From root at gn.apc.org Fri Apr 15 15:48:54 2005 From: root at gn.apc.org (support@gn.apc.org) Date: Wed Feb 1 23:43:31 2006 Subject: [alternet-l] THE ALTERNET NEWS - ISSUE 118 Message-ID: THE ALTERNET NEWS - ISSUE 118 April 15th 2005 This issue: MANY HAPPY RETURNS/ SPOT THE DELIBERATE MISTAKE/ MILLENNIUM ECOSYSTEM ASSESSMENT/ FARMYARD FURORE/ BLANKET COSTS/ DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, LAND RIGHTS AREN'T/ FAIRFORD FREEDOM FIGHTERS/ VIRTUALLY REALITY/ DEAD LOSS/ VEG OUT/ QUOTE/UNQUOTE/ JOBS/ DIARY/ HOT SITES: Dangerous levels of growth hormones in milk, food poisoning, Mad cow disease, antibiotic resistant bacteria in meat - what's happened to our food? "Sustainable Table", found at http://www.gracelinks.org, will help you understand the issues, offer suggestions on what you can do, and introduce you to the exciting and hugely popular sustainable food movement exploding around the world. Women in Action, a magazine published by Isis International-Manila, covers a broad range of issues affecting women globally, with focus on the particular needs and concerns of women in the Global South as well as the problems of under-represented social groups in the Global North. Visit http://www.isiswomen.org/ to learn more. The 10th of November 2005 will be the tenth anniversary of the execution of the inspirational writer and human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. The Nigerian government's decision to execute Ken and eight of his colleagues for campaigning against the devastating environmental impacts of oil corporations - especially Shell and Chevron - shocked the world and triggered a global re-evaluation of the impacts of corporate activity. Find out more about the life-long struggles of Ken Saro-Wiwa at www.remembersarowiwa.com MANY HAPPY RETURNS Following last month's victory at the European Court of Human Rights, a brand new McLibel feature documentary is to be released on TV, DVD and in the cinema this week - the week of McDonald's 50th birthday celebrations. Filmed over the course of 10 years by director Franny Armstrong ('Drowned Out'), with courtroom reconstructions by Ken Loach ('My Name Is Joe', 'Kes'), 'McLibel' is the story of the postman and the gardener who humiliated McDonald's in "the biggest corporate disaster in history". This new, 85 minute version follows Helen Steel, 39, and Dave Morris, 50, from their beginnings as anonymous campaigners distributing leaflets in North London in the late 1980s to global heroes defeating the UK government - and libel laws - at the European Court in 2005. They faced infiltration by spies, secret meetings with corporate executives and, perhaps most worrying of all, a visit from Ronald McDonald himself. "Who said ordinary people can't change the world?" says Director Franny Armstrong. "McDonald's have been raking in their profits for 50 years and all of society has paid the price.," says Dave Morris, "We should look forward to their funeral, not their birthday." Available at www.spannerfilms.net/shop, from McDonald's birthday on 15/4/05. SPOT THE DELIBERATE MISTAKE In a move of unprecedented idiocy, the Bush administration has appointed Matthew Hogan as interim head of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Director Steve Williams resigned earlier this month). Among his many and varied accomplishments, Hogan used to be the chief lobbyist for Safari Club International, a trophy-hunting group that holds competitions wherein its members roam five continents, shooting at a variety of exotic (and sometimes endangered) species. The members of SCI have also been known to take shortcuts, shooting captive animals or animals that have drifted to the peripheries of national parks. http://grist.org/cgi-bin/forward.pl?forward_id=4637 MILLENNIUM ECOSYSTEM ASSESSMENT Unless governments pay greater attention to what nature does for humanity, United Nations goals to halve poverty and hunger by 2015 will not be met, and hunger and malnutrition will remain a problem as far into the future as 2050, says a UN report published recently. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (launched on 30 March 2005 in London, Tokyo, Beijing, Delhi, Cairo, Nairobi, Washington and Brazil) has been prepared over the past four years by 1300 scientists from 95 countries. This scientific assessment, focusing on the impact that changes to ecosystems will have on human well-being, is a joint project undertaken by a range of UN and international scientific agencies and NGOs. http://www.millenniumassessment.org FARMYARD FURORE Scottish environment groups have called on the government to start taking real action to cut climate pollution from farming and to give greater support to organic agriculture. The demands come in response to a promise by ministers to 'relate' their forthcoming strategy on agriculture to issues such as climate change. However, the groups warned that much more will be needed, as farming-related pollution is being underestimated. A recent study by researchers from the Universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen concluded that emissions of one major greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide, were 57% higher than previously estimated. Neither is the climate pollution resulting from the massive amounts of energy required to produce artificial fertilisers being fully taken into account. The groups say that unless these problems are properly addressed, then government pledges to cut climate emissions will not be achieved. Speaking on behalf of a coalition of 26 Scottish environment groups campaigning for action to tackle climate change, the President of Scottish Environment group LINK, Fred Edwards, said: "Since farming clearly makes a large contribution to climate emissions, the government needs to do much more than make its new strategy on agriculture 'relate' to climate change. The need for real action is even more urgent now that it is becoming clear just how much we have been underestimating levels of emissions. Failure to account fully for emissions has resulted in little or no real progress to reduce emissions in this sector". http://www.sundayherald.com/48822 BLANKET COSTS A Swiss ski resort concerned about global warming's ill effects on its future is taking matters into its own hands. At the ski season's end in May, the Andermatt resort will cover some 32,200 square feet of the Gurschen glacier with an insulating PVC foam in hopes of keeping its black slopes from melting into nursery slopes. The foam, which costs some $84,000 and can be stored during the winter for reuse, was constructed by Swiss technicians to protect the snow layer from heat, ultraviolet rays and rain. The country's' glaciers have lost roughly a fifth of their surface area in the last 15 years, according to a Zurich University study linking the loss to global warming, and the ice field above Andermatt is retreating by over 16 feet a year, a resort spokesperson reported. If the PVC-foam trial is successful, the resort plans to cover more of the glacier, and other resorts may also adopt the technology. The Telegraph DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, LAND RIGHTS AREN'T BHP Billiton, the world's biggest mining company, is exploring the Gana and Gwi Bushmen's reserve without their consent. In reaction to a complaint to the World Bank, the company's Botswana subsidiary Sekaka Diamonds has erected signs in the reserve in English and Setswana, explaining that low flying planes will start surveying for diamonds. Yet the Bushmen in the reserve read neither English nor Setswana. The BHP Billiton venture in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve is funded by the private arm of the World Bank, the IFC (International Finance Corporation), to the tune of US$ 2 million. The company's failure to consult the Gana and Gwi, who have been evicted from the reserve, violates the World Bank's own policy on indigenous peoples. The local Bushman organisation 'First People of the Kalahari' wrote to the World Bank in November 2004, complaining that their right to live on their ancestral land was being 'undermined' by the BHP Billiton project. The Bushmen are opposed to any development on their land until they are allowed to return and live freely there. www.survival-international.org FAIRFORD FREEDOM FIGHTERS Two years ago, on 22 March 2003, two days after coalition forces launched an attack on Iraq, 120 protestors were turned away by police from an anti-war demonstration and detained for over two hours. The House of Lords is expected to make a decision within the next four weeks on whether to hear the case. A group of coach passengers taking the case forward petitioned the House of Lords after the Court of Appeal ruled in December that, although the police acted unlawfully in detaining them on their coaches, their rights to freedom of movement and of lawful assembly were not violated by being turned away from the demonstration at RAF Fairford. Giving judgment, Lord Chief Justice Lord Woolf stated that, "the passengers were virtually prisoners on the coaches for the length of the journey". At the Appeal hearing, Gloucestershire police had argued that they were protecting the protestors' right to life by detaining them and forcing their return to London. In his statement, Chief Superintendent Kevin Lambert, the officer in charge of policing the protest, warned that, "had a member of the public penetrated the defences and been killed or injured by one of the armed personnel guarding the B52 aircraft. . . the public reaction and political consequences would have been extremely damaging to the coalition partners". http://www.fairfordcoachaction.org.uk VIRTUALLY REALITY In an attempt to escape escalating negative publicity, car manufacturers have begun to label their vehicles 'virtually emission-free' without actually modifying the vehicles themselves. The "virtually emission-free" claim is at the heart of a new print ad campaign targeted at federal legislators by a coalition of car manufacturers including Ford, Toyota, and General Motors. There's a grain of truth (but only a grain ) behind the campaign: Some car models generate roughly 99 percent fewer smog-forming emissions than their counterparts in the pre-regulation 1960s. But critics, including the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), have pointed out several problems. Firstly, most car manufacturers have acknowledged that smog remains a serious public-health problem that requires further efforts on their part. Secondly, the campaign disregards emissions not classified as pollutants by the U.S. EPA - in other words, carbon dioxide. But again, manufacturers themselves have acknowledged that greenhouse gases like CO2 are causing climate change and need to be cut. The UCS has mounted a counter-campaign that it says has generated 20,000 complaints to the Federal Trade Commission about the coalition's claims. http://grist.org/cgi-bin/forward.pl?forward_id=4612 DEAD LOSS Amnesty International has stated in its annual report on the use of capital punishment that there were nearly 4,000 deaths by capital punishment during 2004, and at least 7,395 inmates were sentenced to death worldwide. The United States remains one of the top executing countries, along with China, Iran, and Viet Nam. "Our report indicates that governments and citizens around the world have realized what the United States government refuses to admit-that the death penalty is an inhumane, antiquated form of punishment," said Dr. William F. Schulz, Executive Director, Amnesty International USA (AIUSA). Amnesty asks the international community to do more to consign the death penalty to history. http://www.amnestyusa.org VEG OUT Using biofuel - a mix of vegetable oil and diesel - to power vehicles is already popular in certain circles, but using biofuel to heat homes is just starting to catch on. A recent surge has taken place largely in the U.S. Northeast, where there remains a large concentration of houses that use heating oil. Proponents tout the fact that biofuel produces far less soot and thus requires less furnace cleaning. They are also motivated by a desire to support energy independence and the domestic economy. "About 20 out of every 100 gallons of bioheat goes to American farmers and producers instead of unstable foreign countries," says biofuel user Charles Kleekamp. Though it currently costs roughly 10 to 20 cents more per gallon than regular heating fuel, mainly because of the paucity of manufacturing facilities (Northeast biofuel is transported all the way from Florida), enthusiasts hope that rising demand will drive down prices. Already a biodiesel production facility is in the works for Providence, R.I., for next year. http://grist.org/cgi-bin/forward.pl?forward_id=4628 QUOTE/UNQUOTE "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." -Robert Louis Stephenson JOBS Health Delegate - Albania American Red Cross Salary: Based on Experience Location: Tirana, Albania Closing Date: 25.04.2005 http://www.oneworld.net/job/view/11038 Program Associate Centre for Development and Population Activities Salary: unconfirmed Location: Washington, D.C., United States Closing Date: 24.04.2005 http://www.oneworld.net/job/view/11034 Campaigner - Zimbabwe Amnesty International - International Secretariat Salary: Full time salary of ?24,029 per annum Location: London, UK Closing Date: 23.04.2005 http://www.oneworld.net/job/view/11021 Asia/Middle East Regional Manager CAFOD Salary: ?36,172 to ?39,672 pa Location: Brixton, London, UK Closing Date: 20.04.2005 http://www.oneworld.net/job/view/11018 Training Manager Heifer Project International Salary: 48,600-54,630 Location: Little Rock, Arkansas, United States Closing Date: 20.04.2005 http://www.oneworld.net/job/view/1101 EVENTS 19th April - 26th April Globaleyes (play) The Chicken Shed Theatre Company announces a new production,'Globaleyes' Set to open on the 19th April until the 28th May at the Chicken Shed Theatre, Chase Side, Southgate, London N14 4PE. 'Globaleyes weaves a story of unerring passion for the beauty of life against the cheapening value that society can put on it. Through dance, theatre and music, still and moving image, this stunning, uplifting piece of dance theatre brings to life issues of globalisation, the abuse of power and the impact of these issues on the world and its future'. At the Chicken Shed Theatre, Chase Side, Southgate, London N14 20th April Amnesty International - DEMANDING JUSTICE FOR THE 'DISAPPEARED' A conversation with Mexican human rights activist Tita Radilla, organised by Amnesty International, Peace Brigades International and the Latin America Bureau. Hear the inspiring story of a courageous human rights defender and the international volunteers who help to keep her safe. All welcome. Will take place at The Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA, on the 20th April 2005 at 7.30pm, Please RSVP by email to alison.willis@amnesty.org.uk or telephone: 020 7033 1544 23rd April "Making War History", Network for Peace Annual General Meeting. Guest speakers include Professor Robert Hinde, co-author of /War No More/ (with J. Rotblat) and Jonathan Fryer, a freelance writer, lecturer and broadcaster, and a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's 'From Our Own Correspondent'. Plus Alison Williams of UNGA-Link UK will talk on the UN's report: /A more secure world: Our shared responsibility. 10am - 5pm Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, (near Holborn Tube), London WC1. NfP AGM will be in the morning, guest speakers 2 - 5pm. All welcome, whether members or not. Network for Peace: 020 7278 3267 nfp@gn.apc.org www.networkforpeace.org.uk 27th April Earthwatch Lecture - Grey Whales and Orca Grey Whales & Orca - Feeding Habits & Health. Our oceans are powerful indicators of the state of our planet and the incidence of climate change. There is currently much public interest in whales and their environment, but the information is often poorly reported or interpreted. Join us to hear about our research into two charismatic species, the coastal grey whale, which can weigh between 30 and 40 tons, and the killer whale, the most fearsome predator of the world's oceans - research which also tells us about the health of the oceans they inhabit. >From 7pm to 8.30pm Royal Geographical Society 1 Kensington Gore, London Admission is free but by ticket only. Contact events@earthwatch.org.uk 01865 318856 'The Peace Cycle 2005' will be the second ever London to Jerusalem Bike Ride! It will leave central London on Sunday 7th August and will travel through the Benelux regions, Switzerland, part of Italy and then on to Turkey and the northern Middle East countries before crossing into Israel and the West Bank. The ride will again take with it a message of solidarity and hope for a just peace for all people in the Middle East and beyond. Despite some recent small steps towards peace talks in Israel and Palestine, the people of Gaza and the West Bank are still suffering the daily humiliation of checkpoints, restrictions of movement, demolition of their homes, and general discrimination and injustice. We welcome people of all backgrounds, abilities, ages and faiths to join the ride for justice and peace, whether for one day, for part of the way, or for all of the way to Jerusalem! End the Cycle of Violence - Join the Cycle for Peace. For more information on joining The Peace Cycle please see our website: www.thepeacecycle.org TRAINING COURSES Introduction to Renewable Energy Weekends, Wales (3 days, covering a full range of technologies) 22, 23 & 24 April 2005 and 27, 28 & 29 May 2005 Solar Electrical Installation Courses, France (5 days, incl site visits & practicals) Monday 16 May - Friday 20 May and Monday 27 June - Friday 1 July and Monday 19 September - Friday 23 September For further information on both courses contact Green Dragon Energy tel: + 44 (0) 1654 761 731(Office) tel: + 44 (0) 784 060 0979 (Mobile) email: info@greendragonenergy.co.uk and have a look at http://www.greendragonenergy.co.uk/courses.htm See SchNEWS events at http://www.schnews.org.uk/pap/yourarea.htm Add diary dates at http://www.gn.apc.org/calendar/calindex.shtml and http://www.networkforpeace.org.uk/events.htm (diary dates collected by NfP are passed on to Peace News for their diary page. In order to get a diary listing in PN, groups can email nfp@gn.apc.org with details). This edition of AlterNet is edited by Lucie Evans for GreenNet. Send your news and hot sites to actnow@gn.apc.org Please note that opinions expressed in Alternet News do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the editor or of the GreenNet Collective. http://www.gn.apc.org To subscribe or unsubscribe see: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/alternet-l _______________________________________________ -- _______________________________________________ Alternet-l mailing list Alternet-l@gn.apc.org http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/alternet-l From alternet at mail.gn.apc.org Fri Apr 29 17:23:39 2005 From: alternet at mail.gn.apc.org (Alternet News) Date: Wed Feb 1 23:43:31 2006 Subject: [alternet-l] THE ALTERNET NEWS - ISSUE 119 Message-ID: THE ALTERNET NEWS - ISSUE 119 April 29th 2005 This issue: MONEY TALKS/ DIRTY DEALINGS/ HUMAN RIOTS/ EVERY LITTLE HELPS/ BIOWASTE OF TIME/ CLEAR AS MUD/ WEAPONS OF MASS/ PEACE OF THE ACTION/ AGE OF AQUARIUS/ RATZ!/ QUOTE/UNQUOTE/ JOBS/ DIARY/ HOT SITES: Poison Apple - beneath the stylish outer casings, Apple's beautifully designed iPods and PCs contain toxic chemicals such as lead and mercury that can cause birth defects and disabilities. Join the efforts to stop the growing mountain of harmful electronic waste from poisoning our families and communities, and encourage consumer electronics manufacturers and brand owners to take full responsibility for the life cycle of their products. Click here to send a message to Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer Inc, urging him to recycle his iWaste: http://action.computertakeback.com/action/index.asp?step=2&item=10201 Art Not Oil is an annual event aimed at encouraging artists to create work that explores the damage that companies such as BP are doing to the planet, and the role art can play in counteracting that damage. Art Not Oil 2005 will begin as a virtual gallery at www.artnotoil.org.uk, progressing to a physical space at some point during the year. Despite the fact that education is key to ending extreme poverty, over 100 million children around the world are not in school. Action Week (April 24- 30) is a worldwide effort to remind world leaders of their promise that every child should have an education. This year's campaign, 'Send My Friend to School', has the worldwide goal of sending 1 million 'friends' to world leaders. Participants will make life-size and smaller-scale cutouts of friends to send as petitions to the G-8 Summit. See http://www.netaid.org for more details. MONEY TALKS - PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES LISTEN A report from a panel of experts released recently suggests that if aid donors could be persuaded to promise to buy 200 million doses of any new malaria vaccine for $15 a time, pharmaceutical companies would have the incentive to develop one, and people in poorer countries would get the chance of proper protection from the deadly disease at a bargain cost. It has been argued that this approach could work for many diseases afflicting poor countries and potentially save millions of lives. http://www.cgdev.org DIRTY DEALINGS At a ChevronTexaco shareholder meeting in California this week, Amazonian community leaders, celebrities, and activists will confront company officials, focusing attention anew on Texaco's messy legacy in Ecuador. Twenty years of oil exploration in the nation left much of the western edge of the Amazon rainforest in ecological ruin, and many villagers with unusually high rates of illness. Though Texaco fled Ecuador in 1992, its joint venture with the nation's state oil company left behind 600 unlined open sludge pits, compromised or destroyed 2.5 million acres of rainforest, and released an estimated 20 billion gallons of wastewater directly into waterways. ChevronTexaco insists it dealt with the contamination in 1995 when it paid $40 million in cleanup costs to the Ecuadorian government. But locals and environmentalists estimate that a thorough cleanup could cost as much as $6 billion. The Independent HUMAN RIOTS Thousands of farmers are rioting in a village in eastern China this month, taking a stand against encroachment of the country's fast-growing industries onto their land, and the pollution and health problems that result. Villagers set up roadblocks to interfere with deliveries to and from the 13 chemical plants in the area that have been built on what used to be cropland. When some 3,000 police were sent to remove the roadblocks and restore production at the plants, villagers rioted, smashing buses, overturning cars, and attacking the police. Farmers and other locals say the factories - which produce fertilizers, pesticides, and dyes - damage their crops, foul their water, and periodically release clouds of stinging gas, causing birth defects and stillborn babies. Said one villager, "I'm afraid my children won't live to reach my age. I want my land back, I want my food back, and I want my water back." The Guardian EVERY LITTLE HELPS Tesco announced its annual profits this month, results which have doubtless satisfied the many shareholders of this supermarket giant. ActionAid reports that these ever-increasing margins are resulting not from those of us at the top of the supermarket 'food chain', but from the shoddy treatment of casual women labourers on South African farms - whose pay and working conditions are being squeezed below poverty thresholds. http://www.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/109247/66/21543 BIOWASTE OF TIME A coalition of 6 organisations, bringing together European environmental protection groups, social integration interests, Waste Managers, Local Authorities and Industry, supported by acknowledged experts in the field, have expressed their deep concern about the apparent intention of the European Commission's DG Environment to abandon an independent Directive on Biowaste. After five years, several advanced Commission working papers, numerous stakeholder meetings and at least seven different institutional calls for legislation, nothing has yet been delivered. "The Commission's idea of focusing only on Compost Product Standards for this waste stream is insufficient. Standards without complementary strategic legislation on biowaste would not generate the critical mass needed to drive change, or give the legal certainty to address the current financial risks for both the private and public sectors, declared a coalition spokesperson. www.assurre.org CLEAR AS MUD A chemical widely used in the making of clear plastic products, including baby bottles, food storage containers, and even dental fillings, is the subject of debate between those who insist it is safe, (namely those with vested interests in the plastic industry) and those who say it's not, (namely the rest of the thinking world). Many scientists have found evidence that bisphenol A, or BPA, is harmful, even in the small doses leached from plastic into food during heating or exposure to acidic food products or strong detergents, because it can mimic sex hormones. A new paper in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives surveys 115 studies on BPA and reports that 94 of them show harmful effects. In a strange twist of fate, researchers Frederick vom Saal and Claude Hughes found that all 11 industry-funded studies conclude BPA is harmless, while 90 percent of the 104 government- or university-funded studies conclude otherwise. California's legislature is considering a ban on BPA in childrens' products - if successful, it would be the first ban on the chemical in the world. USA Today WEAPONS OF MASS A local resident has submitted a formal complaint to Central Scotland Police following an incident earlier this month when a 48-tonne nuclear weapons convoy used Stirlingshire roads on which safety-related weight restrictions apply, risking the collapse of a bridge or carriageway. Three nuclear warhead carriers travelled on either the B822, which has a 13-tonne restriction, or, as is more probable, on the B8075 on which the permitted weight is 7.5 tonnes. The convoy was spotted by Nukewatch monitors - a Nukewatch spokesperson said: 'This particular piece of law breaking by the Ministry of Defence is quite astounding in its arrogance and disdain for public safety. The normal route these convoys take is the A811 through the western edge of Stirling. While this route is far from safe for the transport of plutonium and high explosive, in that the road is narrow and passes close to two primary schools and businesses employing many hundreds of people, at least it does not have these weight restrictions which have been imposed for a reason. What recklessness inspired them to take this route?' http://www.nuclearinfo.org PEACE OF THE ACTION The remaining rebel group in Burundi has announced it would join the peace process ahead of elections scheduled for later this month. In the Congo, one militia group announced an end to its armed struggle, while another sent the last of its conscripts to hand in their weapons. Meanwhile, Ivorians are waiting to see if their president will accept mediator Thabo Mbeki's ruling that the main opposition candidate should be allowed to stand in elections later this year. http://www.reliefweb.int AGE OF AQUARIUS Only 2 percent of the world's water is fresh, and with the World Commission on Water for the 21st Century projecting a 50% increase in demand in the next 30 years, food and drinking-water shortages, droughts, devastated agriculture, disease, and even armed conflict over water may be on the horizon. Indeed, over the last five years, stocks in the water sector have leapt 113%, with a 24% jump just last year. Companies involved in the $400 billion-a-year global water business - delivery and storage of water, construction and maintenance of infrastructure like wastewater-treatment facilities and desalination plants - have seen their portfolios boom in recent years. 'Water will emerge as the next growth commodity', says hedge- fund manager John Romero. The Wall Street Journal RATZ! The election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as the new pope has disappointed progressive Catholic groups who fear that Ratzinger, like his predecessor, will maintain the church's strict orthodoxy on issues such as contraception, celibacy, abortion, homosexuality and women's leadership. Many people, having spoken out on the need for the next pope to hail from Latin America (where 45% of Catholics communities are based) are angry at the decision to elect another Western pope. http://www.ips.org QUOTE/UNQUOTE "He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife." - The Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, Douglas Adams. JOBS Water & Sanitation Technical Advisor, Liberia Concern Worldwide Salary: Paid salary, flights, accommodation, living allowance, life & health insurance, pension Location: Monrovia, with travel to the field, Liberia Closing Date: 12.05.2005 http://www.oneworld.net/job/view/11091 Assistant Country Director - Systems, Burundi. Concern Worldwide Salary: Paid salary ( 31,784+), flights, accommodation, living allowance, life & health insurance, pension Location: Bujumbura, Burundi Closing Date: 12.05.2005 http://www.oneworld.net/job/view/11090 Country Programme Manager Oxfam Great Britain Salary: ?28,460 - ?36,670 p.a. gross Location: Scotland, UK Closing Date: 10.05.2005 http://www.oneworld.net/job/view/11086 Regional Education Advisor South Central Asia Region Save the Children UK Salary: ?27,471 Location: Khatmandu, Nepal Closing Date: 06.05.2005 http://www.oneworld.net/job/view/11081 Personal Assistant to the Chief Executive Plan International UK Salary: ?18,110- ?23,134 pa depending on skills and experience Location: London NW1, UK Closing Date: 18.04.2005 http://www.oneworld.net/job/view/11078 HIV Programme Development Officer CAFOD Salary: ?27,251 to 29,901 p.a. Location: Brixton, London, UK Closing Date: 22.04.2005 http://www.oneworld.net/job/view/11073 EVENTS Cancel the ExCel Arms Fair! Musical protest: Sat 7 May, 2pm-4.30pm Outside the ExCel Centre, next to Custom House Docklands Light Railway Station. Information about local opposition to ExCel Arms Fair is available from East London Against the Arms Fair c/o C.I.U. Durning Hall, Earlham Grove, London E7 9AB. Soldiers or Scientists? Questions about national security are uppermost in many of our minds - especially in the wake of various terrorist attacks across the world and the war in Iraq. Join our panel as they address questions on this subject, putting the complex worlds of the military sector, science, engineering and technology under the microscope. David Dickson, Director of SciDevNet, will chair this event, and Dr Chris Langley and Malcolm Savidge MP will speak. The Royal Institution of Great Britain, 21 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BS, Wednesday 11 May 2005, 7.00 - 8.30 pm.- is not a Word Document. http://www.rigb.org/rimain/calendar/detail.jsp?&id=172 Irshad Manji, the controversial best-selling author of 'The Trouble with Islam...' will be speaking in London on Thursday 12 May 2005, hosted by the Lesbian & Gay Christian Movement and other organisations. The theme of Ms Manji's talk in London will be "Faith + Politics + Human Rights" and will follow from the issues raised in her book, which she describes as follows: "'The Trouble with Islam...' is an open letter from me, a Muslim voice of reform, to concerned citizens worldwide - Muslim and otherwise. It's about why my faith community needs to come to terms with the diversity of ideas, beliefs and people in our universe, and why non-Muslims have a pivotal role in helping us get there." http://www.wluml.org The London Sustainability Weeks are set to be a bigger success than ever - as of yesterday over 300 events are confirmed as taking place during the two weeks of June 5th - 19th. The launch day, June 5th, will be kicking off with two big events - the Camden Green Fair in Regents Park and the GLA-run London Green Lifestyle Festival in Greenwich Park. More details on these events very soon. See SchNEWS events at http://www.schnews.org.uk/pap/yourarea.htm Add diary dates at http://www.gn.apc.org/calendar/calindex.shtml and http://www.networkforpeace.org.uk/events.htm (diary dates collected by NfP are passed on to Peace News for their diary page. In order to get a diary listing in PN, groups can email nfp@gn.apc.org with details). 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