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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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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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The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil DVD
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba experienced a major economic depression. With imports of oil cut by more than one-half and food imports by 80 percent, people were desperate for food. This film tells of the hardships and struggles as well as
Price: $ 41.00
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Autism is Treatable: Hope that is real, treatments that heal
Sara and her family are one of thousands of families who have discovered successful treatments for their children's autism and shared their successes with other parents and researchers at the Autism Research Institute. |
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Be proactive with your prenatal care
Being informed is the best way to have a good childbirth. Here, the American Foundation for Maternal and Child Health provides some basic information to support the pregnant couple to make wise choices when confronted with over zealous health professional |
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Bird Flu - Little to Fear
For nearly two years, we have been hearing reports of chickens, migratory birds and humans dying from an aggressive form of influenza, called avian, or bird, flu. But what really is bird flu? |
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Eating By Colour: a New Approach to Food
Rainbow Food is a fresh approach to eating for the whole family. Rainbow Food is designed to restore our original innocent relationship with food. It is practical, easy to use, and is beneficial to the emotional body as well as the physical body. |
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