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Post by Gliondrach on Apr 29, 2006 10:55:28 GMT
Tonight on Channel Four (in the UK), at 7.35. A World Without Water. This is about the growing crisis of water supply. Things will probably get worse. Apparently, 300,000 children die each year because of lack of water and poor sanitation.
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Post by tabitha on Apr 29, 2006 10:57:10 GMT
Def watch that Martin.
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Post by Gliondrach on Apr 30, 2006 0:45:54 GMT
It was a very enlightening programme. It showed the difficult conditions and ill health of some families that had to get their water from dirty wells. I felt so sorry for that little Bolivian girl when she started crying. Other children called her names and wouldn't play with her because they had no water in their house. They couldn't afford to get connected. It would have cost about 9 month's worth of their total income. They had lost one baby and the latest baby had constant diarrhoea. Then there were the Indian farmers whose crops are dying because their water is being sucked out of the ground by a certain cola manufacturer to make fizzy coke drinks. People in Tanzania and other African countries having to buy water from street vendors because the privatised water company was too expensive. People in Detroit who've had their water cut off because they can't pay their water bills.
Water should not be treated as something to make profits for shareholders.
Good news at the end of the programme. The Tanzanian government kicked out the British water company. The Detroit woman reconnected herself to the mains - illegally. The Bolivian family did the same, but at the local government's suggestion. They live so close to the city's foreign-owned water filtration plant that they can see and hear the water. Now, they don't have to walk half a mile downhill to the dirty well. I hope the little girl will have lots of friends now. Proper ones who don't care about the water status of her home.
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Post by tabitha on Apr 30, 2006 8:58:16 GMT
Damn it! forgot it was on after all that
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Post by Tiggerwoos on May 15, 2006 14:33:16 GMT
Tonight at 8pm on C4 is Dispatches: Mad About Animals. Animal liberation movement acivists talk candidly about what motivates them.......... Blah blah blah. Was gonna type the rest but didn't seem too pleasant towards the AR movement, but taken from Sky details.
Have set the Sky + up to record it cos off out now to see my mum.
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Post by squirrel on May 15, 2006 15:37:33 GMT
GMTV interviewed the guy who made this documentary this morning and he came over as fairly reasonable, explaining that to the ALF all life is equal whether human or animal and that animal testing is equivalent to mass genocide. The guy wasn't taking any standpoints on issues so whether the documentary does remains to be seen.
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Post by saucyvegan on May 15, 2006 19:22:37 GMT
LOl at me with the handbag action!!
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Post by tabitha on May 15, 2006 21:20:18 GMT
There was quite a lot of you wasnt there. If you are the one I think you are. (BolshyVegan, not SaucyVegan). Only joking. Well done you.
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Post by saucyvegan on May 15, 2006 22:27:28 GMT
Thanks Tabs!! Yes that was me being shoved by a copper and Mel telling me to "go for it", when I was holding the banner. Just had an interesting chat with a layperson (my dad) who thought we all come across as nutters and it may take longer to get the results with peaceful campaigning, but we would prolly get more support. He said we all looked intimidating and didnt do ourselves any favours. He said if he was wanting to find out about vivisection, he wouldnt listen to us nutters and basically we should all be bastions of society to win over the public. Thoughts on this please??
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Post by veggiesosage on May 15, 2006 22:41:31 GMT
The sad truth about 'responsible' campaigning is that the media only ever report on anything left of cente if there's a ruck involved. If the government wants to criticise the alleged rise in extreme protesting then they should ask the media why they only ever report on the conservative side of things and play down radical protest. Its no wonder people sometimes do push it a bit once in a while and no-one outside AR would have heard of SPEAK if they at least hadn't been a bit on the noisy side.
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Post by Tiggerwoos on May 16, 2006 0:25:22 GMT
LOl at me with the handbag action!! He he, just got home and watching it now. Was laughing my head off at that bit. What a whack! ;D
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Post by bobbywomble on May 16, 2006 8:17:51 GMT
lol just seen that programme you know the one "how to deck a copper " starring our very own saucepot ..
good hit my dear with such a display of fisticuffs the Marquis of Kingsbury would be proud...
as for looking like nutters on the box i think if you all had stood there and said nothing, i think they would manage to make you look crazy somehow.
the media seem hell bent on making protesters look like fanatics or extremists so it really would'nt matter what you did, so why not take a copper with you..
i do think that there would be a better turn out if the public were somehow educated to your cause without having it force fed to them by the media as a bunch of nutters shouting and causing trouble, but how you get the message across is a tough one...
i think the police are heavy handed and that you all should make a complaint to the police complaints commission about anything you can and start getting in there face as much as possible no copper wants 20 complaints made against them and if you cause them enough paperwork they will be tied up in the office for ages ... hopefully that will make them a bit less likely to get in your faces... you could always set them up for a fall by winding one up whilst filming him covertly and then when he snaps and does summit silly its on camera.. lol
the womble is over and out
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