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September 23, 2009

I am in France and some of our friends have been captured by the police but I managed to escape

LAZEM FROM LAGHMAN PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN

We want to go to a country where we are safe, because the security situation in our country is not good.

We left Afghanistan and we came through Iran, we travelled to Turkey and then to Greece and from there to Italy, and then we came to France.

Our wishes are to go to Britain to make a new life. We are not going there for money.

If the situation in Afghanistan becomes good then we'll go back, but if we go back now our life will be in danger.

We sold whatever we had, we sold our houses to make the money and look what happened to us now, it's better to die.

via news.bbc.co.uk

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Filed under  //   france   migrants   police   politics   security  

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April 7, 2009

Students use Twitter to storm presidency in Moldova - Telegraph.co.uk

via telegraph.co.uk

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Filed under  //   moldavia   politics   protest   twitter  

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March 27, 2009

The Ideas Campaign - ideas to rebuild the Irish economy

The Ideas Campaign is calling on you, the people of Ireland, to propose solutions that will help rebuild the economy. It’s a grassroots, independent campaign for citizens, by citizens.
via ideascampaign.ie

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Filed under  //   activism   government   innovation   organization 2.0   participation   politics   social change  

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March 27, 2009

To save the planet, we'll have to bury the party political hatchet - via No Impact Man

Even if the administrations of all the countries of the world manage to come to an agreement, the resulting treaty will still have to be ratified. Here in the United States, that means that 66 Senators will have to vote for it.

And guess what? The Democrats only 59 votes--and that's only if you count the two independents who tend to ally with them. That means that, in order for the United States to ratify the next climate treaty, at least seven Republican Senators will have to be persuaded to vote for it.

The entire world depends on the United States' ability to bury its political hatchets. Unless the objections of those seven prospective Senators and their constituents are overcome, the worst effects of climate change will not be averted.

What does that mean? That we, as a nation, are urgently going to have to learn to talk. And, perhaps more importantly, to listen.

via noimpactman.typepad.com

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Filed under  //   earth   politics   save the world   united states  

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