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Bloggers Unite : Refugees United - "World is Witness"

Here is my contribution: a "pipe" from the feed of the “geoblog” World is Witness.

World is Witness, a new “geoblog” from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiatives, in partnership with Google Earth, documents and maps genocide and related crimes against humanity. The initial entries are from a Museum visit to Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to learn about the legacies of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, and the most recent entries are from a Museum visit to South Sudan and a return visit to the Congo.

Blog Action Day 08 - "Don't pay for a failed system!"

Accumulation by Dispossession
Increasing inequality within nations and increasing wealth gap between rich and poor countries -
here are the consequences of decades of “neoliberalism”.

Processes of accumulation:

• the commodification and privatisation of land and the forceful expulsion of peasant populations
• conversion of various forms of property rights (common, collective, state, etc.) into exclusive private property rights
• suppression of rights to the commons
• commodification of labour power and the suppression of alternative (indigenous) forms of production and consumption
• colonial, neocolonial and imperial processes of appropriation of assets (including natural resources)
• monetisation of exchange and taxation (particularly of land)
• slave trade
• usury, the national debt and ultimately the credit system as radical means of primitive accumulation.

David Harvey, The New Imperialism, 2003

The US financial meltdown - Part 1: What really happened
Roots of the economic crisis in overaccumulation, financialisation and ‘global apartheid’ By Patrick Bond

Click HERE to view the slideshow

Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty from Blog Action Day on Vimeo.

Dona Nobis Pacem

Join BlogBlast for Peace - The Fourth Launch!
You can learn more about BlogBlast For Peace June 2008 at the site of Mimi Lenox.

Bloggers Unite For Human Rights MAY 15

Bloggers Unite is an opportunity for bloggers, vloggers, and photobloggers to use their space to make the world a better place. Show your support for this newest social awareness campaign!

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
"Article 6
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
(...)
Article 22

Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.

(...)
Article 23

1. Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
2. Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
3. Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection." knowyourrights2008.org

February 2008 OviMagazine [Download the free PDF ]

Download the free monthly PDF magazine from here, which contains original articles and other material:

And that was February 2008...
Published: 2008-02-29 (8.06MB)

How many months have 29 days? Yes, all of them! However, this Leap Year the extra day in February means you lucky readers have gained an extra cover story for the month.

Ovi Online Magazine

Mökkikunta: Blog of the Month of the Ovi Magazine

Mökkikunta was considered Blog of the Month by the Ovi Magazine.

Thanks Asa, Thanos and the whole Ovi Team!

I´m really happy for that!

Globalização e Descentralização

A descentralização do Estado é uma forma de redistribuição do poder político, do topo para as bases - da Administração central para o nível intermédio de poder regional e para o nível de poder local.

Significa devolver o poder ao povo, oferecendo mais oportunidades de intervenção democrática e uma maior proximidade entre o representante e o eleitor. O factor proximidade é vital para o sistema democrático e contribuí para a humanização das relações de poder.

Por meio duma gestão económica global, distante e "fria", a globalização capitalista conduz à desumanização e à transformação do trabalho humano em mera mercadoria.

Embora indirectamente relacionado com a temática da descentralização/regionalização, é em redor do tema da globalização económica e algumas das suas consequências, que se desenvolverão os próximos três “posts”.

5 Blogs That Really Get You Thinking

Conceptisaddict blog rewarded me with the Thinking Blogger Award! Thank you so much, Lekahe. Kiitos paljon. I am very honoured.

The participation rules are simple:

1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think,
2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme,
3. Optional: Proudly display the 'Thinking Blogger Award' with a link to the post that you wrote (here is an alternative silver version if gold doesn't fit your blog).

Here are the top 5 blogs that get me thinking:

allsux.com by Allsux
Inventorspot by Steve Levenstein
Mundo da Teea by Teea
The Remodeled Blog by Lauren
Velvet Verbosity by Velvetverbosity
Congratulations, you won a

Please, remember to tag blogs with real merits, i.e. relative content, and above all - blogs that really get you thinking!

Christmas Peace in the Heart of Nature

Spruce tree forest covered by snow [Valtavaara] by photographer Jef Maion

Christmas Peace in the Heart of Nature

Paz de Natal no Coração da Natureza

Joulurauhaa luonnon helmassa

Christmas peace near the Korvatunturi Fell

Award

I received an award from the finn mathematician Lekahe! Kiitos! Now, it's time to pass on the award, and... Ladies and Gentlemen, the winners are:

From Portugal, from Algarve to Trás-os-Montes, the great team of Regiões , António Felizes, Castanho, Sérgio, Lopes, Trigo e Fonseca!

From Helsinki, Finland, the cool team of the Lusofin community, António, André, Diana and Teea!

From Seattle, US, the great Suxmonkey!

And from a tropical island in US, the fantastic Graviplana!

(And there would be many more people to add)
The code for the badge can be found in MeAndMyDrum by Mark, whose idea this award is.

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Tema inicial

Durante as próximas semanas, serão progressivamente publicadas as várias partes do artigo "Finlândia: Municípios e Descentralização", onde são abordados vários aspectos, tais como:

a crise económica finlandesa de 90-93 e as suas causas;
a recuperação económica finlandesa e os factores que a potenciaram, bem como a forma como sobreviveram os sistemas de saúde, assistência social e educação;
dados históricos acerca da sua democracia parlamentar;
a divisão administrativa e política do Estado finlandês (e do Estado português), com especial destaque para o papel dos municípios finlandeses;
a problemática da descentralização/regionalização e comparações com Portugal.