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Get Active! A page where you can make your voice heard, contribute your creativity, roll up your sleeves and bring out your inner activist. Below are some of our favourite initiatives.
Do you know of an organization or initiative that would be appropriate for this page? Please email us about it.
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Hundred Hearts - Supporting a just and sustainable world, one film at a time…Have you ever walked out of a movie theatre wishing that everyone you knew could see the film you just watched? Documentary films are fast becoming the tool for the social change trade. They grab public attention, tell stories and mobilise important initiatives.
Now a new community outreach project makes it possible for important films to be screened and discussed on a grass roots level, through community organisations, schools and action groups all around Australia. More Hundred Hearts Info…
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GetUp! - GetUp.org.au is a new independent political movement to build a progressive Australia. GetUp brings together like-minded people who want to bring participation back into our democracy. GetUp.org.au members use the latest online tools to act on important issues facing the country. More… |
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World Dharma Institute - Offering courses exploring the nature of consciousness, freedom, spiritual activism and creative self-expression. The World Dharma Online Institute, inaugurated in spring 2006, was created to serve humankind's quintessential spiritual search for self-discovery, liberation from suffering, and to embrace the challenge of safeguarding freedom & peace for the future of life. More … |
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Greenpeace - Greenpeace is an independent campaigning organisation that uses non-violent direct action to expose global environmental problems and to force solutions which are essential to a green and peaceful future. Greenpeace's goal is to ensure the ability of the earth to nurture life in all its diversity. More… |
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Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood - Campaign For A Commercial-Free Childhood (formerly Stop Commercial Exploitation of Children) is a national coalition of health care professionals, educators, advocacy groups and concerned parents who counter the harmful effects of marketing to children through action, advocacy, education, research, and collaboration.
We support the rights of children to grow up – and the rights of parents to raise them – without being undermined by rampant consumerism. CCFC is headquartered at the Judge Baker Children's Center in Boston. More...
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Child Friendly Initiative - Child-Friendly Initiative (CFI) is a grassroots, non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of children. CFI members all over the United States are working to transform their neighborhoods and communities into places that honor and respect children and support families. More... |
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Witness - Witness is an international human rights organization that provides training and support to local groups to use video in their human rights advocacy campaigns. Beyond providing video cameras and editing equipment, WITNESS is committed to facilitating exposure for our partners' issues on a global scale.
We help broker relationships with international media outlets, government officials, policymakers, activists, and the general public so that once a video is made, it can be used as a tool to advocate for change. More.... |
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Organic Consumers Association (OCA) The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) is an online and grassroots non-profit 501(c)3 public interest organization campaigning for health, justice, and sustainability. The OCA deals with crucial issues of food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, children's health, corporate accountability, Fair Trade, environmental sustainability and other key topics. The OCA represents over 850,000 members, subscribers and volunteers, including several thousand businesses in the natural foods and organic marketplace. Our US and international policy board is broadly representative of the organic, family farm, environmental, and public interest community. http://www.organicconsumers.org |
Arguably, the World’s Most Useful Gift Catalogue, from TEAR Australia
No diamanté-encrusted computer mice. No monogrammed golf balls. Just useful, unique and ethical gifts for people who really need them – from just $5. Like school supplies, clean water, tree seedlings, and women’s self-help groups. Each gift is tax-deductible and comes with a gift card. All are part of long-term programs designed to help people in poverty transform their lives.
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Complete Library of Back Issues
Get the entire library for just $100!
For just $100 receive the entire back issue library of byronchild/Kindred (including digital copies of issue 4, 7 and 9 which have sold out)
Within Australia $100,
New Zealand and Asia $150,
Rest of the World
Price: $ 100.00
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The Future of Food DVD
There is a revolution happening in the farm fields and on the dinner tables of the world a revolution that is transforming the very nature of the food we eat.
The Future of Food offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the
Price: $ 40.00
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Solving a Problem at School
Often we had problems with authority as kids so dealing with teachers and headmasters can be intimidating, even of we happen to be older than the authority. However, in order to serve our child's needs, we need to speak up. David West gives some tips he |
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Martial Arts; Self Mastery through a Warrior Tradition
Hapkido, the Way of Harmonious Power, is a dynamic Korean martial art.
Its philosophy draws from Asian spiritual wisdom, including the Buddhist values of non-violence and respect for all life. The long-term aim of training is the cultivation of many posi |
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Circumcision: Why? A Physician's Perspective
Most parents do not realise how a circumcision is performed. The baby’s arms and legs are immobilised and the genital area is scrubbed to prepare for the operation. Then the foreskin is removed, usually without an anaesthetic. |
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Goldenheart
Goldenheart is a poem story from Jenni Cargill, award winning author and storyteller, from her CD, Wondertales of Earth and Sea, re-released as Mollie Whuppy and other Tales |
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