Campaign: Tougher law’s on Parental Alienation
Thu, 7/02/13 – 17:14 | No Comment

When parents separate often the children remain with one parent as the main carer, with the other parent having a contact order. Often divorces can be bitter, and children used as pawns to hurt …

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Campaign: Tougher law’s on Parental Alienation
Thursday, 7 Feb, 2013 – 17:14 | No Comment
Campaign: Tougher law’s on Parental Alienation

When parents separate often the children remain with one parent as the main carer, with the other parent having a contact order. Often divorces can be bitter, and children used as pawns to hurt …

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

About
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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Hacked Off was …

‘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 …

Jeremy Hunt: Bring back the mental health inpatient survey Campaign
Friday, 30 Nov, 2012 – 16:13 | No Comment
Jeremy Hunt: Bring back the mental health inpatient survey Campaign

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Rethink Mental Illness

The latest Broadmoor scandal shows how important it is for us to protect vulnerable people on mental health wards. Yet Government has cut the only survey that checks how safe people …

Pre Xmas Network & Development Meeting – Planning for the New Year
Monday, 26 Nov, 2012 – 15:54 | No Comment
Pre Xmas Network & Development Meeting – Planning for the New Year

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We would like to invite you to our next informal networking event where members of our network can meet, share ideas, and suggest events and activities for the future. …

Campaign: Join Saturday’s demonstration for Gaza: TUC
Wednesday, 21 Nov, 2012 – 17:10 | No Comment
Campaign: Join Saturday’s demonstration for Gaza: TUC

Join the demonstration for Gaza this Saturday 24 November, assembling at Downing Street at 12 noon before marching to the Israeli Embassy.
Organised by: Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Stop the War Coalition, CND, British Muslim Initiative, …

Campaign: Restore the visa of banned journalist Leah McGrath Goodman
Friday, 16 Nov, 2012 – 15:19 | No Comment
Campaign: Restore the visa of banned journalist Leah McGrath Goodman

”Leah McGrath Goodman is an American investigative journalist, author and former UK resident who was banned from the UK after launching an investigation into the alleged mass abuse, torture and possible murder of …

War, Legality & Accountability
Friday, 16 Nov, 2012 – 9:35 | No Comment
War, Legality & Accountability

Next Tuesday we have a house meeting that will discuss how we can make governments accountable for the wars they take part in when they are highly questionable in international law. Wars in Iraq …

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 …

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 …

Fighting Faces of Asia: Photojournalism project by Kalle Larsson.
Wednesday, 19 Sep, 2012 – 22:12 | No Comment
Fighting Faces of Asia: Photojournalism project by Kalle Larsson.

About the project:
Behind every successful and male dominated social movement, union and political party there are the women. Often doing more than their share of organizing social change, and still bearing way more than …

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 …

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.

Labour Trafficking
Tuesday, 4 Sep, 2012 – 9:10 | No Comment
Labour Trafficking

This is an article placed on the messageboard of our meetup site by Avra Cohen from New York. Avra developed the content for the anti-human trafficking site FightSlaveryNow.Org.
As Americans celebrate Labor Day, it is …