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A thousand public sector workers braved the rain to send a message to Premier Barnett - enough is enough, August 6 2013.
*** Secretary-General's Message for 2014 ***
The United Nations is needed more than ever at this time of multiple crises. Poverty, disease, terrorism, discrimination and climate change are exacting a heavy toll. Millions of people continue to suffer deplorable exploitation through bonded labour, human trafficking, sexual slavery or unsafe conditions in factories, fields and mines. The global economy remains an uneven playing field.
The founding of the United Nations was a solemn pledge to the world’s people to end such assaults on human dignity, and lead the way to a better future. There have been painful setbacks, and there is much work ahead to realize the Charter’s vision. But we can take heart from our achievements.
The UN Millennium Development Goals have inspired the most successful anti-poverty campaign ever. United Nations treaties addressing inequality, torture and racism have protected people, while other agreements have safeguarded the environment. UN peacekeepers have separated hostile forces, our mediators have settled disputes and our humanitarian workers have delivered life-saving aid.
At this critical moment, let us reaffirm our commitment to empowering the marginalized and vulnerable. On United Nations Day, I call on Governments and individuals to work in common cause for the common good.
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This direct message from Dave not only made my evening, but sent me zooming straight over to the fabric stash.
It was time to get to work.
Full story at domesticat.net/quilts/matryoshka
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PLEASE - no awards, iconed group invitations or "seen in" messages
The world without advertising.
Would you believe that your brain is flooded with around three thousand marketing messages per day? Everyday an estimated twelve billion adverts are displayed on our televisions with another three million radio commercials reaching our ears on a daily basis? But in September 2006, the mayor of Sao Paulo declared all advertising in his city a ‘visual pollution’, banning it all leaving pure white billboards and metal frames as replacement to the persuasive messages and lustful images. From this, I began to think, what would our scenery be like without advertising. What would our world be like without advertising subconsciously placed everywhere around us? Therefore these photographs are just an insight into London city without advertising. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to drive a negative or positive opinion on the multi-billion pound industry (my whole family is in advertising after all), just open your mind to the mass amount of advertising that sways your thoughts on the products that you buy everyday. Think about how many advertising logos, slogans or images that you can remember off the top of your head?
Scribble Jam 2005 - "The Message Pt. II" by Brent Rollins
More info at citybeat.com/2005-08-10/art.shtml
Un petit carreau de faïence peint, sur le mur d'une dépendance en bord de rivière. Un message... adressé à qui ? Finalement universel...
My Message --
I just returned from sixteen days in Occupied Palestine. Over and over, I saw the painful oppression of the Palestinian people. I lived in Southern Africa in the late 1970's and witnessed the worst of that nation's apartheid -- what the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians is as bad if not even worse. It is truly a form of ethnic cleansing. And I saw the ruins of house after house destroyed by the Israeli army using equipment made by an American company. I urge you to do the right thing -- vote for divestment.
Rev. Jerry Stinson, Senior Minister, First Congregational Church (UCC) of Long Beach, California
Rev. Jerald M. Stinson, Senior Minister