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25 September 2003

Children and Peace

A wonderful guide about talking to children about difficult things on the news, and other media.

Talking with children

11:05:39 PM

The Rough Guide to Globalisation

"Summits of world leaders are dogged by anti-globalisation protests; media scandals regularly expose the wrongdoings of powerful corporations in poor countries. Globalisation is in danger of becoming a swear-word. Yet in Doha, the capital city of Qatar, the world's governments (most of them of poor countries) in 2001 launched a round of global trade talks that will speed up global integration. The British Government swears that globalisation is a force for good, offering new hope to the world's poor. Yet millions of poor people and grassroots groups in the developing world vehemently disagree. To shed some light on a heated debate, this briefing explains what globalisation is, its impact on the poor countries of the world, and what needs to change. CAFOD has been charting the impact of globalisation on development for many years, and is currently running a four-year campaign on trade and food security (2001-5). ...."

(CAFOD)

10:51:09 PM

Industrial logging set to resume in the Tongass
Alaskan rainforest faces decimation

(Greenpeace)

Wed 17 September 2003

UNITED STATES/Sitka, Alsaka

"We've sent the largest ship in our fleet, the MV Esperanza, to Southeast Alaska to expose the impacts of industrial logging on the the Tongass National Forest (TNF), the largest forest in the US and one of the most diverse and irreplaceable habitats anywhere in the world.

The Esperanza reached the Tongass in August on its "Endangered Forests, Endangered Freedoms" tour, investigating the threat posed by the Bush administration's large-scale logging strategies to forests across America. The tour has already met with resistance from local authorities who have thrown many obstacles in its way, including denying dock space for the ship to make the visit as difficult as possible. However, many local community members (including the indigenous Tlingit peoples) have thwarted those efforts, going so far as to offer us their personal berth spaces.

"Much of the community welcomes us and wants Greenpeace to stop the destruction of this unique and beautiful forest," said Mel Duchin, Greenpeace campaigner onboard the MV Esperanza. "The US may try to silence the message but the American public will hear the truth about its government's role in forest destruction loud and clear."

Why Tongass needs protection

TNF is a remote coastal rainforest unparalleled anywhere on the planet, home to awe-inspiring landscapes and robust populations of grizzly bears, bald eagles, wild salmon, and other wildlife. Stretching 500 miles along the Southeast Alaska coast, the 17 million-acre wilderness area is the largest intact temperate rainforest in the world. ..."

10:49:14 PM

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