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Archive for December, 2005
Time magazine’s Person of the Year: Bono
Thursday, December 22nd, 2005Time magazine has named U2 star Bono - and Bill and Melinda Gates -as its "Persons of the Year," citing their charitable work and activism aimed at reducing global poverty and improving world health. This is of course set against the backdrop of a year which has seen ...
Fat and Feminism?
Tuesday, December 20th, 2005Susie Orbach highlighted in her 1978 groundbreaking book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue' how female identity is 'hopelessly inextricable from body image' ; she's recently updated the introduction to this book indicating how things haven't changed all that much, well actually ..they've been getting much worse. An interesting analysis of ...
New Green Guide database online..
Monday, December 19th, 2005After two years of research the new version of the Guide Guide Online Database is now available at www.greenguide.co.uk The Green Guide is a comprehensive directory of eco-friendly, natural, ethical and organic goods and services, containing all sorts of things the consumer & business user needs for a sustainable lifestyle ...
dispatch from hong kong and the WTO: photos and protesters
Monday, December 19th, 2005Reporting from IndyMedia and galleries of photos and videos of the protests, and what's been happening to the protesters.. Quick Update and extract: " Some protesters have been released, but Korean activists are still being held. The first bus of 150 Korean women who are reportedly "released" has finally left the courthouse. ...
WTO and Hong Kong
Friday, December 16th, 2005European trade commissioner Peter Mandelson has confirmed the ongoing WTO talks in Hong Kong are in trouble. "It is hard to see where progress can be achieved in Hong Kong if the talks continue in this direction," he said. "The level of ambition, if anything, is going backwards." Glenys Kinnock of ...
e-government national conference and awards
Thursday, December 15th, 2005e-Government strategies for central and local government 2006-7 the e-government national conference is being held at the Savoy Hotel, London on 25th January, and this precedes the evening awards ceremony. The conference is aimed at senior officials in local and central government - and will be a briefing ...
tube chaos - and strikes?
Thursday, December 15th, 2005question:so are the pre-christmas Tube strikes still going ahead? Or have they been called off? does anyone know? (considering it affects a million [ or more!] Londoners everyday) does anyone remember the chaos in early 2001 resulting from tube strikes back then? ha i remember that day, i used to ...
Economics
Wednesday, December 14th, 2005There is a huge area to cover to really get our teeth into the problem with the current economic system, and understanding of economics full stop. there's the whole minefield of understanding 'Economics', understanding how it is interpreted by policy practitioners, and the epistemological bases of what currently passes as ...