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Walking home from the downtown Oakland BART station a couple weeks ago I passed a young man standing on a street corner next to his bike.
Ethnography Matters | Exploring what it means to be an ethnographer today
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AFRICA
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Twins - Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine
Every summer, on the first weekend in August, thousands of twins converge on Twinsburg, Ohio, a small town southeast of Cleveland named by identical twin brothers nearly two centuries ago. They come, two by two, for the Twins Days Festival, a three-day marathon of picnics, talent shows, and look-alike contests that has grown into one of the world's largest gatherings of twins.
It is recognized, however, that there are many development projects which, though economically sound, cannot be financed by existing international institutions. To meet this situation, the United States Governor of the Bank has proposed the creation of an International Development Association as an affiliate of the Bank.
International Development Association (IDA) - World Bank’s fund for poor countries
SOUTH AMERICA
People In Need
People In Need - Gerhard Baumgard Stiftung - (PIN) is a non-profit, charitable organization to help socially disadvantaged persons to cope with difficult situations in life and improve their livelihood.
MIDDLE EAST
The mission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. The OECD provides a forum in which governments can work together to share experiences and seek solutions to common problems.
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« Development Studies Resources for Students », eine Online-Plattform des Guardian, bietet Studierenden in Fachrichtungen rund um Entwicklungszusammenarbeit eine reiche Palette an nützlichen Hilfsmitteln wie Blogs, Artikel, Literaturtipps, Statistiken oder Expertenmeinungen.
Center for the job market in international cooperation
CHINA
FelixDodds.Net - About Felix
"Remember that our lives on this planet are too short, and the work to be done too great: That those who live with us are our brothers and sisters that they share with us the same short moment of life.
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Tim DeChristopher, who was sentenced Tuesday to two years in federal prison and a $10,000 fine for 'disrupting' a Bureau of Land Management auction in 2008, had an opportunity to address the court and the judge immediately before his sentence was announced.
I Do Not Want Mercy, I Want You To Join Me | Common Dreams
(Italian translation of the post follows here – La traduzione in italiano è disponibile qui ) Many of you, while hearing the words “ peer to peer ”, would instantly remember Napster , eMule and the plethora of technologies and solutions for file sharing that allow the free exchange of files of any type, with the associated problems and controversies related to copyright protection.
How Peer to Peer Communities will change the World – Interview with Michel Bauwens, P2P Foundation founder. «
Decades of brainwashing in Syrian schools, universities, and in the media have depicted Israel as the entity to blame for all of the country’s domestic troubles.
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Clicktivism is ruining leftist activism | Micah White | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Digital activists have gone online and adopted the logic of the marketplace. Photograph: Stone/GettyWorld Affairs
Aboriginal People
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