chapters throughout the United States.

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