Catégorie : World People

Disambiguating: Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta seems to be a ‘collective name for the Senior Aboriginal Women’, from Coober Pedy, South Australia. The members: Ivy Makinti Stewart, Eileen Wani Wingfield, Eileen Unkari Crombie, Angelina Wonga, Emily Munyungka Austin, Myra Tjunmutja Watson.

Linked with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, with Irati Wanti, with The Irati Wanti declaration; and with Articles for Indigenous Peoples on our blogs.

They are collectively one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

They say: « We are only the caretakers of the country. If we look after it, it will look after us. Government has big money to buy their way out – but big happiness that we won against government ».

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The Collective of Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta – the ‘Senior Aboriginal Women’ from Coober Pedy, South Australia.

They work for Irati Wanti, and for the Senior Aboriginal Women’s Council of Coober Pedy (named on the Australasian Legal Information Institute).

They say also: “People said that you cannot win against the Government. Just a few women, us. We just kept talking and telling them to get their ears out of their pockets and listen. Government has big money to buy their way out but we never gave up. We always talk straight out. In the end he (the sdid not have the power, we did. He only had money, but money does not win. We are winners because of what is in our hearts, not what is on paper. Big happiness that we won against the Government. And the family and all the grandchildren are so happy because we fought the whole way. Kids growing up, babies have been born since we started. And still we have family coming. All learning about our fight.

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Linked with Haris Ibrahim’s blog: The People’s Parliament, with all Philosophy, and with « Islam-as I say-tion ».

He is a Malaysian Lawer, defending people’s apostasy from Islam.

He writes: Dear YB Chew, Did you watch your cabinet and parliamentary colleague, Syed Hamid Albar, on BBC’s Hardtalk? What did you think of all that he said? Did you catch the part where he says that we are neither a secular nor a theocratic state, but we are an Islamic state based on Islam Hadhari? Will you and your MCA colleagues rise in Parliament and chastise Syed Hamid for this irresponsible statement that was telecast worldwide? Will your MCA colleagues protest this at the next cabinet meeting on 19th September, 2007? Or are you still in ‘internal discussion’ mode? Do tell us about your concrete plans to deal with this irresponsible fellow, if indeed, you have any. I am, as always, anak Bangsa Malaysia, Haris Ibrahim, September 16, 2007. (on the People’s Parliament).

He says: ”We are many colors, we are one dream », (on his blog).

He says also: « I had to laugh out loud, » said lawyer Haris Ibrahim, representing a widow who was jailed for two years as an ‘apostate’ for trying to renounce Islam. (more on ZoomInfo).

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Find him on Google blog-search. Find him also on ZoomInfo, and on Screenshots, January 2007: pictures, and texts. Also on Digressions.

He writes also: “By democratic right, all Malaysians born here are sons of the soil irrespective of which race they belong to. We should all be Malaysians, not bumiputeras and non-bumiputeras. Why should one race always be given crutches?

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Linked with Dahr Jamail’s MidEast Dispatches.

Dahr has spent a total of 8 months in occupied Iraq as one of only a few independent US journalists in the country. (full text).

Presentation – October 17, 2007, Wednesday, October 17, 7 p.m.: The Center for Economic Research and Social Change and The Nation Institute present Dahr Jamail and Jeremy Scahill Beyond the Green Zone, a talk, book launch, discussion, and book signing. (Tickets $5 at the door), at Broadway Presbyterian Church, 601 West 14th Street on Broadway, New York … (full invitation text).

Read: Fighting Amongst Shias Adds to Violence, written by Dahr Jamail, September 12, 2007, by Dahr Jamail & Ali al-Fadhily.

Listen and read him: on Voices in the Wilderness; on Google’s book-search; on Google’s blog-search; on Google’s VIDEO-search; on YouTube.

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Dahr Jamail – USA

Independent News From the MidEast: In late 2003, Weary of the overall failure of the US media to accurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi people and US soldiers, Dahr Jamail went to Iraq to report on the war himself. His dispatches were quickly recognized as an important media resource. He is now writing for the Inter Press Service, The Asia Times and many other outlets. His reports have also been published with The Nation, The Sunday Herald, Islam Online, the Guardian, Foreign Policy in Focus, and the Independent to name just a few. Dahr’s dispatches and hard news stories have been translated into French, Polish, German, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic and Turkish. On radio as well as television, Dahr reports for Democracy Now!, the BBC, and numerous other stations around the globe. Dahr is also special correspondent for Flashpoints. (full text).

Read: Too Many Search Hopelessly for the Kidnapped, Sept. 05, 2007.

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Read: Author Naomi Wolf to Speak On Ethical Leadership.

Naomi Wolf (born 1962) is an American writer. At a relatively young age, she became literary star of what was later described as the ‘third-wave’ of the feminist movement and she is also known for her advocacy of progressive politics. Wolf was born in San Francisco, California in 1962. She attended Lowell High School and debated in regional speech tournaments as a member of the Lowell Forensic Society. She matriculated at Yale University, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in 1984, and later at New College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar … (full text wikipedia).

Read: Fascist America, April 24, 2007, in 10 easy steps.

She says: « When you are physically detained by armed agents because of something that you said or wrote, it has an impact. On the one hand, during these heightened searches of my luggage, I knew I was a very small fish in a very big pond. On the other hand, you get it right away that the state is tracking your journeys, can redirect you physically, and can have armed men and women, who may or may not answer your questions, search and release you ». (full text, Sept. 13, 2007).

Read: Aux USA plus de 100 000 opposants sont interdits de prendre l’avion, Sept. 6, 2007.

Are You on the Government’s ‘No Fly’ List? (see also their homepage).

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Naomi Wolf – USA

Search results for Naomi: on Google News-search; on Google scholar-search; on Google book-search; on Google blog-search; on Google videos; on YouTube.

The last few years have shown that the most effective way for western women to engage on these issues without risking cultural imperialism is to raise their voices and use their vote to insist that the international bodies such as the World Bank and the United Nations, as well as their own countries’ foreign policy, channel resources and respect to local women’s groups in the developing world so that those women can set their own agendas most effectively. Witness Madeleine Albright changing US policy on genital mutilations in response to African women’s activism. (full text, Sept. 11, 2001).

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Linked with economic turmoils & human development on this blog.

First my comment: David’s conspiracy theories has two levels: one for this planet with social & economic conspiracy theories. The second level concerns speres outside this planet, with items we can not control and for which exist only strongly controverted indices.

Looking at the first level, on our planet: my own comments tell about economic conspiracies, which I observe through the existence of the worldwide Federal Bank-System (see above link). I understand it like that: these banks are loaning us – through our national banks – virtual money (they create it out of nothing), but the loans given to our economic stakeholders are paid back in ‘real money’, means, behind this real money we have really created new values in form of work and goods.

This Federal Banks are privat enterprises working for their own profit. I claim: the privat owners of this Federal Banks (some very fortunate families) are the owners of our common work and wealth.

Going on with this logic, I find, the owner of these banks NEED our needs for loans, and best would be, we never stop to need new loans.

Wars, economic crashes and so on are the best garanty we need always new loans … think the rest for youself …

Looking at the second level of David’s claims, the extraterrestrial level: I am much more interested in the hysterical laughters such claims are provoking. I just think: if there is ‘nothing’, we don’t need to become hysteric about.

In any way: so many people around me believe new age conspiracy theories, and they ALSO are a part of the world’s people.

And this IS the world people’s blog!

But the controversy about this second level is so strong and so bitter, and it is not only outside of our ‘known world’, it is also inside of ‘OUR OWN UNKNOWN’ we carry with us.

My decision: I let this second level where it is, until we get commonly accepted proofs.

Meanwhile, we the people we have enough work to take back our economy, and to understand and begin to control the first level of David’s conspiracy theories: our planet, to make of it a good home for us all.

Heidi

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David Vaughan Icke – England

David Vaughan Icke (born April 29, 1952) is a British writer and public speaker who has devoted himself since 1990 to researching « who and what is really controlling the world. »

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Linked with The Skyfish Project, with Youth Action Centre, and with A re-compilation of texts and blogs for indigenous peoples.
She says: « When you are little, it’s not hard to believe you can change the world. I remember my enthusiasm when, at the age of 12, I addressed the delegates at the Rio Earth Summit. « I am only a child, » I told them. « Yet I know that if all the money spent on war was spent on ending poverty and finding environmental answers, what a wonderful place this would be. In school you teach us not to fight with others, to work things out, to respect others, to clean up our mess, not to hurt other creatures, to share, not be greedy. Then why do you go out and do the things you tell us not to do? You grownups say you love us, but I challenge you, please, to make your actions reflect your words. »

I spoke for six minutes and received a standing ovation. Some of the delegates even cried. I thought that maybe I had reached some of them, that my speech might actually spur action. Now, a decade from Rio, after I’ve sat through many more conferences, I’m not sure what has been accomplished. My confidence in the people in power and in the power of an individual’s voice to reach them has been deeply shaken … (full text).

Listen to her audio and videos: on the green chain podcast; on EramosaInstitute; on the great warming; on speaker’s spotlight; on archives radio Canada; on BC Compassion Club Society; on Google Video; on common ground; on YouTube.

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Severn Cullis-Suzuki – Canada

She works for the Skyfish Project.

She says also: … « In my life, I have dreamt of seeing the great herds of wild animals, jungles and rainforests full of birds and butterfilies, but now I wonder if they will even exist for my children to see. Did you have to worry about these little things when you were my age? All this is happening before our eyes and yet we act as if we have all the time we want and all the solutions. I’m only a child and I don’t have all the solutions, but:

• I want you to realise, neither do you;
• You don’t know how to fix the holes in our ozone laye;
• You don’t know how to bring salmon back up a dead stream;
• You don’t know how to bring back an animal now extinct;
• And you can’t bring back forests that once grew where there is now desert;
• If you don’t know how to fix it, please stop breaking it » … (maps google).

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Linked with Global Fund for Women.

She says: « MHC was life changing in far-reaching ways. It gave me confidence in myself at a time when I was unsure and searching for direction. It opened a whole world of strong women achievers to me, from math professors to crew members who were my dorm mates. It let me choose a wide variety of courses and to revel in learning. And it made me a more open and tolerant person as I made friends with Latina and African American women, out lesbians, and women from countries I had been taught were enemy nations. Meeting my husband at Mount Holyoke was wonderful, but it could have happened anywhere. The rest, however, was not accidental – it was a part of what makes MHC so special ». Kavita Ramdas helps Girls and Women build new lives by investing in their dreams.

She says also: « worldwide, more girls and women between 15 and 44 die from violence than from cancer, malaria, traffic accidents and war combined. Domestic violence, dowry deaths and discriminatory laws that prevent women from having control over their bodies, owning property or participating in civic affairs are the largest threats women face at the global level ». (full text).

Listen to her on the Google-video ‘Investing in Women, a strategy that yields high returns‘, 56 min., May 26, 2006.

Kavita Ramdas – India

Kavita Ramdas has been the President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women. Ramdas was born and raised in Mumbai, India. She received her B.A. in international relations from Mount Holyoke College in 1985 and her M.P.A. in international development and public policy studies from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1988. Ramdas is currently on the Board of Trustees at Mount Holyoke. She is also a member of the advisory board for the Gruber Prize for Women’s Rights. (wikipedia).

Read: Need a Safe Abortion? Go to Mexico City.

Before joining the Global Fund, Kavita supported both domestic and international initiatives in economic development and population as a program officer at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in Chicago, Illinois. She earned a master’s degree in international development and public policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and a BA at Mount Holyoke College. Kavita was born and raised in India, and speaks Urdu, Hindi, English, German, French and Spanish … (full text).

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Updated correctly November 11, 2009:

CONDOLENCE ON DEMISE OF NISHIKANT WAGHMARE, published on Ambedkar Times.com, Letters, (scroll far down until TRIBUTE TO NISHIKANT WAGHMARE): Editor, Ambedkartimes.com, September 12, 2008, with condolences letters.

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Linked with Vision India – Together We Can, and with A Vision for 21st Century. Added end of September 2007: and linked with the Goi Peace Foundation, with Airline Ambassadors.org, with the World Peace Prayer Society, and with Nancy Rivard – USA.

He is a determined self-made man, who had chosen to become his own path finder on the road to success and fame. This is the story of the poor boy from the village called Khed (Satara) M.S. India, Who had the pride and pragmatism to make good his Dreams … (full long BIO-text).

He says: ”RACIST MEDIA is worst than the South African Apartheid, who as a matter of convenience put lid on dalit issues–atrocities and their rallies, particularly blacking out the Dhamma Pravartan News, when news rooms of BBC is giving the widespread news. It is disgrace to take a birth and call an Indian Dalit. Politicians are impotent as well »! (full text).

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Nishikant Waghmare – India

He works for the Goi Peace Foundation, Japan, for the World Peace Prayer Society, also as Government Officer, and for the Airline Ambassadors.org.

He says also: « World Peace Starts from ‘You’. With all the fighting, wars and terrorist attacks, is world peace still possible in our lifetime? The answer is ‘yes’ and ‘no’. It is ‘yes’ if most people in this world say ‘yes’ to peace and ‘no’ to war, hatred and discrimination, and view differences of other people with compassion and empathy. The answer is ‘no’ if you think world peace is the sole responsibility of world leaders, governments, peace activists, or anyone but you. World peace can begin only from within—within the hearts of individuals. Anyone can contribute to world peace by making peace with himself through meditation and thereby developing compassion even toward people who have mistreated him. We can spread peace and joy to others and forgive people who have wronged us only if we have enough peace and joy in our hearts », April 8, 2007. (southasiamedia.net).

Read these texts by Nishikant Waghmare:

• India’s Lower Castes, June 3, 2007.
• An Open Letter To Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister Of India, August 2, 2007.
• Conversion to Buddhism in Mumbai, June 18, 2007.
• India’s Lower Castes, June 3, 2007.
• Dr. B.R.Ambedkar’s Contribution, February 16, 2007.

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Linked with A question of faith, and with Old order changeth.

Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm CH (born June 9, 1917 in Alexandria, Egypt) is a British Marxist historian and author. Hobsbawm was a long-standing member of the now defunct Communist Party of Great Britain and the associated Communist Party Historians Group. He is president of Birkbeck, University of London.

One of Hobsbawm’s interests is the development of traditions. His work is a study of their construction in the context of the nation state. He argues that many traditions are invented by national elites to justify the existence and importance of their respective nation states. (full text).

He says:

• about History: ‘History is being invented in vast quantities … it’s more important to have historians, especially sceptical historians than ever before.’
• about Communism: ‘I was a loyal Communist Party member for two decades before 1956 and therefore silent about a number of things about which it’s reasonable not to be silent.’
• avout Blair: ‘Labour Prime Ministers who glory in trying to be warlords – subordinate warlords particularly – certainly stick in my gullet.’ (Guardian).

Eric Hobsbawm – England

He says also: « I look back in amazement rather than regret, that not only I but humanity have made it through the past hundred-odd years ». (full text).

Google Scholar – All articles.

Man of the extreme century: Eric Hobsbawm is one of Britain’s greatest historians .The events of the twentieth century are as much components of his life as subjects of his books. In this wide-ranging conversation with Tristram Hunt, one of Britain ‘s new generation of historians, he reveals how he continues to believe in a spirit of progress as the surest route for happiness. (full text).

His weekly comments on the Guardian.

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Linked with C.T. Butler – USA, with THE FOOD NOT BOMBS MOVEMENT, and with Helping the Homeless – The Right To Food.

He is currently focusing his attention on building the Food Not Bombs movement, resisting domestic surveillance and political repression in the United States while working with his partner Jill Rounds on their organic garden and working on local community projects. He enjoys swimming, riding his mountain bike, hiking, camping and cross country skiing. His main passion is painting, drawing, graphic design and illustration. He has been showing his art in galleries. He lives with his partner Jill Rounds and three happy dogs in their ger (yurt) in the mountains outside Taos, New Mexico. Keith is attending Prescott College majoring in art and social justice. His is studing nonviolent social change, social movements, democracy, globalization, painting and drawing. You can see his art and learn more about Keith on the website below. He also works with Jill helping her make handmade tiles and soapdishes in Ojala Studios. Jill is also an artist and has worked with textiles, natural dyes, clay and she paints in watercolor and mixed media. Keith and Jill also help their friends pay down their mortgages in as little as half the time so they can be free to do the things they enjoy. (Full text).

Watch these videos: in Nigeria, 12 min, on liveleak.com Aug. 19; and on YouTube Aug. 17, 2007.
Listen to different audios with Keith on KRZAnews. (Homepage).

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Keith McHenry – USA

He works for THE FOOD NOT BOMBS MOVEMENT.

The book: Food Not Bombs (Paperback): by Keith McHenry (Author), C. T. Butler (Author) « Taking personal responsibility and doing something about the problems of our society can be both empowering and intimidating … ».

He says in an interview:

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