Archive for January, 2009
January 31, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Gaza. Not that proof were needed but Israel is the facistic bully it wanted to get away from. But then that’s what Paolo Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed’ describes as happening – once the oppressed get out from under the only model they have of how to behave when no longer oppressed is to oppress [...]
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January 15, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Over half of my donations went to Afghanaid this month (Jan 2009). This arose from my googling a voluntary work colleague of mine who left 2 years back to run a centre supporting female MP’s in Afghanistan. Didn’t find anything current but it reminded me that i had wanted to send something to help that poor [...]
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January 5, 2009 at 9:47 am
While watching a film last week, during the ad breaks, there were ads/appeals for both the RSPCA and for the PDSA. Maybe it is that i don’t watch much TV and rarely watch that channel, but i could not recall seeing such before. Both the ads made the point that they have more work to [...]
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