Campaign: Tougher law’s on Parental Alienation
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Political Correctness: To Be Or Not To Be!
Wednesday, 16 Jan, 2013 – 2:57 | No Comment
Political Correctness: To Be Or Not To Be!

Monday, February 11, 2013
6:30 PM
To register for this event: GlobalNet21events
Published by: Christina Wiltshire.
Very few subjects get people hot under the collar more than political correctness. Some people believe that Political Correctness around the …

How Universal Credit Will Create A Latchkey Generation of Hungry Children
Monday, 7 Jan, 2013 – 13:36 | No Comment
How Universal Credit Will Create A Latchkey Generation of Hungry Children

The Tory Government’s war on women is to escalate even further when Iain Duncan Smith’s brutal new welfare regime begins in 2014.
Article by: the void
The new Universal Credit scheme will replace Child Tax Credits …

Hacked Off: working for and with victims of press abuse
Monday, 10 Dec, 2012 – 13:35 | No Comment
Hacked Off: working for and with victims of press abuse

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Hacked Off is working for and with victims of press abuse to ensure that the Leveson Inquiry leads to a free and fair press, and to encourage world-class journalism in the public interest.
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‘Friends of the Earth’:Mining For Smartphones: Film 1 – The Tin Mines of Bangka Island
Monday, 3 Dec, 2012 – 16:10 | No Comment

Mining For Smartphones – “The Tin Mines of Bangka Island”
The first episode of a new three part documentary series produced by Friends of the Earth showing the environmental impact of tin mining on Bangka Island.
Friends …

House Meeting – The Age of Collaboration
Friday, 23 Nov, 2012 – 17:15 | No Comment
House Meeting – The Age of Collaboration

To register for this event: GlobalNet21Events
This is a House Meeting where we will explore together the value of collaboration in a very practical way.
At this meeting we are going to discuss how collaboration can …

What Will Remain of the ‘Voluntary Sector’
Monday, 12 Nov, 2012 – 9:19 | No Comment
What Will Remain of the ‘Voluntary Sector’

NatCAN and umbrella organization for community activists have published this letter from a number of voluntary national organisations .  They are worried about what will remain of the ’Voluntary Sector’ of any consequence to the …

GlobalNet21 Meeting: War: Accountability & Legality.
Tuesday, 30 Oct, 2012 – 16:21 | No Comment
GlobalNet21 Meeting: War: Accountability & Legality.

War: Accountability & Legality. Tuesday, November 20, 2012 7:00 PM: Join us @ GlobalNet21, along with Chris Coverdale for this meeting: GlobalNet21Events
This meeting will discuss how we can make governments accountable for the …

Meeting: The Sharing Economy
Thursday, 25 Oct, 2012 – 12:51 | No Comment
Meeting: The Sharing Economy

Caroline Lucas MP has agreed to host a meeting in the House of Commons on The Sharing Economy. We will be running this meeting in partnership with “The People Who Share.”
Tuesday, November 27, 2012 …

James Wolfensohn Address To Graduate Students At Stanford University.
Wednesday, 24 Oct, 2012 – 13:52 | No Comment
James Wolfensohn Address To Graduate Students At Stanford University.

The former president of the WORLD BANK, James Wolfensohn, makes stunning confessions as he makes an address to graduate students at Stanford University. He reveals the inside hand of world domination from past, to the …

21st Century: A New Age of Enlightenment or an Age of Darkness
Friday, 28 Sep, 2012 – 9:06 | No Comment
21st Century: A New Age of Enlightenment or an Age of Darkness

Kathryn Best hosted a House Meeting for GlobalNet21 recently on the subject of  “21st Century: A New Age of Enlightenment or an Age of Darkness?”  From notes of that meeting Kathryn has put together the …

The Great Euro Crash – 2012
Monday, 24 Sep, 2012 – 23:37 | No Comment
The Great Euro Crash – 2012

For more than two years Europe has teetered on the edge of an economic precipice – one of the factors that has pushed Britain back into recession. How exactly did Europe get itself into …

House Meeting – The Successful Community
Wednesday, 19 Sep, 2012 – 12:18 | No Comment
House Meeting – The Successful Community

Monday October 1st, 2012, 7pm: In this House Meeting Sarah Lonton will lead us in discussing the question – “What does A Successful Community Look Like” and also “What would it take for our …

Trade vs Aid: Let Africa Trade With Africa
Sunday, 16 Sep, 2012 – 20:35 | No Comment
Trade vs Aid: Let Africa Trade With Africa

In Africa, non-tariff trade barriers raise transaction costs and limit the movement of goods, services, people and capital across borders. To further development, African governments must embrace regional integration, break down these barriers and help …

WEBINAR – Child Protection Or Child Snatching – The Story
Sunday, 16 Sep, 2012 – 20:34 | No Comment
WEBINAR – Child Protection Or Child Snatching – The Story

In this webinar, Sabine K McNeill will share her experiences of what Christopher Booker from the Telegraph calls “child snatching” but that the State calls child ‘protection’ These experiences comes from talking to parents …

Our Meeting On Reforming Justice
Saturday, 15 Sep, 2012 – 11:15 | No Comment
Our Meeting On Reforming Justice

Yasmin Qureshi MP hosted a meeting at House of Commons on how we should shape our attitudes to Justice in the 21st century.
We tend to have a strictly legal approach to justice where punishment …

Wangari Maathai: Money Alone Won’t Help Africa
Tuesday, 11 Sep, 2012 – 16:42 | No Comment
Wangari Maathai: Money Alone Won’t Help Africa

Trade or  Aid? Over the next several week’s we will be exploring the many complex issues of trade vs Aid.Please join in and leave your comments.
Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai argues that well-intentioned aid to …

Listening To Families & Family Policy
Monday, 10 Sep, 2012 – 19:39 | No Comment
Listening To Families & Family Policy

Many families are faced with difficulties in modern Britain and face poverty and exclusion. Governments desperately try to have a family policy but only too often they do not listen to families themselves.
The role …

Migration, Vulnerable Communities and Exploitation meetup
Wednesday, 5 Sep, 2012 – 13:13 | No Comment
Migration, Vulnerable Communities and Exploitation meetup

Snippet of speakers at the GlobalNet21 meetup on Migration, Vulnerable Communities and Exploitation. Recorded and edited by Rachel McAthy.

United Nations Demands Ignored
Thursday, 30 Aug, 2012 – 7:33 | No Comment
United Nations Demands Ignored

This was posted on our Facebook site by Victoria Dimandja
Due to the reign of impunity in the DRC, many armed groups from neighbouring countries have taken advantage of the failure of the Congolese state …

Breadline Britain: councils fund food banks to plug holes in welfare state
Tuesday, 28 Aug, 2012 – 17:50 | No Comment
Breadline Britain: councils fund food banks to plug holes in welfare state

Local authorities asking ‘big society’ to deliver crisis aid to vulnerable people after social fund budget is cut next April
Written by Patrick Butler, social policy editor ref: guardian.co.uk, …