There’s nobody quite like you.
You’re one in seven billion.
So make your own flag.

We are multicolored

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Wednesday 24th October, during a lively night with a lot of known faces (among them Ruud Lubbers, Jan Pronk, Joris Luyendijk, Paul Rosenmöller, Kader Abdolah, Johann Olav Koss, Jornah Kiplagat and Bert Koenders), the new UN Youth Delegate for the Netherlands is voted Wouter Thiebou, a study mate of mine. (International Development Studies, Wageningen University).

Having to compete with two younger girls, he describes his winning as ‘helemaal toppie natuurlijk! Together with current UN Youth Delegate Sandra van Beest, he will work together the coming year to get clean drinkwater on the UN Agenda, and to give youths around the world a bigger voice in issues concerning i.e. security, human rights, climate, poverty, hunger, food security etc.

Read more on the Night of the UN website, see the NOS Headline, read the NRC article, or see Wouter’s website

photo: © nationale jeugdraad.

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Following in the conceptual footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi, 25,000 of the world’s most marginalized poor march together along the Indian National Highway. These landless poor farmers have gathered in a mass show of non violent strength to bring the attention of the Indian Government to their pitiable plight. They have chosen to endure the loss of livelihood for more than thirty days, some of them traveling by train and bus for several days just to reach this huge gathering and march the 350 kilometers together.

Standing on the roadway where the air temperature reaches 39°C the black asphalt radiates upward like an oven. But hour after hour this mass of people passes before me. With enormous patience they go step by step towards what they hope may create a more equal istribution of India’s vacant arable lands.

Achieving the granting of land ownership to now landless adivasi or tribals, and other groups f the poorest poor, could in the long term return the care and productivity of the soil to a level that will sustain the area’s population and the cities beyond. Simply put by many of the marchers “we will then finally be able to feed our families”.

Read more about the Janadesh’ 350 km Foot March…

By Ann Bayly, from Australia.

Photos: © Janadesh

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It’s by time we’re getting tired of all the days that are linked to certain causes: World Environment Day, World Earth Day, World Hunger Day (16th October), World Food Day (15th October), World Poverty Day (17th October), World Water Day, World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, World Hospice and Palliative Day, World Children’s Day, World Teacher’s Day, World Jump Day, World Animal Day.
What else is there…? Oh yeah, and World Toilet Day, coming soon (November 29th)!

It’s getting time we get some more holidays to celebrate all these days…

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“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” - Winston Churchill, speaking of the turning point battle of El Alamein,1942

Al Gore and the IPCC winning the Nobel Peace Prize symbolizes more than just a head-nod towards some eco-fad — it shows that sustainability has finally moved from the outskirts of activism to the most central halls of authority. Concern for the planetary future is now as credible as it is possible to get. The beginning of the struggle to save ourselves from ecological catastrophe has come to an end and we can begin to see the outlines of the next stage of the struggle.

Read more on WorldChanging… 

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