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Wir wehren uns gegen Krieg, Sozialabbau und Umweltzerstörung!

Die Welt, in der wir leben wollen, sieht anders aus!

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Ten years ago, in Bangladesh Grameen Shakti was established as a not-for-profit organization with a view to promoting, developing and extending renewable energy technologies in the remote rural areas of Bangladesh. Grameen Shakti is a Daughter Company of Grameen banc, which got the nobelpeaceprize last Sunday.

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Vor 10 Jahren wurde in Bangladesch die Grameen Shakti als Tochter der Grameen-Bank gegründet. Grameen heißt Dorf und Shakti heißt Energie. Muhammad Yunus, der diesjährige Friedensnobelpreisträger, wollte den Armen nicht nur Kredite geben, sondern auch günstige Kredite zur Finanzierung von Solar Home Systems - also zur Finanzierung von kleinen netzunabhängigen Photovoltaikanlagen. Bis Ende 2006 wird Grameen-Shakti knapp 100.000 Photovoltaikanlagen in Bangladesch finanziert und installiert haben. Bis 2010 sollen es eine Million und bis 2015 über fünf Millionen sein.

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Informant: Scott Munson

Kelpie Wilson describes the controversial issue of carbon storage: "Non-governmental organizations that advocate for forests and indigenous people have worked hard to exclude the use of forestry credits to offset fossil fuel burning, and with good reason," writes Wilson. "The rural poor pay twice - once by suffering the effects of climate change caused by affluent countries, and again by having their land taken to offset the guilt of affluent people," says Wilson.

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2007, which marks the 200th anniversary of Britain's abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, is now only weeks away. Please visit http://www.antislavery.org/2007 and sign the Declaration if you have not yet done so; send e-cards to your friends and family; and find other ways to take action against slavery past and present.

We will be in touch early in the new year with exciting news of a range of events and activities that are taking place to mark the bicentenary. You can also find details of many of these here http://www.antislavery.org/2007/eventstimetable.htm .

Reporter in brief

Please follow this link http://www.antislavery.org/archive/reporter/reporteroct2006.htm to read about the latest news about slavery worldwide. This month we have news of India's ban on child domestic work, slavery in Latin America, and a recent Anti-Slavery International visit to Mauritania to discover more about slavery there. These web pages contain news, stories and features from the October 2006 edition of our quarterly magazine, the Reporter.

Thanks for your support in the campaign against slavery.

Sarah Williams
Campaigns Officer
Anti-Slavery International

by Muhammad Yunus, TomPaine.com

A vision of a world where poverty is seen only in museums, from the winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Millions of children across the world will continue to suffer from lack of food, health care and education as long as their mothers are forced to live with abusive conditions at home and discrimination in the workplace.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/121406WB.shtml

As you may have read in the news, the violence in Darfur is spreading into the neighboring countries of Chad and the Central African Republic.

I hope you'll take a moment to sign the petition to President Bush and the UN Secretary-General.
http://mail.democrats.com:81/CT00014501MTE0MDc2MQAA.HTML


Bob Fertik


Dear Friend, Help Save Darfur

Millions of people face death, rape, torture, starvation and disease.

Please don't wait any longer to get involved.

Click here now to sign the petition to President Bush and the UN Secretary-General.
http://mail.democrats.com:81/CT00014502MTE0MDc2MQAA.HTML

Did you know that 2.5 million people have already been driven from their homes in Darfur, Sudan?

Each day, these people face threats that are hard for many of us to even imagine -- rape, murder, disease, torture, and starvation.

These people need our help to stop this genocide and they need it NOW.

Please click here to sign the Save Darfur Coalition's petition urging President Bush and the UN Secretary-General to take immediate steps to stop the killing.
http://mail.democrats.com:81/CT00014503MTE0MDc2MQAA.HTML

Together, we can make a difference in the lives of millions of people in the region who desperately need outside help.

Please join the Save Darfur Coalition in urging the international community to prevent further killings, displacement, and rape by:

* Deploying the UN peacekeeping force that has already been authorized;

* Strengthening the understaffed African Union force that is already in Darfur;

* Establishing a no-fly zone;

* Increasing humanitarian aid; and

* Ensuring access for the delivery of food, medication and other essential supplies.

Please do not stand by while the violence continues – you can make a difference. Click here now to take the first step by signing our petition.
http://mail.democrats.com:81/CT00014504MTE0MDc2MQAA.HTML

Then please forward this message to your friends and family and ask them to join you.

Thank you for your help.

All the best,

David Rubenstein
Save Darfur Coalition

The Save Darfur Coalition is an alliance of over 175 faith-based, advocacy and humanitarian organizations whose mission is to raise public awareness about the ongoing genocide in Darfur and to mobilize a unified response to the atrocities that threaten the lives of more than two million people in the Darfur region. To learn more, please visit http://www.savedarfur.org/.



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By Jason Miller

Humanity produces more than enough food to sustain the entire world population. The United States alone wastes a shocking 96 billion pounds of food each year even as we experience an epidemic of obesity.

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