Responsibility to Protect Refugees Worldwide – Why Not?
It seems the asylum issue is not confined to Australian politics, it seems this attitude of decoupling human rights from responsibility is becoming the new normal. Gareth Evans ‘Responsibility to Protect’ doctrine comes to mind in respect of providing asylum to those fleeing persecution.
What I noticed in the Australian context was that refugees… Continue reading
A Sad Tailing? Is it OK to Mine Nature?
I went through a process of deep reflection on mining. I can see the sad tale here repeated across the globe in lots of different disputes between multinationals and indigenous people. I see the latter perceiving themselves as vulnerable as they don’t have the education or the money to receive justice. Our… Continue reading
Is It OK to mine?
You decide.
The next blog is a poem I felt inspired to write.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ok_Tedi_environmental_disaster
The Ok Tedi Mine operates to extract copper-gold porphyry from an open pit mine in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea. The Ok Tedi environmental disaster associated with it, due to the annual discharge of millions of tons… Continue reading
HRW: The Bush Administration is Getting Away with Torture
Democracy is not about force or control. It is about sharing power and liberty. Real freedom is not just doing what you want to at the expense of others it is truly feeling the peace of freedom where you are free to live to your highest potential. There is nothing free in… Continue reading
Former Head of the Depleted Uranium Project in the Pentagon speaks about Depleted Uranium
The transcript is recommended reading. The reality of war most of us don’t want to know about. We are safe watching movies that depict war, but the real thing is another story. As a peace educator the two values that come to mind are Reponsibility and Empathy. There is no… Continue reading
Eco-localisation, Self Responsibility and Responses to Earth Change
It is clear looking over the history of oil that the markets have been manipulated by oil quotas or the threat to flood markets crashing prices. I read about crude oil prices per barrel from 1948 were approximately $2.50 per barrel to approximately $100 per barrel today, all manipulations of volume affecting price and… Continue reading