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It's the End of the World as We know it and I feel FINE #23

Via Submedia [https://submedia.tv] I love this series and this is one of the best episodes yet! 🙂 This Week 1. Trillionaire Debt 2. Almost $100 3. PetroChina 4. Food Riots 5. Buy Nothing Day 6. No Borders Camp 7. R.A.T.M. 8. Ron Paul, who cares 9.

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My del.icio.us bookmarks for November 12th through November 13th

These are my links for November 12th through November 13th: * Dealmaker Records [https://www.dealmakerrecords.com/index.asp] – A great bunch of musos up in Nottingham. Nice links section too. * PVC: The Poison Plastic [https://www.pvcfree.org/] – Another fantastic edutainment animation from Free Range graphics. This time about PVC:

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"Artificial" - Martha Tilston and the Woods

A nice song from Martha Tilston and the Woods called Artificial…

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Days of action for squats and autonomous spaces

From https://april2008.squat.net/en/ castellano [https://april2008.squat.net/es/] | catala [https://april2008.squat.net/cat/] | czech [https://april2008.squat.net/cz/] | dansk [https://april2008.squat.net/dk/] | deutsch [https://april2008.squat.net/de/] | english [https://april2008.squat.net/en/] | français [https://april2008.squat.net/fr/] | italiano [https:

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Car, bus or bike?

I just came across this nice photo that shows the space required to transport the same number of passengers by car, bus and bike On a similar note, the other night Top Gear ran a TV race to cross London by bike, boat, tube and car [https://www.bbc.co.

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The Secrets of Personal Fundraising

by Beth Kanter, Beth’s Blog [https://beth.typepad.com] [https://www.slideshare.net/?src=embed] | View [https://slideshare.net/kanter/secrets-of-personal-fundraising] | Upload your own [https://www.slideshare.net/upload]

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Runaway Climate Change

The International Panel on Climate Change [https://www.ipcc.ch/] forthcoming report, Climate Change 2007, confirms what we already knew: that human activity has caused, and is causing, the climate to change. But as this video from the Apollo Gaia Project outlines, what gets left in IPCC reports is not

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EYFA Network News

November 2007 — — — – – – – — – — – – – — — – — — — — – – — — – — While putting this newsletter together tents are still being set up on both sides of the US/Mexico border. It’s the third NoBorder Camp this year after Camps in the Ukraine in August and UK in September. And for today November 10 – on the 18th anniversary of

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GuerrillaGardening.org News

Via GuerrillaGardening.org [https://GuerrillaGardening.org] Dear Troops It has been a month involving the police, a death, new guerrilla cells, poppy planting at the Ministry of Defence, bulb planting in the hundreds and lots of very smelly envelope stuffing. POLICE It’s been a while since the police took

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The Take: Occupy. Resist. Produce.

As I’ve said before, The Take is one of the best films I’ve seen. We’re screening it at 7.30pm on Saturday December 15th @ Sessions of Spontaneity

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Sessions of Spontaneity

UPDATE: CHANGE OF VENUE (licensing issues have forced us to move from Passing Clouds to Where?House [https://www.myspace.com/thewherehouselondon] – see map at bottom of page) United Diversity presents…SESSIONS OF SPONTANEITY @ Where?House, Unit 3c, Millmead Ind Estate, Millmead Road, London N17 9QU Saturday 15th December, 2007

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My del.icio.us bookmarks for October 30th through November 8th

These are my links for October 30th through November 8th: * Complementary Currency Resource Center .:. Videos [https://www.complementarycurrency.org/ccvideo.html] – An excellent collection of videos about complementary currencies. * Python Package Index : zopeproject 0.4.1 [https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zopeproject] – Tools and scripts for creating development sandboxes for

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International Love Collective

I just came across this review of the International Love Collective [https://myspace.com/internationallovecollective] @ the Buffalo Bar (where I first saw them) and thought I’d share it with you. Do you share my excitement about the United Diversity Sessions of Spontaneity [https://uniteddiversity.com/sessions-of-spontaneity/] @ Passing Clouds event

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Events, events, events

This weeks United Diversity [https://uniteddiversity.com] guide has been delayed because I’ve been taking care of important tax and accounting stuff. Moreover, I’ve got fed up with manually creating the guide each week and so things are changing. To start with we’ve put up a nice

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Projections against Billboards in Bucharest

A fun video of people projecting stuff onto walls in Bucharest. Very similar to the drive-by projecting video we featured in third edition of our Guide [https://uniteddiversity.com/guide-oct-23-07/] From the youtube detail: > Translation for a better understanding from romanian to english ! Nu Ne Vindem Tara ! = We are

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DIY - How to Make a Zine; Paper, Scissors, Pen - Rockin!

A nice little video that shows how to make your own little magazine with an A4 piece of paper 🙂

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The Switch Has Been Flipped: It’s Too Late For Solutions By Carolyn Baker

Via Dandelion Salad [https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com//] By Carolyn Baker [https://carolynbaker.net/site/content/view/203/] Speaking Truth to Power [https://carolynbaker.net/site/component/option,com_weblinks/catid,15/Itemid,17/] Sunday, 04 November 2007 This past week I attended another screening of “What A Way To Go:

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What A Way To Go: Life At The End Of Empire

I just watched this. As it says at the beginning it is very dense, but overall I think it is really rather good. For more info about the movie visit the website [https://www.whatawaytogomovie.com/] Peak Moment 72: “What a Way to Go” – Meet the Filmmakers

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Dialstation: Cheap International Calls from Your Mobile

Ever wondered what the best way to make international calls from your mobile [https://dialstation.com] is? Well, the answer is Dialstation [https://dialstation.com]. There are lots of ways to an initiate a call (including a facebook app [https://apps.facebook.com/dialstation/]) but the one I’ve personally

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United Diversity Guide, Ocotober 30th, 2007

So, hear we are again, another week, another United Diversity Guide packed full of, news, videos and loads of fantastic events to go to in London. Welcome to the 4th edition. 🙂 Send feedback and submissions to josef @ uniteddiversity.com Enjoy! CONTENTS 1. NEWS United Diversity News More good news Other

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Spacegirl's Poetry Salon @ 491 Gallery

I forgot to include this excellent event in this weeks guide [https://uniteddiversity.com/guide-oct-23-07/] so thought I’d better give you the heads up here:

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The War On Democracy by John Pilger

A brilliant new documentary from John Pilger about the reality of USA’s role in Latin America and the world. “It is about the struggle of people to free themselves from a modern form of slavery.”

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Outfoxed

Outfoxed examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, have been running a “race to the bottom” in television news. This film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public’s right to know. It is made

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This Is What Democracy Looks Like

One of the first documentaries made by Big Noise Films [https://www.bignoisefilms.com/] and still one of the best. This follows the explosive events of Seattle in 1999.

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Fourth World War

Another great documentary from Big Noise Films [https://www.bignoisefilms.com/]