BBC HARDtalk - Kumi Naidoo - Executive Director, Greenpeace International (20/11/12) Eskom Spying: NGOs Quit Stakeholder Forum | Greenpeace Africa. Feature story - February 13, 2013 Environmental NGOs Earthlife, groundwork, and Greenpeace have suspended their participation in Eskom’s NGO forum following reports that Eskom contracted an intelligence company to spy on the organisations. "Eskom’s shocking move highlights the deep rot within the organisation that takes us back to the dark days of apartheid. If we cannot trust Eskom’s leadership to deal openly with those that are pushing it towards sustainable practices, how can we trust them with such an important asset as our energy provision? We demand a change of Eskom’s leadership", said groundWork’s Director Bobby Peek.
The organisations have received documents exposing correspondence between SA’s utility monopoly and Swartberg Intelligence Services. "Eskom has demonstrated that it is a completely unscrupulous organisation both in terms of its energy choices and ethical standards," said Michael O'Brien Onyeka, Greenpeace Africa's Executive Director. Earthlife Africa Jhb | Earthlife, groundWork, and Greenpeace quit stakeholder forum over Eskom Espionage. Climate change Eskom Espionage: Eskom responds to Earthlife, groundWork, and Greenpeace +++ Addition to the post: Johannesburg, Monday 18 February 2013 – Eskom has sent a reply to Earthlife, groundWork, and Greenpeace regarding the spying that has taken place on these organisations by the infamous ‘Swartberg Intelligence Services’.
However, the personal response made by Eskom’s CEO Brian Dames is totally inappropriate: none of the demands of the affected civil society organisations have been met. The letter does not include any of the facts that Eskom is asked to share. It also misses the announcement of a public apology by Eskom. And instead of sharing the information necessary for a public investigation, Brian Dames announces that they will conduct an internal assessment of Eskom’s wrong-doings “Eskom’s shocking move highlights the deep rot within the organisation that takes us back to the dark days of apartheid. Contact: Download: Click here to download the press release. Atelier Greenpeace - soutenez nous. Sondage : indépendance et pluralité des journalistes et des médias. L’Observatoire des Journalistes et de l’Information Médiatique a lancé du 7 au 16 février une consultation publique sur la perception du système médiatique français.
Nous proposions à nos lecteurs de donner leur avis sur l’indépendance et la pluralité des journalistes et des médias, en répondant à un sondage de 12 questions. Ce sondage est désormais fermé. Vous trouverez ci-dessous une analyse des résultats de cette Enquête Ojim, doublée d’une infographie. L’Ojim a mis en ligne son premier sondage sur les médias pendant une semaine et vous avez été plus de 5000 à répondre, un résultat très encourageant.
Il faut bien situer la valeur de ce sondage. Les médias sont considérés comme peu ou pas indépendants (95%), influencés par leurs propriétaires (88%), les annonceurs (81%) alors que la liberté d’expression tend à se dégrader en France (85%). Internet est plébiscité comme le média le plus indépendant (94%) et respectant le plus la liberté d’expression (75%). Attac France | Un autre monde est possible ! Résistance & engagements... Pierre Bourdieu. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Vous lisez un « bon article ». Pour les articles homonymes, voir Bourdieu.
Pierre Bourdieu Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) est l'un des sociologues français les plus importants de la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle et qui, à la fin de sa vie, devint, par son engagement public, l’un des acteurs principaux de la vie intellectuelle française. Sa pensée a exercé une influence considérable dans les sciences humaines et sociales[1], en particulier sur la sociologie française d’après-guerre. Sociologie du dévoilement, elle a fait l’objet de nombreuses critiques, qui lui reprochent en particulier une vision déterministe du social dont il se défendait. Son œuvre sociologique est dominée par une analyse des mécanismes de reproduction des hiérarchies sociales.
Biographie[modifier | modifier le code] Il est le père du réalisateur Emmanuel Bourdieu. Études[modifier | modifier le code] Début de carrière[modifier | modifier le code] Un village kabyle traditionnel. An Addition to the Climate Movement-Civil Disobedience Toolkit. Protesters engage in civil disobedience at the White House to demonstrate against the Keystone XL pipeline. (Photo: Cool Revolution) On February 13, 48 of the nation's environmental and civil rights leaders got arrested in front of the White House to draw attention to climate change and the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline.
Many dubbed the action "civil disobedience. " Four days later some 40,000 people followed with peaceful protest. Peaceful protest, a tactic utilized by the civil rights movement, has been introduced into the climate movement. A similar parallel, however, cannot be drawn between the action of the 48 leaders and the form of civil disobedience performed by the civil rights movement. Civil disobedience is the conscious refusal to obey an unjust law. Oil and gas corporations to extract, transport and sell North American fossil fuel were arrested for blocking a throughway in front of the White House.
Take Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for example. Résistance au nouvel ordre mondial. Le plan de grande envergure pour la nature nécessite une action de grande envergure rapidement. 08 October 2012 | News story Les gouvernements doivent passer à l’action et investir dans la nature afin de sauvegarder la diversité de la vie sur la terre et affronter les défis actuels du développement, a déclaré l’UICN (Union internationale pour la conservation de la nature) devant la 11ème Conférence des parties à la Convention sur la biodiversité biologique (CBD COP11), qui s’ouvre aujourd’hui à Hyderabad, en Inde. Les représentants gouvernementaux réunis à Hyderabad discuteront de la mise en œuvre des décisions prises au sommet de la biodiversité de Nagoya en 2010, et en particulier des suites qui ont été données au Plan stratégique pour la biodiversité et aux Objectifs d’Aichi 2020 établis à l’occasion de ce sommet en matière de sauvegarde et de restauration de la nature. « Nous avons à préserver cet élan.
Les pertes de biodiversité se poursuivent et ont franchi les limites planétaires pouvant être jugées comme sûres. Big Plan for nature needs Big Action now. 08 October 2012 | News story Governments must take action and invest in nature to secure the diversity of life on earth and address today’s development challenges – urges IUCN at the 11th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP11), which starts today in Hyderabad, India. Governments meeting in Hyderabad will discuss implementation of the decisions taken at the Nagoya Biodiversity Summit in 2010, including the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity and its 2020 Aichi Targets to save and restore nature. “In Nagoya, we agreed the Big Plan with ambitious yet realistic targets to save our planet’s biodiversity,” says Julia Marton-Lefèvre, IUCN Director General.
“We need to keep the momentum going. According to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, out of the 63,837 species assessed, 19,817 are threatened with extinction, including 41% of amphibians, 33% of reef building corals, 25% of mammals, 13% of birds, and 30% of conifers. Le grand réinventaire | contributions politiques sensibles… Derniers ajouts | le grand réinventaire. Négawatt... Sud Energie. Libéralisation de l'énergie... Why Chavez Chose Social Safety Net Over Skyscrapers. People walk by graffiti showing late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, as they head to pay their final respects during Chavez's funeral ceremony at the military academy in Caracas, Venezuela, March 11, 2013.
(Photo: Mauricio Lima / The New York Times) Since news broke last week of the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, reactions to that leader’s passing have been pouring in. While many argue that Chavez did incredible things for Venezuela and its people, there are those, especially here in the US, who don’t have such a rosy view of the former leader. That’s where Associated Press business reporter Pamela Sampson comes in. In a piece from last Tuesday, speaking about the legacy of Chavez, Sampson wrote that, “Chavez invested Venezuela's oil wealth into social programs including state-run food markets, cash benefits for poor families, free health clinics and education programs.
You heard that right. Now, if these were the feelings of just one journalist, we could move on. Resistance From a Cage: Julian Assange Speaks to Norwegian Journalist Eirik Vold. Julian Assange, founder of Wikilieaks.org, pictured outside the Frontline Club in London, July 26, 2010. (Photo: The New York Times)This is an exclusive English translation of an interview published Saturday, February 16, 2013, in the Norwegian news outlet Dagens Næringsliv. Julian Assange is the itinerant hacker from the Australian Outback who gave the world the biggest leak of secret documents in history. Seven months into his embassy asylum, the cyber crusade for transparency goes on.
This is not the first time that WikiLeaks has come under attack, Assange tells me. "We had been through a couple of fights. With a commander at the Guantanamo base. We were sued by a Swiss bank. A cryptographer friend? Travelers in the Australian Outback "I do what I do because I saw the opportunity," Assange says. Don't even bother to ask if he became the world's most famous leaker and the West's number-one dissident because of his special family background and childhood in the Australian Outback.
Notes: Debt Versus Democracy: A Battle for the Future. Strike Debt on Fifth Avenue for Global Noise Demo. (Photo: Marisa Holmes) In the US and Europe, the movement of squares has responded to attacks on the social good by debt resistance and direct democracy. In assemblies, mic checks and self-organization, they demonstrated that another world is possible. Now the movement is articulating full-scale resistance. The movement of squares was born of the crisis of debt and democracy. In the wake of the global financial crisis, debt has been used by the 1 percent as a tool of oppression against the 99%. The corruption of so-called democratic governments has been laid bare and their rule delegitimized, and now it is Phase Two. The crisis began in the mid-1970s when the US went off the gold standard and pursued policies of inflation, effectively plunging the Third World into a debt crisis.
By 2006 and 2007 the housing bubble was already in the making. Strike Debt in Central Park for Global Noise Demo. The average American has a double debt burden. GAIA : Index.