Catégorie : World People

Linked with When Homes Are Torture Chambers, with Vimochana, and with Donna Fernandes – India.

Madhu Kishwar is the founder and editor of « Manushi: a journal on women and society ». Kishwar is one of India’s foremost thinkers in the arena of women’s rights, social justice, collective responsibility and perspectives on social change. As an activist scholar, Kishwar advocates the politics of engagement. She has made prolific editorial contributions to Manushi since its inception in 1979, and her work has appeared in several anthologies. Her writing is appreciated worldwide for its incisiveness and thought-provoking, challenging quality, and she is an invigorating speaker. Kishwar is currently a senior fellow at the Centre for Studies in Developing Societies in New Delhi, India. (full text).

Read: Feminism in India has no integrity. You can’t trust it, (full long interview).

She says: « For many feminists, getting along with a mother-in-law, or even having a happy marriage is a sign of mental slavery! I was repelled by this insistence on joyless, confrontational living ».

Madhu Kishwar – India

She works for Vimochana (named on India together).

Destined to fail: The present day dowry system symbolizes the disinheritance of women and the resulting desperation of parents to push their daughters out of their homes after marrying them off. Madhu Purnima Kishwar points to inherent flaws in the anti-dowry legislation, and argues that equal inheritance is the way forward. (full text).

Books from Manushi.

Statements before Justice Nanavati Commission.

Mishra Commission Affidavits.

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Linked with Journalisme et services secrets, with A Biased Investigation, and with .

He is a former criminal investigator of the GDR, who became a journalist after the reunification of Germany, Jürgen Cain Külbel is the author of a counter-investigation on the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, which the Voltaire Network presented to the Arab public during a widely covered conference in Damascus, May 7, 2006. In this interview, he discusses the political role of the UN Commission and the unexploited leads pointing to Israeli responsibility. (on his english homepage).

See his international homepage.

He says: « Syria is innocent and has nothing to do with that crime or the other assassinations » (of Rafik Hariri). (on souria.com).
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Jürgen Cain Külbel – Germany

… The thing about this book is; everything is documented and the writer expected this war six months before it happened. The murder of Hariri was the beginning of a large scale destabilization plan of all Lebanon, and it tracks, lead to the Lebanese civil war and ends in the Washington, New York and Jerusalem in recent days … (full text).

When going too far is never enough.

Anti-neocon Book Scuttled.

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Ernest Callenbach Visit: August 16, 2007, Carbondale Economic Localization, Colorado /USA.

Born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, he attended the University of Chicago, where he was drawn into the then ‘new wave’ of serious attention to film as an art form.

After six months in Paris at the Sorbonne, watching four films a day, he returned to Chicago and earned a Master’s degree in English and Communications … Recently, Callenbach has introduced the story of a real-world community movement in Japan that is reminiscent, in its aims and practices, of his Ecotopian society. He visited Japan and investigated the Yamagishi movement. It encompasses some three dozen intentional communities founded on the same underlying principles: living an ecologically based integration of people with agriculture (pig, cattle, and chicken livestock rasing, and organic-vegetable and fruit farming), and living a social life based on principles of democracy, mutual understanding, support, and health. Each individual settlement is referred to as jikkenji (‘demonstration community for the world’). (full text).

He is a signatory to the 9/11 Truth Statement.

Ernest Callenbach – USA

Read: A Citizen Legislature, Stretching our thinking about how we govern ourselves.

He says: « It is time to think of the Plains in new ways. As Native Americans are demonstrating by their reintroduction of bison on many reservations, bison can again become part of the natural Plains landscape–and, for Indian people, not only a source of self-sufficiency in food production but also a powerful spiritual and religious presence. For whites, bringing back the bison and their companion grazers on a large scale in Plains parks and on other public lands will provide us the opportunity to see what a sustainable ecosystem in the Plains is like. And growing numbers of bison on private ranch lands will help us learn what a permanently viable agricultural system could be. Moreover, because the Plains are also very windy, they could become producers of a significant amount of wind-generated electrical energy, making the region self-reliant in energy. (full text).

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Linked with The GIFT University, and with The Rosni Homes Trust.

Mr. Muhammad Anwar Dar is a renowned personality of Gujranwala. He chairs a progressive business organization, the Dollar East Group that has a diversified portfolio and operates in the areas of financial services, stock market, education and poultry medicines. He is a person strongly committed to the welfare of the people of his native region and has been strenuously working for their uplift, particularly the youth. He envisions emergence of Gujranwala and its environs as an affluent and progressive region contributing towards the progress of the country. (full text).

Read: First Convocation Ceremony (at GIFT University).

Muhammad Anwar Dar – Pakistan

He says (about GIFT University): ”We are promoting opportunities for learning and sharing best practices. We are deeply committed to our values of lifelong learning as a premier educational institution. These values and commitment are inherent in each and every alumnus, in our faculty, administration and staff. Our co-curricular activities and programmes enhance life long learning, foster personal growth and develop leadership qualities. We remain committed to excellent teaching that prepares students for the changing economic, social, and moral challenges of our society ».

President’s speech echoed at annual general assembly meeting of NGO group for CRC, Switzerland. (full text).

A revolution begins with a great idea. In the case of GIFT University, it was the vision of the Chairman, Mr. Muhammad Anwar Dar and his associates, who wanted to provide the country with gifted people instead of degree toting individuals. That is why he named this institute as GIFT University for all those who seek to become enlightened individuals rather than be a part of the spoon-fed educated population. (full text).

Read: Principal Officer US Consulate visits Roshni Homes.

Roshni Homes is a private charitable trust being run by a Board of Trustees. Roshni Homes is devoted towards housing and educating the orphaned-abandoned children of the community. Roshni Homes believes equal treatment and non-discriminatory practices and cares for children regardless of race or creed. We help children who are orphaned or abandoned, and we give these children an opportunity to build lasting relationships within a family. We provide care and education to enable these children to become active members of their community. (full text).

Sorry, no more english news found in the internet about Muhammad Anwar Dar, Pakistan.

Linked with The Forum for the Future.

Jonathon Espie Porritt, CBE, (born 6 July 1950) is a British environmentalist and writer. Porritt appears frequently in the media, writing in magazines, newspapers and books, and appearing on radio and television regularly. Jonathon has recently started his own blog. (full text).

He is also Programme Director of Forum for the Future and Chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission. (full text).

He says: « We’ve made this assumption that it’s the next generation that is going to have to deal with climate change. For a politician it is classic not-in-my-term-of-office stuff. It is absolutely right now, not one generation versus another. And it’s our generation that needs to start ». (full text).

Read: Victor Manuel Ochoa, an environmentalist on the front line, Honduras, July 5, 2007.

Jonathon Espie Porritt – England

Download: SDC submission to the DTI Energy Review: Meeting the challenge, energy policy for the 21st Century, 36 pages, April 2006.

He says also: « I didn’t really come into environmentalism through a love of nature; I came into environmentalism through looking at what happened to children whose lives were blighted by there being no nature ». (full text).

Read: The Great Global Warming Swindle, July 13, 2007.

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He is a translater of Thai Literature and fictions into english and french / il traduit de la Litérature et des textes Thai en anglais et en français. Born 1945. Trained as a language and arts teacher. 1970-92: journalist. Since 1993, literary translator from the Thai. Bangkok-based since 1978. (Homepage Thai-Fiction, et en français).

Homepage of his website (Menu in english & Menu en français). (IMPORTANT: beaucoup des sites mentionnées ci-après existent aussi en français, le lien se trouve dans les sites elles-memes).

His profile on the word hunter. En français: Traqueur de mots.

Marcel Barang – France & Thailand

His publications/translations on amazon.

Read: The Twenty Best Novels of Thailand, an anthology by Marcel Barang.

Read: Time in a bottle, a 1985 novel translated from the Thai, by Phongdeit Jiangphatthana-kit and Marcel Barang, Editing, postscript and revision by Marcel Barang.

Read: The Man and the Tiger, by Seksan Prasertkul, English and French translations by Marcel Barang.

Read: mad dogs & co., by Chart Korpjitti, translated by Marcel Barang, From « mad dogs & co. » Thai Modern Classics, unpublished.

Read: the story of jan darra, by Utsana Phleungtham, translated by Phongdeit Jaingphatthanarkit, From « the story of jan darra, » Thai Modern Classics, Bangkok 1995, 263 pp. Afterward by Marcel Barang. ISBN 974-89283-0-6.

Look at ‘Formated Sheet‘ (in excel), from the Webster University, Thailand.

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Professor Stephen Marglin holds the Walter S Barker Chair in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. Over a career that now spans more than four decades, he has contributed to various aspects of economic theory, including benefit-cost analysis, economic development, the organization of work, and the relationship between growth and distribution. One theme running through this distinguished career has been a concern with development economics. Beginning with his work in the 60s as an advisor to the Indian Planning Commission, Marglin has questioned the assumption that development equates to nothing more than growth of GNP. More broadly, Marglin’s professional life has been an attempt to change the way economists think about economics – to get economists to see the whole enterprise of economics as one way of seeing the world rather than the way of seeing the world. His latest effort towards this goal is the forthcoming book: The Dismal Science: How Thinking like an Economist Undermines Community. (text source).

And with other new members he is newly-elected Chair of the Executive Committee of the World Future Council.

Listen to his video, 3.42 min., from World Future Council.

Stephen A. Marglin – USA

Read: Radical Interpretation of Economic History (what do bosses do?), part one, 28 pages; same, part two, 19 pages.

Read: Science, Technology, and International Development.

Read: Rethinking the Western Model of Modernity.

He asks:

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Linked with AntiWar.com, with JPRI The Japan Policy Research Institute; with about Chalmers Johnson’s “Nemesis »-book, with Iraqi Wars – (or how to end it?), and with his presentation of February 19, 2006.

Chalmers Ashby Johnson is an author and professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego. He is also president and co-founder of the Japan Policy Research Institute, an organization promoting public education about Japan and Asia. He has written numerous books including, most recently, three examinations of the consequences of American Empire. (full text).

Read: Empire v. Democracy, Why Nemesis Is at Our Door, February 1, 2007.

He says: ”In early 2003, on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, I was putting the finishing touches on my portrait [The Sorrows of Empire] of the global reach of American military bases. In it, I suggested the sorrows already invading our lives, which were likely to be our fate for years to come: perpetual war, a collapse of constitutional government, endemic official lying and disinformation, and finally bankruptcy. At book’s end, I advocated reforms intended to head off these outcomes but warned that ‘failing such a reform, Nemesis, the goddess of retribution and vengeance, the punisher of pride and hubris, waits impatiently for her meeting with us » … (full text).

Read: Cold Warrior in a Strange Land, March 22, 2006.

Chalmers Johnson – USA

He works for the Japan Policy Research Institute JPRI.

Read: Republic or empire: A National Intelligence Estimate on the United States, January 2007.

Listen to his longer interview on AntiWarRadio (February 5, 2007).

See his blog: The American Empire Project.

He says also: « By the end of the first century BC, Rome had seemingly, again, « inadvertently » acquired an empire that surrounded the entire Mediterranean Sea. They then discovered that the inescapable accompaniment, the Siamese twin of imperialism, is militarism. You start needing standing armies. You start having armies that are demobilized, of men who have done nothing but spend all their lives in the military. It’s expensive to pay them. You have to now provide them, in the Roman Empire, with farms or things of this sort. They become irritated with the state. And then along comes the military populist, the figure who says, « I understand your problems. I represent your interests against the Roman Senate. » And, certainly, Julius Caesar is the model for this. « The only requirement is that I become life dictator for this » — Napoleon Bonaparte, Juan Peron, this type of figure.

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Linked with Earth Policy Institute, with Plan B 2.0, and with Search for an Eco-Economy.

Lester Russell Brown (born 1934) is an environmental analyst who has written several books on global environmental issues. He is the founder of the Worldwatch Institute and founder and president of the Earth Policy Institute which is a nonprofit research organization in Washington, D.C. Though he has written over twenty books, he is best known for Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble. With books in more than forty languages, he is one of the world’s most widely published authors …  » (full text).

Read: ENVIRONMENT: Replanting the Planet, Analysis by Lester R. Brown, July 10, 2007.

Listen to his speech on poptech.com, (no time indication).

He says: ”Our global civilization today is on an economic path that is environmentally unsustainable, a path that is leading us toward economic decline and eventual collapse ».

Lester Brown – USA

Read: Bill Boyne: Corn that fuels cars can’t fill stomachs, June 29, 2007.

Listen to his videos on google (with hereafter a short selection):

• Lester R. Brown, 52 min, 03-May-2006;
• Authors@Google – Lester Brown, 55 min, 01-May-2007;
• SC AgSummit, Lester Brown, 1 hr 7 min, October 26, 2006;
• Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble, 1 hr 7 min, 18-Apr-2007 (around 22 – 26 min.: cars run by corn fuel rise the prize for people’s corn).

He says also answering the question, ‘Can the Earth support three billion more people?’: « The question is, if we look at it just in food terms, at what level of living? If we’re talking about living at food-consumption levels today of, say, the average person in India, then the current world harvest can support 10 billion people. But if we’re talking about the U.S. level of consumption, then we’re talking about a world that will support two and a half billion people.

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Linked with Mexicans in America, and with Keynote Address by RICHARD RODRIGUEZ …

Richard Rodriguez (born 31 July 1944) is a Mexican-American writer who became famous for his 1981 book, Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (ISBN 0-553-27293-4), a narrative about his development as a literate, American student. (full text).

He says: ”Bilingual-education advocates say it’s important to teach a child in his or her family’s language. I say you can’t use family language in the classroom — the very nature of the classroom requires that you use language publicly. When the Irish nun said to me, « Speak your name loud and clear so that all the boys and girls can hear you, » she was asking me to use language publicly, with strangers. That’s the appropriate instruction for a teacher to give. If she were to say to me, « We are going to speak now in Spanish, just like you do at home. You can whisper anything you want to me, and I am going to call you by a nickname, just like your mother does, » that would be inappropriate. Intimacy is not what classrooms are about ». (full text).

The Browning of America is a phrase coined by Rodriguez to describe an increase in the mixing of cultural, racial, and ethnic identities in the United States during the late 20th and early 21st century. (full text).

Richard Rodriguez – USA

Richard Rodriguez is a contributing editor at New America Media in San Francisco. He writes regularly for several newspapers and magazines, both in the United States and in England. He has also written an autobiographical trilogy on class, ethnicity and race: « Hunger of Memory » (1982) « Days of Obligation: An Argument With My Mexican Father, » (1992) and « Brown: The Last Discovery of America » (2002). He is currently working on a book concerned with the ecology of the desert and monotheism. (full text).

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