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If famine and malnutrition are to be alleviated, funneling most of the earth's resources to a select few must end, and individuals need to adopt less consumerist lifestyles, Pope Benedict XVI said.
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 The sharing principle is, as you well know, one that would open all doors, because it is based on compassion. That is the basis of the Plenty Ashram movement, whose volunteers have done such great work in 3rd world countries and with whom I had the privilege of living and working in Dhaka, Bangladesh. There is Plenty for All, it just needs to be shared properly. Sharing is currently the basis of the movement to get medicine to those who cannot afford it and who are in such need. The situation among HIV/AIDS patients in sub-Saharan Africa is a tragedy of Holocaust proportions. Here in Calcutta the situation developing is less well-known and less well documented. There are 1600 known HIV+ve patients among the sex workers.
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5th Novemeber 06, Kenneth Kwama, The Standard (E. Africa) About three decades ago, Mr Ad de Raad, the Executive Coordinator for the United Nations Volunteer (UNV) programme, was a simple young man with a noble ambition. His desire was to join the UN, work for about two years and then move on to a "better job". |
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6th September , 2006 , Anchorage Daily News National oil company will buy heating fuel for Native villages The irony of it. Alaska, an oil-rich state with more than $34 billion in its Permanent Fund, more than $2 billion in its budget reserve fund, a budget surplus the past two years -- and thousands of villagers fearing another winter of costly heating oil bills. |
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 From water to peace, from knowledge to work, from the sea (the Mediterranean) to the coasts of the South, from energy to territory - these are the themes of an agenda that helps us to build an economy based on Common Goods. This economy is not founded on commoditisation, privatisation, war, but on people's rights, on equality and solidarity - an economy that is thus an alternative to our model of growth.
The theme of this conference is utopian and proudly so. Let us remember that U-topia does not mean "impossible" but no-place. Or perhaps no place yet. The topics above introduce it and will be discussed by the opening round table in which I've been kindly asked to participate.
Which of the terms it puts forward are now "Common Goods"? Let us look first at the state of play, then what might be done to change it.
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15th May 06, The Observer Venezuelan President promises fuel to the needy and proclaims 'final days of the North American empire' before visit to Britain today.
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February 2006, Nina Strenitz ~ STWR More than fifty years into the development battle, some progress can be reported: The percentage of people living in absolute poverty as measured by the World Bank's $1 a day poverty line fell from 1987 to 1998 by four percentage points to 24%; and currently 83% of children in Latin America and the Caribbean region complete primary education. Despite these improvements, significant inequalities in the access to medication and the distribution of income remain between regions, nations and even citizens within the same nation states. A closer investigation of global poverty indicators reveals that improvements are concentrated in a few countries, such as India or China. Some nations were able to realize the potential gains from an increasingly globalized world, while others are still struggling and sometimes even fall back through net losses in trade, civil wars or natural disasters. A recent report by the WHO and UNICEF revealed that in Kenya every year, 34000 children die of Malaria (about 90 percent of the global figure), a disease that can be successfully treated with appropriate medication. In short: much, if not more than ever, remains to be done. |
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