12/12/12 One Day On Earth
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Thank You For Your Participation! Every Nation, 24 hours, and You.
On December 12th, 12.12.12, across the planet, documentary filmmakers, students, and other inspired citizens will record the human experience over a 24-hour period and contribute their voice to the third annual global day of media creation called One Day on Earth. Together, we will create a shared archive and a film.
Founded in 2008, One Day on Earth’s first media creation event occurred on 10.10.10. and the second on 11.11.11. The 10.10.10 collaboration was the first ever simultaneous filming event occurring in every country of the world. One Day on Earth collaborations create a unique geo-tagged video archive as well as an annual feature film.
Together, we are showcasing the amazing diversity, conflict, tragedy, and triumph that occurs in one day. We invite you to join our international community of thousands of filmmakers, hundreds of schools, and dozens of non-profits, and contribute to this unique global mosaic. One Day on Earth is a community that not only watches, but participates.
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To create an open shareable archive and documentary film of the world on 12.12.12. We hope to enlighten, teach and benefit humanity through global collaboration and inspired media creation. We seek to find a deeper understanding of life on this planet. - Are there rules to using the site?
Yes, please review our Do’s and Don’ts under the How Do I Participate? section above. - Is this a one-time event?
No. The first One Day on Earth was 10.10.10, the second 11.11.11, and 12.12.12 will be the third and we hope to have many more down the road. - Why 10.10.10, 11.11.11 and 12.12.12?
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The Twelve Tax Dodgers of Christmas
Merry Christmas to Us All
If you think its time the Rich paid their taxes, instead of just telling the rest of us
what great companies or people they are
..here is a 12 Days of Christmas Message that’s worth sharing with everyone you know..
Times are tough, stop stealing our money!
You can get a great downloadable version from 38 degrees to print out and stick on a lamp-post outside your local tax-dodging company – or put one outside the post office to remind people that Ebay and Amazon etc are not playing fair. There is also a “Share” link – on the 38 degrees site, to share with all on Facebook.
Read MoreLove Thy Nature: A Film About Who We Are
What we fall in love with, we protect.
When we fall in love, we transform.
Through loving and protecting nature,
we can heal ourselves and ensure
a future for our children. ”
— Sylvie Rokab —
A film in the making by award-winning documentary film maker Sylvie Rokab
who says of it “this is the film I was born to make,”
“As far as we know, only our planet gives birth to life
and among all species on earth ours is the most gifted
But have our gifts taken us too far away from what sustains us?
Take a journey through the new era of human evolution
where our hearts and minds are inspired by the wonders of nature…”
The film is currently on Kickstarter and has 10 days to go to reach its required funding
Love Thy Nature demonstrates how communion with the natural world transforms us as individuals and communities.
And that transformation encourages us to not only restore our ecosystems, but also to embrace our role as a species of double-wisdom: as stewards of our planet, including our human family.
Read MorePoppies Blowing in the Wind
Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
— Abraham Flexner —
Remembrance Day
On the 11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month. We take a moment to remember those who have been killed in Wars, with the words…
We Will Never Forget
The 20th Century was the most brutal in human history – especially in the context of globalisation through modern weapon systems.
If one includes civilian casualties of war the death toll for 20th Century wars is a staggering 241 million people.
1886-1908: Belgium-Congo Free State (8 million)
1898: USA-Spain & Philippines (220,000)
1899-02: British-Boer war (100,000)
1899-03: Colombian civil war (120,000)
1899-02: Philippines vs USA (20,000)
1900-01: Boxer rebels against Russia, Britain, France, Japan, USA against rebels (35,000)
1903: Ottomans vs Macedonian rebels (20,000)
1904: Germany vs Namibia (65,000)
1904-05: Japan vs Russia (150,000)
1910-20: Mexican revolution (250,000)
1911: Chinese Revolution (2.4 million)
1911-12: Italian-Ottoman war (20,000) 1912-13: Balkan wars (150,000)
1915: the Ottoman empire slaughters Armenians (1.2 million)
1915-20: the Ottoman empire slaughters 500,000 Assyrians
1916-23: the Ottoman empire slaughters 350,000 Greek Pontians and 480,000 Anatolian Greeks
1914-18: World War I (20 million)
1916: Kyrgyz revolt against Russia (120,000)
1917-21: Soviet revolution (5 million)
1917-19: Greece vs Turkey (45,000)
1919-21: Poland vs Soviet Union (27,000)
1928-37: Chinese civil war (2 million)
1931: Japanese Manchurian War (1.1 million)
1932-33: Soviet Union vs Ukraine (10 million)
1932: “La Matanza” in El Salvador (30,000)
1932-35: “Guerra del Chaco” between Bolivia and Paraguay (117.500)
1934: Mao’s Long March (170,000)
1936: Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia (200,000)
1936-37: Stalin’s purges (13 million)
1936-39: Spanish civil war (600,000)
1937-45: Japanese invasion of China (500,000)
1939-45: World War II (55 million) including holocaust and Chinese revolution
1946-49: Chinese civil war (1.2 million)
1946-49: Greek civil war (50,000)
1946-54: France-Vietnam war (600,000)
1947: Partition of India and Pakistan (1 million)
1947: Taiwan’s uprising against the Kuomintang (30,000)
1948-1958: Colombian civil war (250,000)
1948-1973: Arab-Israeli wars (70,000)
1949-: Indian Muslims vs Hindus (20,000)
1949-50: Mainland China vs Tibet (1,200,000)
1950-53: Korean war (3 million)
1952-59: Kenya’s Mau Mau insurrection (20,000)
1954-62: French-Algerian war (368,000)
1958-61: Mao’s “Great Leap Forward” (38 million)
1960-90: South Africa vs Africa National Congress (?)
1960-96: Guatemala’s civil war (200,000)
1961-98: Indonesia vs West Papua/Irian (100,000)
1961-2003: Kurds vs Iraq (180,000)
1962-75: Mozambique Frelimo vs Portugal (10,000)
1962-75: Angolan FNLA & MPLA vs Portugal (50,000)
1964-73: USA-Vietnam war (3 million)
1965: second India-Pakistan war over Kashmir
1965-66: Indonesian civil war (250,000)
1966-69: Mao’s “Cultural Revolution” (11 million)
1966-: Colombia’s civil war (31,000)
1967-70: Nigeria-Biafra civil war (800,000)
1968-80: Rhodesia’s civil war (?)
1969-: Philippines vs the communist Bagong Hukbong Bayan/ New People’s Army (40,000)
1969-79: Idi Amin, Uganda (300,000)
1969-02: IRA – Norther Ireland’s civil war (2,000)
1969-79: Francisco Macias Nguema, Equatorial Guinea (50,000)
1971: Pakistan-Bangladesh civil war (500,000)
1972-: Philippines vs Muslim separatists (Moro Islamic Liberation Front, etc) (150,000)
1972: Burundi’s civil war (300,000)
1972-79: Rhodesia/Zimbabwe’s civil war (30,000)
1974-91: Ethiopian civil war (1,000,000)
1975-78: Menghitsu, Ethiopia (1.5 million)
1975-79: Khmer Rouge, Cambodia (1.7 million)
1975-89: Boat people, Vietnam (250,000)
1975-87: civil war in Lebanon (130,000)
1975-87: Laos’ civil war (184,000)
1975-2002: Angolan civil war (500,000)
1976-83: Argentina’s military regime (20,000)
1976-93: Mozambique’s civil war (900,000)
1976-98: Indonesia-East Timor civil war (600,000)
1976-2005: Indonesia-Aceh (GAM) civil war (12,000)
1977-92: El Salvador’s civil war (75,000)
1979: Vietnam-China war (30,000)
1979-88: the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan (1.3 million)
1980-88: Iraq-Iran war (435,000)
1980-92: Sendero Luminoso – Peru’s civil war (69,000)
1984-: Kurds vs Turkey (35,000)
1981-90: Nicaragua vs Contras (60,000)
1982-90: Hissene Habre, Chad (40,000)
1983-: Sri Lanka’s civil war (70,000)
1983-2002: Sudanese civil war (2 million)
1986-: Indian Kashmir’s civil war (60,000)
1987-: Palestinian Intifada (4,500)
1988-2001: Afghanistan civil war (400,000)
1988-2004: Somalia’s civil war (550,000)
1989-: Liberian civil war (220,000)
1989-: Uganda vs Lord’s Resistance Army (30,000)
1991: Gulf War – large coalition against Iraq to liberate Kuwait (85,000)
1991-97: Congo’s civil war (800,000)
1991-2000: Sierra Leone’s civil war (200,000)
1991-2009: Russia-Chechnya civil war (200,000)
1991-94: Armenia-Azerbaijan war (35,000)
1992-96: Tajikstan’s civil war war (50,000)
1992-96: Yugoslavian wars (260,000)
1992-99: Algerian civil war (150,000)
1993-97: Congo Brazzaville’s civil war (100,000)
1993-2005: Burundi’s civil war (200,000)
1994: Rwanda’s civil war (900,000)
1995-: Pakistani Sunnis vs Shiites (1,300)
1995-: Maoist rebellion in Nepal (12,000)
1998-: Congo/Zaire’s war – Rwanda and Uganda vs Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia (3.8 million)
1998-2000: Ethiopia-Eritrea war (75,000)
1999: Kosovo’s liberation war – NATO vs Serbia (2,000)
2001-: Afghanistan’s liberation war – USA & UK vs Taliban (40,000)
2002-: Cote d’Ivoire’s civil war (1,000)
2003-11: Second Iraq-USA war – USA, UK and Australia vs Saddam Hussein and subsequent civil war (160,000)
2003-09: Sudan vs JEM/Darfur (300,000)
2004-: Sudan vs SPLM & Eritrea (?)
2004-: Yemen vs Shiite Muslims (?)
2004-: Thailand vs Muslim separatists (3,700)
2007-: Pakistan vs PAkistani Taliban (38,000)
2012-: Iraq’s civil war after the withdrawal of the USA (?)
2012-: Syria’s civil war (?)
Blowing in the Wind
Bob Dylan – 1962
How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man? How many seas must a white dove fly, before she sleeps in the sand?
And how many times must a cannon ball fly, before they’re forever banned?
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind, the answer is blowing in the wind. How many years can a mountain exist, before it is washed to the sea?
How many years can some people exist, before they’re allowed to be free? And how many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn’t see?
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind, the answer is blowing in the wind.
How many times must a man look up, before he sees the sky? And how many ears must one man have, before he can hear people cry ? And how many deaths will it take till we know, that too many people have died?
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind, the answer is blowing in the wind.
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind, the answer is blowing in the wind.
Your Most Valuable Asset
Having passed though a period in history in which the ethos of the day appeared to be “all is fair in business and war” with the idea of ethics or accountability being quietly scoffed at in equal measure from boardrooms and bars, we have suddenly woken up to the fact that things just don’t work the way they used to.
We appear to have found ourselves on the far side of a new portal in which the dynamics of everything has changed and continues to change at astonishing speed. There has been a paradigm shift, and nothing will ever be quite the same.
This doorway has been opened by new developments in our application of our understanding – and in its translation into new technology.
This is a phenomenon Rachel Botsman has been studying and she talks about the new dynamics while exploring the new currency in society. It appears that your most valuable asset could be your “reputation capital”…
Share your ideas about this on the forums…
Read MoreStoke Mandeville: Ludwig Guttman’s Paralympic Vision
The First-Ever Scheduled Paralympics Games
With the start of the 2012 Paralympics only hours away, athletes, spectators, performers, celebrities, and royalty prepare in anticipation. This is the second biggest sporting event ever to have been organised in Britain, after the 2012 Olympics.
The last time the Olympic Games were held in London was in 1948, which happens to be the same year that Israel was declared independent, and it was also the year in which the precursor of the Paralympics games took place.
This was held in the British village of Stoke Mandeville as an event for injured World War II veterans. It was the first ever organised sporting event for the disabled and was to become the inspiration for the birth of the Paralympic Games.
It was intentionally scheduled to coincide with the official Olympics in Britain amd was the result of Ludwig Guttmann’s revolutionary approach to spinal cord injury treatment.
Guttmann’s mission was to provide paralysed war victims with an outlet for rehabilitation. He implemented his revolutionary methods at a time when disabled people were simply left in their beds to die. With very little specialist care available a person with spinal injury had an average life expectancy of two years as a disabled person.
The stadium for the Paralympics games still stands next to the Stoke Mandeville Hospital where the National Spinal Injuries Centre is located. It was renamed as the Ludwig Guttmann Sports Centre for the Disabled after Ludwig Guttmann died in 1980.
The Current Gaming Line-Up
Several websites have already posted this year’s gaming schedule. Competitions will take place in the categories of swimming, cycling, archery, basketball, volleyball, tennis, fencing, rugby, judo, powerlifting, equestrian shows, and more. Certain opening, victory, and closing celebrations also will take place during the 2012 Stoke Mandeville Games.
Meet the Superhumans from STITCH on Vimeo.
Ludwig Guttmann: Believing in the Future
Ludwig Guttmann, was born in a Jewish family in Germany in 1899 and fled from Nazi Germany just before the start of World War II. He first began his career working in a medical hospital in Konigshutte where he treated accident victims. This medical centre is where he had his first experience treating a spinal cord injury patient who died five weeks later of sepsis.
Guttmann continued to persevere in spite of this early unfortunate experience. He then worked in various hospitals over the years. Places where he was employed include the Jewish Hospital in Breslau where he became director in the 1930s, and the present-day Stoke Mandeville Hospital.
At this time, the medical fraternity disagreed with many aspects of his approach to rehabilitation, but despite being banned from practicing medicine in 1933, Guttmann continued to make a mark in the world. His vision was to give patients who would otherwise die an early death the chance to live as normal and as productive of a life as possible.
The experience of having or originally arrived as a refugee in the UK, and being forced to re-start his own life from scratch gave Guttmann a unique perspective which provided insight for his work with people who effectively also had to rebuild their own lives. Guttmann always emphasised the importance of looking ahead and not dwelling on the past.
“Ludwig Guttmann once said, “If I ever did one good thing in my medical career it was to introduce sport into the rehabilitation of disabled people”.
This is still true today and manifests itself through the organisation WheelPower, the national charity for wheelchair sport whose base is at Stoke Mandeville Stadium, which he established as the British Paraplegic Sports Society and which aims to transform lives through sport. Providing opportunities for young and newly disabled people to benefit from participation in sport is key to their rehabilitation and personal development.” Martin McElhatton, Chief Executive, Wheelpower – British Wheelchair Sport
One Patient’s Story
Daniel Alaile is one person who was admitted to the Stoke Mandeville Hospital’s Ludwig Guttmann Sports Centre in 2010. At this time, Alaile was just 16 years old when he was stabbed in a gang-related fight, leaving him barely able to move and in constant pain.
Part of Alaile’s rehabilitation regimen included wheelchair basketball and he was placed in a room with parallel bars, massage tables, and walking frames. He says this experience has given him hope, and he also stated at the time of his treatment that he just didn’t want to feel sorry for himself.
“After injury Guttmann focussed an individual’s mind on what they can do rather than regretting what they can no longer do. Through sport Guttmann gave that person back the will to live a full life with pride and self-respect”. Bob Paterson, IWAS
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