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Mozaiky o.s. Platform Dialog - O nás Y je nezisková organizace založená v roce 2005. Usiluje o vytvoření dialogu mezi lidmi různých ras, národností, náboženství a názorů, kteří mají zájem o dosažení společných cílů. Cílů, na jejichž základě můžeme pomáhat vytvořit lepší budoucnost, z níž bude možné jednou vysílat poselství porozumění, tolerance a pochopení pro všechny. Cílem naší iniciativy je odstranit „nedostatek povědomí a vzájemného porozumění mezi lidmi z odlišných kulturních základů a světonázorů vytvářejících konflikty, teror a války.“ Tato myšlenka nás dovedla až k vytvoření MOZAIKY, která, jak věříme, přispěje svým dílem a pomůže napravit některé neduhy, jež v současnosti ohrožují mír na zemi. Posláním MOZAIKY je konfrontovat co nejvíce lidí s odlišnými názory a vykořenit zažité předsudky a iracionální nenávist vůči ostatním kulturám. Vize MOZAIKY je svět bez krveprolití, což předpokládá vyřešit konflikty mezi lidmi; svět, kde se budou lidé zabývat předměty své touhy bez obav, ale s respektem a láskou k „druhým“.

Unsettling America | Decolonization in Theory & Practice Hydraulic Fracturing of Oil & Gas Wells Drilled in Shale What is Hydraulic Fracturing? Hydraulic fracturing is a procedure that can increase the flow of oil or gas from a well. It is done by pumping liquids down a well into subsurface rock units under pressures that are high enough to fracture the rock. Hydraulic fracturing combined with horizontal drilling has turned previously unproductive organic-rich shales into the largest natural gas fields in the world. How Long Has Hydraulic Fracturing Been Used? The first use of hydraulic fracturing to stimulate oil and natural gas wells in the United States was done over 60 years ago. Successful Use of Hydraulic Fracturing in Shale In the early 1990s Mitchel Energy began using hydraulic fracturing to stimulate the production of natural gas from wells drilled into the Barnett Shale of Texas. Mitchel Energy realized that gas in the Barnett Shale was trapped in tiny pore spaces that were not interconnected. Hydraulic Fracturing in Other Shale Plays Fracturing Fluids Proppants Environmental Concerns

Od vedomostí a činov k hodnotám a späť | Globálne vzdelávanie.sk Vzdelávanie v súčasnosti čelí mnohým výzvam a viacerí odborníci na vzdelávanie volajú nie po evolúcii vzdelávania ale revolúcii vo vzdelávaní. Jedným z nich je aj Ken Robinson, ktorý tvrdí, že vzdelávať mladých ľudí v dnešnej globalizovanej dobe spôsobom, ktorý bol vytvorený v časoch osvietenstva a priemyselnej revolúcie nie je možné. Cieľom súčasného vzdelávacieho systému je klásť dôraz na intelekt, ktorý by mal byť využitý na ekonomické záujmy krajiny. Školský systém ako taký má veľa spoločného s výrobnými linkami, ktoré môžete nájsť v továrňach. Sú tam vopred predpísané prestávky, samostatne vyučované predmety ako jednotlivé prevádzky v továrni a existuje kategorizácia na základe veku, ako by sa jednalo o výrobky s rovnakým dátumom výroby. Do tohto systému sa snaží začleniť globálne vzdelávanie, ktoré svojimi princípmi má čo robiť, aby sa dokázalo vtesnať do kurikul. Od rozvojového ku globálnemu vzdelávaniu a ešte ďalej Miesto kritického myslenia v globálnom vzdelávaní Bibliografia:

Being and becoming Indigenous: Resurgence against contemporary colonialism | Taiaiake The 2013 Narrm Oration, “Being and becoming Indigenous: Resurgence against contemporary colonialism”, was delivered by Professor Taiaiake Alfred on 28 November. Professor Alfred is the founding Director of the Indigenous Governance Program at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. He specialises in traditions of governance, decolonisation strategies, and land based cultural restoration. The Narrm Oration has been hosted annually by Murrup Barak, Melbourne Institute for Indigenous Development at The University of Melbourne with the support of Rio Tinto Australia since 2009. “There is a danger in allowing colonization to be the only story of Indigenous lives. Colonialism is an effective analytic frame, but it is limited as a theory of liberation. Like this: Like Loading...

Why the Pipeline Is an Environmental Disaster Waiting to Happen | Yan Roberts TransCanada Corp announced their "Energy East Pipeline" proposal this week, which would involve converting their existing 50-year-old natural gas mainline that runs across Northern Ontario into an oil pipeline that pumps an astronomical volume -- 850,000 barrels per day -- of tar sands oil East. Of course, this pipeline traverses many rivers and runs adjacent to many lakes across Northern Ontario -- it even runs through the drinking water supply for major cities. In North Bay for example, the pipeline runs right through the Trout Lake watershed (and actually crosses on the east-end of the lake), which is the source for the municipal drinking water that services 54,000 people. The environmental regulations -- as well as the municipal and land owner approvals that were required in the 1950s to build this natural gas pipeline -- should not be transferable to allow TransCanada to switch services and having this potentially become the largest oil pipeline in North America. Loading Slideshow

Developmentcoffee.org Four Directions Teachings.com - Aboriginal Online Teachings and Resource Centre - © 2006 - 2012 All Rights Reserved 4D Interactive Inc., a subsidiary of Invert Media Inc. Transcripts for Four Directions Teachings.com: Four Directions Teachings celebrates Indigenous oral traditions by honoring the process of listening with intent as each elder or traditional teacher shares a teaching from their perspective on the richness and value of cultural traditions from their nation. In honor of the timelessness of Indigenous oral traditions, audio narration is provided throughout the site, complimented by beautifully animated visuals. The elders and traditional teachers who have shared a teaching on this site were approached through a National Advisory Committee of Indigenous people concerned with the protection and promotion of Indigenous knowledge. Trancripts for the teachings found on the site can be accessed by clicking on the links below: Blackfoot - Dr. Audio mp3 (All Narration): Listen to the Audio Our Teacher's Resource Guide can be viewed by clicking here To read the PDF Format files you will need Acrobat Reader:

What’s the Condition of the Pipeline Beneath the Straits of Mackinac: VIDEO from Wildlife Promise Enbridge markers for the 60-year-old pipelines located at the Straits of Mackinac. This past July, NWF conducted a diving expedition to obtain footage of aging oil pipelines strung across one of the most sensitive locations in the Great Lakes, and possibly the world: the Straits of Mackinac. Footage of these pipelines has never been released to the public until now. The Straits of Mackinac pipelines, owned by Enbridge Energy, are 60-years-old and considered one of the greatest threats to the Great Lakes because of their age, location, and the hazardous products they transport – including tar sands derived oil. For nearly two years, NWF has been pressing pipeline regulators and Enbridge to release information about the integrity of these pipelines, including inspection videos showing how the pipelines cross the Straits of Mackinac. Heightening our concern around this pipeline and the company that owns it: despite having cleared our dive work with the U.S.

Global Issues in English Language Learning Antler River Associates The traditional territories of the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation included a river which flows for over 273 kilometres. This river was the lifeline of a People who depended on it for transportation, food, and spiritual sustenance. The Chippewa called the river Deshkan Ziibiing or Antler River. The antlers refer to the antlers or the horns on the water serpent that lived in the river. The French called the river La Tranche and in1792 the British named it the Thames River. It served as the main transportation route for thousands of years. Antler River Associates takes it name from Antler River, the river which continues to flows through the traditional, unceded territory of the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation. The Chippewas of the Thames First Nation The history of the Chippewas of the Thames is fascinating and provides an interesting perspective to a history that is shared with the country of Canada. The Chippewa people are also known as Anishinaabe peoples.

Will Harper's Throne Speech address 'Canada's Termination Plan' against First Nations? As I wrote in my last newsletter (FNSB Vol.10, Issues 7-10) on September 4, 2012, Prime Minister Harper launched three new policy measures intended to speed up Canada’s longstanding Plan to Terminate First Nations Inherent, Aboriginal and Treaty rights. Termination -- in this context means the ending of First Nations pre-existing sovereign status through federal coercion of First Nations into Land Claims and Self-Government Final Agreements that convert First Nations into municipalities, their reserves into fee simple lands and extinguishment (through modification) of their Inherent, Aboriginal and Treaty Rights. Canada’s Termination Plan was ramped up on September 4, 2012, through these three policy measures among other federal initiatives, including: 1. First Nation regional and national political organizations will have their core funding cut and capped. 2. 3. - Accept the extinguishment (modification) of Aboriginal Title - Accept removing on-reserve tax exemptions

RWL Treaty Texts - Upper Canada Land Surrenders Treaty Listings: Michilimackinac Island, No. 1 By these Presents We the following Chiefs Kitchi Negou or Grand Sable, Pouanas, Kousse and Magousseihigan in behalf of ourselves and all others of our Nation the Chipwas, who have or can lay claim to the hereinmentioned Island, as being their Representatives and Chiefs, by and with mutual consent do surrender and yield up into the hands of Lieutenant Governor Sinclair, for the behalf and use of His Majesty George the Third, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c., &c., His heirs, executors, administrators for ever, the Island of Michilimakinak or as it is called by the Canadians La Grosse Isle (situate in that Strait which joins the Lakes Huron and Michigan,) and we do hereby make for ourselves and posterity a renunciation of all claims in future to said Island. Robert Sinclair, Lt.-Governor and Commandant, John Mompessor, Capt. R. John Robert McDougall, Ensign, King's or Eight Regiment, Matt. Copy of a copy D.