From: Ten Thousand Things Supporting the culture of positive peace: inner & outer peace, sustainability, diversity, social justice, and affirmative creative expression--in the Asia-Pacific (and everywhere)Wednesday, June 30, 2010 The organizing committee for the Yayori Awards is pleased to announce that nomination forms are now available for the 2010 … [Read more...] about Yayori Awards seek to honor activists, artists, journalists working on women’s issues worldwide
Archives for June 2010
List of Korean and Related Progressive Websites
sent from https://nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com/First the list, then excerpts *Space4peace(Organizaing Notes)--STUDENTS CONNECT DOTS TO WAR $$$*Space4Peace(Korean, Korean Committee blog for the Global Network Conference, 2009)*Korea site for the World March for Peace and Nonviolence in Korea*Korea Report--> Overseas Koreans Call for Peace in … [Read more...] about List of Korean and Related Progressive Websites
[No US Bases] Emergency News: Update News on Wartime Operational Control etc: and Introduction on the site on the No base learning and Solidarity Visit Program_Korea (June 14 to 20, 2010)
Sung-Hee ChoiEmergency News: Office and staff houses of the Korean Alliance for Progressive Movement (https://www.jinbocorea.org/) were forcefully searched by the National Intelligence Service at 6:30am, June 29, 2010(Korean time) and three staffs were arrested ( Representative, Han Choong-Mok, Jung Dae Yeon, former Executive Chairman, and Choi Young-Ok, Vice Chairman of the … [Read more...] about [No US Bases] Emergency News: Update News on Wartime Operational Control etc: and Introduction on the site on the No base learning and Solidarity Visit Program_Korea (June 14 to 20, 2010)
G-20 violence the result of agents provacateurs? Not the first time for Canada
You know the scene. At gatherings of the world's elites, mostly nonviolent protests against war, against globalization marginalizing more and more people suddenly turn violent. While there are some on the left who do not exclude damage to property, even the most militant know that the police provoke violence in order to frighten away all protesters. And so most … [Read more...] about G-20 violence the result of agents provacateurs? Not the first time for Canada
Japan Tobacco Kills People and Lies: (JT 2007: We don’t believe smoking causes cancer. JT 2010: We never said that)
Recently Roger Pulvers wrote a piece criticizing JT saying that smoking does not cause cancer, followed by a rebuttal by JT claiming that it never said any such thing. Hideyuki Yamamoto of JT lled. In fact, the very same person quoted recently by Pulvers, a Toshimasa Kurita, said it in 2007, in this piece by Al Jazeera (Pulvers' article and the JT rebuttal afre … [Read more...] about Japan Tobacco Kills People and Lies: (JT 2007: We don’t believe smoking causes cancer. JT 2010: We never said that)