The story of stuff project presents this new video together with organizations such as Corporate Accountability International, Polaris Institute, Environmental working group, Food and Water Watc- Pacific Institute.
People gathered for Eugene Terreblanche's funeral salute in Nazi-style, AP
After the murder of white supremacist leader Eugène Terre’Blanche, a longtime supporter of the apartheid government and an advocate for the creation of an all-white republic within South Africa, racial tensions in South have reached a new high.
Amy Goodman of Democracy Now speaks with Adam Habib. Habib, visiting the United States of America, is professor of political science and deputy vice chancellor of the University of Johannesburg. He was barred from entering the United States for over three years until the Obama administration withdrew the ban on his US visa earlier this year.
REUTERS/Omar Sobhani
Author: Victoria Cho
Originally published on TakePart.com
With nearly 80% of the world covered in water, why do so many people lack it?
Facts:
- Nearly 1 billion people lack reliable access to clean water
- Almost half of the people living in developing nations suffer at any time from health problems related to unclean water, such as cholera, hepatitis, and malaria.
- People in New York pay less for water than people in some of the world’s poorest nations.
- Millions of women and girls spend several hours every day fetching water.
- Together, unclean water and poor sanitation are the world’s second biggest killer of children (pneumonia is first).
Researchers featured in the film FLOW: For the Love of Water believe the access and contamination problems will lead to another massive extinction.
One of the creators of Oscar-nominated animation Waltz With Bashir has made a short film to alter Israeli perceptions of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. A 90-second film Closed Zone has been launched online in support of the human rights group Gisha, which advocates freedom of movement for Palestinians. It shows a Palestinian boy chasing a bird but having his path blocked.
http://www.closedzone.com/
Source: India Resource Center
Kala Dera, India: The Coca-Cola company has continued to operate its bottling plant in Kala Dera in Jaipur, India even as the area has been declared a drought area last summer and the groundwater levels are falling sharply – leaving the largely agrarian community with severely restricted access to water.
Data obtained this week by the India Resource Center from the Central Groundwater Board, a government agency, confirm that groundwater levels in Kala Dera fell precipitously again – a drop of 4.29 meters (14 feet) in just one year between August 2008 and August 2009, from 30.83 meters below ground level to 35.12 meters respectively. (more…)
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