Josef Davies-Coates

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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

This is a must see film. We’ve screened it [https://uniteddiversity.com/the-revolution-will-not-be-televised-screening] a few times, but if you’ve still not seen it, please watch it now.

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Dance upon injustice

One child dies every three minutes because of armed conflict. Children should never be affected by war. Full stop. Want to help raise funds to support important work with children in worn torn areas across the globe? Fancy some of this? Then get yourself down to the exclusive War Child

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Inspiring Land, Money and Media Projects

In my last post about Transition Towns [https://uniteddiversity.com/transition-towns/] I mentioned that Gloria and I decided to try and write a post a day throughout May about inspiring people and projects. She’s done a pretty good job so far, having covered Maya Angelou [https://wisdomplease.blogspot.com/

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Transition Towns

So, we’re both a day late, but Gloria [https://wisdomplease.blogspot.com] and I somehow decided that every day in May was going to be inspirational! Each day Gloria will a post about an inspirational person [https://wisdomplease.blogspot.com/search/label/Inspirational%20People%20Month], and I’ll highlight

Agriculture

David Korten – The Great Turning

Last night, when I should’ve been asleep, I watched these video clips and was left totally inspired. 🙂 I strongly encourage you to watch them too. Its great stuff! You should also buy the book: [amtap book:isbn=1887208070] UPDATE: The book in bullet points from David Korten [https://davidkorten.

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The Future of Food

An important documentary about GM food and Monsanto. (sadly no longer available in full on google video, so here is an intro from youtube) As Celsias [https://www.celsias.com/blog/] put it, “this is a must-watch for anyone who eats (um… yes, that means you).” > “There is a

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Tescopoly

Following on from our last post on Supermarket Secrets [https://uniteddiversity.com/supermarket-secrets/], here is documentary about Tesco…. > “Tesco is Britain’s favourite supermarket. With 2,000 stores and 15 million customers a week, it’s almost twice as big as its nearest rival. Dispatches shows how Tesco could

Agriculture

Supermarket Secrets

via Celsias [https://www.celsias.com/blog/2007/03/15/supermarket-secrets/]… An excellent two part Dispatches documentary on Supermarkets Secrets. Well worth watching. The amount of waste is crazy. And the way the animals most people eat are bred and treated is neither nice nor healthy. > “How and what

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Prophecy, Peak Oil and the Path for the Faithful

I recently watched this video and thought it was really good summary of some of the important issues it covers. If you are a Christian you might want to get it shown in your church or invite Rev Sam Norton [https://elizaphanian.blogspot.com/] along for a talk. Even if

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Carbon Con update

A while ago, prompted by a load of Hub [https://www.the-hub.net] members sending details about numerous Carbon “offsetting” companies to the Hub list, I wrote The Carbon Con [https://uniteddiversity.coop/carbon-con]. One of the comments I got was from tav of green.tv [https://green.tv] >

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Reclaim Love 2007

This just through from the Peace Not War [https://peace.fm] list via the Creative Forum [https://creativeforum.org] list… Reclaim Love 2007 [https://www.o-i-l.org] The ONE IN LOVE [https://www.o-i-l.org] VALENTINES CONNECTION. EVERYONE INVITED. SAT 17TH 12.00 MID DAY.@ EROS STATUE PICCADILLY To affirm

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The great global action 2007

The great global action 2007 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwHlbBbZNT4] La gran acción global 2007 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwHlbBbZNT4] English: If you want to know what the great action global 2007 is watch this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwHlbBbZNT4 [https://www.youtube.com/

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Very Exciting News

Yesterday I had the most amazing and inspiring phone call ever. A man called Ray called me from Cornwall, 2km from where Oli was already but totally randomly literally on his way to (thanks to Katharine), and basically said that he wants to entrust his land to a community very

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Commons Creation meeting

The first Commons Creation [https://commonscreation.org] meeting took place on Sunday 21st January: So far I’ve got some great groups signed up to the collective: Peace Not War: https://peace.fm [https://peace.fm/] The Synergy Project: https://thesynergyproject.org [https://thesynergyproject.org/] OneTaste: https://onetaste.co.uk

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The Carbon "Offset" Con

Here is the text of an e-mail I sent out earlier today: > Sorry to smash the illusion folks, but I’ve done considerable research into this and carbon “off-sets” are a con. We cannot neutralise, nor “off-set”, carbon we have already emitted (or are about to emit by driving,

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TODAY: rampART FREE COMMUNITY CINEMA

AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH (2006) Al Gore goes on the campaign trail to persuade audiences to reverse the effects of global climate change. “Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world’s scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major

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Slow Dance

This poem was sent to me yesterday by someone for whom I care deeply but have been out of touch with for a while. Apparently it was written by a teenager with cancer who would like as many people as possible to read her poem. Please pass it on. SLOW

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Enterprising Communities Conference 2006

I’m going to do my best to attend this conference. Should be a great networking opportunity and a good place to tell people about Commons Creation [https://uniteddiversity.com/commons-creation/] > Birmingham, 17th – 19th September. The Development Trusts Association [https://uniteddiversity.com/Development Trusts Association] is planning the biggest

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Good Films

I just made the following comment in City Hippy [https://cityhippy.blogspot.com] ‘s article about good films [https://cityhippy.blogspot.com/2006/07/feature-top-10-green-movies.html]: > I think The Take [https://www.thetake.org/] and The Revolution Will Not Be Televised [https://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=5832390545689805144&

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Commons Creation Collective

UPDATE: the first Commons Creation [https://commonscreation.org] meeting [https://uniteddiversity.com/commons-creation-meeting] was held at Limehouse Town Hall on Sunday 21st January, 2007. A copy of the presentation given can be downloaded here as a PDF [https://files.uniteddiversity.com/United_Diversity/commons-creation.pdf] (1.1Mb) file. Enjoy! 🙂 Introduction

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Unmissable: Sunday Sounds album launch party on July 23rd

I can’t recommend the Sunday Sounds [https://www.myspace.com/sundaysounds] album launch highly enough. It takes place this Sunday July 23rd @ the DA Gallery [https://www.dagallergy.co.uk], 43 Kensington High Street, London W8 5ED [https://uk.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=51.502&lon=

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Recipe for a New World Order?

Whilst up in Bedford visiting the farm [https://uniteddiversity.com/visit-to-yelnow-farm/], I discussed plans for my book with Shane. He thought that Recipes for a New World Order would be a good title; we could reclaim the phrase New World Order (like how I tried to claim Bush’s so-called

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Protest against Mexico's vote rigging TODAY 1-2pm (and Radical Activist conference 2moro)

As those of you who saw Greg Palast speak at the NUJ last week will know, the recent presidential election in Mexico was marred by blatant vote rigging and Florida-style fraud. An emergency picket outside the Mexican embassy has been organised for tomorrow, Friday July 14, from 1pm to 2pm

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Free 'Peak Oil' conference in London, 15 July 2006

The agenda is available here as a PDF [https://www.powerswitch.org.uk/portal/images/stories/peakspeak2/peakspeak2agenda.pdf] A free-to-attend conference looking at many aspects of Peak Oil is taking place on Saturday 15 July 2006 at the BedZed development in Hackbridge, just outside London. The event, Peak Speak

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alt.SPACE MARATHON - TWO DAY EVENT - July 28-29, 2006

Via ccred [https://www.ccred.org] on the NODE London [https://www.nodel.org] list:> alt.SPACE MARATHON – TWO DAY EVENT – July 28-29, 2006 The alt.SPACE Group invites you to a two day long event of project presentations, performances open mic sessions, screenings, picnics and BBQs, and some